Shared Journal Experiment #21

I have @purpledragonflies1126 's journal!

I have @amandat0913

I have Kimberly's -kbk-

I have Macie's wicked cute journal!

I have @readerchris

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.

Mine is ready to send!

so excited to send this off.. :)

so excited to send this off.. :)

The original owner of the journal I have is no longer active on swap-bot...and she did not leave her contact information in the back.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.

I have Cathy's journal :) @lattejust4me

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

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 :-)

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

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!

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?

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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!

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. :(

I wonder if mine is out there anywhere.

I just received Hollydays journal from HannahsMommy07.

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

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.

Received happytuesdayrain's journal from thisisryanross.

<3

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)

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

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.....

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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