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~~~ Lets Make Friendship Books~~~

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~~~ Lets Make Friendship Books~~~
Swap Coordinator:Fairy20tails (contact)
Swap categories: Paper Crafts 
Number of people in swap:12
Location:International
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:March 4, 2009
Date items must be sent by:March 9, 2009
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

Hello and thank you for looking at my swaps. In this swap you will recieve 2 swap partners and you will send each partner 5 new fbs friendship books For each set of 5....3 of the friendship books will be made for your partner and 2 will be made for yourself.

This swap is open for USA, Canada and international members Newbies and rates of 4.7 and up only. I will be checking each member, if you have low or bad rates I will remove you

HOW TO MAKE AN FB

Friendship books (also known as "FBs") are small booklets made by stapling paper together, to make a small book. They are usually 5 inches or smaller books. They are usually decorated and the person who starts the book writes their name and address on the first sheet on the INSIDE of the book. People often include a list of interests as well. The FB is then passed around from penpal to penpal with each person adding their info, and can often also become a way for one to meet new penpals/swappers and friends. Most people hope to see the book again once it is full so they add their return address to the back cover of the book too, or inscribe "Return to Sender" on it. People also sometimes make FBs for someone else rather than themselves, in which case they write the name and address of the recipient.

SOME TIPS FOR MAKING FBS

you can decorate the cover page of the FB with pretty much anything. Try to not have it to chunky though

DO not use to many pages for the inside of the book. Most FBS will not be returned home until they are full so if you have to many sheets inside you might never see the FB again

I always include my email address or the email of the person it is being made for. ppl move and its good to have a way to contact someone before spending money to mail the FB just to have it come back.

On the very back of the FB I always write..Please return FB to owner by..and then I check the date and make it 1 year. So like Feb 2010. That way you have a very good chance to get it back!

Make sure to write FB FOR anf FB BY

In this swap the FBs have no theme. Decorate how you wish.

Please remember that some ppl joining this swap are new to FBS and this may be their first time making them. Please be understanding but please try you best : )

Discussion

Fairy20tails 02/28/2009 #

Please make sure to include the name of the swap in each envie you send out : )

kdj42160 03/ 1/2009 #

Is the idea to get one person per page or as many as will fit? This would be good info for newbies (like me) to know when filling out an est fb.

kraftykj 03/ 2/2009 #

I am new to the friendship book thing and I will promise to do my best! I am so newbie here. So am glad you included instructions!

Rpittman 03/ 3/2009 #

I'm quite excited by this swap seeing i've never done a Friendship book before. I've seen a few swaps for them and have been like "whats that?" I'm so looking forward to this ^_^ squee!

Fairy20tails 03/ 3/2009 #

I just wanted to clear a few things up. On the FBS, the goal is to get as many ppl to sign each page as they can fit.

There are these things Called DECOS, and they are just like an FB but the goal for the DECO is to have each person decorate 1 page acording to the them of the book.

And the reason why I said to add an end date at the back of the book is because sometimes fbs get lost at ppls homes, they will be found a month or so later and then sent on. I have come across fbs made from 1998-2001.

kimberlym322 03/ 3/2009 #

This sounds like fun. I understand what FBS are, however I am going to sound about dumb when I ask this. When we make the 5 books for each of our partners, two are made for me...do I send all 5 of them to the partner? And also how do they get filled up? Do the people we send them to send them on to some one else? Sorry to sound so dumb about it. :)

Fairy20tails 03/ 4/2009 #

Yes sorry I did not make that clear. All 5 books are sent to your partner but 3 books will be MADE for your partner and 2 will be MADE for you.

And yes, once your partner recievec the books, she add her info to your fbs and then send them on to other penpals or other FB swappers. I will be making a new swap in a week of so for swapping fbs, so those of you who have them can pass them on to another person.

kimberlym322 03/ 4/2009 #

thank you for that information...I felt dumb asking about it, but I wanted to make sure of it.

I was just at the craft store and found some of the cutest paper for them...so now I am doing them up and will be read to go soon. :)

rmonarrez21 03/ 8/2009 #

Let me know who Im swapping with please???

workingmomw4 03/13/2009 #

i just wanted to let ya know i sent my swaps out sorry i havent posted lost isp for a few days lol

workingmomw4 03/21/2009 #

Thanks to my partners received my swaps on 3-21-09 .. have rated ya

workingmomw4 03/31/2009 #

to my partner.. i thought this swap was mailed and i just found it on 3-30-09 so its coming a bit later than expected i am sooo sorry

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