Sweet Goodness Swaps: Hanging Hearts Valentines Day Swap!

Happy New Year! We're back and ready for a great year of swapping in 2008! Didn't think you'd hear from us so soon, heh? Well Lucy and I now have TWICE the amount of help and we're off to a bang up start!

Leigh Ann will be joining us again now that she's all set up in her new home in Kansas and please welcome our newest Goodness Girl, Heidi! So look out swappers, you've got a load of crafty women over here ready to get your creative juices flowing! (and let me tell you, the ideas already being discussed for future swaps are amazing!)

And the first swap of 2008 is . . .

HANGING HEARTS VALENTINE'S DAY SWAP

Sign up by: Friday January 11th (hurry up!)

Partner names will be sent out by Tuesday January 15th

Send out by: Monday February 4th

Description: You will send your partner one Hanging Heart Valentine! Be creative! You can use any media as long as your Valentine is smaller than 8x10. We want to keep this a quick and easy swap, aim to fit your valentine into a small box or padded envelope.

Your Valentine doesn't even have to be a heart, just something related to the holiday that your partner can display by hanging. Ideas: fabric hearts, paper hearts, dolls, mixed media collages, fabric post cards, you name it! If you can attach a ribbon to it and call it a Valentine it will work. :) (And we know you'll most likely include a heart on it somewhere.) This is your chance to really put your brain to work and come up with something unique!

Colors: You can do the traditional colors of Valentine's Day or be creative and shake it up a bit like pink and aqua or pink and brown. (Rebecca's personal favorite!)

Open to: All swappers! As this will be a fast and fun swap anyone can join. Just PLEASE remember that if you sign up you MUST complete the swap ON TIME. Please please see the sidebar for details.

Please email us at heartswap2008@hotmail.com to sign up! Remember to let us know if you are willing to ship internationally should we have any overseas participants. Postage should be low on this swap!

Swap button and Flickr groups to come!

Cheers ~

The Goodness Girls

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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

11 comments:

Anonymous said...: OH This sounds fun! count me in!!! I have been wanting to do a swap with yall!; January 5, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Homespun Mama said...: Fun blog! I'll have to keep an eye on this one :); January 5, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Paula said...: Count me in! I'm off to email you now...; January 5, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Sarah B. B. said...: Sitting this one out, sadly, but I did put a plug for it on my blog. Y'all have fun - I'll be sure to stalk the flickr group. :); January 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Jane said...: Sign me up! I heart swapping with you girls!; January 6, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Lolly said...: Count me in! I will send you an email momentarily! What a fun swap!
Lolly; January 7, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Connie from Beverly Hills California said...: Count me in!! I have already emailed you. This is so much fun!! Connie; January 8, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Princess of Everything (and then some) said...: Oh I want in!!; January 8, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Popsicles & Lollipops said...: I hope there's still room for one more, I'd love to join in the fun!
Emailing you right away!; January 8, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Jillian's Bella Rosa Antiques said...: Hi! I've sent an email to be included in the swap...how exciting! My first swap...

Do I add a button on my blog yet????

I'm such a newbie. :)

~ Jillian; January 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Anonymous said...: so elated to have found your blog! just signed up and i'm looking forward to the next swap!! thank you <3; February 20, 2008 at 2:05 PM