The one about the swap photos

The swap is now complete and all packages have been sent off!

Here are the piles of envelopes and boxes of all the paper that came in! I weighed each bundle of goodies as they came in so that I would be sure to return the same amount. I wanted this to be as fair as possible.

A shot of my family room during part of the sorting. I had a system down so I could divide up the booty and not give something back to its original owner. Wouldn't that have been a bummer to get a bunch of the same stuff you sent it? lol Only loose paper items were divided up. The few pretty packaged goodies that arrived were not divided up, but kept together as the sender arranged it. One participant sent in a pile of old b/w snapshots, so everyone got a few!

I carefully arranged and packed all the paper into neat bundles and tied them with a bow. At this point it was very hard to part with all this paper!

I love all the yellowed and age-bronzed book pages and sheet music.

Thanks to all who made this fun a fun successful swap by sending in those treasures!!

I even made a few new friends :)