cmmaldonado

NOTE: I’m taking a hiatus for a while. Love it here, love you all, I’ll be back!

Hiya, I'm Carmen! I'm 38 years old and live just outside Anchorage, Alaska. Mom to my favorite person, my 17-year-old daughter. Married to my best friend. Vintage/antique lover/seller (and, thus, a thriftaholic), illustrator, paper nerd, bookworm, crafter, poet, and coffee addict. ☕️💕 I work as an editor and graphic designer by day. I have an ephemera problem! I love vintage and antique paper - book pages, postcards, ads, etc.. I also like to collect little trinkets and miniature things for assemblage art and display. I'm into astrology, tarot, and other forms of divination, and I suppose you could say I lean a bit witchy.

Swaps
I always send out my swaps. If for any reason I think it will be late, I will message you to let you know. If you didn't receive a swap from me, it must have been lost in the mail - please reach out to let me know and I am happy to resend!

I always rate, but I am, alas, human, and prone to occasional forgetfulness - if you haven't received a rating from me please let me know and I will get it done!

A: antique, apothecary labels, astrology (esp. Scorpio-related!), Addams Family, Adventure Time, ATCs, atlases, Ancient Egypt, autumn, anatomical, astronomy, altered books, advertising (vintage/antique), Alice in Wonderland, art journals, assemblage art, ARGs

B: Beistle (esp. Halloween), bestiaries, bees, butterflies, books (reading and as a motif), birds (owls, songbirds, ravens/crows - non-tropical birds), bizarre, bicycles, Bauhaus art, bookmarks, botanical

C: chrysanthemums, cards (greeting, playing, artist trading), charts, chess, circus, cartomancy, Christmas (vintage/antique or retro), crystals, cabinet cards, cats, coffee, cemeteries, Chrono Trigger, chickens

D: Dennison (vintage, seals, labels, and gift wrap), deer, dogs (vintage or antique illustrations or photos), dictionary pages (vintage/antique), Disney (vintage), diecuts, Delia's catalogs

E: ephemera (vintage/antique), envelopes, eyes (as a motif), Egyptian mythology, escape rooms (in-person and video games), Easter (vintage/antique or retro), England, earthy colors

F: faeries, florals (esp. poppies, chrysanthemums, and peonies), frogs, France/French, forest, fall, fortune-telling (especially vintage and antique card decks), fairy tales, found object art

G: Gnomes, goblins, game cards and pieces (vintage), gas and oil ephemera, green (favorite color), Greek mythology, Girl Scouts

H: Halloween (vintage/antique or retro), haunted houses, Harry Potter, hot air balloons, horses, horror

I: Ireland, insects, incense, irises, illustration

J: junk journals

K: knights, kitsch (esp. 60s), kawaii

L: laurel, letters, leaves, lithographs, labels (vintage/antique)

M: mushrooms, magic, moths, maps, mail art, masks (vintage/antique), mid-century modern, mythology (generally, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman particularly), mermaids, Monty Python, magazines (vintage/antique)

N: 90s, notecards, newspapers (vintage/antique)

O: Occult (vintage/antique), orange (color), owls

P: paper! (vintage/antique or scrapbook paper with interesting textures/designs), postcards (vintage/antique/linen), pixies, poppies, peonies, poetry, photos (vintage/antique), puzzles (not jigsaw, more like logic, mystery, word games, etc.), punk, pinups (vintage), playing cards, pins (vintage, political, punk), postage stamps, putz houses, photography, pixel art

Q: ?

R: Roman mythology, rebuses, rabbits, railroad ephemera, Ravenclaw, rubber stamps (not cutesy or folksy), "The Room" game series, Rusty Lake games

S: snakes, Scorpio, science fiction, 60s, stamps (postage), stamps (rubber - not cutesy or folksy), space, Studio Ghibli, Silent Hill games, shabby chic, Sanrio (90s or older), squirrels

T: tags, typography, tins (vintage/antique), tintypes, Tarot, tattoos, trees, Tim Holtz, trinkets

U: unicorns, Underwood typewriters

V: vintage, Victorian, vines, valentines (vintage/antique)

W: winter, woodland, , witchy stuff, washi tape, wax seals

XYZ: x-rays, zoology, zombie movies, zines

I love to read - fiction and poetry mostly, but some non-fiction, too. Some of my favorites:

POETRY

I've also got some nostalgic love for a few childhood movies:

• Twin Peaks
• The Haunting of Hill House (fan of Mike Flanagan's other work as well)
• The Magicians
• Altered Carbon (season 1 only)
• Dark
• Dr. Who
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Attack on Titan
• American Pickers
• Adventure Time
• Over the Garden Wall
• CSI
• Stranger Things
• Daria
• Golden Girls
• Friends
• Sherlock Holmes
• Futurama

I love music! I like pretty much all music except I never really got into reggae. Some super faves are:

• Radiohead (OK Computer is one of my favorite albums ever.)
• Tangerine Dream
• David Sylvian
• Pink Floyd
• Björk
• Muse
• David Bowie
• The Smiths
• Grimes
• Counting Crows
• Deftones

Seriously, though, I love so much music!

I'm grateful for all the things! There are a few things I don't like, but I won't hold it against you if you send them. :-) They are:

• Precious Moments
• Sports
• contemporary cartoon/kids' characters (exceptions: Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe)
• Superhero/Marvel/DC movies - I do like the old comics, though.