WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: You need to purchase a journal or exercise book (see below for ways to decorate it) that you will eventually keep. You need to keep in mind that they should be light as possible to keep postage costs down. Please ONLY A5 sized & NO spiral bound journals. Try from $2 or Reject shops. Even better is to decorate an exercise book.

THE COST: Small journals usually come in under the smallest weight category - $3.20 to post. This cost is for each journal you post. When the sign up ends you will be sent a email of confirmation with a better idea of costs & will still be able to back out then if you feel the cost is too high.

I will always try to place people of the same area together so they can maybe get out of posting them & maybe share costs.....

You will also need to purchase an envelope to fit your journal. Please replace an envelope if one is too tatty to re-post (remembering that you would like the same done for yours!!). They can be re-used several times by using address labels to cover up the last addresses. Important! PLEASE LEAVE THE ORIGINAL OWNERS ADDRESS ON THE BACK in event of getting lost at least it will be clear enough to get back to them.

You will be emailed updates & you are expected to answer them when requested. As you post & receive journals you must let the organiser know. If it all goes well all this "policing" will be dropped....

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR JOURNAL: when you receive an email that the FJ's have begun you will also be given a name & address - you send every journal to this Wattle. Put your name, address, email address & homepage URL & some quick information on the first page so those receiving it can learn a bit about you (ie: your fave colour, flower, critter, author, books, artist, musicians, things, causes, a photo?, etc.....). It makes it easier for others to sign! You then mail your journal to the assigned Wattle. This continues until you receive your own journal back.

TO SIGN OTHERS JOURNALS: when you receive your first journal in the mail. I recommend checking out the Wattles homepage & you’ll get an idea of what they like, etc….. You may wish to add pictures, poems, etc….. Depending on how many people sign up will determine how many pages you can use but I will let you know. You then mail it on to your assigned Wattle within the two week limit.

DRESSING UP AN EXERCISE BOOK

You can dress up a plain exercise book by putting holes in the middle at the back & front of the book & tying in a ribbon. You can then cover it with some nice contact & TAAADAAAAAAAA a beautiful journal!

E-Mail Address:

Snail Address:

Phone Number: - this is used to contact you in the event that you are too slow to email replies. It is REQUIRED or you won't be doing the FJs.

After you sign up you will receive a email of confirmation - telling you of approximate costs & asking you to promise your life away on a sort of contract!! If you are willing to uphold all the rules, the address of the person you are to send every journal to will be sent. You will need to send back an email (not copied but re-typed please) so I know you do have the correct address.

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