NatNat

I am a woman living in Sweden with a love for art and the outdoors! I am 35 years old. Summertime involves a lot of gardening and hiking. When fall and winter arrives I spend more time painting, sewing and dabbling in different crafty things. Drinking good tea or coffee whilst making my cat, who thinks she's a dog, play fetch with fabric mice.

This October I will join an online challenge for medieval scribes/scrollwork/art. This might influence my ATC making. Maybe I even teach myself how to use gold leaf!

I love garment making, though I don't do it as often as I want to. It takes a lot of time, space and materials. If I want to still handle a needle, but on something smaller I like to design cute embroidery designs and make random small storage pouches or sewing kits.

I also like creating art. Watercolours is my go to. Sometimes I do acrylics or other mediums, but the spontainety of watercolour is something I really like.

This winter I got myself a set of proper carving sloyd knives and I am trying to slowly and carefully teach myself to carve spoons! It's fun, but messy. Wood shavings everywhere. So it's mostly an outdoor in the summer kind of activity.

I love creating ATCs, they're the perfect tiny size to be able to make something nice in an evening without having to commit to a huge canvas.

They are a nice way to wake up the creativity and try out new ideas, art forms and techniques.

There is a lot of things I like. I love random paper crafty items, like stickers, pieces of washi or die cuts. I don't have a die cut machine so it's nice to receive from others. :)

I love sewing notions, especially vintage. I make some of my clothes, I am into historical sewing(I mainly sew medieval stuff and Viking era stuff) and I do the occasional quilt.

My main colours I wear are earthy, forest tones and gold framed glasses.

My bedroom is painted in a deep forest green and with walnut stained wood. In a corner lives an antique Singer 29k sewing machine. Linen curtains hides the road outside the windows.

My living room (or craft room) is brighter. White walls, oak floors. Soon to get a proper art wall with art from myself, friends and from you swap-botters!

I do have a tendency to find the beauty of most colours!

I have around 75 of the rainbow stamps, since I got a roll of them and very few of the other ones so most swaps are sent with the rainbow stamps. I do hope i dont offend anyone.

• A Art!
• B Botanical illustrations and prints!
• C Colour theory
• D Dried flowers
• E Embroidery. I mostly donscandi style folk art.
• F Food.
• G Gardening, I have a garden allotment
• H Hiking
• I Illustrations, and Illumination(thing decorated letters from medieval manuscripts)
• J Journaling. Trying to keep up with my bullet journal.
• K Kraft paper, I like its vintage vibe.
• L Lace
• M Masking/washi tape and Museums.
• N Nature and Notebooks.
• O Opals
• P Paper goods, and paper crafting
• Q Quills and Quilting. Since quilting is a very American thing, I only have expensive online quiltshops to go to so quilting things is something I won't be swapping I think.
• R Regency era (Think Jane Austen!)
• S Scrapbooking
• T Typewriters and thrift shopping! I also have a small tansy tattoo on my arm.
• U Unboxing all your wonderful swaps!
• V Vellum, Vintage sewing notions and paper ephemera
• W Wool. I wear wool a lot, but I am a bad knitter. Love wool socks! European size 38, US 7,5.
• X This is a too hard letter!
• Y Yule! Snow, lit candles and indoor trees.
• Z Zentangles. It was ages ago I did some, but they fit on the letter Z!
• Å Årstider! Swedish word for Seasons! Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn! They are all lovely in their own way.
• Ä Äldre papper (Antique paper!)
• Ö Örter! Swedish for herbs. Amazing in food, and smells amazing in the garden. Some also make nice teas.

While I do love most type of snacks, anything that melts won't work in the mail between November to March. My postbox is just above the radiator and get to the warmth of body temp.

If it will melt in your jean pocket, it will melt in my postbox.

I like scented items but I also work in production of haircare and skincare so save your lotions for someone who needs it better than me :)