Maria66

Hello , I am Mieke, from the Netherlands. I am Catholic, mom of 6 grown-up kids and I have 3 grand daughters and baby grandson. I am 68 and retired.

I have been away from Swapbot because I had to downside and recently moved to a senior flat with my cat Molly.

I like to read, Historical fiction and Cozy mystery and Fiction and vintage classics mostly. I love history, culture, art and nature. I walk every day, try to cook and eat healthy, regular work-out, and enjoy life as much as I can.

I drink coffee in the morning and love tea all day, all kinds. As I said, I love all teas, however I would be special pleased to receive a smoked tea, like smoked Earl Grey. I prefer my tea in the original wrapping.

I like coloring books, watercolor, crosstitch and knitting

I have a reading journal , a commonplace book, a 5 year journal and a perfume journal and hobonichi weeks planner.

I like calendars, clocks,seasons, letters and words. I enjoy to go to museums, parks, the beach and to travel. My favorite era are the 20ties till the 60ties.

I like mailart, vintage postcards, stickers, planner stickers, tea, recipes, bookmarks ,stationery, perfume samples, and just something happy in my mailbox. For postcards I especially like postcards with women, books , tea cups, food, pin ups, vintage advertisement, nature ,children book illustrations, art, museum postcards,and words.

For Halloween, I prefer the cute or children postcards

ABC of some of my favorite things:

A - Adult coloring books, Autumn Art Animals Advent calendars

B Beach Books Brushes Bike Blossom Birds Bees Bookmark Begonia

C Cats Crafts Crosstitch Crochet Clock Cozy mysteries Calendars Chalk crayons Cute Culture Coaster Commonplace book Children

D Daffodils Decorating Drawing Dancing

E Envelopes Ephemera

F Fountain pen Flowers France Faith Fun Family Friends Fruit

G Gell Pens Glitter glue Gluebook

H Handmade History Historical novels Homebody Honey

I Icecream Italy Insects Ink

J Journals Joy Jigsaw puzzle Junkjournal

K Kindle Kitchen

L Labels Lavender Lighthouse Lake

M Markers Maps, Moon Micron pens Mixed media Meadow Museums Mailart

N Notebooks Notecards Nature Nailpolish

O Ocean

P Perfume Postcards Pens Planners Pink Poem Patterns Psalms Pumpkin spice

Q Quotes

R Reading Recycle Recipe Rosary

S Stencils Stationery Stickers Snail mail Sea shells Spring Summer Sunshine Stamps

T Train Trees Tea Teacup Teapot

U Unique Universe Useful Underwater world

V Vintage Vegetables

W Washi Watercolor Walk Weather Work-out

XYZ Zentangle Zines