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Swap Coordinator:RainyC (contact)
Swap categories: Miscellaneous  Ephemera  Journals 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:July 17, 2011
Date items must be sent by:September 12, 2011
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

SWAP BEGINS – AUGUST 1st

Three M's Swap - A Month of My Memorabilia

I’ve seen this swap posted before and I really loved the idea, but just never joined. I figured might as well dive in and just do it. The idea of this swap is to share pieces of your life with someone else . . . and to experience someone else’s in return.

1) You will need a Journal - No smaller then a 5" x 7" and it must have enough pages in it to cover the 31 Days of August and for you to write an introduction about yourself on the front page(s). Composition Notebooks make great Journals for this type of swap !

Note: The front cover of the Journal must be altered in some manner.

2) On the first page(s) you will tell your partner a bit about yourself. Your age, where you live, your interests, hobbies, family, etc.

3) You will then, date the rest of the pages from August 1st through August 31st anyway you’d like. You will then attach an article of memorabilia to EACH page for that day.

For the purpose of this journal, memorabilia is a keepsake of an event or a piece of ephemera from a day in your life. You’ll collect these items each day for a month and sharing them with our assigned partner along with a description of how we came across the item, or why you chose that item for the day.

It can be as simple as an appointment card from an appointment you had on that particular day, and you can use MORE than one item. Other ideas, Pictures, receipts, menus, ticket stubs, copies of items, flyers, business cards, whatever you want to share. But remember to journal somewhere on that page for the day even if its just ONE word for the day.

4) For each day, after you’ve attached your memorabilia, be sure to cover that page anyway you’d like, don’t just attach a receipt from the grocery store, write “Went shopping,” on the page and consider it done, be creative, the entire page should be used up.

Note: If you go to the grocery store 100 times during that month, don’t include every single receipt, vary what you attach for each day.

SWAP ENDS: August 31st - you have until September 12th to mail your Journal Out.

Participants must have a rating of 4.9 or higher. Anyone with a rating lower than 4.9, history of any no sends, or anyone with a 1 or 3 in the last 6 months will be banned.

Any questions you may post them on the thread below or PM me.

Discussion

grandmaroro 06/28/2011 #

I just joined the group and this does sound like a delightful journal.

mizvicky 06/28/2011 #

watching this for now.. We will be moving from now til end of july,and should be settled in first week of August! THIS is going to be interesting for me!

RainyC 06/28/2011 #

thanks for joining @grandmaroro and hope you can join this @mizvicky Hurry up and move already !! :)

Maggie249 07/ 3/2011 #

Hi question - may we use a 3 ring binder and decorate the cover and have the pages base be card stock? this way a person can add or take away what ever they would like ? of course smallest would be at least 5X7" margie d

RainyC 07/ 3/2011 #

Yes that is fine @maggie249 even spiral backs are fine.

RosieRoyalty 07/ 9/2011 #

Could we do a handmade journal? using cardstock and cardboard (decorated) cover or something similar?

RainyC 07/10/2011 #

Handmade is fine - just as long as it has one page for each day.. and one page can be one or two sides.. up to the maker of the journal.. :)

RainyC 07/18/2011 #

Hey all.. partners are assigned.. remember to begin your Journal collections for the month of August !!

RainyC 08/ 2/2011 #

I hope everyone's FIRST day started off well !!

grandmaroro 08/ 6/2011 #

So far, so good. However, RainyC, does your requirement of covering the entire page mean that none of the white page should be seen? So far, I like what I'm doing, but the page still shows. I may just be overthinking this!!!

RainyC 08/ 7/2011 #

No.. not at all.. I have bits of white on some of my pages.. there is one day that I had nothing to put on the page so I went looking for something.. I've journaled a bit more than usual also.. I think if you like what your doing on your pages.. just keep them that way..

RainyC 08/ 7/2011 #

Take a look at my Flickr page the links under my profile.. I'm posting a few pictures here and there .. I'll post more tomorrow..

RainyC 08/ 7/2011 #

Remember if you're my partner.. it'd be a spoiler for you..

RainyC 08/16/2011 #

How's everyone's journal coming along ????

RainyC 08/27/2011 #

Hey all !! Just 5 days left to the Three "M" (3M) Journal).. Mail date is Sept 10.. hope everyone is catching up.. I'm trying !! :)

pynart2 08/27/2011 #

I would like to see this swap done again. pynart2

RainyC 08/28/2011 #

I will.. but not for a while.. this was really hard to keep up with ! Didn't realize it was going to take up that much time.. but enjoyed it..

BeverlyBling 08/29/2011 #

I'm having a great time with this journal!

RainyC 08/30/2011 #

Good to hear !! My Journal is so "thick" !!

RainyC 09/ 6/2011 #

I am down to 2 pages of journaling left.. this was a doozy of a journal to keep up with .. my Flickr account has some of my pages (spoiler alert). I've changed the send by date by just 2 days just to give to Monday, weekends are harder to get to the post office. Hope this helps for the last of you that still have to get it finished up and packaged. I have my mailer ready just gotta let that paint dry in two pages !!

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