Finally! A Flickr Pool for the Vintage Valentine Corsage Swap!

Sorry it took so long but you can now post your photos of goodies received and sent in the last VIntage Valentine Corsage Swap here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1638218@N21/

Also, we are looking for suggestions for the next swap! Send us your ideas!

Cheers ~ The Goodness Girls

Mailing day!

Hello Ladies - Just a reminder that Tuesday is Mail out day.  We hope that everyone has heard from their partner and made a new friend.  We haven't had one email saying there are any problems, so that is WONDERFUL!  But, if you have any problems, be sure to let us know so we can work some Sweet Goodness magic on it! 

We will set up a Flick'r group so everyone can show off their stylish corsages. 

Happy Valentine's Day - Shara

Valentine Swap CLOSED

Swap is CLOSED.  Partner info went out Sunday night.  Contact us at sweetgoodnessswaps@gmail.com if you have any questions or problems. 

Thanks!
~Shara

Vintage Valentine's Day Corsage Swap is now OPEN

Welcome! Sign up now to join the Vintage Valentine's Day Corsage Swap!



DETAILS:

Send one handmade vintage inspired Valentine's Day themed corsage and a sweet treat to your partner. Your corsage should include a pin back or large decorative straight pin so your partner can proudly wear it. You could also include an elastic band to make it a wrist corsage. Corsages should be at least 4 inches and will be made in either red or pink depending on your partner's preference. Feel free to include other accents like silver, gold or pearls. For inspiration see these fabulous vintage Christmas corsages at Magpie Ethel's: Christmas Corsage Collection

DATES:

Sign up QUICKLY! We are only taking the first 24 participants. Swap sign ups close on Sunday January 9th. Partners will be sent out quickly on Monday and your swap needs to be in the mail NO LATER than February 1st so it can be enjoyed for Valentine's Day.

SIGN UP:

Send the following details to sweetgoodnessswaps@gmail.com:

Name:

Address:

Blog Address or Website:

Chocolate or Sugar?

Red or Pink?

This is a fun way to use up some things in your stash or scour those after Christmas sales for usable items. Be creative! We'll set up a Flickr page for everyone to post their corsages soon.

Cheers ~ Shara and Rebecca

Valentine Swap - COMING SOON!

Hello - Well, we were gone for a bit longer than we anticipated.  Busy lives, what can we say?  Sorry about that.....

So, is anyone up for a Valentine Swap?  If you chose to participate - you will MAKE one handmade vintage inspired Valentine corsage for your partner.  You will mail your corsage and a sweet treat (it is Chocolate Day.......I mean Valentine's Day, of course!).  You only have to make one thing and send a treat - Easy Peasey!

For a lot of sweet vintage inspired Christmas corsage eye candy visit Magpie Ethel to see her fabulous collection. 

Since Christmas just ended and the holiday merchandise is being closed out, you might be able to find some red glittered goodness or red mercury glass or other fun red, white and pink things at a discount to help with your corsage. 

Swap will be OPEN on Thursday morning.  Limited to the first 24 participants.  Mail out day will be January 31st.   The Goodness Girls will match up like minded participants and have partners ready by Monday.

Still Kickin'

Hello! We know it's been quiet here at SGS but we're still around. This is the time of year that gets busy for everyone so we are working through a holiday swap. We are considering a small ornament swap this year. Two ideas:

1 - You'd be assigned a partner and between the two of you would decide on a theme (if any) and stay to a preset mail out time.

2 - We can create a theme (even a series of themes) and you and your partner would stick to that. Examples: Vintage, Snow White, Silver and Gold, etc.

Thoughts? Leave your comments here about what you'd like to see and if you'd be interested in a small ornament swap.

cheers! Rebecca

Flickr group created!

Hello Ladies!

We expect that some of you have already received your swap packages (I did--it was fabulous!) and we'd love to see what you sent and what you received! We've created a Flickr group where you can share photos of your swap packages, so we'd love to see how you interpreted our swap theme and what you made!

Hey, Hey, it's Mailing Day!

Good morning, ladies!

Today is mailing day for the Midsummer Night's Dream swap. If for any reason you are not able to get your swap package out by today, PLEASE be courteous and contact your partner ASAP!

Additionally, if there is any reason that you are not going to be able to fulfill your part of the swap, please be courteous and contact both your partner and us (sweetgoodnessswaps@hotmail.com) ASAP!

We'll post a Flickr group later this week so you can post photos of all the lovely things that you made and sent.

Inspiration: Fairy Gardens

While it might not be practical to send an actual garden through the mail, watch this cute video to find inspiration on how you could make a Fairy Garden for your swap partner!

Quotes to inspire you

Hello Swappers! We've received a few emails with partner concerns and we're working to get those all ironed out. In the mean time, here are some quotes from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that might help inspire you as you put together your swap packages:

"Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music."
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2. 1

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2. 1

"You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen."
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2. 2 


"So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart."
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 1

Out of this wood do not desire to go.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 1

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1

The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1   

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1 

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1 

Midsummer Night's Dream Swap --week 2

Hello Sweet Swappers! We hope by now that you and your partner have exchanged emails and found out a little more about each other so that you can put together packages that you each love. If any of you have contacted your partner but have not yet heard back from her, please email us ASAP at sweetgoodnessswaps@hotmail.com so we can sort things out!

SWAP Closed!

The Midsummer Night's Dream Swap is now CLOSED.

Partner emails went out Monday evening. Please let us know if you did not receive it @ sweetgoodnessswaps@hotmail.com.

Cheers!
The Goodness Girls

Midsummer Night's Dream Swap Sign-up

Hello Swappers! Sign-ups are now open for our Midsummer Night's Dream swap! (Sorry for the delay--did you know you have to make an appointment at the Post Office to apply for a passport? Neither did we! Ugh.) For this swap we want you to envision a warm summer night with twinkling lights and soft sounds. Take your inspiration from Romantic Shakespearean style, glittering fireflies with gossamer wings, floaty gowns, laughing fairies, watercolors & wildflowers, floral garlands, green ferns, vintage instruments and poetry.

As always, Sweet Goodness Swaps require that you include one thrifted/vintage item, one handmade item and one sweet treat in your swap. Price limit is $20.00 not including shipping. You can always do more, of course. Make sure you get to know your partner. Read their blog. If they don’t have a blog, ask questions! There is a questionnaire at the end of this post that will help us partner you with someone with similar tastes and styles.

Partners will be assigned as soon as the limit of 40 participants is reached, and you will have your assignment by Monday, July 19. Mail out date will be Monday, August 9. That will give everyone a chance to handle their swap responsibilities before the real hustle and bustle of the end of summer and beginning of back to school time.  Plus, we want you to receive your Midsummer goodies in, well, SUMMER!

In order to participate in this swap, you must have swapped with Sweet Goodness Swaps before. Please, if you commit to a swap, follow through. If you cannot mail on time, please let your partner know as well as the Goodness Girls. If, for some reason, you cannot follow through on your commitment, please email the Goodness Girls as soon as possible so that other arrangements can be made for your partner.

***Sorry, only open to USA and Canada at this time. (we love our international friends, but shipping costs can be very prohibitive.)*** 

To sign up: Please send an email to: sweetgoodnessswaps@hotmail.com with the following information:

Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Blog address or website:
Are you willing to ship to Canada?


You MUST send all of this information in your email in order to be accepted in this swap. An “I’m IN” email isn’t enough.

What are you waiting for? Sign up NOW! It's going to be fun!

The swappers have spoken: the winner!

Thank you all for voting in our poll to choose the next Sweet Goodness Swap theme! And the winner is....

A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, submitted by Aimee Suzanne!

Sign-ups for this swap will begin on Monday, July 12. See you then!

Vote For the Next Swap NOW!

Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions for our next Sweet Goodness Swap!  We have looked over all the submissions and narrowed it down to three.  (Some of the other ideas were so good that you just might see them later on in the future).

Here are the choices:

1.  Midsummer's Night Dream Swap submitted by Aimee-Suzanne:

Think: Romantic Shakespearean style, glittering fireflies with gossamer wings, floaty gowns, watercolors & wildflowers, floral garlands, green ferns, vintage instruments and Poetry.

2.  Vintage Drive-In Movie Swap submitted by Paula:

Think: hot vintage cars, singing hot dogs, popcorn, coca-cola, poodle skirts, big hair and Grease. Fun old movie's up through the 70's and even 80's watched under a sky full of stars.

3.  Fruit Crate Label/Fruit Swap submitted by Cakegirl:

Think:  Linens with fruit, berry baskets, anything related to fruits or vegetables.

We felt that all three of these themes fit the summertime theme well.  There is plenty of room for creativity in these swaps too!

Vote for your favorite swap through July 1st. 

Vote for your favorite SWAP Idea! This will be the next SGS swap!
	Vintage Drive-In Movie
	Mid-Summer's Night Dream
	Fruit Crate Labels
pollcode.com free polls

Winning swap will be announced shortly thereafter and signups will begin.


VOTE NOW! 

New Swap Contest!!!!!

Hello ladies! Are you up for a challenge? We are looking for ideas for our next swap! Have you ever had a good idea for a swap? Something you wanted to swap or make or share?????

Well, here's your chance. Submit your idea or ideas for a possible swap. The Goodness Girls will narrow the ideas down and take all the comments into consideration before we chose a winner.  The winner will win a PRIZE!***

This idea will be the NEXT SWAP for Sweet Goodness Girls.  So, your idea should be an idea that most everyone can accommodate.  The theme can be anything at all - anything!  Just make it fun, fun, fun with lots of different options for everyone.  Don't forget - we like a vintage thrifted sort of theme, so put on your thinking caps!

****What will you win???????  A PRIZE!  (We're still working on that one - but it will be a good prize.  Goodness Girls Honor!)

Leave a comment on this blog or on our Facebook page with your idea.

We can't wait to see them!

***Ideas accepted through June 20th.

Flickr Pool for Vintage Cowgirl Swap

Swappers . . . . please post your swap package photos in the group pool:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/vintagecowgirlswap/

Have a safe and happy long weekend!

~ The Goodness Girls

Let Goodness Reign

Cowgirl Swap Mail Out Time! Round'em Up!

Howdy Cowgirl Swappers! The mail out date for your swaps was YESTERDAY! Sorry we couldn't get this post up sooner, technical difficulties here at the house of Sweet Goodness.



Please remember that if you are going to be late in sending out your swap for ANY reason, contact your partner and copy sweetgoodness@hotmail.com. If you have any questions regarding this swap or anything else about SGS please drop us a line!

COMING SOON: Summer Swap Theme Contest

We are giving you the chance to see your swap dreams come true. Stay tuned for a contest to dream up the next swap here at SGS. We'll be picking our favorites and putting them to a vote. The winner will receive a lovely prize!

Vintage Cowgirl Swap Coming to a Close!

Hello swappers! This is the last week to finish up your Vintage Cowgirl swap packages and get them in the mail by Monday May 24th. If for ANY reason you will be late in sending out your package please contact your partner and copy us at sweetgoodnessswaps.hotmail.com. Let's make this a 100% perfect swap!



A summer swap contest will be announced soon. We'll be asking for your swap ideas and then we'll put them to a vote. The winner will see their swap become reality and win a prize! Stay tuned here or on the Facebook fan page for more details.

Cheers!
The Goodness Girls

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!