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Hello boys and girls. You may think it’s too early to be thinking about Valentine’s Day, and if you do think that, you are incredibly incorrect, because I saw Valentine’s Day decorations in the store before Christmas, and as you know, there is no way to tell what is going on in the world, seasonally speaking, without the prompting of retail establishments.

So, last year, Caryn and I had a brilliant idea: handmade Valentine swap! It went really well and it was really fun to make Valentines and to receive other people’s creations in the mail. And since it was so totally awesome last year, we are doing it again! Yay! Please join in. You will like it, I promise.

Here are the rules (they are the same as last year, but updated for 2008):

1. This is NOT a CD swap. It’s for handmade valentines. In our world, handmade can mean going all out with construction paper, pipe cleaners and spray-painted macaroni, or it can mean hand-altered greeting/post cards. We’re flexible. Like bendy straws, which are also very handy craft items, by the way.

2. Sign up by Saturday, January 19. You can sign up by sending an e-mail to either Jamelah (jamelah at jamelah dot net) or Caryn (firecracker at lit-fuse dot net). We are partners in crime, so you don’t have to e-mail both of us. (Maybe say something like you’re signing up for the V-Day Swap in the subject line, just to be helpful.)

3. You will receive an e-mail from us by Saturday, January 26 telling you who’s in your group and giving you their mailing addresses.

4. No more than 4 to a group.

5. Open to every country in the world! (If, say, you don’t want to do international shipping, then you can say so in your sign-up e-mail… but really, it’s just a card. A fabulous, wonderful card, however.)

6. Mail your valentines by Saturday, February 9. This gives you plenty of time to make fabulous creations. This should also give your fabulous creations time to get to your groupies by V-Day. Except maybe if you’re mailing internationally, in which case, it’ll be, like, a President’s Day Valentine. Whee!

7. This should’ve gone up higher, next to the stuff about the valentines being handmade/hand-altered, but whatever. Hand-altered doesn’t mean that you just sign the inside of a card or the back of a postcard and call it good. Spend a little time being creative… draw hats on the people on your postcard with a Sharpie or something. I have faith that you can handle it.

8. If you don’t sign up, you’re dead to me. Yes, that is a rule.

9. Tell your friends and family! That’s a rule, too.

Yay for getting handmade valentines!

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