weekly featured swap: SpringTime Kawaii Matchbox Swap
Feb 11th 2007 08:02:47 pm
Matchbox swaps have been quite popular lately, and this week’s featured swap is th SpringTime Kawaii Matchbox Swap coordinated by Straycat.
Kawaii is a certain style of cute products from Japan. And when I say cute, I mean CUTE! Check out the description of Kawaii on Wikipedia, or visit the Japan Cute! blog Sideways film to learn more about it. There have been previous swaps on swap-bot based around Kawaii, including previous Kawaii matchbox swaps. A matchbox swap basically entails decorating a small matchbox and filling it full of little trinkets and goodies.
The swap home page explains it this way:
Simply load up a decorated matchbox with tiny kawaii items & mail it to your partner! At least 1 store-bought Japanese kawaii item must be included. Handmade goods are optional & adored! Please try to jam pack the little matchbox as much as possible. Springtime: Let’s welcome the new season with pretty colors & cute animals! Kawaii: It means “cute” in Japanese. ie Sanrio, Q-Lia, Kamio, Lemon Co., Midori, etc. Matchbox: A cutely decorated 32-stick or a Euro matchbox is our goal, but… hehe If it’s cute & tiny, it’s accepted! DIY, tiny candy boxes, or other purchased equivalents are a-okay.
Things you might include in your matchbox: stickers, erasers, candies, paper clips, pins and buttons, tiny stationery, anything small, cute & spring-y! The Springtime Kawaii Matchbox Swap is international, but it does require a 4.0 rating or higher. Matchbox swaps are a great way to express your creativity without spending a ton on supplies and postage! Happy swapping!
4 Comments » Categories: Weekly Featured Swap
chai~tea on 13 Feb 2007 at 12:07 am #
~I have seen many of these swaps and was wondering what people do with these swaps when they are received?
do you use the items inside?
what do you do with the empty boxes if you do use up all the stuff inside?
do you display them???
they are super cute, but I don’t unerstand what the point is???
Please enlighten me to the magic of matchbox swaps!
Thanks!
straycat on 17 Feb 2007 at 8:39 pm #
Absolutely the items inside may be used! They’re often stickers, charms, glitter, etc.
The matchboxes are the crafty part of the swap, an endearing & personal touch that appeal especially to those interested in art & scrap booking. It’s more like a very nicely wrapped present than anything else. What the recipient does with it is up to them!
They can be put to good use as anything—even to store matches—haha, used as a gift box for a tiny treasure to a beloved friend, used for a very cute storage, collected like ATC cards, displayed, etc.
chai~tea on 26 Feb 2007 at 9:08 pm #
~thanks straycat….
I have been intrigued but of course had no idea what the purpose was, if there was any!
I do find them pretty neat tho!
Forrest Singleton on 12 Nov 2008 at 4:01 pm #
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