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Okay, here it is - the 12 days of xmas small gift/stocking stuffer swap!
This is a swap that will cost you up to $30 total: $6-13 to mail and another $15- 20 to make/buy.
Details:
US only, by invite only, total of 6-8 swappers. Please make sure you have enough details on your profile to allow a sender to pick out a bunch of small items you would enjoy! 1 partner to send to 12 small gifts/stocking stuffers - they can be handmade or storebought; please send both a few handmade as well as storebought items. Handmade can by made by you or others so Etsy items or craft fair items are fine. Each item should be an item you'd be delighted to receive, approx value $0.50-$5 for each item At least one item should be a seasonal sweet - candy, gum, chocolate, please check profiles for dislikes or allergies and this food item should be storebought and individually wrapped. Up to 3 items may be food related. Each item should be wrapped in seasonal paper/tissue paper but bows are not needed. If you wish to put a flat ribbon on, that's lovely but not required. Please number the gifts from 1-12. We're gonna cheat, traditionally the 12 days of Xmas are the 12 days starting Xmas Day til the Jan 6, but you may choose when you wish to open the gifts - 12 days before Xmas, all at once on Xmas eve or morn, or the 12 traditional days of Xmas. Please rate promptly though! Semi senders choice - check profiles for dislikes or allergies but otherwise, send items you know you and your recipient would enjoy Please do not send anything religious - generic holiday themes for all items, cards, giftwrap: penguins, polar bears, trees, candy canes, snowflakes, presents, stockings, etc. This swap must be mailed in either a US Flat Rate box - small or medium, or a similar, hardsized cardboard box - NO bubble envies to prevent breakage or squished items - that is always such a bummer:(. Please pack everything securely. Flat rate boxes are ($5.80 for small and $12.35 for medium). And yes, 12 items will fit in a small flat rate box:) Enclose a holiday card from you to your sender Ideas for items - think stocking stuffers! - 1 item must be a seasonal sweet, up to 3 items may be sweets per the above requirements
- at least 1 item must be handmade (by you or someone else)
- at least 1 item must be storebought
- send mostly items that are finished - ready to use/wear/enjoy/admire - up to 3 items may be supplies if you think your recipient would truly enjoy receiving them
- no dollar store items
- sample or trial sizes welcome
- no more than 3 not-useful-but-gorgeously-crafty-seasonal works of flat art (mini paintings, magnets, matchbox shrines, atcs, inchies, twinchies, etc) made by you
12 different items, sets of notecards/pcs/recipe cards/atcs count as 1 item. Ideas? Personalized ornament/magnet/keyring; seasonal candies/chocates/tin of mints, hot drinks/tea bags (2-3), beaded jewelry/other jewelry/pins/earrings/bracelets; felties/stuffies/dotees/amis; needlebooks/pinchusion; gloves/scarves/fingerless gloves/wrist warmers; perfume/soap/lipbalm/hand lotions/hand sanitizers/; sox/fuzzy sox; manicure kit; altered or new pens/pencils; change purse/coin purse/penny pockets; bookmarks/bookthongs; matchbox shrine; stationery for the recipients use (handmade or storebought notecards, letter sets, blank recipe cards, new postcards - 2-3); oven mitts/hotpads/kitchen towels/placemats/napkins/aprons; a book/recipe book/booklet; mini smash book/chunky book you made for them; mini picture frames; cheap etsy fav, small gift cards; mugs/plates/kitchen wares; fillet sachets/pomanders/scented drawer items; small candles/tin candles; etc, etc.
Lots of ideas! Hopefully I've covered everything.
The send by date is designed to get everything to your recipient in time for the holidays. Please pm me with questions.
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