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Four Month Journal Swap

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Group:Cup and Chaucer
Swap Coordinator:hollycm6 (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Themed  Journals 
Number of people in swap:4
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:September 15, 2010
Date items must be sent by:January 19, 2011
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Write (or print out) 100 quotes, inspirational thoughts, AND journal prompts for your partner. The point of these is to make your partner feel good, to encourage, to inspire, to make them think. No downers!! Happy things, beautiful things, encouraging things, hopeful things, funny things, things to make her THINK about something in a new way, questions about her life, her hopes, her dreams... nothing depressing but it doesn't ALL have to be rainbows and butterflies, either.

Cut them into strips (like fortunes!), fold or roll and way you like, and put them inside SOMETHING -you choose what, just not a regular envelope. A jar, a box, a bucket, a wallet, a matchbox... anything except a plain envie. Any little thing. It can be handmade, purchased, or repurposed. Mail them out...

THEN... create a journal for the partner to whom you SENT the 100 slips of paper, using the 100 slips you received... You MUST use at LEAST 25 prompts, but use more if you can. Open one of your received prompts every day if that makes it simpler. Make any type of page you want. ANYTHING. Write, draw, create, clip, glue, use found items,or just make a list... don't do the same type of entries for every page, but you don't have to be Picasso, either. One page MUST be about yourself, a kind of letter of introduction.

Journal size and style is totally up the the sender.

This is a Big Swap. (I capitalize because I hosted it in the Big Swaps group first!!) You will rate your partner ONCE, but for two elements... did they send you a package with 100 prompts, and did they later send you a journal with at LEAST twenty-five entries, based on their received journal prompts and inspirations?

Prompts MUST be mailed out by October 15th...journals must be completed and mailed out by January 19th. That should give plenty of time; three months to get the journal finished... but do mail out as early as you can. :) Let me know if these dates do not sound reasonable and we will add some time. (Initially I leaned towards 30-40 pages required and a February deadline, but thought that was too far out there...).

At this point the swap is over, but if you have lots of prompts left... don't waste them!

For this swap to work for everyone, the first half of the swap MUST be completed on time, and the earlier the better.

Don't join if you aren't sure you can get it done!! This will be a really difficult one to angel, so I will not commit to doing that. Our group is strong and safe, so hopefully this won't be an issue... but a lot can happen in four months!! By signing up you are taking a risk that you will send out something lovely and full of heart and get nothing in return. I will be checking profiles again... if you have unresolved ones or threes please pm me to explain, to avoid being automatically banned. Thanks!!

EDIT: IF YOU DO NOT SEND YOUR PROMPTS OUT BY THE DEADLINE, EXPECT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE GROUP WHEN THE SWAP CONCLUDES AND BANNED FROM ANY SWAPS MEANWHILE. It is unfair to your partner not to send the prompts in a timely fashion. Let's play nice and make it easy on our partners, who will be creating something very special for us.

If for some reason you cannot send them by the deadline of October 15th, PLEASE e-mail some of them to your partner, so she can begin while she waits for her package. This is not actually an out, just a suggestion of courtesy.

Discussion

hollycm6 09/11/2010 #

I have edited the guidelines in this swap, please read the final EDIT part. In the other swap we have had one incident of late sent prompts and I do not want to see that here.

LadyStephanie 09/12/2010 #

Got it! Head not spinning.

  1. Send prompts to send to partner - comment here when sent.
  2. Received prompts, use 25 to make journal.
  3. Send journal to send to partner, click sent.
violettedream 09/23/2010 #

I sent out my prompts today to @hollycm6

:)

hollycm6 10/ 5/2010 #

And I GOT my prompts today!! :) Lovely package, thank you SOOOO much!!!! Above and beyond. :)

hollycm6 10/ 6/2010 #

Sending my prompts out tomorrow. :)

hollycm6 10/ 6/2010 #

I have deleted most of the previous comments that didn't relate to sending/receiving to make it easier for us to keep track. Kept @ladystephanie s comment that sums it all up so simply. :)

happylilartist 10/15/2010 #

I sent out my prompts today!. I'm excited for my partner to receive them!

happylilartist 10/21/2010 #

i received my prompts today! thanks @hollycm6

hollycm6 12/31/2010 #

Journals are coming due... everyone okay on them?

hollycm6 01/ 5/2011 #

Oh my, so close!! Nearly done. I got so confused about to whom I was sending... because I did this in another group AND am angeling one as well. Too funny! I saw that happylilartist was my partner and was so surprised! (when, in fact, I have already sent her one package so it certainly wasn't news to me.) I am going bonkers.

LadyStephanie 01/24/2011 #

In case anyone is wondering, my awesome partner is giving me a bit of leaway on this and I'll be sending on the 1st.

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