[Gemme]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaMa'am

Mine will be there on the 28th. I wish I could have gotten them there sooner, but it was not possible.

Doesn't Soft Silver have a 7 day grace period to turn in something? It may not be as elaborate as what she had originally planned, but she could still do something, right? It's situations like this which is what the grace period is for.

Originally Posted by clay

At this stage of the project, it wouldn't be fair to have 1 person get a 7 day grace period. All other projects are either here, or on their way now. While it is unfortunate that Soft's project was crushed 3 days before due date, she has an option to salvage or redo something to get overnighted to me Monday, the 27th, thus remaining compliant with the project!

What I suggest is this....if Soft Silver wishes to go ahead & submit the crushed projects to me, she has today & tomorrow to get them completed, can overnight them Monday, and still be in DUE DATE timeframe.

This project had 3 months, to be finished, that is a generous timeframe allotted. I want everyone to be treated fairly, and transparently on any projects we do!

Anyone else have input? Thank you ahead of time.

I agree with clay. All is not lost! Honestly, I only spent 3 days on my projects and that was a couple of hours in the evenings after 9-11 hour work days. Part of that was my natural procrastinating tendency but the majority of it is that I've been struggling with a nasty escalating depressive event over the past several weeks that has really created an energy block (good thing the matchbox project was energy themed, no?) and stifled my creativity, not to mention making going through the basic motions of existence and working a very physically demanding job extremely difficult.

The reason the group created the 'craft jail' was because so many people were bailing on projects halfway through and/or were saying 'it's coming, it's coming' and nothing ever came. That's unfair to the remainder of the participants so we--as a group--designed as fair a consequence as we could think of and a short time out is really not horrible in the long run.

Given that these projects are often tiny bits of our secret self that we send off to everyone, it's a very personal thing when not everyone works the projects with the same intention. I'm still salty about the book that disappeared all those years ago. I did a really adorable collage in it!

clay had great suggestions and, you know, Soft....I think I might prefer the crushed project. It would have character and a story to go with it. I say send the squished ones as is along with whatever ones you complete this weekend. It would be about $30 in postage to overnight the boxes on Monday but it is what it is. I've had to pay it before when I was really behind on a project and I survived.