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Subject: 2025 Special Swaps , hosts needed
Date Posted: 12/24/2024 10:02 AM ET
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Open for volunteer hosts --  New ideas welcome!     Not every month requires a swap  

JAN-- "cold comfort" swap -- People would send small gifts of comfort (i.e. purse-sized packets of tissues, tea or cocoa packets, warm socks, lip balm or hand cream) to get through cold and flu season. set a budget of $5, not including postage, to keep it reasonable. Ani

Valentines (14 FEB)-- Towana

St Pat's cards (17 March)-- Lynn M

Easter (April 20th)/ spring cards --

April-- ?? Earth Day Swap: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle-- 

May--

June -- Patriotic swap for July 4th-- Melanie-- with lap quilt for contest prize
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3 summer months of postcards-- you sign up for each month separately.  
              Hosted by:

June-- Jeanne

July-- Towana

Aug--Patrice

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AUG-- Share your Creative Side-- Lisa D

SEPT-- fall cards and beverage swap--
OCT (31st) -- Halloween cards -- 
NOV-- Thanksgiving card swap--  Mona

Dec-- ?maybe Cookie/ candy recipe swap?????



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Thanks, Jeanne for posting this. I would love to once again host next year's Thanksgiving Swap. Should there be a need for a second choice I can choose later. Merry Christmas to you and everyone in this kind raok section. 

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I'd like to help with St Patrick's Day.

Thank you, Jeanne.

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Thanks Mona and Lynn.  Many hands make light work. 

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I can do the Valentines & July postcard swap. 

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Thanks, Towana!!

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Oops, double post!



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I can host a "cold comfort" swap for January.  People would send small gifts of comfort (i.e. purse-sized packets of tissues, tea or cocoa packets, warm socks, lip balm or hand cream) to get through cold and flu season. 

I would set a budget of $5, not including postage, to keep it reasonable.

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Great idea, Ani! 

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Thanks Connie and Ani!

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Hello, Jeanne! I'll host August's postcard swap. Thanks for arranging these swaps. Happy New Year!

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I can do the July patriotic swap again this year. I already have the lap quilt made. 

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Thanks Patrice and Melanie!

Melanie-- Friday I was showing off my patriotic quilt to my visiting daughters that you made for our swap last July-- yep I won that contest! Just Used it as I was elevating my legs following a procedure. 

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Happy New Year's Eve, Jeanne -

I will host the August Share Your Creative Side Swap.

Lisa

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Great, Lisa, glad to see you step up to run this again.  I loved hearing about what you all made and swapped last time.

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Open for anyone who wants to run a second swap this year or wants to try hosting for first time!

Easter, Fall Sept swap, Halloween, DEC (open to ideas)



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