Welcome, everyone!

Wow! It's only been a few days since we opened registrations and we're up to 120 participants already. Welcome, everyone, and I am overwhelmed by such enthusiastic response.

We've been signing folks up as the emails come in. I do the registrations and Cynthia (thank you, Cynthia) does the blogger invitations. If you have received an email tosay that you are registered but have not received a blogger invitation, pelase check the junk mailor spam folder of yoru email account. If it is not in there, please let us know. We can re-issue it. If you ahve received your invitation, please accept it. It is one of the rules of this exchange that you post regularly on the group blog. If you feel you cannot abide by that rule, pelase let us know and we will remove your name from the exchange.

Anyone who needs a gmail invitation for their secret email address for this exchange can request for one from us, and we'll send it out. If you already have a secret email address set up, you may use that. Remember, you will need to communicate with your recipient to let him or her know that you exist. That way, nobody has to worry about having been missed out. Some of you may even want to chat with your pal over the next 2 months, and to do that, you'll need to use your secret email address so that you don't reveal your identity before teh scarf is received.

Have fun everyone.. get to know one another. The exchange partners will be allocated in September, and the exchange will officially begin then.