Sweet Goodness Swaps: April 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Swapper Found!

Thank you, we have our additional swapper. By this time everyone should have received their partner information email. If you signed up and have NOT received an email please email us ASAP!

Giddy up!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Vintage Cowgirl Swapper Needed!

Hey ya'll! We've ended up with an odd number and need one more swapper for the Vintage Cowgirl Swap! Drop us a line at sweetgoodnessswaps@hotmail.com if you are interested. First come, first served.

Thanks!

The Goodness Girls

Saturday, April 24, 2010

SWAP Closed!

The Vintage Cowgirl Swap is closed.

We will contact those that signed up in the next day to confirm your placement in the swap. Partner emails will then be sent out next week.

For those of you who missed the fun there will be a summer swap.

Y'all come back, ya hear!

Friday, April 23, 2010

New Swap! Calling All Vintage Cowgirls!

Howdy y'all! Welcome to our half-pint sized spring swap.

In honor of Goodness Girl Leigh Ann's recent move to Texas we are going with.....

VINTAGE COWGIRL

Think gingham, calico, and bandanna. Turquoise. Belt buckles and boots (the bigger the better!) Stars. Chuckwagons and cast iron. Pioneer Women.

It might be a little bit country kitsch or a little bit hokey western but we know you are up to the challenge of the thrift. The images we've seen of vintage cowgirls on the web are amazing for crafting a handmade item.

We're fixin' to have fun with this one and know you will, too!

Rules:

Challenge: you must use a vintage cowgirl image in your swap package. Get creative! Find images on Google and Flickr by searching words like vintage cowgirl or cowgirl pin-ups.
As always have a thrifted item, handmade item, and throw some sweet goodness in there, too! Packages should be valued at $15 not including shipping.
Newbies accepted. This swap will accept newbies so they can get experience swapping for the big no-newbie swap this summer.

Sign ups:

Sign up right away by sending your name, email, and web info (if you have it) to sweetgoodnessswaps@hotmail.com . We are closing it at 20 people. This is a small swap.
Once the swap closes we will work on partnering up and have them to you sometime on Friday, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st.
We are random number generating the pairs this time. It will be luck of the draw!

Mail out date: MONDAY, MAY 24th

Let's have some fun the month of May and then get it out before Memorial Day and the lazy days of summer.

Yeehaw!

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