I’m just working working away on my little projects. Scout cracks the whip and I jump. Ok just kidding but damn that girl can really light a fire under your ass if you mention you were thinking about maybe doing something sometime.

The big news at the moment is we have a set time for signups for the Dye-o-Rama swap. It will be this Thursday at 6 pm Mountain. That’s 8 eastern, 7 central, and 5 Pacific for you math is hard Barbies out there. We will be running countown scripts (which I need to go work on right now) on our sites and I’m working on a group blog for all members (which is pretty close to done). Rather than limiting the number of people who can sign up we’re going to have the sign up forms only available for 48 hours.

Cody is working on the form and database for the signups - which will include the ability to set a password so you can go back in and change info. There’s also the ability to volunteer as an angel to cover for anyone who flakes out on their swapee. Of course we’re hoping that won’t be the case. Please, please don’t sign up if there’s a good chance you won’t get to do it. Really. I’ve been in exchange things where people have flaked out and it just sucks to be that recipient. We all understand bad circumstances but there’s also just the flake factor. There’s also the great threat of public humiliation. And I know I’m not above threatening that. So seriously. If odds are good you’re not going to get around to dyeing that yarn and mailing it to your person, just don’t sign up. Mkay?

The special Albuquerque project (which several of you already know about) should be ready to post in the next few days.

Ok so here’s the offical thing I’m supposed to post but accidently just paraphrased.

We’re looking at sign-ups taking place this Thursday, April 20th starting at 6:00pm MST. We have decided we will not have a number cut-off this time but we will only have sign ups for 48 hours. If you won’t be around please have someone sign you up okay?

We are lucky enough that Noelle’s husband Cody is our techy guru and is creating an online registrationg form that will go into a database for us. He rocks and we all should thank him big time for helping us.

A few things about the sawp. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP IF YOU ARE GOING TO FLAKE! There’s nothing like having to hunt down flakey participants. Please don’t make us do this okay? If there is any chance you can’t dye one single skein of yarn in 6 weeks then don’t hit that sign up button. You hear? Remember that picture of me with the hammer and drill? Don’t go there.

There will be a choice on the registration form to sign up to be an Angel. This means you are willing to dye a second skein of yarn to replace a Swapper who had the nerve to flake out on us. It’s nice to know we can contact someone to help us out if we need it. I’m hoping we don’t need Angels but it’s nice to have that as a back up plan.

We also have a website in the works for the swap. Everyone involved will be able to register there and post. This way people who don’t have blogs can post questions, updates, post photos, etc. We already have a few guests who are dyeing pros who are going to share some tips with everyone and be available to help answer questions.

Later on today we will have a countdown timer for y’all so you know exactly when the sign up will start. Let us know if you have any other questions. We’re really excited about the swap and already have over 100 people ready to play. Pretty cool!

So just keep checking back to know exactly when the sign up will be.