Business Card Swap for the Holidays - Anyone Game?

Yesterday, I received an order of promo stickers I placed with a seller on Etsy.  She did such a fabulous job, by the way!  Anyway, inside my package was a little package of business cards from other Etsy sellers (ie, a business card swap).  I really liked the idea of this, sifting through the cards and discovering shops I may have otherwise missed!  Let's face it, there are so many sellers on Etsy, it would be impossible to find all the shops that would interest you if you didn't have tons of time to surf online!

So, I would love to swap cards will fellow Etsy sellers!  I really want to keep the amount of participants small - say 7 to 10 people.  What we would do is exchange mailing addresses and mailing 30-40 cards to each other.  Then, when ever we get a sale, we take one business card from each person, tie them all up with a ribbon and put them in the package we mail out.  This is why I want to keep the amount low so that our shipping doesn't go up too much.

So, if you are interested, send me a convo through my Etsy shop.  Serious inquiries only and I want to limit it to US based businesses (sorry my overseas friends).  Please feel free to comment any reactions either way :)

Computer Virus....

 

Just when I start getting back in the swing of things, too.  Last week, I was beginning to resume my dropping on Entrecard, but then again, I was also playing videos of Billie Holiday on youtube.  I am not sure which one is the culprit, but my AOL account was hijacked.  Every 5 hours or so, my AOL account sends spam to people in my address book, little chunks at a time.  In fact, if we have shared emails before in the past, you can bet that you have received this email, too. The email contains a link for "working at home".  When you click on the link...BAM!  You are sick, too.  It has so far gotten up to the M's.  The funny thing is that I deleted the full content of my address book, and it is still sending these emails.  I have changed my password and security questions and as far as I can tell, the emails have stopped, which tells me that it was pirated and someone was actually signing on to my email account to do this.  Talk about cyber-raped....multiple times!!!

Ooooo, this gets me so mad!  You tube is now forbidden on my computer.  I told my son he has to use is iPod Touch for you tube now.  Also, I will only be visiting blogs through Entrecard that is on my favorites list.  No more returning drops on blogs in my inbox.  Please forgive me for being afraid to return your drops.  If you want to be on my favorite list, be sure to update your content more than once every 6 months (but yet, you still drop every day ?!?!), post articles that people actually want to read and stop loading scripts into your blog that bang people every time they go there.  Sheesh.

So sad....wish I had a Mac....

Where Did She Go?

I'm still here!  I know I have been AWOL for a little while.  Can't seem to get myself back from the ocean!!!  No really...have been super busy.  Still studying millinery, filling some custom and wholesale orders and getting ready for jewelry classes I will be teaching starting in October.  I will be posting the classes online eventually.  I know, Re...a little late! 

With all the sewing I have been doing, I have been accumulating TONS of scraps of fabrics.  They are so yummy, I just can't get myself to toss them.  Some are big, some are small.  So here is the question of the day:

What should I do with my scraps?

What do you do with your scraps?

Please comment below with your advice!