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saguaroandsage

saguaroandsage
Date Joined: December 24, 2021
Last Online: June 21, 2025
Birthday: February 12
Country: United States
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About Me

My name is Bren- I live in Phoenix, Arizona with my partner, three cat children, too many aquariums, and a jungle of house plants.

I'm really big on reusing, regifting, and upcycling! I'm never offended if you pass on items I send if they aren't your style, if you reuse packaging, or anything like that. I hope you don't mind if I do the same.

If you have not received my envelope, please let me know! I weigh my envelopes before I send them, but in case there's ever postage due on delivery, let me know so I can make it right.

I also keep buying the small denomination stamps that you can only get in large rolls. If you ever want some, just shoot me a message, I'm happy to send a bunch. Right now I have the 2-cent lemon stamps and the 1-cent bobcat stamps!

Likes & Dislikes

Random Likes

  • For JJJ Let's Make a Junk Journal: I'm currently working on a few junk journals- one PINK (the brightest pinks I can find), one butterfly (I will probably always have another butterfly journal in the works/in the queue!), and a neutral journal (the hardest theme for me- I'm trying it as a challenge).
  • Magic, Astrology, Herbalism, Botany
  • Dogs, Cats, Aquariums, Houseplants, Gardening
  • Junk Journaling, Cardmaking, Sewing
  • Sushi, Coffee, Baked Goods
  • Teal, Purple, Neutrals
  • Penguins, Hummingbirds, Large Cats, Sloths
  • All animals, really
  • Musical Theatre, Travel, New Foods/Drinks
  • Unicorns, Mermaids
  • Bees, butterflies, and ladybugs
  • Anything handmade, anything funny, anything kind

What I Love to Recieve

  • A letter or note
  • Something you created
  • Paper with fun colors, patterns, and/or textures
  • Junk Journal Materials
  • Book Pages
  • Sheet Music
  • Old paper, found notes
  • Prompts to write you back with
  • Decorative napkins
  • Cutouts of flowers, people, animals, etc.
  • Die cuts
  • Seeds, especially flowers that attract pollinators or repel pest insects! A few people have sent me seeds and omg, it has been such a great thing to get. More plants for the garden!

Dislikes

  • Anything political (I work in politics, I know where I stand/who I support)
  • Anything overtly religious (I don't mind holiday based things)
  • People being mean (assume best intentions, we're here as a hobby)
  • Baby/child-based items (I cannot have kids, none of my friends have kids...)

ABC's

A: autumn, ATC, Aquarius, amethyst, apothecary, astrology, astronomy, art journaling, alpacas, address labels

B: butterflies, bees, birds, blue, bohemian, botanical, books, Bo Burnam, beach, blueberry, bookbinding

C: cats, cooking, coffee, cupcakes, cookies, crystals, constellations, cool colors (green, teal, blue, and purple), cottagecore, cardmaking, cacti, cooking

D: dogs, dragonflies, donuts, doodles, die cuts, decoupage, dark academia, dungeons & dragons, donkeys

E: enchanted, elephants, envelopes

F: foxes, fall, flowers, feathers, fantasy, fabric, feminism, Fleetwood Mac

G: gothic, gardening, glitter, green, gel pens, galaxy

H: Halloween, Hello Kitty, humming birds, handmade items, hand lettering, history

I: ice cream, inspirational sayings, invertebrates

J: journaling, jellyfish, Jewish, junk journaling, Jadzia Dax, Cpt. Janeway

K: kawaii, Keanu Reeves

L: lace, lavender (color, scent, and flower!), ladybugs, lgbtq pride, light academia, Leslie Knope, Lion King, Lady Gaga, llamas

M: metallic, magic, mint green, moon, mystical, mandalas, mermaids, maps, mail art, motivational quotes, mochas, matcha, Moana

N: nature, nasturtiums, 90's nostalgia, narwals

O: owls, orchids, octopus, ombre, ocean

P: pastels, purple, pumpkin, plants, penguins, penpals, peacock feathers, pineapples

Q: quail, quotes

R: rainbows, Ron Swanson, rain, Reeses

S: sugar skulls, sushi, steampunk, stickers, Star Trek, sloths, snails, stamps, scrapbook paper, Slytherin

T: tarot, tattoos, teal, thrifting, typewriters, typewriter font, travel, textured paper

U: unicorns, unused postage stamps

V: violas (both the flowers and the instrument), vanilla, vintage

W: wine, washi tape, watercolors, whimsical, witchy stuff, winter

X:

Y: yoga, Youtube

Z: zines, zero waste

Ratings

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Comment: Such a beautiful swap! Pink is definitely a happy color. A piece of pom pom trim too - how lucky am I! Love it all. Thank you so very much! :)
mspandatrain rated for MAE: Fave Color Envies on Jun 18, 2025
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Comment: Yay!! I loved the set of pink envelopes! I recently received a bunch of music pages what a great idea to put inside the envelopes, I need to try it. I love pink too, thanks so much!! thanks for joining my swap too. Hugs
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Comment: WOW! These are so incredibly beautiful! And they are presented so lovely. Thank you so much for taking the time to make something so special for me!
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Comment: These clusters are just beautiful! You did an amazing job and I love pink! Thanks so much for the extra goodies - I will use them in my next cluster swap! Happy summer!
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Comment: Thanks for everything! Love the pink washi!
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Comment: Very nice, Bren. Thanks for all the pretty goodies. This is one of my favorite swaps.
mchesser12 rated for Washi Tape Swap May. 2025 (USA) on Jun 4, 2025
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Comment: Thanks for the washi samples and the blank notecard. LOVE the Winne the Pooh washi.
karli rated for Washi Tape Swap May. 2025 (USA) on Jun 2, 2025
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Comment: Lovely samples, thank you much! Karolina
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Comment: Thank you for a great swap - love the washi and all the nice extras and SO nice to have you back on the 'bot again!! Welcome home:)
Response: Aww, thank you so much! I'm happy to have the time to be back here swapping again! <3
matt319 rated for Stuff the Mailbox #38 on May 31, 2024
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Comment: Thank you very much!!
matt319 rated for Stuff the Mailbox - Autumn on May 31, 2024
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Comment: Thank you very much!!
matt319 rated for Stuff The Mailbox - Halloween on May 31, 2024
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Comment: Thank you very much!!
matt319 rated for Stuff the Mailbox #37 on May 30, 2024
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Comment: Thank you very much!!
MaryCheng rated for CR: Decorated Envelope w/ Tuck In on Apr 14, 2023
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Comment: Thank you Bren for the goodies and decorated envelop. They are lovely.
Trevismom rated for UHM: Profile Mail Art on Mar 24, 2023
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Comment: I loved the cherry blossom envelope! ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’ฎ๐ŸŒธ Thank you so much for the cute stickers and notecard! Happy swapping! โค
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Comment: Thank you SO much for a wonderful swap, Bren! I love it all, from the flower postcards to the postage to the cat washi and stickers. Not to mention your Pusheen envelope and the cool handcrafted pocket inside. Just wow. ๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒป
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Comment: Thank you for the cute journal. I love the purple napkin you used on the cover. :-)
MuggleMom rated for JJJ: Flips, Flaps & Folds 6 *USA* on Mar 4, 2023
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Comment: ๐Ÿ’Ÿ beautiful papers you used for the flip/flap. I like that you let the YT shuffle pick because I had a hard time choosing too. Did you make the envie too because the color and texture is so fabu! Thank you so much!! xxMuggleMom
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Comment: SO beautiful! We have similar taste in paper I think!! Not sure if this is Carte Bella or just a similar one but it is lovely. Thanks so much for joining us. I am going to use this to hold some ephemera and keep it on my studio table with my watercolor papers.
Artistic rated for Stuff the Mailbox - Holidays on Feb 14, 2023
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Comment: Thank you, Bren.

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Comments

simcoe54 on Feb 12, 2023:

Hope you have a Happy Birthday!

Heirloom on Dec 31, 2022:


Happy New Year from USA Happy Mail

OrigamiGrace on Nov 24, 2022:

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ChrisAnne on Oct 4, 2022:

Thank you for the Zine RAK. I love them. Now I feel so much more confident about my ability to make one. Hope to swap with you sometime sonn.

JuneRosebud on Sep 26, 2022:

Thank you for the zines. I appreciated getting them=)

yvonne401 on Apr 7, 2022:

Welcome to Butterfly lovers! It's great to have you here!

Blessings,

Yvonne

thriftymermaid on Mar 28, 2022:

Welcome to the Mermaid Lovers Unite Group!! Please check out our newest swaps and the group forum to post your Bday info, etc. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿงœโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿงœโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿงœโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ’™

HausOfImps on Mar 4, 2022:

I just noticed that I forgot to thank you for your really cool response to my pen pal swap! I honestly didn't expect anyone to write back, so I was really excited to receive it. :) I appreciate how much time you took with it and it definitely put a smile on my face. I'm working on this long journal project that's a lot of writing that I've owed someone forever, so I'm on here doing art swaps and short notecard swaps only until I finish, BUT I will definitely be writing you back once I have that out! Sorry for the slight delay!

DeboraCreates on Feb 14, 2022:

Happy Valentine's Day! โค๐Ÿ’•

Wingy on Jan 11, 2022:

Thank you for the beautiful tag Card ;) ... happy swapping

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