Welcome to the Winter round of The Bloggers Snail Mail! Way
back at the beginning of March I launched the first ‘The Bloggers Snail Mail’
and this is now going to be the fourth round!! Ive had so much fun organising this
project and chatting to lots of new lovely bloggers, I really hope you get as
much out of it as I do.
So here is how it works:
A quarterly gift exchange where you can meet other bloggers
from around the world and spread a bit of positivity! People get paired up in
March, June, September and December. During the sign up period, every
participant will be paired with one other new participant and you’ll spend a
few weeks becoming BFFs (i.e. reading each other’s blogs, sending happy
e-mails, you name it!). After that, you’ll send your partner a gift from your
country that you think they may like from the info you now know about them. There’s
a £5 limit on the gifts to make this project as affordable as possible. Be as
creative as you can and make it meaningful! Motivate them, tell them all the
beautiful things you learned about them, and make them feel special! We could
all use a little encouragement, especially from our new friends. Also, each
package should include a postcard (or a letter if you can’t find one!) with
some motivating love or positive words of wisdom written all over it.
So to sign up for the ‘The Bloggers Snail Mail’ you just
need to send an email to whatsinyourmakeupbag@gmail.com, title it ‘The Bloggers
Snail Mail’ and include in it your name, where you are from, and you blog! Sign
ups will be open until the Friday 28th November. I will then
randomly match you all up aiming to make sure you are with someone from another
country or at least in another area from you! I will then let you know by
Monday 1st December who your partner is
and you then have 4 weeks to get to know them! So the week of the 29th December,
you can then send your new buddy their Snail Mail!
Once you receive your gifts, write a blog post about your
experience, sharing what you gave, received, and learnt through this being part
of this and meeting your new pal.
If you want to tweet about this project, use the hashtag
#TheBloggersSnailMail, You can also tag me @GemmaMarieJames and ill retweet
your post, so everyone can share your experience!
Please only sign up if you definitely are willing to take
part and if you want to be matched with someone from the same country as you to
save on postage then please let me know!!
Hi!!! I'm up for this even though I haven't sent yours yet! X
ReplyDeleteIdeally someone in UK or Europe please. X
ReplyDeleteThis is such a lovely idea! i really struggle finding new people in the blogging community..... or even people that have a few years experience, so i just think this is perfect and a really nice way to get to know bloggers personally too! i have emailed you :) hope to hear soon xx
ReplyDeletewww.spagbowlsspot.com
I love this idea so much! I have emailed my info to you!
ReplyDeleteWhat an absolutely lovely idea! Such a wonderful way to connect with people, I am definitely going to sign up to this!
ReplyDeleteCollette zxx
shrewd-fox.blogspot.co.uk
Email sent!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great idea! I'd love to do this but can't right now, hopefully next time! (:
ReplyDeleteLots of Love,
Manpreet
simplymblog.com
Really great idea! How many have you got signed up for the December swap?
ReplyDeleteReinventing Neesha ♥
Hi Neesha,
DeleteThere is around 30 so far but sign up is still open till Friday so im expecting a few more!
Gemma xx
so excited for this, can't even wait until tomorrow!!!
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely idea, so sad i just missed out on this. I would have loved to have participated. I am going to participate in march.
ReplyDeleteLorilee
xxx
http://lorileesadventures.blogspot.ca/