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Swap Coordinator:hollycm6 (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Letters & Writing  Journals 
Number of people in swap:7
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:August 10, 2010
Date items must be sent by:November 1, 2010
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 20 prompts. Open one of your received prompts every day. 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. 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 entries based on their received journal prompts and inspirations?

Prompts MUST be mailed out by August 31st...journals must be completed and mailed out by November 1st. That should give plenty of time... but do mail out as early as you can. :) Let me know if these dates do not sound reasonable.

At this point the swap is over, but 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!! I will be checking profiles... if you have unresolved ones or threes please pm me to explain, to avoid being automatically banned. Thanks!!

Discussion

Midnightshadow 08/ 1/2010 #

Yay, great BIG swap idea :-) Watching for now!

ForbiddenFruits 08/ 2/2010 #

What a great idea for a swap. This sounds like so much fun, would have loved to take part only i cant mail anything internationally until after 26th August :-( Hope you do one like this again soon.

hollycm6 08/ 2/2010 #

We can change that date if you still want to join... I went all over the board with dates. :)

ForbiddenFruits 08/ 3/2010 #

If you did'nt mind me sending the first after on or around the 26th August that would be wicked as I can join then.

hollycm6 08/ 4/2010 #

Okay, I changed the dates... and gave us two full months to complete the journals. Sound okay?

ForbiddenFruits 08/ 5/2010 #

Sounds fab, cant wait.

ForbiddenFruits 08/ 5/2010 #

I have just realised i probably have more than 100 prompts etc for my partner. Hopefully keep her busy with journalling for a while. My fingers are already killing me cutting them all out lol

ForbiddenFruits 08/ 5/2010 #

I am wanting to send mine in like a Jar and decorate it, but just a little worried about breakage if it is going over seas. Anyone know of a way i might be able to package this up so its going to stay in one peices

ForbiddenFruits 08/ 5/2010 #

sorry for all my comments lol feel free to delete them. I just maed the perfect thing for my partner and her prompts im sending, if you shake it one will fall out, hopefully lol maybe two or three but i think its great. I hope my partner loves it to. Just need to decorate it now.

hollycm6 08/ 6/2010 #

Sounds like a good idea. Do you still need packaging help?

Midnightshadow 08/ 9/2010 #

I was thinking... do we mark "sent" when we mail the first part or when we mail the second part?

Midnightshadow 08/10/2010 #

Yay, have made all of the prompts and just waiting for the partner to be assigned :-D

hollycm6 08/10/2010 #

Oh that's a good question. I think after the second part... but maybe I'd better think on it a few days. What do you think, Marie?

Midnightshadow 08/11/2010 #

I think you are right about the second part - maybe people can come here and write when they've sent the first part (just write it here in the comment section)

ForbiddenFruits 08/11/2010 #

My prompts are finally finished, just waiting for my partner so i can decorate the thing i put prompts in. Want to make it so my partner can see its for her and it can be used again and again :-) If she wished

hollycm6 08/12/2010 #

Okay, let's post here when we have sent the prompts out. Then click sent after the journal is sent out!

hollycm6 08/22/2010 #

Sending my prompts out tomorrow... yay! :)

Midnightshadow 08/23/2010 #

My dad mailed prompts on my behalf @mandii79 today

hollycm6 08/24/2010 #

I did send mine out, too. One hundred is a lot!! I wish we were using them all... I rather want to see each of my prompts come to life! :)

Mandii79 08/30/2010 #

I am cutting mine out now and will be popping them in the post tomorrow to my partner @nalfavi

kymm9901 08/30/2010 #

Mailing out my prompts today!!

hollycm6 08/31/2010 #

This is a pretty fun swap. I hope the journal part is fun, too. :)

ForbiddenFruits 08/31/2010 #

My prompts got mailed today :-]

stacirose 08/31/2010 #

Mailed prompts today. You should get my dorky message, too. :P

hollycm6 09/ 3/2010 #

I received my prompts!! In a cool box, too... I hope I can start on them soon!

Midnightshadow 09/ 6/2010 #

WOW I recieved the most awesome package from @stacirose thank you so much :-) Looking forward to using it!

Midnightshadow 09/20/2010 #

Yay this is very interesting to work on - although I hope my partner likes children since somehow that seems to fill up a lot of my journalentries :-p

kymm9901 09/26/2010 #

Still haven't received my prompts yet. I'm getting a little nervous because I want to do a great job without feeling rushed!

hollycm6 09/29/2010 #

taken care of, @kymm9901 Check your mailbox soon!

kymm9901 10/ 7/2010 #

Thanks Holly for the prompts, they arrived yesterday.

hollycm6 10/19/2010 #

Everybody doing okay on your journals??

Midnightshadow 10/26/2010 #

Yes I'm working on the journal at least one night a week. It's getting so nice I don't want to part with it :-p

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