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Subject: Puzzle/Activity Book Swap-Mailing
Date Posted: 4/22/2024 4:10 PM ET
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Happy Monday and Earth Day friends. Do you enjoy solving crossword puzzle clues or finding the last word in a word search? Can you spot the differences or find the hidden images in the picture? Perhaps you enjoy Soduko or coloring books? All are most welcome to join in our new May Puzzle/Activity Book Swap.To participate please sign up within this thread by next Monday, April 29th. Please also indicate two puzzle/activity book preferences you may have. Each participant will be paired with one friend to send a puzzle book to. I will post partners on Tuesday, April 30th. I will PM all participants the entire list. PLEASE especially for this swap, do not feel obligated to send to anyone other than your one partner. I know costs in general keep rising as does postage. I am not able to send to more than one person. I would never want anyone to feel left out due to cost. Let's keep this fun and welcoming to all. Remember to PM me your complete mailing information including last name should I not already have it. 

My own puzzle preferences are: Super Play Pad Jumbo (from Dollar Tree) and Larger Print Word Searches meant for kids (I prefer kid's word searches to those for adults because there are less words, cuter themes, and often the print is bigger, too), 

Thank you. God Bless You. Let the puzzle fun begin! :)



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Date Posted: 4/22/2024 5:01 PM ET
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I'm in......my preferences are sudoku ( not expert level)  and circle words ( word searches). 



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Date Posted: 4/24/2024 7:20 PM ET
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Thanks, Jeanne. Who else would like to join? I know our friend Cheryl will. She has contacted PBS. Wòrking on coming back, yay. Hope all of you are having a good Wednesday :)

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Date Posted: 4/25/2024 11:47 AM ET
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I'll join! My preference would be word searches since I have several Sudoku books already. Spot the difference books are great too. 

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Date Posted: 4/25/2024 2:40 PM ET
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Welcome again Jeanne and Yvette. Who else? 

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I'm in!

I like most everything except sudoku: crosswords, word search, mazes, find the differences, logic puzzles, dot to dot, variety puzzles, etc. 

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Date Posted: 4/26/2024 2:00 PM ET
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Weekend hug to all. Welcome, Robin :)

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Date Posted: 4/27/2024 3:50 PM ET
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We're up to 5...6 God willing Cheryl is able to rejoin us :) Yvette, Jeanne, Robin, Ashley, and Mona. Anyone else? :)

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Date Posted: 4/29/2024 10:19 PM ET
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Cheryl is still working on coming back here. Last call for a 6th person to join. I will post pairings tomorrow. Sweet Dreams friends. 

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Date Posted: 4/30/2024 9:32 PM ET
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Good evening friends, prayers each of you had a good Tuesday. I wrote each of our names down on scraps of paper, folded them and shook them up, and came up the below pairings: 

Yvette sends to Jeanne

I send to Ashley

Robin sends to Yvette

Ashley sends to Robin

Jeanne sends to Me

This is easy because all four of you lovely friends like Word Searches best. I prefer Word Searches meant for kids in larger print or better Super Play Pad Jumbos from Dollar Tree. I also enjoy full color Hidden pictures meant for kids. I will PM everyone all addresses. Reminder that each of you are only asked to send to your one partner. Please post both when you have sent and received your puzzle book. Thank you all again for joining this new swap. Let the puzzle mailing begin! :) 

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Puzzle book ordered for Mona. Amazon delivery expected tomorrow.  

Great way to save on postage since I have a Prime membership......book cost me about what US postage would have been.

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Placed an Amazon order for Yvette this morning. :)

 

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Placed an Amazon order for Ashley last night :)

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Thank you dear Jeanne so much for the word search book. 

Sweet Dreams and a hug to all. 



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I got two awesome books from Robin - a California puzzle book with a variety of puzzles (so cool!) and a fun cat- themed spot the difference book. Thank you so much, Robin!

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I received a wonderful compact book full of a variety of puzzles from Ashley. It will be perfect to keep in the car to do a quick puzzle when I´m waiting at an appointment or for my husband to come out of the hardware store. Thank you, Ashley!

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Date Posted: 5/7/2024 6:56 PM ET
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Package going out today to Jeanne.

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Date Posted: 5/11/2024 8:43 AM ET
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Thank you dear friends for joining in. I hope you are having fun with this. Would you join again next year and/or do you think another time of year might work better? Hug and Happy Saturday. Happy Mother's Day tomorrow to all celebrating as well :)



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Date Posted: 5/15/2024 1:12 PM ET
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Jeanne's package is expected to arrive on Friday. It's taking the very long, scenic route to Florida.

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Oh, Mona's bday card to CA took much longer than it should have too.  But SURPRISE the pkg arrived today!!

Thanks so much toYvette for the big package of 2 word search puzzle books and a cute Hello Kitty activity pad! Will keep me busy for a long time!



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Oh, hooray! Still took quite a while but I'm glad it came sooner than anticipated. 

 

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Mail has been a little slower at times again here. Thank you again Jeanne. Thank all of you for participating. I will host this again next year. Happy puzzling! Sweet Dreams, too :)