Shawnie

Hello! I'm happy to be here. I enjoy paper crafting, mixed media, memory keeping and junk journaling. I grew up in southern California, moved around a bit and currently call it home again. I'm a 53 yo working wife and dog-mom. Swap-bot is new and exciting for me! Even as a child, I've always loved sending and receiving mail!

A to Z About Me:

A Animals, audiobooks, Autumn, apple cider

B Books, bees, birds/birdwatching, bookstores, berries, bear, bookclubs, booktube

C Cottagecore, camping, coffee, cards/cardmaking, California, crossstitch, cookies

D Dogs, the desert, daisies

E Envelopes, earnestness, eyeglasses

F Fantasy, fairies, forest bathing, florals

G Geraniums, green colors, Gussie - my 16yo terrier - RIP sweet girl, 10/21/24.

H Hiking, Hufflepuff, horror books, High tea

I Ice cream, insects

J Junk journaling

K Kindness

L Libraries, list-making, lakes, lipgloss, Layle by Mail, labels/mailing labels

M Mushrooms, mermaids, maps, mail, mixed media, mountains, memory keeping in minibooks, mysteries

N Notebooks, nature, national parks, Netflix

O Outdoors, ocean, oak trees, octopuses

P Paper, pens, pink, paperclips

Q Quotes, quail, quartz

R Romance, reading, rivers, retro, romantasy

S Snow, SciFi, stickers, Star Trek, stamps/collecting, succulents, socks, Stickles

T Trees, travel, travelers notebooks (TNs), thrillers, true crime tv shows, tags

U US map, upside-down cake, unscented candles

V Violet, vegetables, vintage, Vicki Boutin

W Winter, water, watermelon, woodland critters, walking

X Xeriscape

Y Yellow, yarrow

Z Zinnias, zest (lemon zest in frosting or cookies YUM!)

LOVES: *Anything outdoors and nature-related *Reading and books! *Traveling, camping, hiking, the ocean, mountains or desert *Florals, birds, insects, vintage and retro *Cottagecore and woodland critters and fairies

*New, handmade, destash, or your favorites! *Reading a little about you or your day in a note *New or used stamps

I read a lot and love book talk. Current book genre loves are fantasy/romantasy, horror, thriller, romance, SF. I'm trying to read more poetry. I enjoy adventure memoirs.

TEAS: I enjoy most teas, caff and decaf. Currenlty I have Dong Ding oolong and Chai and an English cream tea that is amazing but I can't remember the name.

COFFEES: All of it - love it.

DISLIKES: *Loose glitter *Heavily scented items due to allergies :(

I'm open to penpals and don't currently have any.

I'm not very active on Instagram but will try to do better for correspondence exchanges and swaps! :)

Instagram: http://https://www.instagram.com/shawnietayloradams/

I'm also on Goodreads.

PLEASE message me if you don't receive something as/when expected! I will happily resend. :) If you receive something that requires extra postage, please please message me. I will be happy to PayPal you the $ or send you postage stamps. Thank you!