A Brief Extension and Update on Birthday Cards

[dawn_felagund]

ETA: Birthday cards are now closed.

Initially, the birthday card form was going to be taken down today. However, I am going to be working on the newsletter this morning and have friends coming over in the evening, which means I will not realistically be doing much of anything with birthday cards today. Because of this, I am going to leave the page up for one more day, until August 2. If you missed sending all that you wanted to send, you still have a little more time.

Please take care when sending cards to choose a recipient from the dropdown. In the rush to send cards in the past few days, several were sent without recipients. If I can figure out who it goes to from the message, I will assign it to that person. If I can figure out the sender, I will contact that person for clarification. But I did receive several that I could not figure out, that were unsigned, but had lovely messages that now will not be able to be sent. So as you rush to finish, please don't forget to take a deep breath and complete all steps. :)

Here is the link for anyone who needs it: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/birthday10/card-send.php

Finally, to give an estimate as to when the albums will be sent out: We have received hundreds of requests over the past few days. I plan to work in earnest tomorrow to begin clearing the backlog. Hopefully, albums will be ready to send out by early to the middle of next week. If anything arises that delays us further, I will let everyone know.

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

So much hard work on your part, Dawn. You are really a fandom treasure (I have said on a few of my cards--there are a surprising number of those--but you really, really, really are at the top of the list). This is a wonderful project. I will send a few more today--not dozens just a few I intended to send from the beginning and did not get around to doing.

[dawn_felagund]

I knew last night that I'd be doing an extension, but I waited intentionally so that most would be in ... so yes, those who rushed to get them in yesterday have a right to glare at me right now. :) I just know by now how these things go. Half the participants will wait till the last day. (And for the record, I am among them, as I haven't done my cards yet either ... So that is not intended as criticism or judgment--just fact!) And someone will wake up this morning a little sad that they didn't get finished, so I'm hoping this will at least be a bright point to them.

They're not hard to do, but anything times several hundred takes time. They are actually relaxing, and I very much need to calm my mind after this past week ...

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

They are actually relaxing, and I very much need to calm my mind after this past week ...

I know that feeling all too well!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Not glaring at all! I'm glad I didn't have to rush, and now I can sit down with the list in peace and figure out if I missed anybody while trying to get mine sent. :)

[dawn_felagund]

Oh good! As I was typing up this post, I kind of worried that the first comment would be along the lines of "I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT DOING THESE THINGS AND NOW YOU ANNOUNCE AN EXTENSION." But it didn't seem fair to take down the form if I'm not even ready to work on the cards yet, and I'm glad the response has been positive so far. :)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

My staying up all night had almost nothing to do with the cards and everything with the moon being so incredibly bright. Heh. I just made use of the time. But I can honestly not imagine an objection to more time! It's an opportunity to send yet more cards! ^^