Sweet Goodness Swaps: Blast from the Past!

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Blast from the Past!

Hello all you Swappers out there!! For those of you who are new to the Sweet Goodness Swaps, I thought you might like to check out our last swap posted on Flickr. We had 35 participants last time and this time there's DOUBLE that number, so I can NOT WAIT, to see all the Sweet Goodies you craft, collect, and create in the name of S-P-R-I-N-G!! I'm having a problem with I...is anyone else?? I mean I..how many words begin with I, 3, 4? 5? if we're lucky, that are nouns anyway?? Guess we are going to have to be IN-genius with this letter to make it work!!

We just want to remind you also to take pics of your swap goodies when you send and receive and post a blurb on your blog about your partner as a gesture of thank you AND...when we are near the end of the swap (April 23 peeps...tick tick tick), we will set up another group on Flickr for you to upload and share your bounty! Yahooo---who doesn't love happy mail??

The question has arose about confirmation numbers.....when you ship, please send your confirmation number to your partner and to us at: sgswaps@hotmail.com and hmmmmm, well....I do believe a swap this size warrants a prize to go out to a random pick of everyone who ships on time and sends a confirmation number!! I'll be on the look out for a neat prize while on my 'cashion' (as said by my wee one) next week for one of you timely swap ladies! Rebecca did the Crown last time, so this one is on me. Too bad I couldn't ship you one of those cute drinks with the umbrella I am bound to have (one or two of)!

Oh yes....how could we forget.....best wishes going out to all our gals for a wonderful Easter with you and yours! Dont sneak in the kiddies basket too much now...we have to watch our figures for the summer months ahead now :)

Happy Swapping and Happy Hopping!!

Lucy and Rebecca!!!

1 comment:

Jenn said...: Is there a flickr group set up for the Spring Fling?

Jenn; April 13, 2007 at 11:40 AM

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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