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Shared Journal Experiment #21

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Swap Coordinator:JenL (contact)
Swap categories: Journals 
Number of people in swap:47
Location:Regional - USA ONLY
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:October 19, 2012
Date items must be sent by:November 2, 2012
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

This is the 21st swap in the series of shared journal swaps. Here's what happens:

IF YOU TOOK PLACE IN THE FIRST THROUGH TWENTIETH ROUNDS: you have received a journal with a bio, a journal entry, and a journal prompt. Your task now is to answer that journal prompt, write a bio about yourself, and a journal entry to include a response to what your partner wrote, and then end with a journal prompt for the next person to answer, and then send your journal off to your partner.

IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST ROUND: Please feel free to join even if you didn't take part from the start. What you will do is get a journal, notebook, comp book, anything with at least 80 pages and on the front cover, write what the journal is for and who you are, on the back page write your name and address and where to send the journal home when it is full. Then you will write a bio about yourself (about a page or so) and then one journal entry about your day, your self, your thoughts, life, the world, whatever comes to mind that you want to write about. On the next page you will then write one journal prompt for your partner to answer. That's it; send it off to your partner!

FOR THE FINE PRINT: I will be going through everyone's ratings, etc, to check over and prevent any issues or flakers on this swap. I've been flaked on already in this swap but didn't want the coordinator to angel as I had a spare journal in hand. I will angel if necessary, but am COUNTING on everyone upholding their end of this swap! In order to join, you must have a very complete profile as well as have completed a bare minimum of 5 mail swaps. I will ban people if they have recently flaked on any of these swaps. I currently have one in mind...There's been several flakers and I'm adding more to my list.

You will have two weeks to send out your journal. Feel free to p.m. me if there are any questions! Let's fill up those journals that are out there!!

Discussion

corioliskat 10/ 2/2012 #

I have @purpledragonflies1126 's journal!

savannahjan 10/ 2/2012 #

I have @amandat0913

Hollydays 10/ 2/2012 #

I have Kimberly's -kbk-

skippydancer 10/ 6/2012 #

I have Macie's wicked cute journal!

STUFFellaneous 10/ 6/2012 #

I have @readerchris

thisphoenixrises 10/ 8/2012 #

The person I sent my journal to in the last round hasn't marked hers as sent/rated mine/joined this swap yet. :/ I hope it's not gone for good already since she was the first person besides me to have it.

STUFFellaneous 10/ 8/2012 #

Mine is ready to send!

snailmailgirl 10/11/2012 #

so excited to send this off.. :)

snailmailgirl 10/11/2012 #

so excited to send this off.. :)

kbk 10/12/2012 #

The original owner of the journal I have is no longer active on swap-bot...and she did not leave her contact information in the back. I did message her to let her know it was still in circulation. Anyway....I am having so much fun. I am ready to send.

schin 10/14/2012 #

I have Cathy's journal :) @lattejust4me

lattejust4me 10/16/2012 #

Yay! @schin I'm glad to know it's making its rounds :)

KateKintail 10/16/2012 #

This will be my FIRST time participating. I've seen this swap loads of times and the timing was never right for me. I think I'd like to give it a try. You lot seem like you always have so much fun :-)

JenL 10/16/2012 #

:) Glad to have you aboard, KateKintail! Come have some fun with us!

JenL 10/17/2012 #

I'm glad to see so many new people on here. I have done a fast scan through the people on here and know that there are some that don't have all of what I want to do this swap (the type 3's)....I'm gonna let it go and have faith that everyone will follow through! This swap has been a lot of fun!! I want to continue with it!

artsymimi 10/17/2012 #

seems fun . when you say prompt you mean ? sorry if i sound stupid dont mean to just want to know what it entitles before i join. Do we paint on this journal or just write?

NOTYOURPRIZE 10/17/2012 #

I think I may have to do this! Sounds like so much fun!

savannahjan 10/18/2012 #

you're going to "let it go and have faith" when you have been having such flaker problems in the previous swaps? You have slowed down the swaps trying to fix all the flaking. Maybe we should get more strict with the guidelines instead of relaxing them.

JenL 10/18/2012 #

savannahjan - I'm slowing down ONLY because I have 2 jobs and my 2nd job is keeping me busy (managing an apartment complex that is GOVERNMENT run, so doing a move-in, to which HALF of my complex - 8 - has had to be filled withing 3 months!) I apologize for that! I work too much but cannot give up this 2nd job quite yet. Picture putting in a 7.5 hour work day, then having to do another 2 + hours work at home, make dinner, do dishes, laundry, spend time with family, etc., etc., etc. I"M NOT COMPLAINING! I just need people to understand that I'm slowing down for an unrelated reason, called MY LIFE! 2 other women have given this swap up and I don't want to do that! There are too many journals out there and I would love to see my filled one back! Hopefully, there are other people out there. Sorry for the long-winded outcome. PLEASE, keep joining!

artsymimi - prompt = come up with a question that another person has to answer. Write out the prompt/question the other person left for you; then write your bio; finally, come up with a prompt/question for the person you send to has to answer.

savannahjan 10/18/2012 #

I think all that outside real life stress is the perfect reason to tighten up the rules. Then you don't have to pick and choose. But I more than understand a stressful life. And I'm glad you're running these. I just know you've been getting SUPER ticked off due to the flaking that's been going on. And rightfully so!

KateKintail 10/19/2012 #

Stupid question: do people write on the backs of pages or just the fronts?

JenL 10/19/2012 #

savannahjan - hope you didn't take my last post as being mean. I just wanted people to understand that I WANT to do these but need a little leeway myself to get other things done as well make sure things here are alright.

KateKintail - people have been writing on fronts and backs. I have one journal right now (Hollydays), that I've got for an angel if anyone needs to be angelled, that has a note on front of her journal requesting people ONLY write on the front as she wants to decorate the back part once it returns to her. TOTALLY up to you!

hands 10/19/2012 #

i was so excited to be a part of this swap. this is the one i have been waiting for. But I was banned because i need one more type 3 swap..have fun yall. If an angel is needed. Let me know, I will pick it up.

KateKintail 10/20/2012 #

Thanks for the reply, JenL. I finished mine up last night. Exciting! :-)

Carrie2108 10/22/2012 #

I'm sure I'm included in the flaker group by now..but I just sent out Diane herlihy's journal from #20. And corlioskats from this one...so I think I am back on track. As long as nobody dies this month I think I will be back to myself! Sorry!

thisphoenixrises 10/22/2012 #

If anyone ends up needing an angel for this one, I'd be glad to send a journal out to them. I just started last round and my journal is already stalled with that person. :(

savannahjan 10/23/2012 #

I wonder if mine is out there anywhere.

Carrie2108 10/28/2012 #

I just received Hollydays journal from HannahsMommy07.

BluGinhm 11/ 1/2012 #

Just sent out Jennie Silha's (cubsfanjennie) journal.

BluGinhm 11/ 1/2012 #

KateKintail - I usually go with whatever's already in the journal, but it's usually written front and back. I did have one very fragile journal (a notebook where the pages are designed to be easily torn out) that only had writting on the fronts.

latentsmile 11/ 1/2012 #

Received happytuesdayrain's journal from thisisryanross.

<3

wikkedlilgrrl 11/ 3/2012 #

Will be mailing mine on Monday --- we are just starting to see some clean up and progress after the hurricane. So sorry for the delay ... I have the journal of @sleepingrover2010 (Barbara Brandt)

LittleMessyMissy 11/ 3/2012 #

Okay so I have received the journal. How do I know who to mail it to next?

Cubsfanjennie 11/ 5/2012 #

Mine went out late.....gave it to hubby on Thursday...he was going to the post office....and he forgot and told me yesterday....I physically took it myself this morning!!! Going to Schin...it was Rosie's (rosedzi) journal.....

savannahjan 03/29/2013 #

For those of you who would like to be a part of the reboot for these swaps, here's the swap for that:

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