Merry Christmas

Hello Kitty Profile Art

Mega Christmas Card Swap International

You will send a Christmas/Holiday card (well made or store bought) to each of your 20 partners and include a small flat "gift".

Your gift can be stickers, recipe cards, a pretty blank note card with envie, a pretty ATC or anything that will fit in your Christmas card. 

The gift doesn't have to be wrapped. Sender's choice so you can start on your cards now.

Let's fill those mailboxes with some Christmas love.

I will angel if needed but flakers will go on my banned list.

Hello Kitty Swap

 Hello Kitty Swap-Bot Swap

This will be a super easy swap.  All you have to do is pick 3 from the list for your partner.

25 Hello Kitty stickers 
Hello Kitty stuffie (homemade or store bought) 
3 Hello Kitty pencils 
2 sheets of Hello Kitty stationary with a matching envied (store bought only) 
Random Hello Kitty surprise. (Sender's choice) 

I will Angel if needed but flakers will go on my ban list for future swaps.
4.8 minimum score and newbies with well filled out profile. ♡

Organza Bags

 These are great!  The picture doesn't due them justice.  I can't tell you how many times I have bought organza bags online only to get them and the a cheap looking and falling apart at the seams.  These bags arrived and they are a beautiful gold color with a matching ribbon draw string.  You can fill them totally full and not worry about the seams coming apart.  They are perfect for party favors, jewelry gifts, anything that will fit really. 


I got mine from Amazon.

Sentence a day journal

For a long time, I’d been worried by how little I remembered about my own past. In particular, because one of my resolutions is to “Appreciate this time of life,” I felt the impulse to keep a record of the pattern of our days (not to mention the funny things my children said) so I’d remember this time of life later.

The idea of keeping a proper journal was far too overwhelming, so I decided instead to keep a “one-sentence journal.” 

Each night, I write one sentence (well, actually, usually it’s three or four sentences, but by calling it a “one sentence journal” I keep my expectations realistic) about what happened that day to me, the Bear Man, and the girls. 

I’ll forget the huge amount of meat that the Bear Man grills every weekend.
My hope is that, years from now, when I’m trying to remember what life was like at this point, I can look back at my one-sentence journal.
Of course, I’ve missed a lot of days. Although I’ve been trying to keep it up for a year, it still hasn’t quite solidified into a habit. I’ve let ten days go by, without thinking about the journal once. But still, I’ve managed to get a lot of memories down on paper.

I’m going to use my beloved Amazon.com to buy pretty journals, one for the Bear Man and me, one for each of the girls.
My path-breaking happiness formula holds that to be happy, you must think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
Keeping this journal is a project that adds to my happiness in all of these ways: it helps keep happy memories vivid (because I’m much more inclined to write about happy events than unhappy events); it gives me a reason to thinking lovingly about my family; it’s manageable, so it doesn’t make me feel burdened; it makes me feel like a good mother who is passing happy memories along to my children; and it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and progress.

I hope everyone has a beeeeeautiful day!

USPS Problems :(

If you are like me and are a very active "snail mail" swapper you have noticed the huge issues with shipping with the USPS lately.  I have had MANY packages opened and items removed by postal workers or some packages never arrive all together unless they have tracking numbers.  This is a major issue for swappers like me.  I have spoken to a few postal workers regarding these issues and have a small solution to our woes.  To see any REAL changes in these areas we need to show a force by contacting the USPS Consumer Affairs office.  
Do not waste your time by calling 1(800)ASK-USPS 1(800)275-8777, it is completely useless.  When you call this office be prepared to wait on hold for a while and the hold message tells you to call the national call center for immediate service but that is just 1(800)ASK-USPS call center and will have no affect in resolving your issues.  If we can all team up against the USPS we maybe able to ship our works of art without fear of losing them.

Happy Swapping!

The Queen Bee