embellishment box

Hi Michelle,

The Embellishment organizer is on vacation right now and will not likely see this post. BUT when the embellishment box is ready to go out again she will put out a call for sign ups. Keep and eye out for it.

Lynne

Thank you!!!

K> Hi Michelle,

I remember you... your name sticks out in my head becuase you posted a link in the beginning of March asking about the embellishment box and then on April 2nd the organizer saw your thread and said, sorry you just missed it the deadline was the 31st. I thought that was patently unfair at the time but sat back and said nothing. I apologize for that, I'm sorry Michelle, I should have been a better advocate for you, having notice the situation.

If you miss a topic that you think should be going around, try using the search group box at the top of the page and type in the word(s) your looking for. Swap is pretty generic but it's a great way to find out if there is something going on you want in on. I hope you make the next deadline. Keep your eyes pealed, a month or two from now! I for one am eager to see what you're so eager to share with us!

Take care, Melissa in Seattle

Just for the record, and since Deb isn't here to explain things herself, I'd like to clarify what happened here. First, in order to be eligible to get the embellishment box a person has to be a "Regular Poster" for a minimum of

3 months. A regular poster is considered to be someone who has posted 2-3 times a week with more than a simple "TFS" (Thanks for Sharing). We consider this rule to be particularly important when it comes to the embellishment box because of all the money people spend on it. We did make a change about 18 months ago now, where we reduced the time from 6 to 3 months because we knew how anxious we all are to be able to join in all the fun when we first join. However, unlike the other swaps this is a "group swap" where the hostess must follow the minimum rules.

The way we find out if someone has been posting regularly, in order to make sure that we "are being fair" is to go to google groups, click on advanced search put rec.crafts.scrapbooks in the group field and the person's screen name in the author field. It is really important before publicly impinging someone's integrity, to make sure that we are responding to more than a hunch. In this case, Deb was right, Michelle was not eligible for the box not just because she missed the deadline but because she had not met the "regular poster" requirement which is even more important. She posted twice on Jan 3rd, 4 times on Jan 14th, twice Feb 3rd, once on Feb 7th and once on Mar 3rd. Nothing against Michelle but since she had missed the deadline and had not posted since March 3rd she simply was not eligible.

Michelle will be more than welcome by all RCSers to join in our activities, if she continues to post regularly. Before anything else comes up, let me hasten to say that if someone who has posted regularly for months and years takes a sabatical for any reason (illness, family activities, summer vacations etc) and comes back to the group, we are not as demanding for them to join the next activity as we know that in the past they completed all their previous swaps in the time allotted. We all want to have fun and for this very reason we try to keep bad things from happening to the wonderful people who make up this group. I hope this helps everyone to understand why Michelle had to wait until the box finishes this round. From what I've read, I know that Michelle does!