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Winter Solstice/Yule Card Swap

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Winter Solstice/Yule Card Swap
Swap Coordinator:druideye (contact)
Swap categories: Letters & Writing  Seasonal  Card Making 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:November 15, 2009
Date items must be sent by:December 5, 2009
Number of swap partners:5
Description:

There are many Christmas card swaps but I could not find a swap for those of us that celebrate Winter Solstice and/or Yule.

Winter Solstice will be on December 21 this year at 17:47. It is the shortest day and longest night of the year. Many who celebrate Yule do so on the Winter Solstice, and there are some that celebrate Yule for 12 days beginning on the Solstice.

Winter Solstice means many different things to different people, lands and religions so I will leave that up to you as to what facet of the Solstice you wish to show when you make or buy a card for your partner. I think this is a great way for you to share your solstice traditions with someone else. At my house it is the day that we put the bird feeders back out, among other things.

You are welcome to send a handmade card, as it is difficult to find Solstice/Yule cards in just your regular stores though there are many different online places you can buy them such as:

wintersolsticecards.net faeriecards.com zazzle.com rossettidesigns.com

and many more, perhaps even off ebay, though I haven't checked there yet. There are so many really gorgeous cards out there, in my opinion they are much prettier than the normal Christmas cards one receives and sends.

You'll have 3 partners. If you have any questions please let me know.

No recent 1's or 3's, if you have any please PM me to explain. I will ban if necessary. Also, newbies welcome with a filled out profile. We were all newbies once, so I welcome them in the swap - but remember the simple rule: don't flake!

Discussion

girlpirate 11/ 7/2009 #

YAY! I was looking for something just like this and had even pondered starting it myself. You rock!

druideye 11/ 8/2009 #

Awesome, so glad you've joined!

Ogma 11/ 9/2009 #

Are we sending cards for our partners to use or are we writing something in it? And is there something specific we should be writing (you mentioned sharing our traditions)?

druideye 11/10/2009 #

Sending cards we write something in - and you can write any traditions in the card if you want to, or let the card show your tradition (such as I could find a card with birds eating food in the snow to represent my tradition).

Ogma 11/11/2009 #

Thanks!

druideye 11/14/2009 #

If we get more people I might increase partners, does anyone have a problem with that?

KawaiiNekomini 11/16/2009 #

I don't have any problems with it! (unless it's more than 10) LOL

druideye 11/16/2009 #

Ok I increased partners from 3 to 5, so that's not too drastic. Please don't flake! Get these cards out!

crescendo 11/16/2009 #

Crap! I ordered three cards and got them last week, and didn't see this about it now being 5...ACK!!

Ogma 11/16/2009 #

Ack! I didn't see this was for 5 either!!! I wish you had emailed us! It may take me a bit longer to get these out now. I'll email my partners...

KawaiiNekomini 11/19/2009 #

I sent out all of my cards! <3

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