Aimo

SPOILER ALERT - Don't look at my Flickr sent album if you haven't received your swap from me yet...I may have posted photos.

Hello and nice to meet you! My name is Amy and I live in Missouri.

I have a little family that consists of my Husband and our 4 cats: Aranel, Trinity, Gracie and Slinky.>^..^<

We are all inside kitties. We don't eat treats or need any toys, we are spoiled already! Thank you!

I confess...I'm addicted to buying paper crafting supplies/trinkets of all kinds on-line and at the stores with or without projects in the works!

I went to college for fashion design and fashion merchandising. Now I work full time doing none of the above. I work with domestic and international companies/factories.

In 2009 I was diagnosed with cancer and my Husband and I could not start a family due to this awful disease, so it's just us and our furry kids! We are one full, happy (most of the time), kid-free, crazy cat household! Since being diagnosed I have become a dedicated participate of the American Cancer Society Relay for Life and each year I make a new crafty item to sell as a fundraiser (one year I made 300+ soda can tab bracelets and raised about $1,500.00 which was awesome)! If you have any crafty inexpensive/ easy ideas I would love to hear about them.

Even though I was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, I also had my '15 seconds of fame'. I submitted a project to the Zutter Bind-it-All Around the World contest and I ended up being a runner up and my project was published in the book and it was shown on the back of the Zutter Display-it-All retail box packaging as well!

I believe in waiting until the partners are assigned before putting my swaps together. I try to figure out what my partner would enjoy receiving, even if it doesn't have to do with the swap theme-I love to add extras and hope I can make someone smile. I put a lot of thought and time into each swap.

I am a very reliable individual and do not like to let people down, so if for some reason your package gets lost I will be glad to replace it. I do get tracking numbers for all my packages that I send out.

I love work that has been thought out, neatly done, clean and not just thrown together.

My favorite craft is making paper bag OOAK books for people. I don't really scrapbook with photos, so I guess it is more paper crafting. The books are made for people to insert their memories of photos, to journal in and whatever else they may want to include.

I started creating these books for my gifts to people and then it became a part time hobby/job. I've created baby books, wedding books, school photo books, mother's day books, cancer survivor books, friends book, color themed books and holiday books etc. I also try to sew as much as I can on my books, it gives the books more character.

Please feel free to look at my Facebook page to see some of my art/work-what I love to do!

I recently started making the small matchboxes and really enjoy trying to make them as 3d as possible. It's also a fun challenge to try and fit as much fun stuff as you can in such a tiny box!

• Love Madonna and all of her styles!
• Blink 182
• Blondie
• Evanescence
• Green Day

I'm not much of a bookworm, but I did love reading the Twilight (Team Edward) and Harry Potter books. Ok and I will admit I read the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy...that Christian Grey WOWZAA!

• Pretty in Pink
• All Marvel movies
• Edward Scissorhands

• American Horror Story
• Once Upon A Time
• Some reality shows

• RIBBON/Bakers Twine/Fibers-You can add ribbon to anything! I'm thankful for all ribbon, but please don't send small snip it's like 2" - it's really hard to do anything with small pieces.

• Love Halloween, it's my favorite holiday! Cats and witches are my favorites! All my cats are gray, so I really love gray cats!

• Vintage Halloween anything.

• I really like the primitive/vintage/worn look crafts, but not country stuff.

• Owls and red foxes

• Washi tape-Halloween, cats, any holiday related, vintage florals, ones with words like Handmade with Love etc. I prefer washi on a roll, so please do not send on a card unless it's part of the swap.

• Paper straws

• Embellishments of all kinds! Flair pins, unique brads maybe holiday or some type of season theme and fancy stick pins.

• Bunting/banners

• Vintage items (love vintage silver bracelets). Vintage Halloween would be even better! I don't wear gold jewelry, so please nothing gold.

• Clear glass jars/vintage tea cups/antique metal muffin trays to keep embellishments organized.

• Anything Kelly Rae Roberts especially her canvas art and Melody Ross stuff I love!

• Favorite colors-Black, grey, canary yellow., white..just recently I have seen a lot of red and teal together and I really like those colors together!

• Silver jewelry-mostly bracelets I love the look of a ton of bracelets on your wrist. I do love vintage jewelry, especially vintage silver charms for my charm bracelet. Again, I don't wear gold jewelry.

• Tiny treasures, I think that is why I love to make whimsey jars...its a challenge when shopping...what tiny item can I fit in there and how much can I fit in there!

• Milk chocolate molasses puffs, skittles, churros, cupcakes, donuts, red velvet cake and Honeycrisp apples with peanut butter and mini chocolate chips (my favorite breakfast or snack)! Oh and I love hot cider in the fall!

• Please please please nothing with rodents-mice and/or rats. I don't like them one bit! Ick!

• Not into country decor

• No teacher/kids/award/Disney/cartoon stickers

• No paper scraps (I have enough of my own and I use them to decorate/label my packages).

• No bookmarks, no religious items, no make-up or perfume items (lotions, body sprays, candles, etc.), no coffee or tea please (of course unless it is a tea swap-that's ok) and not a fan of receiving all items from the dollar store in a swap!

• Please no cooking, baking or gardening items, I don't do any of the 3.

• Not a fan of glitter! I have some and on items too, but glitter ends up everywhere once it's let out of its container!!! :)

• Please nothing that smells of smoke or smells musty. I haven't been on here long and have already had to pitch several items due to the smell. Sorry I have to even put this.