My Everything Journal Swap (Europe)

Wicked!! Watching!!

i would extend the time from sign up til sending date.

sounds like a fun swap :D

So is this a journal you are altering for your partner to use or are we supposed to use it as our journal??

@tyttoastronautti

I'm watching for the moment, but may I make a suggestion?

I think you should make the rating requirement higher than 4.7 and be VERY strict about newbies. When I was a newbie I joined several time-consuming swaps like this and was flaked on in FOUR of them. It's horrible having spent a long time, a lot of creative energy and, dare I say it, love, on making something lovely and then to receive nothing in return.

Just a thought.

@sugarbun I thought about that too, but you are free to start making the journal before the last sign up date, this is pretty much sender's choice anyway. But I can add a week if others feel like it's necessary...?

@walkinintheway You are supposed to use it and fill it with the things mentioned in the swap description. Give your partner a piece of you.

@filpot I plan to be quite strict in regard to newbies and will require explanations to recent 3s and 1s, but don't feel like there's need to punish people for mistakes made long ago, if they have since corrected their ways.

How nice to see a european journal swap, it will be nice to have a partner from a european country as 99% of my partners have been from the USA. It will be good to know more about Europe and particularly Europeans.

It is a tough question over newbies/low ratings, but I think you need to accept that there will always be a risk with swapping. In just over a year I have been flaked on with so many swaps, more journals than anything else. There will always be flakers in journal swaps but if you let it get to you, you will never swap at all and you need to do it for the love of creating the journal and sharing a bit of yourself with others.

The users I have been flaked on in two journal swaps were "oldies" with perfect ratings (at first).

I agree with secretterrabite (btw, helloooo!) swapping will always be a risk but isn't it sooo much fun?! :o) I think the main problem with journal swaps is that people think they are easy to do, which they are not. They need A LOT of time and effort and I think a lot of people underrate that, esp. the ones that haven't done journal swaps before.

oh, i wis hthis was for USA! This looks like so much fun!

This is great! And i want to thank you for considering newbies, because i feel that a lot of swaps don't allow newbies, and we have to start somewhere, otherwise we won't be able to swap!! So thank you for that!!

One question where you put e)# of pages to fill - minimum of 25 pages... is that we have to fill a minimum of 25 pages, or we have to tell them how many to do in their new journal swap??

Hi I cant send inbox msgs on here but ive just been rated a 1 as a package is taking a while to get to where its going, I have sent and offered to resend if it doesnt get there soon. Please let me stay in this swap I do not flake!

Pendragons, I took it to mean our own journal should be minimum 25 pages

Ahh okay! Thank you, just wanted to check!!! I'll get started on my journal tomorrow! :D

Yes, you need to make your journal minimum of 25 pages. (Also, very excited about this already, eeek!)

SWAP EDITED! After a couple of requests and the fact that I'm having a busy fall too, added one more week to swap deadline. That leaves no excuses for flaking either, you have plenty of time now! (Still excited - eeek!)