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I gaze longingly at the Secret Pal swaps at Crochetville. They sound very interesting. But I’m restrained by a couple of things….
-> Just to mail a package from here to the US (for example) requires at least $11 (if it is to arrive in my lifetime). And that is just for envelopes. I haven’t enquired yet about boxes. So even if I sent just empty boxes twice, I’d be at the spending limit (if I understand it correctly). A lot of the supplies I buy costs much less than that…unless it is in bulk, then I shudder to think what the postage would be…You might remember the green unholy mess that I bought back in June:
-> Most (if not all) SP packages seem to include yarn and/or other crochet accessories. I can’t think that what we get here will actually be worth sending out to anyone…Not yarn or hooks, definitely. That only leaves endless amounts of my own handmade stuff, which would get boring after a time, I should think! Has anyone been in a Secret Pal swap which didn’t involve yarn/hook items?
-> Given Crochetville has about 3 and a half participants from India, how “secret” a Secret Pal would I be, anyway?
If you are still reading this and haven’t rushed off to to strike me from your blogroll subscriptions, maybe you could tell me what you think….I should stick to RAOKs and Christmas in July and the occasional doily swap, I think.
Update:
I’m hugely gratified by the number of comments I’ve got on this post. So many of you have taken the time to write in, and with so much thought behind your comments, I love reading all of them.
Most people seem to agree that swaps are great fun, and I think so, too. To reply to one point raised by Veronica, although I needn’t give my return address on the packages, I’d still have to stick Indian stamps on my stuff and that would be a dead give-away! It would be fun to play the guessing game, but only if there was more choice in the guessees (new word alert!!!)
Hmm.
I think for now I’ll stick to RAOKing and swapping things I could actually use (NOT afghan squares!) RAOKs and wishlists seem to be a bit more flexible for my purposes at this time. I should have great fun building up stacks of bookmarks, doilies (now I have an excuse to make more. YAY!) scrubbies, dishcloths (maybe not, they seem to use cotton yarn….How about socks? I know exactly who can tell me more about these…)
**goes off mumbling**
Despite frenzied campaigning by me, and several of my blogging friends (including Kimberley and Cordelia), the voter turnout for this poll was once again, sad. Without further ado, I present the results:
Which term is good to describe comments on blogs
Blommenting 5 (71%)
Bloming 0 (0%)
Blenting 0 (0%)
Blonting 0 (0%)
Clogging 1 (14%)
Cogging 0 (0%)
Any other 1 (14%)
Total votes: 7
A lot of voters said in the exit poll that they think “Blogmenting” sounds best, hence they chose the first option. As I said to them, it doesn’t sound pithy enough. What do you think? Shall we formalise it then?
So here’s my new poll on your right ————>
You can tell I’m really scraping the bottom of the barrel here for topics. Sheesh! I can’t even be creative/original in asking questions!
But do vote, anyway! Maybe your responses will give me ideas for my next poll!
And those of you who choose the last option, remember you have to write in and tell me your choices. Or else!
I suppose everyone knows about this, but I had to blog about it because it gives me so much pleasure…
You can subscribe to cat pictures on Flickr using Bloglines/Blogroll/whatever RSS, XML or Atom feed reader you use. I get my daily cat fix from this, since I am allergic to cats and cannot get any closer to them than this. Sniff.
I also subscribe to crochet pics on Flickr so I can see what other crocheters (non-bloggers, sometimes) are upto.
It’s ok. I forgive everyone…I guess all of you were away for the long weekend or something. So only 7 voters cast their votes. However, since I held the poll, I am giving the results below:
When someone comments on your blog, do you
Return the favour by commenting on theirs 2 (28%)
Send them email 0 (0%)
Quote their comments in your post 0 (0%)
Do all the above 1 (14%)
Do any two of the above 4 (57%)
Never bother to check for comments at all 0 (0%)
Total votes: 7
1 person actually does all of commenting, emailing and quoting, but the majority go for any 2 options. Everybody checks for comments (a no-brainer).
Ho-hum.
Let’s see if I can come up with a more interesting poll this time.
Hi, all!
Sorry for the long silence, but we went on a short trip to our neighbouring state of Orissa for a few days, so I wasn’t blogging. But we got back this morning and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the computer. Everyone else is sleeping off the effects of hectic, non-stop holidaying and I’m trying to catch up with my blogs (reading and writing), as well as Crochetville…
And guess what was waiting for me in the mailbox this morning? This beautiful bookmark, from Hilary aka Antara over at Crochetville, for the Christmas in July wishlist. I’m thrilled!!!
Aren’t the colours lovely? And the work is amazing too! Thanks so much, Hilary!
I will be putting up the pictures of our travels in Orissa shortly.
The third poll on this blog has closed and the results are kind of dull….
Also, we had an increase of just 3 voters from our last poll.
Anyway, the results are as follows:
Your favourite place to crochet is
Living room 82 % (14 votes)
Kitchen 0 % (0 votes)
Bedroom 17 % (3 votes)
Porch/sitout/deck 0 % (0 votes)
Under a blanket with a torch 0 % (0 votes)
Bathroom 0 % (0 votes)
Total votes 17
What, nobody is a closet(blanket) crocheter at all? I’m disappointed.
I have to say I belong to the minority on this one, my favourite place to crochet is the bedroom, watching TV. Maybe we can start a webring for bedroom crocheters…and call it Bedtime Yarns…
Look out for the next poll, and keep up the morale, troops, we need all the support we can get.
The visits to my blog peaked on 20 June according to this graph. Must find out what I was doing on that day…
Look what my SIL brought me today. They were in NZ in February. This is, I think, a Teko/Tiki. Any Kiwis out there who can tell me more about this, please? Thanks!
It’s that time of the week again, and the misfit has a new poll up on her blog. This time it’s about your favourite place to crochet. Be sure to visit the blog and cast your vote. All those who vote will win ……..
my eternal gratitude!!!
Remember, last time we achieved a polling count of 14. We have to beat that this time…
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