Sweet Goodness Swaps: Spring Fling Swap! Sign Up Now!

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Spring Fling Swap! Sign Up Now!

Hello! Lucy and I thought it would be great to have a blog just for our swaps so VOILA! Sweet Goodness Swaps was born. We had a wonderful turn out for the last one and hope that both this site and word of mouth will get more crafters involved. So onto to the details . . .

SPRING FLING SWAP

Sign up by: March 26, 2007

Send out by: April 23, 2007

Theme: SPRING! and a bonus theme of Pink & Green

Details: The devil is in the details, right? Nah, we know you love a challenge so we threw together this little gem . . . You will send your partner 6 items that are in the color scheme of pink and green. At least one of these items should be hand made and one should be second hand or thrifted. The others can be crafting supplies, candy, paper, you name it! Easy right? Well here's the catch . . . each item must represent one letter in the word SPRING. For example you could send:

S - stickers (pink and green of course)
P - pretty knitted bag (you see? there is a lot of creative license here)
R - Ring Pop! (mmmmm ring pop)
I - interesting tea towel (Oh "I" is going to be tough LOL)
N - necklace (could be hand made could be thrifted who knows?)
G - goodies! (G is my favorite ha ha)

Anyway, you get the idea. Try your best to be creative in your choices. I have no doubts you will do well!

TO SIGN UP:

Please email us at sgswaps@hotmail.com with your name, mailing address and blog address (if you have one.)

QUESTIONS? Send us an email or leave a comment!

Vive La Spring!

Rebecca

9 comments:

Jodi Ohl said...: Whooooo hoooo, let the swapping begin!!!

We already have 7 or more participants, so we are on our way ladies to a wonderful turnout for this latest Sweet Goodness swap!!

LUCY; March 15, 2007 at 7:55 PM
Heidi said...: Count me in. I love, love, love pink and green and was planning on that color for my girl nursery. Sounds fun.; March 15, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Jodi Ohl said...: ****Please also add in your email if you are willing to ship overseas so we can match up partners appropriately***** :)

lucy; March 15, 2007 at 11:40 PM
LeeAnn said...: I sent in an email earlier today to join in the fun. I would be willing to ship overseas.

Ciao`; March 16, 2007 at 1:07 AM
G.G. said...: Should be tons of fun! Sent off my e-mail to join :). Thanks for hosting another one ladies!; March 16, 2007 at 3:07 AM
Jenn said...: OOOH I am in, too!

Jenn; March 26, 2007 at 9:08 AM
Sonya said...: I'm in for this one! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!; March 26, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Leanne said...: I got my package out today!! Yeah! This was so fun!!; April 13, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Lucy and Rebecca.. I was a bit slow but I got my pictures posted on my site today. Check it out. DJ; May 7, 2007 at 1:19 PM

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PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES

Participation Selection:

We like to have as many participants in our swaps as possible. However, we usually limit each swap to the first 50 sign ups as it becomes very difficult to deal with the amount of email and follow up if the number is larger. Plus a smaller group gives us an opportunity to give more personalized assistance when needed.

For most swaps we allow in any one who would like to join. Some swaps in the past have been limited to those who have successfully swapped with us before or those who are recommended by our previous swappers or known friends.

Those people who have signed up for swaps and HAVE NOT completed them are not invited back. There are some exceptions to this rule, such as the person contacting both us and their partner with their extenuating circumstances or someone dropping out early and our ability to fill their spot in time. We understand that things come up and don't hold this against people but we do tend to not reinvite those who in the past haven't even bothered to contact their partners or send any packages.

Screening Process:

We have started using a questionnaire that needs to be filled out in order to sign up for the swap. This helps us to not only get to know our swappers but to match up partners with similar interests.

We keep a list of those who have swapped with us in the past and use this to try to insure no one gets the same partner they have had in the past to add variety to the swaps.

Other than this we take everyone into consideration and ASSUME they will send a complete and quality swap. We want to give everyone a chance to join in and have fun.

Swapping always involves a bit of risk though all of our swaps have a very high success rate and we have a wonderful core of returning swappers. We do our best to solve all swap issues and assist where needed. We also would like to remind everyone that we do for fun as we enjoy swapping with our creative folks out there and coming up with fun and new swap themes.

We encourage your feedback and thoughts. As we change our swap mailbox with each swap your general comments and feedback can be sent to goodnessshop@gmail.com.

PLEASE READ

Please be sure that when joining a swap that you read the directions thoroughly. Not only do we post them on the site but we also send emails containing swap specifics. While we are all for creative license there are some rules that should be followed including the number of items to be included (more is welcome but try to stay within the budget posted) and the types of items to be included. We will always have at least one hand made item in our swaps. That is the essence of Sweet Goodness!

Thank you and we hope you understand that we do this to insure that everyone has a positive swap experience.

~ Rebecca, Lucy, Heidi, Leigh Ann & Shara