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Bucket

Bucket
Date Joined: August 19, 2008
Last Online: November 19, 2024
Birthday: March 13, 1984
Country: United States
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About Me

I work in marketing at a university hospital system and have a wonderful partner and sweet baby son. We have a big friendly mutt in our household too.

I am an avid reader and writer. I love literary fiction, memoir, fascinating history/social science, and the classics.

I enjoy hiking, backpacking, camping, and mountaineering with my family. We love the outdoor opportunities here in the Pacific Northwest!

Maxwell Butte

Favorite Crafts

I'm a paper crafter, and dabble in painting and drawing.

Things I like to make and also like to receive:

*Handmade notecards/postcards

*Zentangles

*Zines

*Journals

*Mail art

*Naked mail

*ATCs, inchies, twinchies

*Mandalas

*Paper flowers

*Origami

Non-crafts I like to swap:

*Postcards (see section below)

*Books, reading, etc (see section below)

*Letters/notes

*Notecards

*Paper crafting supplies

*Journals

*Stationery (not for computer)

*Googly eyes, brads, non-flat stickers

*Tea

I do a lot of zentangles and love to swap them. I'm not particular about using the official trademarked Zentangle method or patterns. Below are some samples of what I've created!

Mandala zentangle

Twinchies

Handprint

Colors

My favorite color is yellow, closely followed by pink/red. I love yellow and pink together! I also like green and really like multi-colored items.

As far as shades, I tend to prefer bright, vibrant shades and jewel tones. I like pastels - especially yellow and pink. I'm not too excited by earth tones or darker shades.

Postcard preferences

MAPS! - especially unusual maps (like a historical map, a map of a small town, or some sort of themed map).

Typical tourist cards - scenic/city views, cards from a tourist destination/landmark, etc.

I prefer NAKED postcards, with a message and a stamp.

I also enjoy USED vintage postcards - the older the better, with old stamps and interesting old messages.

Favorite Books

I prefer literary fiction, short stories, biography, memoir and well-researched, well-written history and social science. I am interested in book reviews and recommendations. I don't like most genre fiction (like romance, mystery, thriller, etc...) and I don't usually like series fiction.

Favorite novels: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Solace of Leaving Early, A Tale of Two Cities, Midnight's Children, The Once and Future King, Joseph Andrews, Cat's Cradle, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Gilead, Ada, Tinkers, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Grapes of Wrath, Sacred Hunger, Waterland, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Sometimes a Great Notion, All the Light We Cannot See, Americanah, Salvage the Bones, Love Medicine

Favorite short story authors: Anthony Doerr, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Carson McCullers, George Saunders, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucia Berlin

Poetry: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, ee cummings

Check out my Goodreads (link above)

Things I love

animals, bright colors, nature/the outdoors, stationery, map postcards, notecards, journals, word puzzles and games, logic puzzles, the number 4, Girl Scouts, hiking and camping, books and reading, The Beatles, German beer coasters, papers for card making, extremely fine line pens (005) in all colors, tea, handmade envelopes, naked mail, zentangles, short stories, challenges, biking

Looking for a good theme for a profile-based swap to send me? Some ideas I would enjoy, in no particular order:

*Yellow and pink

*Outdoorsy/natural

*Adventure/mountain/active outdoors

*Ducks

*All things German

*Writing/journaling

*Books/reading

*Zentangle

Tea

I like black and green teas - flavors always welcome! I enjoy flavors like vanilla, chocolate, caramel, any sort of nutty flavors, and I love coconut. Fruit flavors are hit and miss - sometimes great, sometimes not.

I don't care for herbal teas or earl grey.

Dislikes

*Hello Kitty, kawaii, Disney, Diddl, any other trademarked characters

*Vintage (unless it's used postcards), Victorian, ephemera, steampunk, etc...

*Gothic, dark, horror

*dollar store, kitsch, trinkets

Ratings

Brokenwings87 rated for R&W: October 2024 TBR progress on Nov 11, 2024
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Comment: What do you like about this author? Gabriel Garcia Marquez
KSENiA rated for R&W: October 2024 TBR progress on Nov 8, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing!
colleenbUSA rated for R&W: October 2024 TBR progress on Nov 7, 2024
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Comment: Great job cleaning up your list! Thanks for sharing.
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KSENiA rated for R&W: August 2024 TBR progress on Oct 25, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing.
KSENiA rated for R&W: September 2024 TBR progress on Oct 25, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing.
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Comment: Thanks! I’ll get these moving shortly. Thanks for the cool stickers as well.
colleenbUSA rated for R&W: September 2024 TBR progress on Oct 15, 2024
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Comment: Thanks for sharing. Yay! For being out of your reading slump!
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Comment: The little envelope is so cute! Thank you :-)
colleenbUSA rated for R&W: July 2024 TBR progress on Aug 11, 2024
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Comment: I'm sorry to hear you had a rough month at work. I hope you're able to read more soon. Thanks for sharing and for joining the swap!
Response: Thank you Colleen. Things are all uphill from here, I think. :)
LilacSilence rated for R&W: July 2024 TBR progress on Aug 11, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing! -- Wow, you had a busy month. Hope you have enjoyed all the activities.
Brokenwings87 rated for R&W: July 2024 TBR progress on Aug 9, 2024
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Comment: Clairssa is a very very long book O_O wow. Do you just keep a word document or do you have a spreadsheet?
Response: I have a spreadsheet and I also track my reading on Goodreads. :)
KSENiA rated for R&W: June 2024 TBR progress on Jul 13, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing.
Brokenwings87 rated for R&W: June 2024 TBR progress on Jul 9, 2024
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Comment: How do you know what year you added books? I haven't gotten this far yet :D But know at some point I should label them by year added.
Response: Sorry for the slow response! I keep my TBR on Goodreads, so I can see the date I added books to my shelf.
LilacSilence rated for R&W: June 2024 TBR progress on Jul 8, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing!
KSENiA rated for R&W: May 2024 TBR progress on Jun 18, 2024
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Comment: Thank you for sharing.
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Comment: I will pass along the traveler you sent. Thank you for the extra items.
colleenbUSA rated for R&W: May 2024 TBR progress on Jun 9, 2024
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Comment: You had a super busy month! It's great you got any reading done at all!
Brokenwings87 rated for R&W: May 2024 TBR progress on Jun 5, 2024
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Comment: I really like how you break down your list by year....I will have to figure out how to do that for next year (this is the first year I have done a TBR).

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Comments

littlehana86 on Dec 31, 2022:

Hello Kara! Thanks for the extra you've sent to me. You shouldn't have. That is so nice of you. Next time you just have to let me know if anything.

spinweaver on Dec 6, 2022:

Hello! Please check the message I've sent to you

DaisyNY on Jul 4, 2022:

Hi Kara! Thank you for working on this card so many years ago - it finally made its way home this week. I like the work you did on it.

wolfeagle on May 6, 2022:

Thank you for working on my mermaid waves Collaboration postcard. I love it.

wolfeagle on Dec 31, 2021:

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Wishing you a fantastic 2022!

marianne81 on May 9, 2019:

Thank you so much for your addition on my collaboration card, I love the clock you made. you can see the finished peace here https://flic.kr/p/2fE6aFS I still haven't figured how to add a foto in my messages so you have to copy the link to see the picture.

jenmcjen on Mar 17, 2019:

Artistic on Sep 24, 2018:

Welcome back!!

TereDiane1954 on Jun 8, 2018:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!!?? I love that bookβ™₯ Welcome back :)

latentsmile on Nov 19, 2013:

Here's hoping all is going well with you in life. Feel free to apply back to the Mandalas group if you return to swap-bot. I am just cleaning house of inactives. <3

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