How about it? I know there are alot of swaps going on, but I had this idea and had to go with it!
We would need 4, 8, or 12 swappers or 5, 10, or 15 if you include 'spirit' with air, fire, earth and water.
Each person picks an element and makes a craft relating to that element. i am thinking under $10 and something nature table like.
***now I'm thinking $6-$10

***(upped the date 2 weeks)We could ship items to me by September 15th and then mail them out to you right after....tho the date can be later.....
what cha think?

Ok, we have 1 maybe and 9 sign ons, so I am thinking we should include spirit......it's the 'one' elemental I am at odds with, lol, Bonnie knows what I mean! lol

We have:
Maegansmama(me).........air
Huntersmama.................water(or fire)
lazygirrl is a maybe..........spirit
hastings.......................spirit (or earth or water)
Korwynne.....................fire
Sunflower.....................earth (or water)
Mom2kbeth...................air (or fire)
Lovebugsmama..............earth
BlueRoseMama..............water
fairyglitterbug...............fire



******Now we are all doing 10 items............This is from before: we would only make 5 of each item!!! 1 to keep and 4 to send out. This would be two sets of elements..........unless everyone wanted 2 elemental sets.....but I don't think so, lol, so even tho their are going to be 10 of us you won't receive from everyone. I may ask another mama to be 'head' of the 2nd set of elements....Bonnie maybe! lol I can do both, but I wouldn't be keeping a second set, so there's no sense in all 9 other mommas sending to me, I am rambling, talking out loud here, hope I'm not confusing anyone!

I am really excited to this swap!

So your $6-$10 valued item, can be something you foundin nature and embellish, something you knit, sew, felt, mold, anything!! We can list ideas or keep it in surprise mode......10 of each.

fun fun fun... ;) hmmmm.....

ohhh i can never pass up a good swap
count me in :)

i'd love to my got a few things to finish up before i committ....

made progress today!!! so I'd like to play

I'd love to join.
edited to add:
If we're calling dibs I'll take spirit, earth or water. Okay, I'm not picky, anything will work lol. :happy:

me please.... and I want fire :)

I'd love to join if there is room for me (and I'd like earth - or water :) )

I'm in Stacey - but could we move the date up just a bit? I an in 4 other swaps that are due between now and the first, but only one due after the first (the 12th). Could we give this one another week? The 8th? Pretty please? LOL!

I want either air or fire please :)

I am going to have to back out... wah... sorry!

This sounds really interesting!

I *think* I'm in.....

Question, do we make enough for each of the swapers? So if there are 8 swapers, I have to make 8 items? If so, I vote we keep the number to 8/10 or less. It gets hard when you have to make so many items.

Need more info... but I would love to join! How many items per person?

Love Val

ME ME ME! I'd love to do it! :)

ok, I just updated the info!
We have 9 in and lazygirrl is a maybe :D
We only need to make 4 extra items each (plus one for yourself).
Let start thinking about what element and what you will make, does anyone need ideas, we can brainstorm :D
I'm so excited!
Woohoo! :monkeydan

so we are doing like 2 groups in the swap?
i woudl liek to do either fire or water, but i think it would be awesome to get something from every mama so i woudl be totally okay with doing 10 of everythign if everyone eles agrees

I have no problem sending one for each person. I'm going to do something with votive candles for fire. :)

I'd love to get one of everything,, but I'm up for whatever (as long as people post really good pictures, so I can make my own version of whatever I don't get lol)

well, alrighty then :D

Are we all up to doing 10 itmes each!!!!! WooHoo! :monkeydan

i want water

I'll take earth. :thumbsup:

spirit......it's the 'one' elemental I am at odds with, lol, Bonnie knows what I mean! lol

ROFL Stacey :)


I may ask another mama to be 'head' of the 2nd set of elements....Bonnie maybe! lol I can do both, but I wouldn't be keeping a second set, so there's no sense in all 9 other mommas sending to me, I am rambling, talking out loud here, hope I'm not confusing anyone!

Just lmk if you want me to do it - ya know I love to organize :monkeydan


***(upped the date 2 weeks)We could ship items to me by September 15th

Thanks :)

And I would love to get one of everything as well, just for the record ;)

Water and earth :D So are we sending 4 or 5? Never mind... I see it now. :p

Love Val

I want one of each too :)

I guess I will take Fire and whatever amt to make is fine:)

:happy: Hey i am in but am out of town so just got a second.

hmmmm the only elements i know are earth, water, air and fire.
but i can make up spirit!!!!

are you sure you want spirit? Air was left too..... I don't mind doing either one...I will put you down for spirit but if you want to switch just let me know :-)

just confirming i m a making 10 water items :monkeydan

I just want to make sure. We're making items for adults, right?

these swaps are getting confusing?!!! why I am I down as a maybe? :happy:

ACK!!!

I just realized i missed the mailign date!

is everyoen eles running late too????

I can ship this saturday, is that too late?

Me too. I am shippping when I come back from our trip MOnday. Stacey is actually going to be away from Friday until 10/3 anyway.

I never could figure out why I was justed listed as a maybe. Maybe the swap was full, maybe? I posted the question on this thread but never got a reply. So I didn't work on this one. sorry!

OMG - I totally flaked on the mailing day! Please send me the addy!

you were listed as a maybe I *think* because you said you'd be in if you could come up with something to do, or something like that.

Are you going to be able to do it? If not, I'd be happy to take the spot and get an extra set of stuff for Lindsey, since this set is mine.

I don't have an address to mail to though... can someone PM it to me? I PMed her asking and haven't heard back, so I'm thinking she's busy.

I posted on the 9th asking to help clear it up but got no reply?

Since I know Stacey is going away, and she hasn't been on here in a bit, why don't you all just mail to me and I will take care of it. I will let Stacey know. She has been super busy and now with her vacation coming up tomorrow, this will probably just be the easiest thing :) If you don't already have my address, PM me and I will get it to you.

Yeah I don't have an addy to mail to either, my project is not working out and I have to wait til next Wed to mail (Pay day- sorry!) I can still work on it if you still want me!

I posted on the 9th asking to help clear it up but got no reply?

Do you want to still be in the swap or out? It's up to you. LMK.

so how many are we sending?
I have 9 ready to go, do we still have a 10 person swap? or did we loss a couple along the way :)

not going to get mine out until Monday, but yes, I'm in.

I'm not sure I can participate now. I asked a question regarding the items we're making over 2 weeks ago, and I never got an answer. So, I haven't started for fear I would make the wrong thing. Now I have company from out of town coming in 2 days and staying for a week. There is no way I can get them done now. Sorry guys. I tried. I had a great idea too. :(

Maybe next time?

*hugs* sorry :(

Mine will go out Monday as well.. would it be okay if I took her spot to get an extra set of stuff for Lindsey? then we'd still be at 10 items.

*hugs* sorry :(

Mine will go out Monday as well.. would it be okay if I took her spot to get an extra set of stuff for Lindsey? then we'd still be at 10 items.

Sure. :)

Maegansmama ................air...........................
Huntersmama.................water................. ....... RECEIVED
hastings.......................spirit (or earth or water)..
Korwynne.....................fire................. .............
Korwynne sending another set............................
Sunflower.....................earth (or water)............
Mom2kbeth...................air (or fire).................... RECEIVED
BlueRoseMama..............water................... ........ DROPPED OUT (I think)
fairyglitterbug...............fire................ .............. DROPPED OUT

Update -- there are 9 swappers, so we need to send 8 items each. If everyone can send to me asap (like by Thursday or Friday) then I can bundle this swap together with all the other ones I am coordinating and mail everything together to save everyone some shipping $$.

I got behind, due to a death in our homeschooling group (helped coordinate details *sigh*) - they're going out tomorrow, priority. Eric will take them to the post office while I'm in surgery.

:eek: :eyes: OMG... I just got internet back today and I COMPLETELY forgot about this. I haven't been on here in 7 weeks. Am I too late? I havent even made anything yet... ****wracking my brain**** I will haul my little butt if I have to.... Dag nabit... sorry... when I don't have those reminders I guess I don't have a brain.

(Where is the *banging head on wall* icon??)

Val

I got behind, due to a death in our homeschooling group (helped coordinate details *sigh*) - they're going out tomorrow, priority. Eric will take them to the post office while I'm in surgery.

NP Jodi. Sorry you are going through a hard time. Why are yu having surgery?? I hope you are alright!

:eek: :eyes: OMG... I just got internet back today and I COMPLETELY forgot about this. I haven't been on here in 7 weeks. Am I too late? I havent even made anything yet... ****wracking my brain**** I will haul my little butt if I have to.... Dag nabit... sorry... when I don't have those reminders I guess I don't have a brain.

(Where is the *banging head on wall* icon??)

Val

Everything is late already and I had asked that everyone ship out by tomorrow so I can mail everything back by Friday. If you could get something done and out by Tuesday (and send it priority) then by all means go ahead. Otherwise we'll have to catch you in the next swap :)

NP Jodi. Sorry you are going through a hard time. Why are yu having surgery?? I hope you are alright!

I have a 6 cm fatty tumor on my back that's pressing on nerve endings and causing me a lot of pain.. Leila's just barely 11 pounds but I can't sling her or have her in the mei tei for more than 20 minutes... since she's not going to get lighter or walk anytime soon, it needs to be taken care of. I'm a little nervous, she's never had a bottle. :eyes: Hopefully she won't need one - but I'm leaving one just in case.

Its all boxed up and ready to go... dh knows its supposed to go priority, hopefully he'll remember to actually do it :happy:

Good luck Jodi. I'l lbe thinking of you today and sending you quick recovery vibes :)

as per usual I'm late-- and didn't get a pic.
mine went out today DC# 03050830000077143025

I had a hard time coming up with something for Spirt but was determined to try it since I think I'm the only one who had it. I had a lot of nebulous ideas and considered doing eggs or maybe someting reflective, or a box or something, but finally decided to take the colors of spirit (black, purple, and white) and look up other correspondences. It doesn't appear often, but mythical animals, sphinxes and unicorns showed up on a couple of lists, and I've collected unicorns since I was 3 so I went with it lol. I did little needlefelted unicorns. They're about 3 inches tall, black with handdyed purple manes and white horns. Hope they're okay. The first 3 or 4 weren't bad to do, but doing that many repeats got kinda repetative (poke, poke, poke) rofl.
Anyway, hope they get there safe and in time.

I sent fire and spirit.. yours sounds much cooler than mine :happy:

Maegansmama ................air...........................
Huntersmama.................water................. ....... RECEIVED
hastings.......................spirit (or earth or water)..RECEIVED
Korwynne.....................fire................. ............. RECEIVED
Korwynne sending another set............................ RECEIVED
Sunflower.....................earth (or water)............
Mom2kbeth...................air (or fire).................... RECEIVED
BlueRoseMama..............water................... ........ DROPPED OUT (I think)
fairyglitterbug...............fire................ .............. DROPPED OUT