The Valentine's Day was AWESOME! Dd and I loooovveed it! I vote for back to school to get everyone ready to get back in the groove! But I love all the ideas posted here already so I am game for anything!! Count me in !! Looking forward to it!
Crazymamma~ you luck duck!! I got the Staples flyer, signed up for a teachers card and called them to find a Staples store around me (figured I should be an hour away from one) and I found out that there are NO STAPLES IN LOUISIANA!! :cry: I told the lady on the phone "then why do yall send flyers for the store when there isnt any in the WHOLE STATE???:roll: Guess I will have to order online!
Can you get them online? If not I probably could make a trip and mail them to you.. not sure it would be worth the postage though. Sorry to threadjack
.......thanks for the thought crazymamma...i will probably order online if i get desparate! lol! walmart and the dollar stores have really great deals on stuff at back to school time, so I have started looking out for things. we so have an "Office Depot" so I am curious to see if they come out with anything good.........now back to our regularly scheduled forum....(sorry I am threadjacking too! ) .......one more thing~could yall IMAGINE the constant conversations that would go on if we were ALL together in person????? How awsome would that be???
lol.. it would be one noisy room and no conversation would ever get finished.. we all get sidetracked too much.. now about the secret boxes... what about something handmade, but I am really thinking I like the "back to school" type theme since it's that time of year
I think our heads would probably be spinning!! It would be a 24/7 gabfest!! Personally, I think a back to school theme wouldn't be as fun right now because we are already shopping for those types of things!
Sommer, we posted at the same time! I could deal with the back to school because you can have fun with it. I remember one of the first boxes we did how easy it was to find semi-personal things that still tied in with school.
I have never done a "box swap" before.. on a cloth diaper board I used to frequent they did them all the time.. but for one they were too into natural parenting for me and usually they wanted to swap things that I didn't have time for... one of thier big ones was wool play food... I crochet alot, but just enough for keeping up with covers for my two little buns in dipes. But I am soooo looking forward to it.. I'm game for anything!
Sommer, we have had fun with these. Usually we list things that tie in with the swap ie. favorite color, decor theme, tea or coffe, that kind of thing. We usually keep it around the $10 range which you can find alot in the $1 stores. Homemade is even better. The Valentine's one we included the kids which was fun also.
Nellie, how it works is I will give people time to think this over and give ideas, then we will pick a theme, then everyone that wants to do it will pm me there name and address I will put names in hat draw them out then I will send everyone there name per pm and you go to town fixing a box for your secert pal then sent it off... I hope you join in they are alot of fun...
Karen, you are more then welcome to join in.. that's not to far in my books... I hope you join in...
I know this will be mentioned when we actually get started but a suggestion, too, is to include something from your state. I have a pair of "Texas Snowmen" courtesy of Kris! This would especially be neat coming from another country!
If you're getting this going right away, I'll opt out, cuz I won't be able to check on it and stuff. I hope you all have fun---these are great. And Kris---You da MAN!!! Well, that didn't sound right, but thanks so much for doing this, you're an awesome organizer and person!
Deena, don't opt out we aren't doing it till around the first part of August or so. I want to give everyone time to think it over and decide...
I am sure Kris can fill you in Deanna, but for the most part Kris is putting together a fun swap, she will have every one PM ---HER your name, your nick name, your address etc.... and then when the theme of the swap is set then there will be a thread started to give suggestions and ideas so that your secret pal can find out what kind of colors you like and such....... then there will be a deliver between time and every one will mail their package then a seperate thread will probably be set up for the first person that recieves her package to say thank you and tell us what you got in your surprize box!! For christmas and valentines day we sent little somthings for each others kids as well, this is a small swap so every one can have fun with it.
