Friday, September 5, 2014

The 2014 Santa Clause is Open for business

Ian from The Blog with No Name has called out for volunteers to help with the Santa Clause part of his Christmas program. I was a first time participant last year and had a GREAT time. Before I knew what I was doing, I volunteered to help out.

How Does it work?

Rule number 1:
To enter you need to either have a blog or be a regular follower of this blog (or Ian's) already. This is to give confidence to all involved that everyone will follow through to the end. If you have a blog and don't follow this one it's OK to join in.

Rule number 2:
The idea is that each person involved buys a figure or figures to the value of less than £5 and paints them up to fit in with what the target blogger wargames or collects. Best would be some kind of command for the bigger scales but maybe a unit or two of such as 6mm or a building or... you get the idea.

Rule number 3:
Please try to send out your items so that they will arrive by December 20th in plenty of time for the big day. I will send out who you have on September 16th.

Rule number 4:
Please post on your blog about your participation. The more we can get on board, the more fun for all of us.

Rule number 5:
This is not intended to be a cheap alternative to Ian's Secret SantaTM. Instead it is a great opportunity to send and receive something that will be special BECAUSE it's a one off from a fellow blogger. Not that you have to limit yourself to something useful, feel free to paint up something that will just sit aside the painting desk or study etc and just give pleasure.

So that's the idea, it is another great way to connect with your blogging friends and get something really exciting at Christmas. I hope that this year will be as great a success as last year. Ian's wife did a fantastic job with it and from what I can see, everyone had a great time. If you are interested, please leave a comment here with your blog address. We need to be able to look and see what you are interested in. Then shoot me an e-mail to chrisstoesen at gmail.com. I need to know where you are located as well so I will need a mailing address to send to your Santa Clause recipient. I will cut off the registrations on September 15th.

That's it folks, lets get this going!

20 comments:

  1. OK I am in, thanks for doing this Chris, I had loads of fun taking part in last years and it's great to have painted mini(s) to open on Christmas day

    Ian blog with no name as you know

    Ian

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  2. Hi Chris:
    I'm in. I'll email you as well. Sounds like fun.
    Michael

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  3. As with most things in my life, I missed this because of inefficiency, but I'll opt in this time round if that's OK.

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  4. Noted. This brings us to 4 so far. I am excited about this.

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  5. Hello I am willing to participate although with my eye-sight these days the project should probably be in 25mm? And preferably Horse and Musket from maybe 1645 to 1890? 5 GBP works out about 10 bucks American?

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    1. Its close to that. Closer to about $8.50 USD. I kept everything in pounds as that is what it was when Ian ran it last year. Besides, telling everyone to buy $8.50 of stuff and paint it seems weird. :)

      Anyway, you are in.

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  6. Sounds like a fun challenge to make someone's Christmas, count me in :)

    http://mythostransmissions.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. You are in. This brings us to 8 participants. We equaled last years number!

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    2. Paul, please send me your e-mail address and mailing address. Thanks,

      cstoesen @ corecard.com

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  7. Chris, I missed this one in your blog, but thanks to Mike "Mad Padre" Peterson I've noticed it now
    If I'm still on time for it, you can count on me too!
    Sounds like a lot of fun indeed and very much aligned with my ideas about reinforcing ties with other bloggers
    You let me know please.

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  8. And bloggers / vargeymeram from Russia can participate?

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    1. I see no reason why not. Just send me your blog address, e-mail address and mailing address and I will add you in.

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    2. My blog http://digger-mymine.blogspot.ru/.

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  9. This looks like fun, and the opportunity to paint something different! Please count me in - I will email you my details Chris.
    Regards, PW

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    1. Sounds good. Look forward to hearing from you. Glad to have you on board.

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  10. I'm in. My blog is at http://diplomatist2.blogspot.co.uk/
    Edwin

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  11. Hi Chris,

    this campaign is an excellent idea and I would gladly enter the bunch.

    Here's my blog:
    http://montys-caravan.blogspot.de/

    Cheers
    Stefan

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    1. You made the cut off at the last moment. Please e-mail me your e-mail address. cstoesen @ corecard.com

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