New Swap Themes and a Few Changes!

Well hello to all!!! We've had a few in unexpected bumps in the road which has changed things a wee bit. Please refer to this new visual for our 2008 swap themes! Jaina will not be playing with us so I made up a theme for her swap month in April! I hope you all like Vintage/Retro!!!! I know there are a few of you who will be MORE than thrilled about it!! So since Jaina won't be playing it really only changes a couple minor details one being we now only have 11 players! So we will proceed with the following for a Rotation Guide:

Here is our list of players

1. Lethalblonde
2. Debbi
3. Craftsty
4. Gigi
5. Lola
6. Jennifer
7. Zhulia
8. Ichigo
9. Shan
10. Purr
11. Drewzel

Use this a guide to determine who you will be swapping with in chronilogical order. Very simple indeed! Start with your name for the month of January and go down the list to the next person (this is who you will be swapping with first. Lethal has the easiest list to follow : )
For example I find my name (Gigi) so the person I swap with in January is Lola!!! Then I swap with Jennifer in February and so on and so on! Keep going until you have swapped with each gal one time. This will take us all the way through the month of October. We will draw names for the month of November for who we will swap with and then we will do a Secret/Mystery Swap partner for December!
Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this New and Improved swap rotation schedule!!!

Swap Rotation Schedule for 2008!

Ok ladies this is the visual I've come up with for our swap rotation schedule! Please see side bar. Blogger was having techinical difficulties so I couldn't post a large view here. See Flickr link below if you want to see it BIGGER! Should be pretty straight forward. As you will see all of our names are listed along with what month we each are representing. I'll use my name as an example. So January is our first swap month so I look at my name and whoever's name is the next month (Lola) that's who I swap with first. Then in February I look at who's name is after Lola's (Jennifer) so I swap with her and so on. Basically you just use your name as a starting point and work your way around the clock for the entire year. I wanted to have the schedule out early so we can all plan ahead if you want to be organized. What's nice about this is that you'll know what the theme is for every month along with who your swapping with so if you're out and about and see something ~ grab it! For example I love to do my Christmas shopping throughout the year so I figure I might as well shop/handmake throughout the year so it doesn't become overwhelming!

PS I should mention that since there are only 12 of us instead of 13 when we all reach December at the end of the year we won't have a new partner (per say). I figure for December we will drawn names for our swap partner so that will be the only person we swap with twice for 2008. We can do the drawing in January so we are prepared! Hope this is easy to follow. Once again it's early and my brain 't made friends yet with my typing fingers!!!
I posted a Larger view on flickr too: Come See!