CosmicCatPajamas

I am neurodivergent and an introverted extrovert. I love art, anime, drag, thrift shopping, all things kawaii, animals (especially cats and owls), the weird & unusual, coffee, books, and anything vintage. (especially the 60s and 70s)

I dabble in a little bit of everything but mixed media and collage are my favorite art mediums to work in. I like to art journal/junk journal and love gelli printing. You could say I am a paper hoarder and I love sending and receiving snail mail.

My children are two cats, Luna and Zelda. Luna is a calico and Zelda is pure floof. They are my heart. 💜

I collect kawaii stationary, washi tape, mail art, unique foreign stamps, ATCs, postcards, stickers and interesting playing cards, along with tarot and oracle cards. (among other things)

I love color! I love pastels and bright colors. My favorites are pink, mustard yellow, teal, and lavender.

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I love when I receive postcards that have been decorated along with your message.

Decorated envelopes (even a little) bring me joy. 💜

This is a work in progress.

Music is a big part of my life. Some bands/artists I love are Circa Survive, Alkaline Trio, Portugal. the Man, Hot Mulligan, L.S. Dunes, Glassjaw, La Dispute, Anthony Green, Rx Bandits, Saves the Day, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan... there are so many.

It's probably easier if I list some of my favorite authors. They include Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Jack Kerouac. I love to read but I particularly enjoy memoirs, Fiction (I lean towards the weird), and poetry.

Bob's Burgers, What We Do in the Shadows, Parks and Recreation, Adventure Time, Drag Race, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, Community, Daria, The Simpsons, Gilmore Girls, Flight of the Conchords, It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia

Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Durarara!!, Re:Zero, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, Is This a Zombie?, FLCL, Zombie Land Saga, Steins;Gate

Alice in Wonderland, Empire Records, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, A Beautiful Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, Little Miss Sunshine, SLC Punk!, Gummo, Reality Bites

I know I'm forgetting so many.

A- art, anime, Alice in Wonderland, ATCs, animals, Adventure Time, anthropomorphic, aliens, Afro Ken, Accidently Wes Anderson, Animal Crossing, Aggretsuko, abandoned buildings

B- book pages, especially in other languages, bohemian, body positivity

C- cats, collage, celestial, cosmic, coffee, crystals, chakras, chocolate, clouds, Care Bears, Colorful

D- drag, dried flowers, Daria, dark humor

E- eyes, ephemera,

F- flower of life, fruit

G- graffiti, gelli prints, gemini, gashapon, ghosts

H- Hello Kitty, human rights, holographic, Halloween

I- illustrations, iridescent

J- Japan, junk journals, journaling, Juno Birch

K- kawaii, kitschy, Kirby

L- lettersets, liliacs, lavender, lotus flower, lettering, lemons

M- mixed media, mushrooms, the moon, mailart, mid-century modern, miniatures, Mind Wave, Mofusand, meditation, mermaids

N- nostalgia from the late 80's and 90's, neon

O- owls, Oracle cards

P- postcards, paper, postage stamps, poetry, pusheen, pastel colors, photography, poppies, pansies, polaroids, pocky, pop surrealism art, pin ups, puffy stickers, playing cards

Q- Q-lia

R- rainbows, rust

S- sunflowers, stickers, stationary, street art, skeletons, skulls, spooky cute, sixties and seventies, Sanrio, space, Sailor Moon, Shaker stickers, Sumikko Gurashi, San-X

T- Toki Doki, trees, Trixie and Katya, trippy, typography, Totoro, Tarot

U- unicorns

V- vintage, VW Buses and bugs, vaporwave

W- washi tape, weird, witchy, watercolor, wallpaper, wax letter seals

X- x-rays

Y- yellow

Z- Zines

Please do not send me: anything of a religious nature, clowns, spiders (even at Halloween), reward stickers, planner stickers, confetti, anything with any kind of loose glitter at all, anything politically conservative.

Please do not just print off a picture and send it as a postcard.

Please do not send friendship books. Sticker books/slams and decos are fine, though!

I love everything everyone sends me. Even if I cannot use it, I will pass it on to someone who can. These are just a few things I'm adding that I would love to receive.

Japanese stamps, Vintage valentine cards, interesting and/or odd stamped images, fussy cut images for ATCs, etc., Gelli prints/painted papers, Anything odd or interesting I can use for my junk journals, Address labels, sewn paper, vintage/unique playing cards, Tarot and Oracle Cards

If you have magazines you don't want, I will take them! Some wishlist magazines: Flow, Frankie, anything Japanese, high fashion magazines in general.

I'm sure I will add and subtract things from this list. Thanks for reading.

I always rate received swaps within a day of receiving them. If you have not received a rating, I likely have not received it yet. The mail can be incredibly frustrating so I wait awhile before reaching out. The same goes for my sent swaps.

Also, I read and am so grateful for all ratings I receive. Responding to all of them has gotten away from me but please know I see and appreciate every word. 💜

I've been collecting kawaii stationary for years. I collect mostly Japanese brands like San-x, Crux, Kamio, Q-Lia, and Mindwave. I also collect Sanrio stuff. For kawaii swaps, please only send items that are name brand. For regular swaps, I don't mind off brand stuff but I am a collector and sign up for these specific swaps for that reason.

My favorite themes are anything weird, ghosts, sweets, fairy tales... honestly, I love it all.