For those interested, this will be an exchange of Lighthouse Christmas Cards that have your holiday greetings written on them. Basically, this will be just like sending out your usual holiday cards just with lighthouses! Participants will be limited to 25 or to those who sign up by November 30th, which ever comes first. For those signing up please send me an email to me at sweetpshirin@yahoo.com with your forum name and mailing address. Also, please indicate which exchange you are signing up for.

As with last year's exchange, please feel free to make your own cards, especially for those areas where it is hard to find a lighthouse card in the stores!

This exchange will run from December 1 to January 15th.

I'll be #1

Shirin,

I'll be #2, but you still try harder than me.

When do you sleep?

Dennis

I'll be #3

Thanks Shirin

Stephanie

We'll be #4.

Am I #5 or #6? I did so enjoy it last year and am glad that you are doing it again this year!

Eskilady

You are #5 Eskilady

I'll be #6. I loved the exchange last year. My relatives asked if these were all from friends and I said "yes". I'm looking forward to receiving new cards this year.
Thanks for getting this started Shirin!

Shirin, can I sign up for #7? I'll send you mailing address.

What a wonderful idea! And I'm making some cards this year, having gotten hooked on rubber stamping!

Judy

I'll be looking forward to you cards Judy. I've not had time in ages to do any stamping or scrapbooking.

Just have to make sure I know the rules, since this is my first time.

I'm guessing that this works differently from a "round robin"?

Judy

Shirin...I've really just gotten into the stamping thing. I went to a party that was held at my daughter in-law's and got hooked!

We did projects...and I told them it was obvious that I had skipped kindergarten and first grade...all thumbs with the cut & paste & painting stuff.

But I figured I could tie this craft into lighthousing!

Judy

Judy, I've sent you some more details about the exchange. I hope that helps. If you have any questions you know where to find me!

Thanks so much, Shirin!

Judy

Shirin, can you send me more details on this project? It sounds like fub but I am not sure what all is involved.

Jen - more info is on the way. Let me know if you have more questions.

For those not sure of what is involved, you will be sending lighthouse themed Christmas cards to the other participants. If SHirin gets 25 people to sign up, you would need 24 cards to send out, 25 if you want to keep one for yourself. This variation will include a holiday note from you in the card. You can send out different cards, or all the same. Last year several of us made our own cards to be used. For example, my sister did a drawing of the Michigan City lights with a Santa included. You can also manufacture one using a photo you have taken. They can be printed out on a variety of materials. There are several versions of cards available for printing. We did see some very interesting cards last year.

I'm in . . . .

Shirin,

I haven't done the Christmas card exchange before so I'll give it a try this year. Put me down for whatever the next number is.

Dave you're #8, Lorie #9.

Still plenty of room for more to join in!

I'll repeat this year as #10. Looking foward to interesting exchanges.
Bob

Count me in at 11....
Ruthie

Please include me again this year; #12, I believe
Darlene

I'll play and be lucky #13. I've already started working on my cards for this year.

Judy

Looks like I'm in for the greeting exchange since that seems to be the majority. I am totally new to this. So basically, I will get a list of ## of people, and I send them a card, with my name, as if I was sending it to a member of my family? That's the part I am unsure of.

I will also be making my own.

Please count me in and let me know of the details! I will also be making my own "photo" cards.

What, we're not part of your extended family, Jen???? You pretty much have the idea. Shirin will send out details with the label file.

Dave

Does this make me 14 or 15? As long as I'm in don't matter to me

You're #15 Sheryl. Thanks for joining!

Cool. This is exciting! I just got a new printer too!

Did I miss this last year? I don't remember it. Anyway, I'm in. I might need to 'decorate' my own lighthouse with lights.

Shirin,

Count me in. I'll send an email with the info you need.

Thanks to all who have signed up. Please make sure to email me your address as I will not be in town and have access to my files at home when I go to send the list out. I'll be in Tennessee and Georgia for the week of Thanksgiving.

Thanks!

Shirin,

If you read this, empty your mailbox. Your email is being bounced because you are "over quota". How much stuff do you have stashed away that needs to be cleaned out????????????????

Dave

Just checking to see if we are still doing this exchange? If so will we be getting names and addresses soon? Thanks.
Ruthie

Sorry guys! I thought I'd be able to check my email while I was away last week. I was wrong on that one! I'll send out the list of addresses tonight.

Shirin, give this a try when traveling. It works for me all over the US: http://www.mail2web.com
When the screen comes up you enter your login name and password and your mail will be delivered to your current cpu. Just remember that when you delete anything from this venue it is really gone, not just in the trash.

To activate the link...

Thanks George, but my problem was a getting to a working computer.

The addresses are on their way! Please let me know if there are any corrections that need to be made or if for some reason you didn't receive the list. For many of you I have two or three emails so hopefully I picked the right one.

My cards went out earlier this week. Looking forward to seeing what this exchange brings to our mailboxes!

I can't wait! Mine will be going out Monday or Tuesday next week!

Mine are ready to go, but will wait until Monday to send them out. From the looks of things, I'll be shoveling snow much earlier than this tomorrow.
Looking forward to getting the cards from all the others.

Mine are ready all but the postage stamps. Will be heading out to the Postoffice in the morning!

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I got my first one today. From Shirin. Thanks nice picture. This is fun. Mine were mailed on Friday. Happy Christmas everyone!

Pretty well dug out from all the snow we got in the area (Thank God for snowblowers). Went out and mailed the cards this afternoon. Can't wait to see what's coming in.

I have really been procratinating and haven't sent mine out yet. I did receive cards from Shirin and Beaconfollower!! Beautiful cards too. Thanks so much!

Eskilady

You still have plenty of time Eskilday! Part of the fun is that we don't all send the cards at the same time. That spreads the enjoyment of the arrival of new cards out over a longer period of time.

Big day for cards: received great cards from Shirin, Jen and Sheryl. Off to a really good start!

Shirin's card arrived today. Very nice picture of Spring Point Ledge, Maine, taken I believe at LHHC&Y 2003 last January. Very nice picture Shirin.

Received Jen's and Sheryl's cards today! Thanks to both.

I got Shirin's in the mail today.

Can anybody identify the small error of her A, B, C's?

I believe this is keeping on topic Dave.

Dennis

At least I know you read it Dennis!

I too received Shirin's and Jen's Xmas cards...Very nicely done ...The one you all will be getting from me will have a more "home made look."
Ruthie

Shirin,

Of course i read it. I gave it to Esther to look at and she made the same connection I did without me mentioning it.

She didn't recognize the Lighthouse at first- the only time we saw it was in the middle of a Gigantic Fog Bank and looked a bit different.

Dennis

Thnaks for the cards Shirin and Jen.
My cards will be in the mail this afternoon. Everyone gets the same card. I'll give you all a clue as to the subject - it was one of the few blue sky we saw during our trip to the Long Island Regional event. We saw this light shortly after a very bumpy rough ride on the ferry from Connecticut.

Just went out and checked the mail and happy to say that there were two very nice cards from Jen and Sheryl. That makes three nice cards. Mine went out Sunday so some of you should be receiving them soon. I hope.

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