Swap Happy

Secret Pal 10
SecretPal 10 officially started when the hostesses assigned pals last night. Boy, was I in for a surprise when I got home! Not only did I get a very nice "hello" from my secret pal, she sent me a gift certificate from Adagio Teas! I'm sure I'm the first to get something in this SP! I ordered 3 different Japanese green teas, including genmai cha, which is similar to the one I got in SF (blogged here), except the one from SF is organic and doesn't have popcorn in it. I can't wait until it arrives. Thanks secret pal!

Dye-No-Mite!

I'm really looking forward to this one. There is a decent number of people currently signed up for my 1st foray into swap-hosting and organizing. Yay! (I really didn't expect hoards of people to sign up for a brand-new swap they've never heard about, unlike the 600+ for SP10.) I hope we get a few more people before the sign-ups close on March 21. I really wasn't sure where to advertise Dye-No-Mite!, except to put it in my signature block on Craftster. I did try to contact a moderator to see if I can advertise the swap, but the mod never replied. However, I did post (and got per permission to) on Knitty's forum. Then a couple of days ago, I had the idea of posting Dye-No-Mite! on swap-bot, but I'm asking people to sign up outside of swap-bot because I'm afraid that swap-bot might reveal the secret pal before the pal is ready to do it themselves, and I want to try to match people up by commonalities/ interests, if possible. We'll see how that turns out.

Swap-bot

I recently completed 2 swaps on swap-bot, a ribbon swap and the Crafty Chic Swap. I haven't received anything from my pal in the latter swap, but I sent my package out to my assigned pal, who lives in Italy. This swap required that we include many small things, including something vintage and something knitting and craft related. My package included 2 vintage napkins, some origami paper, chocolate, Japanese gum, beads I made, and I dyed some yarn in colors that she said she liked. I also threw in a couple of extra little things, including my buttons, some vintage beads and 3 tiny origami cranes.