2012 Holiday Gift Exchange

I really believe if you do so many efforts to complete the minimum post is because you really want to be part of the game and you are not gonna burn any body.

Some people just need to be remembered this little things, I saw Kristal last year posting the names for the missing gifts.

Thank you Kristal, I am going to wait to finish, I honestly matched up about half so far. There are quite a bunch of us coming in. I am holding the rest till the 9th for the reasons you said. And Miss Ronnie is being squirrly and not sending me her info, LOL I love her. She sent an e-mail just saying ,I'm in! Haha, if yall don't send me your info you may get socks in the mail. Well , come to think of it ,I could use socks, wait...those aren't sold in the forum shop.

OK I need coffee, I'll be back later and make more sense.

Jody Rife wrote:Thank you Kristal, I am going to wait to finish, I honestly matched up about half so far. There are quite a bunch of us coming in. I am holding the rest till the 9th for the reasons you said. And Miss Ronnie is being squirrly and not sending me her info, LOL I love her. She sent an e-mail just saying ,I'm in! Haha, if yall don't send me your info you may get socks in the mail. Well , come to think of it ,I could use socks, wait...those aren't sold in the forum shop.

OK I need coffee, I'll be back later and make more sense.

Totally off topic...
Jody...I freaking love that avatar! I don't know how you can NOT think you're the schnit when you come up with stuff like that! I would love to wear something like that for all of my Christmas party gigs...but we all know how badly that would turn out. You need to submit that one to Illusion...

JennyNixe wrote:Lady Jayde,

I certainly didn't mean to imply that you should hide your feelings. I felt kind of attacked when you described your experiences with past swaps and said you didn't have much confidence in this one because of those of us who were participating in Shannon's thread. As you said, it was a bit baffling -- what do new people now have to do with those who stiffed you in the past?

I'm sorry that you felt attacked, though the phenomenon escapes my understanding given that I don't know you and have never engaged you in conversation, no did I direct my posts to you. What new people have had to do with what happened in the past is part of the back story that I kept off the board to avoid anyone feel ostracized.

This is a simple case of if the shoe fits wear it...if it doesn't, leave it...banning shoes is hardly a good recourse. Having a cut and dry personality does not negate one's responsibility for emotional intelligence in their responses and actions, it does however require a degree of self awareness on the part of the listener in order to discern whether the message was intended to harm them or if it was simply a divulgence of shared information about a personal experience.

Hi. I am excited to get in on the gift exchange. I have only my kids that i get gifts for and they are too young to get mommy the things that she wants so ths will be fun. I hope that my person gives me a detailed list since i am such a noob in the face painting. Maybe they will want some of my home made tattoo stencils

Welcome sewdarnhot.

CJ I am definitely not the schnit,LOL, sometimes I feel like schnit though Haha!

Thank you for the compliment. It is actually the design I did last year for the forum holiday whimsy competition. So many great entries in that one. I would send it to Illusion but they like to have unpublished work . I've had this one floating around for a while.

I can't wait till the Winter edition comes out I will have one in there and I have just been dying to share it with everyone.

Jody Rife wrote:Thank you Kristal, I am going to wait to finish, I honestly matched up about half so far. There are quite a bunch of us coming in. I am holding the rest till the 9th for the reasons you said. And Miss Ronnie is being squirrly and not sending me her info, LOL I love her. She sent an e-mail just saying ,I'm in! Haha, if yall don't send me your info you may get socks in the mail. Well , come to think of it ,I could use socks, wait...those aren't sold in the forum shop.

OK I need coffee, I'll be back later and make more sense.

I sent it!

And squirrley is my middle name....

I thought "Batty" was?

Jody, I looove that santa!!, will definetely try it!

Thanks jody! You do great work!
I love scoping out everyones websites and photos!!

Hi Jody, did you get my email?
Thanks!

Got is Maggie, you're in.

Thank you guys for the compliments on my Santa. I'm so ready for Christmas.

I hope you got mine, too! The one I, um, initially sent to Kristal.

I even have an idea what I'll send, if it's not part of my swapee's "don't want" list.

I got you Kammy.

Kammy - this is the first time I've seen your new pic - LOVE it!

kingsmeadmama - Christina wrote:Kammy - this is the first time I've seen your new pic - LOVE it!

Aww, thank you so much, Christina! It's my rendition of a design by Z in "Illusion & Friends Bk. 2". I really needed Liquid Bling to do the outlining, but it came out relatively well with just some glitter gel. x

Yeah, bought some stuff and have some on order already for the "Swap". How early is "too early" to send? In the States is one thing but I know once it took three weeks for a package to go from me to Krystal.

Martha, Jody told me today that it was fine to start sending now. I'm having surgery Monday and wanted to get my package shipped.

I'd love to participate, but I'm too new, I'll wait til next year, sounds fun!

lorikenh wrote:I'd love to participate, but I'm too new, I'll wait til next year, sounds fun!

I didn't do it last year either so I'm super excited this year!

lorikenh wrote:I'd love to participate, but I'm too new, I'll wait til next year, sounds fun!

That's a very pretty avatar mask, lorikenh....such deliciously subtle colors.

How can you send when you don't have the names yet?

Some of us were sent names, Shannon. I think I read that Jody made it through about half. It was then pointed out to here that she may want to wait till the end in case people requested each other.

hmph... guess I missed the memo.

I'm sorry Shannon. I kinda had a brain fart. I have them often lately. I ran all of them off the other day thinking for some reason the deadline was Nov 5,LOL So I organized them and went thru and matched several up already. However of course the deadline isn't till tomorrow. So Saturday or Sunday, everyone will be matched up.

I really do have a method to my madness.