{"id":9021,"date":"2011-08-05T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gettingirlie.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T10:14:57","slug":"my-first-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/9021","title":{"rendered":"My First Swap!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I was contacted by Caroline from Shadow’s Nail Art<\/a> about doing a swap.\u00a0 I\u2019d never done this before and was a little nervous at first as I didn\u2019t know her or any of the other girls in the nails community.\u00a0 The thought of buying a load of stuff and sending it off to a stranger felt a bit strange, but after mailing with her a bit I got a really good feeling about her and decided to go for it.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before we were mailing back and forth about the polishes we wanted.\u00a0 Well, what she wanted… I wanted ANYTHING, newbies are very easy to please.\u00a0 Her main goal was to get her hands on the Essence<\/a> Nail Art Twins, Magnetic Polishes and a few other of their products, so I stalked Kruidvat<\/a> for weeks looking for her items. In the meantime she started gathering up polish that she thought I’d like.<\/p>\n

We got completely out of control and the swap ended up being quite big!\u00a0 It was SO much fun though!\u00a0 She claimed to be a serious shopaholic, and it wasn\u2019t long before I realized she wasn’t kidding.\u00a0 I think she could shop any one of us under the table!<\/p>\n

The list of items she was sending kept growing and growing and I was so afraid that I wouldn\u2019t be able to match up with what she was sending.\u00a0 Granted, she kept telling me not to be silly but it was my first swap and I really didn\u2019t want her to be disappointed.<\/p>\n

I think in the end we were both really happy with what we got.\u00a0 Here are some photos\u2026<\/p>\n

My package to her: <\/strong>
\n\"shadowswap\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mostly Essence products with some Catrice<\/a> thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n

Oh, another reason I was worried about the package arriving?<\/p>\n

\"shadowswap2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t find my bubble wrap so I wrapped it in fake snow from my Christmas decorations. It was only once I got them in the ziplock bags that I realized it totally looked like I was shipping cocaine!<\/p>\n

It did arrive though, it was a miracle!<\/p>\n

Her package arrived to me first, and I was so excited to open it!<\/p>\n

Her package to me:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"1stswap1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pretty sweet haul, huh?!\u00a0 I\u2019ve still not used even 1\/4 of it, but my excuse is that I left for holiday shortly after it arrived!\u00a0 Seriously though, at the time this package from her actually doubled my collection.<\/p>\n

I really loved doing the swap and I wish I could afford to do it more often.\u00a0 There are a lot of people wanting to do small swaps but the way our mail works is weird.\u00a0 Unless something can fit in one of the flat pack envelopes (which most polish bottles don\u2019t) I have to send it as a package.\u00a0 It\u2019s a flat rate for anything under 2 kilos so it costs me the same to send two bottles as it would cost me to send 20\u2026 granted, buying 20 bottles is more expensive but it somehow makes it feel like the postage is worth it.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my beloved laptop is on its last legs, so rather than hoarding polish and sending packages, I have to squirrel my money away for the inevitable replacement we\u2019ll have to buy sometime soon.\u00a0 So no swaps for me for a while, I think!<\/p>\n

P.s. It’s late and I’m feeling a little lazy so I didn’t list all the polishes. If you see something you are curious about leave a comment and I’ll let you know what it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I was contacted by Caroline from Shadow’s Nail Art about doing a swap.\u00a0 I\u2019d never done this before and was a little nervous at first as I didn\u2019t know her or any of the other girls in the nails community.\u00a0 The thought of buying a load of stuff and sending it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[658,702,733],"class_list":["post-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-nails","tag-essence","tag-nail-mail","tag-swap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9223,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions\/9223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}