Sweet Goodness Swaps: Wait a Minute Mr. Postman!!! I have a package for you!!

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman!!! I have a package for you!!

It's hard to believe another swap is coming to close, but just like everything---time flies when you are having fun!!!!

SEND OUT DATE: July 23rd

Are you all knee deep in glitter, glue, tape, paint, and fabric too as you create your containers?? I've seen some really great photo's---don't forget to upload your containers to a separate flickr group so we can choose the Summer Swap container Queen!!

For those of you who played along this swap, we want to sincerely thank you for making this swap one of our biggest yet!!! Timing has been a challenge for some of us (Leigh Ann is in the middle of a huge move across country!!), and Rebecca and I had vacations this last 2 weeks so we appreciate your patience if we had a delay in email response lately.

If you are ready to post your pictures of your swap (sent or recieved) please post here!!

Out of all of our swappers, we did unfortunately have 1 person not respond at all to her partners emails, so this is just a plea from us---if anyone wants to join our next swap, please do so with honest intentions as swapping is a commitment and we really hate for anyone to be disappointed in a flake partner. Luckily she didn't ship anything to her--but still, it is a disappointement.

Okay enough about business---let's get hopping along and finish our projects so they can board the mail lady's truck to your Summer Fun partner's door step!!! Whoooo hooooo!!

Don't forget to join our contest!!!! Post your container (only) to enter here.

*****Stay tuned for our next color swap---it will be warm and fuzzy, on the rocks or frozen, tasty and smooth--anyway you choose, these colors will surely cure away those summer blues!!

***Also upcoming we will have a couple of smaller swaps for the upcoming holidays---so keep your bloglines marked for our next swaparoo!!!!

5 comments:

jodi said...: Lucy, if I can figure out how to put my photo of my container on the page with the others I will. Right now am having problems.; July 18, 2007 at 9:12 PM
Jane said...: Hi,

I appreciate all the work that goes into organizing these swaps! I also have a bunch of left over yellow and orange stuff and ideas- so if that flaked on partner wants to swap with me let me know.I can still meet the deadline (or at least super super close); July 18, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Jenn said...: Oh what a bummer, I would be happy to take on a second partner if that ever happens again,of course, hopefully it doesn't.

Jenn; July 23, 2007 at 6:32 PM
Unknown said...: Okay, I'm thinking and thinking about those clues for the next swap colors but I am completely stumped! What a tease! LOL I'll keep working on it. :); July 24, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Shel/Nate/Anipals said...: This was so fun! Thanks again for hosting! I'll be posting my pics asap!; July 24, 2007 at 8:55 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