Get Crafty Community Guidelines

The Forum and Blog Codes of Honor
Here are the rules we live by.

Get Crafty is a place for sharing your creativity, thoughts, dreams, plans, craft project updates or what you ate for breakfast. That said:

Please do not use your blog as an advertising tool. Even if your company is super-bitchen crafty-tastic, the blogs are meant to build community, not businesses. (We are working on a tool that can help you sell your stuff online called etsy.com, due to go live this summer.)

Please refrain from pornography, unless it is highly crafty.

Please do not use a flashing, animated avatar. It hurts our eyes.

Please do not post super-duper huge photos. It takes too long to download.

Please post your comments on other people's blogs and respond to forums. It's a nice thing to do.

Please have fun.

How to Organize and Participate in a Swap

Here's how swaps usually work:

One lead craftista comes up with an idea to swap, say, christmas tree ornaments.She posts a message on the Swaps forum and people reply saying they want to participate. Then the lead craftista matches up participants and they exchange addresses and send each other their homemade christmas tree ornaments through the mail. Not all swaps are handmade items, they could be clothes, gifts, CD's...whatever. The most important element of a good swap is trust. If you agree to participate and then renig and don't send your item out ON TIME, it ruins the whole swap; it's like bidding on ebay and then not sending your money. Before you join your swap, please make sure you can follow through.

Swaps are a beautiful way to share the craft, but only if everyone plays nicely.

Moderators

There are a number of amazing moderators. Please respect, honor and worship them.

Forum Moderators
We love sarabell!
Craftista maka10 likes to describe her life as: WONDERFUL!
for_esme enjoys creative activities such as writing, cooking, knitting, and thrifting.

Blog Moderators
Sunni Johnson (aka lecandypoprock) is a business student in Atlanta, GA, who has amateur skills in web design, screen printing and knitting and loves baby animals, kid power and Glass Candy.
Kate Kerr (AKA saffronwoman) is a Stay-at-home unschooling mom, a wife and an artist/craftster.

Please PM the moderators by their get crafty names if you have any questions or concerns.

Technical Concerns

If you are looking for technical answers to your questions, please PM (private message) please see our FAQ: http://www.getcrafty.com/faq.php