Secret Santa Soiree - Update

Good news! I have everyone swapped and I am in the process now, of drafting up all the emails to send out. I was lucky enough to get this all done this weekend while on an airplane. So when I say.....everyone was assigned randomly, that is truly what I mean. I had everyone written on a sheet of paper, and swapped by luck of the draw. I did manage to check my past list to make sure you all would not have the same swap partner twice. That was more of a daunting task than I could have imagined, but alas, it is done.

Please READ the email in its entirety when you get it. You will need to hit REPLY to that email and send it to me. That will let me know you received your swap partner information. If I don't get that reply back from you.....I will bug you until I know you received your information!

If you have a partner that is not in the same country as you, please, PLEASE try and send your package off as soon as you possibly can. Many countries mail flow backs up tremendously during the holidays and can take up to six weeks or longer to get a package to someone. I know this because the first year, one swapper did not get their gifts until Valentines day.....and the package was mailed at the deadline, not earlier. International mailings need more time, that is just the way it is.

You will need to spend at least $20.00 but you can spend more on your swap person, not including shipping. Shop with much thought and kindness. With a little creativity, you'd be amazed at the wonderful packages that are sent each year by our swappers. It is a wonderful feeling to bring a little joy to someone you may otherwise never have met.

***If after reading your email and you still have some questions about your swap partner, please email me your questions, and I will do the investigating for you so your partner does not know who you are...remember this is a surprise!! Don't tell your partner who you are. They will find out in December when I post the list of who had who. Likewise, when you mail your package, you do not have to include your real name in the return address label. You can use initials, but do include your real address. I usually do something like this....

From: Santa's Elf
**9 Winnie St
Ft. Worth, Tx *****

I am still waiting on a couple of questionnaires to be forwarded to me, once I get those and I finish up the email bundle, I will email all the swappers their information......it should be within a couple of days!

I hope you are getting excited!! I am.......it is a lot of fun for me to watch how this unfolds each year!!

Secret Santa Soiree - Huge Thank You!!

The swap will close this evening.....I left it up just one more day.....just in case someone missed it.....I know I said I would not do that, but......I am.........someone ALWAYS emails me after it is closed and wants to join.......and that makes me feel bad to turn them away.  Go HERE to sign up if you have not done so.

I wanted to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who signed up.....you guys really did a fantastic job getting me all the returned emails with your questionnaires filled out and right on time. I think some of the errors were not on you guys part at all, but for some reason some of your emails went into my old email address and I found them last night. :-)

Everyone who has signed up has everything back to me I need!! THANK YOU ALL AGAIN.....makes it so much easier for me!

I know you are wondering....when will I know who my swap person is????

I will work on swapping everyone this weekend. I have the records from the previous two years still, and I want to make sure everyone is swapped with someone different than the past. That is a huge part of what this swap is about, meeting someone new and someone you may not know. I don't know exactly how much more work that will be....but I will have everyone swapped by the 7th of November. My goal is BEFORE that....possibly in a couple of days.

Watch here and I will have a post up when I have emailed everyone's information about their person!!

Have a great weekend......and thanks again for keeping this so easy for me this year!