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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Birthday Bookmark Swap Signups

Back by popular demand, The Shady Glade is proud to host another bookmark swap! I've had several previous participants email to ask if I would do this again. My birthday is coming up next month (March 13th) so to celebrate my love of all things book-mark related we're having a Birthday Bookmark Swap!

Swap requirements:

Each person is responsible for sending 5 bookmarks (non-swag) handmade or not into the swap.
Cost to participate is $3 for US, $4 for Canadian, and $5 for other international. Payment can be made via PayPal or mailed at your own risk.
All packages must be mailed no later than Saturday, March 5th
Signups will be closed on Monday, February 28th

Based on feedback received from the previous swaps I'm trying to streamline signups a little bit. If you've participated before, things are a bit different, so make sure you read everything before signing up!

Here's how to sign up and participate:

Make sure you've read all the FAQs on the How They Work page
Fill out the form below (returning swappers can skip un-required questions if desired)
Within a day or two I will send you a confirmation email
Pay your registration fee
Have your bookmarks in the mail by March 5th

So here's the form. You can either fill out the embedded form below, or follow the link to sign up. If anyone has any questions, feel free to send me an email and ask, or leave a comment below with your question and your email address.

If you're not sure whether or not you're going to do the swap, please don't fill out the form. This will safe everyone a lot of emails and headaches, so only sign up if you're certain you can participate.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Bookmark Swap Update

As of right now, anyone who signed up for information on the new Bookmark Swap has been emailed. If you did get an email or it got deleted/missed/spammed/whatever let me know (shadygladeATmailDOTcom) right away and I'll make sure you get the information.

It's going to be a fun swap. We've got a few participants confirmed already and there's some neat bookmarks being sent. Looks like lots of fun! :)

If you want to join the fun, make sure you check out this post on how to get started.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Time for a new swap?

One of my favorite things about reading doesn't have to do with books at all. It has to do with bookmarks. I love bookmarks. I love making them, collecting them, and giving them as presents.

So with Christmas coming up, I thought it would be fun to do a bookmark swap. I'd still have to work out the details, but the basic idea would be a group of fellow bookmark lovers would either make or purchase a certain number of bookmarks, one for each member of the group. Then everyone would send their bookmarks in, and get a package back that would have one bookmark from every member in the swap. So if we had 8 people participate, you'd send out 8 of your bookmarks and get 8 completely new ones back in the mail. Sound like fun to anyone?

Also, around this time last year I started a travelling book swap. Essentially, it was a box that travelled around the country to the swap participants. When you got the box, you would take out the books you wanted to keep, and replace them with books you were ready to get rid of before mailing it on to the next person.

I have a lot of books sitting around here lately that I'm done with, and I'm thinking it'd be fun to do again. So, I was wondering would anyone be interested in participating? The cost was $5 to help cover postage costs, and then of course whatever the postage charge was when you mailed the box.

We had a lot of fun the last time, and I've learned from the experience too. I think the main thing I'd like to do is keep the lines a lot shorter this time around so it doesn't take as long to get around to everyone.

Anyway, if you think either (or both) of these ideas sound fun, let me know. I'd love to do both eventually, but right now I'm mostly trying to gage interest. Of course, if no one seems interested, the idea will kind of die, so I figured it was a good thing to check before I started trying to organize it. :)