Fridays seem to be one matchstick days - I somehow end up making a big trade or move on a Friday. Today is one of those Fridays.

I have finally worked out, and have a plan for, how I am going to make the beer offer that I wrote about a while back work. And the few people I have mentioned my plan to smile and say "awesome!"

So here's the plan:

I've accepted my friend Charl's offer of sponsoring two Castle Lager beers per Springleap T-shirt that I trade from this moment on.

What that means is if you trade with me for one of my 246 Springleap T-shirts that I have left to finish my tenth trade, then you will get two Castle Lager Beers for free!

How will you get the Castles? Well, that's been the tricky bit. So what will be happening is that sometime in the next four to six weeks, there will be a BIG get-together, on a weekend, at a soon to be confirmed venue, where you can come along and enjoy your two beers. (And if friends trade with me from Cape town, I will organise a get-together there too to give you your beers.)

And that get-together is going to have an extra twist to it as well! But until I have set it all up, that extra twist is a secret!

So- now is the time to trade with me for one of my T-shirts.

How to trade with me:

The easiest way is to trade some of your cash- R183 to be precise- and trade it by purchasing any of the Springleap T-shirts, and using the coupon code onematchstick so that we can track it (detailed instructions here). Contact me too to let me know so I can get you on the 'Castle Lager VIP List'.

OR – If you don't want a T-shirt, but still want soem Castle's, then you can trade some cash for one of the many Three-Way Trade offers I have on the go. You can get:

• Rock Climbing lesson with instructor Grant - R366
• A copy of Rembrandt's self portrait- oil painting – R366
• Baobab balls for decoration –for just R366 (valued at R800!)
• Hypnosis session to stop smoking – save 25% for only R549
• A one hour Hypnosis session for weight loss, breaking habits, overcoming phobias, improving performance in personal and business life – save 45% for only R183
• A diamond - 0.297 Carat with certificate valued at R1200, for only R915.00
• The writing services of a Reporter and Freelance Writer, Abed for R183
• Artwork - Dancing Girl OR Hula limited edition prints by artist Tuesday Houston valued at R900 each for only R366 each, or both for only R549
• One Payroll Workshop in audio and workbook format valued at R399.99, for only R183.00
• A years website hosting plus the development of a wordpress website if you need it, for just R1281.00 – that's R106.75 per month for 12 months for a website!
• 4 Private Pilates Classes with David in Fourways, Johannesburg valued at R720 – for only R549

To summarise then:

Trade with me for one of my Springleap, designer, limited edition T-shirts for R183, including delivery to your door by courier, and you will get to help me finish my tenth trade, be a part of the one matchstick story, AND get two Castle Lagers for free at a funky event coming up soon!

Call me - 07837302979
Skype me - telanas
Tweet me - @telana
Or email me

Just get in touch and let's trade! Yayy!

PS- the fine print:
To take part in this offer you must be over the legal drinking age, and remember- drink responsibly! ;)

Voting for the official onematchstick T-shirt ended yesterday.

10 designs were submitted, and by golly - each one was unique and brilliant! I want to write more about each of the designs over the next week or two, but for now, a big THANK YOU to all the designers who took part and came up with such creative and wonderful designs. Thank you!!


The top 2 designs were so close to each other, so very close!

It is with great delight that I announce that the winner is Tu's design entitled Mission: NOT Impossible.

So, so close behind this design was Caric's design called Fire works.

Congratulations Tu- you've won the Prize worth R5300, including the R1000 to spend on bidorbuy.co.za

TRADE DAY- 18 September 2009
Today is also the day I've coined "T-shirt Trade Day" and it marks the final stages to my tenth trade. I've received 116 pledges from people saying they will trade with me for one of the 375 springleap.com T-shirts. So I'm looking now for 259 more people to trade with.

The official onematchstick T-shirt is now available as one of the T-shirts to choose from to trade with me. This T-shirt is about to go into production, so if you choose to trade with me for the official onematchstick T-shirt, delivery will take a few weeks. But don't let that stop you- it's an AWESOME T-shirt. And there will be a very limited number made, so this is your only chance to own one. There is also going to be a limited time that this T-shirt will be available too- so you better move fast if you want one.

Back to Trade Day. The 116 people have been patiently waiting for today to trade one of my 375 T-shirts for some of their cash. They've needed the official onematchstick T-shirt to be available, and also the special CODE. So here it is, what you've been waiting for - the code that you need to use in the "coupon" section on springleap.com when you make your purchase, so that Springleap.com can track the sales that are to be counted for my 10th trade on onematchstick, is:

Ha! Would it have been anything else? Remember though, that the code is case sensitive- so make sure you use all small letters and one word.

Contact me when you've made your trade so I can track the progress with my 10th trade. And email or call me on 0837302979 if you have any queries

Thanks!

Again, Well done to Tu! Check out the official onematchstick T-shirt here.

Thanks also go to the fabulous team at Springleap.com for running the competition for me, and to the super duper sponsors for the Prize, being bidorbuy.co.za, springleap.com, and poken.co.za

This trade is all about G's- Gaynor, Gerald and Grands- three of them! Isn't that gleeful?

The Holiday in Utopia has at long last been traded!

Bet you were wondering if I'd ever generate it, hmmm? Well, I'm a gritty girl! I gnawed at quite a few things to trade the Holiday, spoke to a ginormous number of people, broke it into pieces to trade, even graffiti'd about it and took a gamble attempting to auction it off on bidorbuy.

What finally helped me move this great Holiday was I ended up gashing it into 2 weekends and converted each weekend into glorious cash! Yip... greenbacks!! I went this route after the gridlock of seeing that even the 2 gaily people who were genuinely keen for the weekends didn't have anything to trade with me- not even a gizmo or gadget! So I took a gusty step...

Gaynor - what a gem she is - was the first to take one of the getaway weekends. She found it through the gainful listing I made on that godsend Facebook, and has been to glistening Utopia before, so was gung-ho to get a few friends together and with her fiancé they're going to have a grandiose time this summer!

Then I went gallivanting to the genial gent next door to me, called Gerald, who has just moved in. It turned out he just needed to grasp that he could go mountain biking at Utopia and he was also gung-ho for the getaway!

Well, I did a little gyrate! Then a gambol! And agreed to accept cash again as I giggled with glee, thinking at the genesis of this whole gradual trade! At that moment I felt like I'd won the grand slam!

Mixed with feeling grateful for Gaynor and Gerald's generosity, and giddy with gasping "Gee whiz's", I now feel a bit of gusto to put the cash up for trade, and see what happens.

So: be my guest- make me an offer! What would you trade with me for R3000.00? That's three thousand South African Rands. THREE GRAND! Be part of granting my wish and let's grow this 3000 and into something grand!

So send me your offers of what you'd swap for R3000 on my gmail onematchstick@gmail.com or my cell +27 83 730 2979.

Groovy!
Telana