Southern Spirit Hunters
Gardening => Gardeners Chat => Topic started by: Penny on Feb 10, 2010, 07:17:31 AM
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Hi everyone.......... :wavey:
We are going to be having the first annual SSH Spring Gift Swap :yay_jump:.........if you are interested.....PM me your name, address, and what you like, and what your garden theme is, if you have one. :ThumbUp:.....or post it on here, and when you get your swap name, just read back here :good2:
I will leave this open for anyone to sign up until March 1st, and once it closes, i will draw names and PM everyone with their swap partner. :good2:
Please try to have your gift in the mail by March 15th, so that everyone should receive by the end of March :yay_jump:.
The price limit will be $25.00 and it can also include homemade gifts too, as well as a bunch of small items, whatever you like :ThumbUp: :BigGrin:
Again this is open to anyone who is a member......so come on everyone.......Spring is on the Way :9536:
List of players......
Penny
Wrennie
Tina
Jessica
Sheri
Sarah(BC)
Jennifer
Tammy
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MEEEEEEEEE! I wanna play too!
I love reds and purples in my garden. I seem to have a collection of gnomes that has grown over the years, toadstools/ mushrooms are cool too. And I like dragonflies!
My garden is an unplanned (stick it wherever theres a spot) Cottage type garden. I've been slowly covering a hill with ajuga so we dont have to deal with grass anymore (some day). And I like anything I can eat that grows in my short growing season!
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I'm in but I will need to add my wish list later!
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I'm definitely in! I am so excited about this!!! I will think about my wish list and post it later.
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:dancingbunny: Excellent.......more the merrier :yay_jump:
My wish list is easy, i dont really have a theme persay, i just like bright colors and garden sculptures, neat whimsical things :good2:
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Pick me, pick me. (https://www.southernspirithunters.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Fexcited%2F2.gif&hash=6d6bcaf6e6fdae5a18a12a290bf2f0ec6750c395)
I like chimes, yard art, bird stuff, flower seeds, making stepping stones (you know those kits), I like all sorts of things. My favorite colors are yellow and cobalt blue. I also like note cards and stationary. I love sending note cards. Off the subject, it's funny what kids and grand kids inherit because Darbi loves sending note cards too.
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Yes. I love weird yard art and my favorite colors are flames; red, yellow, orange and a true blue is a wonderful color too. I don't follow a theme. I do enjoy oddities.
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I'm in! :BigGrin:
I'll add my list later.
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Cool....more people.
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i'm in.
i'm not gardening much but i LOVE chimes, blues and reds, and yard art. i like magnets for my doors (refrigerator and front doors) and am pretty easy to please. i just like participating :BigGrin:
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I am not in this time around. But I cannot wait to see what everyone gets!
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We need one more person to keep it even.....
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Why's it gotta be even??
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Why's it gotta be even??
I thought it would keep it easier for sending, even numbers.
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I want to play too if there is room.
I'll pm you shortly.
Lets see. It's a specimen garden so pretty much anything goes. I have most of the plants I want but I could use some flower supports my favorite colors are yellow, orange, and red in the garden. I think those glazing balls are really cool. And I'm looking for some kind of spike that will keep landscaping timbers in place. I'm happy with whatever because it will remind me of the sender and I love our group.
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I pm'ed you but I pm so seldom I'm not sure I did it right. So let me know if you didn't get it ok?
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You're in Tammy, thanks for playing!
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I'm pretty easy to please. I have quite a few garden statues already but I like wind chimes, plant stakes, gazing balls...We built a new deck last summer and I am looking for things to put on my deck. I don't really have any ideas but I like surprises. :BigGrin: I'm pretty easy to please. I'm okay with non-gardening items too. I'm really into fabrics lately.
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Jessica, what types of fabrics?
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I'm really not picky, Sheri. I have been making scarves out of t-shirt material but it is hard to find here. The stuff at Jo-Ann's i too heavy. I found some thin stuff at Hobby Lobby but they only had two colors. Brown and black. Otherwise, just regular quilting fabrics. That is what I have been making the bags out of. I think I am going to make some baby bibs for my friend. They are cotton on one side and flannel on the other.
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If we do non garden items I can do the crocheted tee towels. No teddybears though, at least not yet. lol.
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duh, do you mean a kit to do crocheted tee towels? Or do you mean you'd like towels and yarn so you can make towels like you did for me? Which I use everyday by the way. I keep one hanging, through the button hole you made, on a knob on the kitchen towel drawer. My daughter stole one of them.
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I would think we could include anything we want. :dunno:
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It means if the person I get wants crocheted tee towels I would make them for her/him in the colors they wanted. Like I did for you.
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How would you know what colors to make because it's supposed to be a secret I think. Soooooo we all need to put what color towels we would like in case you get our names. I would like the white and blue checked like before or something with red. I'm telling you I love these things.
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Kitchen: Blue, blue and more blue
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Well all we can do is hope i get you for the swap. hehehe.
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kitchen... red and blue, or is it blue and red? think apples and blue sky. or blue birds. or whatever.
i like all kinds of things really. and home made or not, somethings just "stick" with you. like a certain frog that came from ontario... sitting on the shelf in my bedroom. never made it to my pond. just seemed to do better as a book end looking at me :giggle:
and i'm not really a frog person! but this one "fits"
oh, i collect shot glasses too. i like them. and refrigerator magnets (not the state ones particularly though. just any that are different or "neat" )
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I like all different colors i my kitchen, reds, purples, pink, green....oh all of 'em! :BigGrin:
For not in the garden, I like yarn. (no wool) I make Snuggles for the snuggle project with them. And I like beads and jewelry making stuff too.
Heres the Snuggle project site> http://www.snugglesproject.org/ (http://www.snugglesproject.org/)
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I want to play too if there is room.
Theres always room in the sandbox for one more! **Hands duh a shovel and pail**
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Well Tammy, it looks like no matter who you end up with red or blue or red and blue will do the trick for hand towels. Judging from us, gardners must not stick to specific color schemes all the time.
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Burgundy, olive green and tan would fit well in my kitchen.
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Tell me about it. It is so hard to stay within one color palet for just about anything I do. Right now the colors for the livingroom are harvest gold, copper, and Steel blue (there is a lot of cobalt blue sneaking in too). The colors for the dinningroom are scarlet, olive and gold (very rich) There is a secondary theme of browns and coppers sneaking in there). The colors for the kitchen are gold, brown and scarlet with a hint of forest green. The rest of the house is absolutely missing any kind of even plans for color. The windows came with window dressings of light purple and green that I don't like but until I can come up with something different those dressings are staying put.
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Anyone else gonna play with us??
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:hb3: We are up tp 8.
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So who do we have?
Penny
Wrennie
Jessica
Sheri
Sarah
Jennifer
Tammy
Tina
Is that it? Dianna isn't in the playing mood?
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No, Dianna wont be playing this time. :ThumbUp:
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She's afraid I'll get her name.
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She's afraid I'll get her name.
Probably :laughmao:
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I may be old and not too bright but I know her name whether she plays or not!!!
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Sheri, I am not playing at this time because I have too much going on right now...
Sorry that I won't be having your name, though I can't figure out how the switches I would send you could be applied to your backside, without being able to send a person with them... hysteria
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Sheri, I am not playing at this time because I have too much going on right now...
Sorry that I won't be having your name, though I can't figure out how the switches I would send you could be applied to your backside, without being able to send a person with them... hysteria
You could bring them. Oh but then, I'd have to sick my dogs on you.
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Oh but then, I'd have to sick my dogs on you.
I can't be having any dogs throwing up on me. Guess I had better stay home... :giggle:
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You've already got Angel throwing up on you today.
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That's enough, isn't it? :grinnnn:
"We now interrupt the off topic banter to return to the topic it is meant to be..."
Sorry, Penny...
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Burgundy, olive green and tan would fit well in my kitchen.
That is a really nice color combination. I really like it.
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Thanks, Tammy. I really like it too.
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That's enough, isn't it? :grinnnn:
"We now interrupt the off topic banter to return to the topic it is meant to be..."
Sorry, Penny...
Lo siento, je suis de sole, sorry. My mind is constantly a flight of ideas and I forget where I'm posting what.
I would like to request that everyone involved be as specific as possible about something you would REALLY want that you probably won't buy for yourself. I don't mean like the specific name of something (unless you know it) but if you have a spot for a chime and haven't gotten one yet or if you are using popsickle sticks for plant markers and would like real markers or maybe your kite got stuck on the power line last year and you haven't gotten a new one or the goat ate your gardening shoes. Think of something you REALLY REALLY want. It won't mean that the person getting your name HAS to buy it but I would like to know it.
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I dont want anything for in my house :ThumbUp:, thats why i named it Spring Swap with the purpose of giving somthing for outside :good2:, but if whomever wants somthing for in theirs(house), then when i assign names, you`s can read back here and look to see what your swap buddy wants or prefers :good2:.
Happy shopping everyone. :grinnnn:
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Thanks for that info Penny. That's what I mean by specific. Nothing for the inside for Penny.
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I would prefer somthing for outdoors, but heck, any gift is always nice.
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Yes. I will like whatever I receive but since we have the chance to mention something we'd like the best, I say why not do it. Anyway that's what works for me. I do better buying for people if I have an idea of what that person is interested in getting. It always has bothered me when I ask someone what they'd like or what they need for a shower, wedding or birthday and they "oh whatever."
Am I making it too difficult?
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No, not at all, and it helps to narrow it down to whatever someone likes.
Me, i am not a knick-knack type of person, so thats why i stay away from indoor stuff like that, i would rather have somthing for outdoors.
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I'm posting a question for you in the Spirit Lounge Penny.
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I'm posting a question for you in the Spirit Lounge Penny.
Good girl :ThumbUp:.....no hijacking :laughmao:, although it wasnt just you last time was it :Whis: :Whis: :Whis: :laughmao:
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I don't want anything indoors that I have to dust. I did say I like weird stuff. So a gargoyle or a fun birdhouse (outdoor-able) that I can hose off. Tinkling chimes I tend to hang further away from my house because they annoy me. But I have bamboo ones that I love and a lower toned cowbell type that is pretty cool. I love solar powered anything, nearly. Is that specific enough, Sheri?
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Thank you Tina. And as great minds would have it I also have a lower toned cowbell that is hanging in my yard.
Ginger does not have chimes at all. She says if they wake her in the night it scares her. I love chimes. The chimier the better.
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You've already got Angel throwing up on you today.
That's enough, isn't it? :grinnnn:
My quote was a direct reply to your reply on Angel throwing up on me. Her throwing up on me was more than enough, thank you. Didn't need you to "sick" your dogs on me at all... hysteria
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Dianna, are you hijacking this thread AGAIN???
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Dianna, are you hijacking this thread AGAIN???
It would appear so... :laughmao: :laughmao:
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lol.
Lets see specific. Ok a couple of years ago at the Dollar store they had those flower supports with the clay plaques on the top that had pictures of gnomes on them and the wire went around them and did a little swirl on top. I loved those thought they were great. [I'm not to much on the ones that look like insects.] Now if someone wanted to maybe do something with a couple of hangers and some natural objects found around their garden for a flower stake I think that would be fantastic.
Or some of that wire fencing that you can find at the dollar store [about 4 to 6 inches high] that goes around your flower bed that would be fantastic. In black or white or metal.
Now for railroad spikes they are to heavy to send through the post so I'm going to knock them off of my list.
I lost my paint roller handle so one of those would be a nice gift. Or a couple of those disposable brushes for cutting in around things would be great for when I stain the deck. That would be a really nice gift.
Garden Art for the shed. So far I have two wrought iron plant holders with six inch clay pots in them. And a 6 foot trellis that sits in an offwhite flower box. I do have plants to pain that trellis black so it matches the shutters on the house but I didn't get around it last year. Geeh, wonder how that happened. lol. So following in my color scheme Black trim white walls and accent colors or yellow, orange, or red. Maybe some kind of clock, sundial, sunburst, animal would be fun?
Garden art for the fence. Each of my fence posts that turn the fence in towards the driveway have little squirels on them. So maybe little critters that could be running along the fence rails? Paintable if possible. Someone painted the existing squirels white when they painted the fence. As time goes along I want to get out there and paint them so they look natural. Or at least grey. They always have things like that at, - oh, what's the name of that catalog where everything used to be 15.99. I can't remember the name of it now. I know they have an on-line catalog. It was a favorite on my old computer before the virus. The person that made that virus should be shot. I lost so much.
Well hopefully there is enough on that list that something will look like a good choice. If not use your imagination lol.
Gazing balls are pretty much all the same right?
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That is a nice list, Tammy.
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Tammy, I think you need a gift certificate to Lowe's. :BigGrin:
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for me, i'm not doing a lot of gardening, but i like hanging baskets, and those i can do on the fly, or in the house and make someone else put them outside for me. so most of what i am doing this year is container gardening.
i think i'm over dust catchers, although a lot of what was intended to go outside has become somewhat of an inside dust catcher. oh well, i like my dust catchers. just don't want any more. i like cheap t-shirts, the souvenir kind, that the neck stretches out really fast. because of the neck doesn't, i can't/won't wear them. i collect shot glasses. i love wind chimes, of all kinds. i love the color blue, nearly every shade except navy/very dark. i think most of this is in additon to what i already said. but correct me if i'm wrong.
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This thread seems to be a little confusing..........sooooo....... :grinnnn:
Like i said before, the whole purpose of this was Spring Swap :good2:, and maybe i should have been more clear and specified, "garden related items", but whatever you buy, will be fine to give and send. :ThumbUp:
And when you are shopping for your buddy and you see somthing that wasnt on their list, and you think they'd love it, then by all means, go for it and get it, the surprise is the best part.
This is supposed to be fun........happy shopping :yesssss:
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Well ya' do wear t-shirts in the garden, right? :BigGrin: (Hey I can twist most anything around to fit the topic :giggle: Except the Angel pukeys)
May I request if someone says t-shirt (coughjen) To please put a size? I like to wear Large T-shirts in my garden :laughpound:
My friend has big cement toadstools in her garden. You could even sit on them if you wanted. I know thats not mailable, but they're really cool.
I didn't find a rosemary plant to put in my garden last year (it may be way to early to find one for here now anyway) I love rosemary, not seeds tho'. I have no luck with rosemary seeds.
I also always wanted an obelisk(again, not mailable) that a vine could grow up in the middle of my garden.
I too love anything solar. Light up or glow in the dark. I used to have solar path lights along my garden that lit at night. They finally died after 8 years of not being taken in in winter. (oops!) I'd really like those again. Ya' know the little short ones.
My #1 thing I want for the garden is someone else to weed it! :Laugh1:
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I had to look up obelisk. You guys are too smart.
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Sorry, I guess I brought up non-garden related items. I will try to stay on topic. :giggle:
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I collect frogs...the fatter and rounder the better.
I collect copper items.
I like tiny windchimes, the ones that are about the size of your hand.
I collect sun, and sun and moon designs.
I love the cut crystals that throw rainbows everywhere.
My kitchen is predominantly medium blue and white with deep red accents.
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sarah, you could almost have my list except the frogs! and the t-shirt size is minimum xl, but the larger the better.
i love the toadstools wrennie. will have to look into those. might be something in my future wish list for my husband :BigGrin:
i guess the reason i said not too much garden related is that i still haven't got my gardening figured out since i am banned from the sun :razberry:
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I like sun and moon designs too and I have 2 cut crystal chime things (they don't tinkle too much) hanging on my screened in porch. We're all the same in different ways. :smile:
Bayou Girl, sometimes I forget about you and the sun issue. It's raining here so come visit me. :9536:
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I'm gettng excited!!!!!!
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I'm gettng excited!!!!!!
Me too!!!
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:grinnnn: :grinnnn: Soon :dancingbunny:
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Did I PM my address to you, Penny?
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Did I PM my address to you, Penny?
You sure did.
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Is it time yet? Huh? Is it? Is it?
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Are we there yet?
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Are you feeling pressured Penny?
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Are we there yet?
Are you feeling pressured Penny?
every day i look to see if it is march first yet. i didn't realize how much i was looking forward to this. please tell me you have my address from the christmas card list. if not, i'll pm it to you...
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Now? Is it time now?
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Pressure..............naaah!
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Do you still have my address Penny? I totally forgot to ask.
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Now?
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Yep, i have your's Tammy.
Hey Jenn......i need your's, so can you PM it to me, thanks.
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I think everyone who is gonna play is signed up. No one else said maybe. So why not pick names a few days early? Just sayin'.
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I sent you Jenn's, Penny.
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List of players......
Penny
Wrennie
Tina
Jessica
Sheri
Sarah(BC)
Jennifer
Tammy
Who do ya hope ya get? Who do you hope gets you?
(NOW is it time? :waiting: :waiting: :waiting: )
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Thanks Tina :ThumbUp:.
So now to draw the names, and remember, its a secret!!
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:grinnnn: Ok ladies.....check your PM's, the names have been drawn and you have your swap buddy :banana02:.....happy shopping, and dont forget to post when you have sent your gift :ThumbUp:, and once you recieve it, if you could post a picture too :good2:, that would be great :yesssss:
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Got my name! :BigGrin: Can't wait to start shopping!!
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Got my name! :BigGrin: Can't wait to start shopping!!
Me too, and there is a new cool store that opened over where i go to pick up steel for Brad and i am heading there next week!!
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I have opened a new Thread, part 2 since this one is almost full.
Dont forget to reference back here for information too.
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Glad you liked your swap buddies name Sheri.
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I got mine. I already started shopping. How fun is this!
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You've already started.....wow, you are doing good Tina.
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You are doing good, Tina. I have been looking but didn't get anything yet. I will definitely be looking this weekend!!
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Me too......actually i did pick up somthing the other day for my swap buddy, but still need to get more, so i have bought somthing.
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