Sent my PM to Lori, but have question - how do I go back and see what exactly I typed? I don't know if I answered Lori's questions about the allergens fully enough - I have my written copy - back last month or so, I printed off the form and wrote my answers that I copy into the computer when I fill out, but I generally add something that isn't on the written sheet. In short, how can I see my sent mail? And everyone, no matter what you send me, I'm gonna love it becaue that box was fixed with me in mind!!!:thumbup: I'd love home baked stuff, stuff from Scotland, I'm real flexible.........there isn't a box I've seen here that I wouldn't love to receive.

Go to the top of this page where is says settings, meaning your settings, on that page on the left you'll see messages and sent items. The info you sent should be in the sent items box.

Thanks Jaba, I had tried that, but guess I wasn't reading or seeing or looking - I didn't even see the e-mail I had sent. I just checked it out and guess it's okay. I wanted to make sure I had put stuff about allergies and such to make it easier on Lori - as if pairing this eclectic group of ladies can be easy, right?;)

I am in for 2 for August. Sending ifo.

I'm in for this month, sent info to Lori yesterday. I've been knid of MIA for the past few weeks, trying to catch up with everybody. A lot going on, going to have to start catching up.

To all the new people, be sure to follow along when you can and read the fun posts as hints are given as to where the packages are going and see the pictures of what is received. It is not a requirement that you post a picture or that you post on the thread, but you will miss out on some fun if you don't follow along as time permits! Just remember to send the 3 required private messages and you will be fine, just have FUN! We are up to 75 signed up now. Lori you swap hostess

I'm going to play around a bit more dying some fabric. Hmm...if my SP likes that kinda thing, she or he just may get some of it. HAHA!! Beware...this is NEWBIE stuff. :)

Well, I for one, wouldn't mind getting some special dyed fabric. I'd wash it in Retayne first and then use it in the first project I could - and show it proudly that my SP had made it for me. Guess that's another item I'll have to put in my next questionaire that I wouldn't mind receiving homemade/hand dyed things.

Krystyna, youre a nut.LOL Never thought of the food saver for packing fabrics. Thanks for the idea will def. try it. You know that family dollar and a couple of other places are now selling decorative packing tape, was eyeballing some the other day. And who wouldnt love a bublle wrap pincushion, would def. make putting your pins away a creative effort.LOL

Count me in, thought I would miss this one. Computer has been down and I was getting worried about the part getting here on time. Sending PM in a few.

Ooooo. And don't forget you can always reverse the hose on your high powered shop vac to suck out all the air. Just don't forget to use a lot of tape to prevent possible explosions. Postal service frowns on that happening

Heehee, cool beans Vanogay:)


Krystyna: You are so silly -- btw, I didn't think of squishing fabric in a food saver. hahaha!

LOL K you REALLY need to go take a dip in the sea to cool off
your getting a little (tongue in cheek here,,ummm wacky?).

But we love you anyways.

To all those who are NEW to the secret pal swaps, you MUST
be very very very careful there are several who will TRY to get
you to give them the name of your sp. DON'T fall for their traps.

Yeah yeah yeah I know I am a spoil sport for warning the newbie's
but somebody needs to protect them.


Now I have a side line question to ask you all.

What if any magazine subscriptions do you have? Are any of you
members of the QCA (Quilter' Club of America) or AQS (American
Quilter's Society)?

I received 3 of my subscription magazines in the mail yesterday
American Quilter, Quiltmaker, and McCall's Quilting.

That got me to thinking about just how many magazines do I have
subscriptions to anyways. So tonight I sat down to TRY and figure
that out. I am shocked (or amazed?) to say that I have enough that
I needed to create a spreadsheet to keep track of them along with
my login/password info and exp. dates.

All of these subscriptions was ordered/paid back in the days when
I was work 1 full time job and 4 part time jobs (one day a week).
When I had $300+ per month to spend on my "hobby" the only
subscriptions I will TRY to keep after these all expire are the QCA
and Quilter's World digital (because I can download these and save
to my computer).


[TABLE="width: 401"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Magazine Name
[/TD]
[TD]Exp. Date
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Quilter's World - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Oct-15
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Quilter's World - Digital
[/TD]
[TD]Oct-15
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Quiltmaker - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Jan-14
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]SewNews - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Mar-13
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]McCall's QuickQuilts - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Mar-13
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]McCall's Quilting - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Jan-16
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]McCall's Quilting - Digital
[/TD]
[TD]Jan-16
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]F&P Love of Quilting - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Jan-15
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]F&P Love of Quilting - Digital
[/TD]
[TD]Jan-15
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]F&P Easy Quilts
[/TD]
[TD]Apr-13
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]American Quilter - Print
[/TD]
[TD]Feb-14
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]American Quilter - Digital
[/TD]
[TD]Feb-14
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]
[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Club Memberships
[/TD]
[TD]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Quilters Club of America
[/TD]
[TD]Apr-13
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]American Quilter's Society
[/TD]
[TD]Feb-14
[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]


I never realized just how horrible I am to "think" I needed all
of these. But you know what they say about hindsight.

Thinking about pulling the Quilter's World magazine out and start
sending them to my sp's IF they would want them. I have about
5-6 years worth.

Off Topic: Olympic opening ceremony were AA Amazing and Awesome.

Now back on topic, Hand dyed fabric sounds great. What a unique item. I'm game to be a guinea pig for your newbie hand dying effort.
It's great to get a magazine in the sp package. Newbie alert be sure to say yes to the question about receiving gently used items so Louise knows you would like one too.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...er-v2840-1.jpg
No, silly! I didn't send my pal a fish.

Krystyna you know you did, not this big but it was a fish.

I am in for this month. Should be fun and what size foodsaver do you think works the best I had one at one time. I think honestly it was a knock off model and I didn't like how it worked. It seemed like it never sealed properly but with the costs of everything I thought about getting another one to buy big packs and freeze to save.

Lucky me.............I in for another month........................

Hand dyed fabric...I would love some
Old copies of quilting magazines...I would love some
Jam and Honey...count me in
Happy Quilting!!

I am in for the magazines, I have about 5 mags that people have sent to me in swaps. Not to proud to say that I can not afford to buy them. I looked through a couple at the grocery store yesterday and at 6-10 dollars each no way on disability check can I can afford so I would take any!!!!
Hand dyed fabric is SO pretty count me in there too! Heck just send it all to me lol!!! Now I sound like a certain someone we all know.......

We have 88 signed up now

Off topic (sorry): We have been talking about dropping the fortune it costs to get one of the nice Food Savers (by nice, of course, I mean expensive because a huge price tag totally = quality!). Do you find yourself using it a lot? Was it worth the investment? Do you reuse your bags? How do you clean them? Dishwasher? (I don't do hand-washing).

Louise, I get 4 or 5 monthly mags between quilting & cross stitch. I would estimate that 85% of what I see doesn't even cause a blip on my "I want to do that!" radar. But the ones that do, I scan into a pdf. That way I don't feel bad about culling out my magazine library when the whim hits me. I've already got whatever I wanted from it; BUT I do usually look through one more time to make sure I haven't missed anything before I send them on to a new home.

If you don't have the actual Adobe program (NOT the free reader that you can download) all you do is scan the file as an image, embed it into a Microsoft Word doc and then under "save as" choose "pdf". It's really pretty handy and pdf's are a more compact & stable document format.

Kelly,

I have the FULL BLOWN Creative Suite 5.5 which I purchased
last year when I took a class for photoshop, illustrator, InDesign
so yes I have the Acrobat Adobe PRO.

Someday I hope to scan the pages from my magazines that interest
me the most, but there are 6 years worth of magazines well OVER
250 total so that would be LOTS of work to do the scanning.

I HOPE to get some of the QW magazines ready to go into my August
sp box. So someone needs to be on the look out (providing they like
magazines).

And newbies,she is one of many reason you want to check out the site,cause she is one of many nuts on here ,you got to live her

Ok i cant spell ,that is no new news,you all well love it here,and Everyone will make you feel welcome here

Hand dye fabric,i love all mags,and i love bubble wrap,can goods,,,,,,i just like it alllllll,,,,,also i was thinking,,,which is really harmful to my health,,,in my July,sp swap box,,i got,a,postcard,from mich,and thought it would be nice,to send,and,recieve,postcards fome diff states, and the post office sells them here, just a thought, i think it would be neet

I'm in again and suspect my parcel will indeed be squishy.
I just wanted to mention that our Post Office workers are brutal with parcels. My July SP parcel had a hole in it, but luckily I don't think anything was lost. It may be an idea to pop things in a plastic zip-loc before putting in the mailing envelope. That way if they do manage to eviscerate it, your lovely gift will arrive in one piece.

I also love magazines, fabric, you name it I love it!!! Glad to be back in the swap again this month!!!

I guess I'll play again this month. DD and I got 3rd place ribbons for quilts we entered in the State quilt show. I'll pm Lori with my info

Ill be glad to have some Quilting Magazines, I only have a couple that were sent to me in my SP boxes, I don't have any subscriptions. Crafty Grammie

Congrats on the 3rd place ribbons Toomanyufo's!!!

1. I would love magazines, I currently have exactly zero. Same with books, I have exactly 1, thanks to my previous swap partners :)
2. Fabric, yes please. Any and all of it, hand dyed, undyed, whatever. GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEE
3. I have a food saver, thank you for the suggestion. I use it often enough to warrant it's purchase, but I have a ton of rolls of the bags so i have never tried to re-use them. I probably would only reuse them if I used dried goods or fabric or something not greasy or excessively smelly or whatever. However, I was fortunate that a prior business partner purchased said food saver and box of bag rolls for me for a birthday gift.. YIPPEEE.
4. I love bubble wrap and that pin cushion would be a heck of a lot of fun.
5. I love baked, canned, homemade goods of any kind.

This month it was extremely hard for me to think of the "One thing you want the most".. What DON'T I want?! haha. I want everryyttthiinngg. I need everythiinngg. But what one thing? Aah. I found something I guess.

I'm the type of person that gives treats for the critters of the family. And I was glad my last partner gave my boy doggy some treats. He's been recovering from a herniated disk the last 2 weeks and he's been needing those treats. The baggie is gone, but even the crazy kitten has been eating them. Haha. The poor dog gets so mad because he's on kennel rest and he can see her go steal them from the bag. He's about 95% back to normal. My poor boy.

Anyways. Back to school work. Blah. I have 5 hrs to edit and turn in a research paper, I guess I can play on here for a few more hours :D

I'm already excited and it isn't even August yet!
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Anastasia - You are a real hoot. What are you studying?

Krystyna - Great idea of using a food saver. I used to have 2, but alas I gave them away and they were still virgins. That will teach me to use my imagination better. Love the bubble wrap pin cushion, too.

Quilty-Louise - I am too cheap to buy subscriptions to magazines, although I used to do so. I just don't have time to read so many now that I am employed again. So, I just buy the individual issues I want, or I go to the library and look through theirs for patterns I want. Most often, though, I get free patterns off the internet. I love Craftsy.com.

Reeskylr - I would love hand dyed fabric, and I would also love instructions on how to do it myself. Hint - if you get me this time!!!

Toomanyufos - I'm sure we'd all love to see photos of your and DD's winning quilts. Congratulations!!!

Jaba - Good to see you again this month. I have made more of the you-know-whats. Hoping to sell some at LQS. Time will tell.

Fayzer - I don't know who looks more excited - your avatar, or the lady in the picture you attached.

Can't wait to get my August SP. It's so much fun to see what people like and want..

I'm in school working towards a Medical Laboratory Technician degree. This is just a basic composition class. It's my 3rd class I've taken with lots of writing. UGH. I got one more of these types to go next set of classes. I'm so sick of them. This class, I haven't even read one word of any of the chapters assigned. I'm currently sitting at 95% for the class.

Since I posted that post, I've added one paragraph, and 2 or 3 random sentences to this paper. And a reference listing. I'm getting soooooooo much done.. not. :shock: While I was sitting in the insanely long drive through waiting for some sustenance to fuel my brain, I had an epiphany of an excuse for my procrastinating style. Since I'm such a perfectionist, I have decided that it's better for me to procrastinate because then I don't have time to nitpick it to death and scrap it altogether in frustration after butchering it with nitpicking. So then I only have to deal with the anxiety AFTER it's submitted, rather than on both sides. Yay for excuses :D hahah. That's my story and I'm stickin to it.

Also.. future secret swap partner.. I may or may not have had too much fun in walmart's school supply aisle this week.. soo.. uh.. I hope you like office supplies as much as I do :)

My quilt I made for our 30th anniversary

This is DD Quilt