One of the biggest problems I face with the Super Hearts Treasuries is getting APC Team members to leave a comment on it. It seems to me that it is only fair to expect those who enjoy the benefits of being included to be supportive of the treasury.

In other words, I ended up bending the “you must comment on the current treasury to get into the next” rule, but I’m not willing to give it up. Two of the people toward the bottom of the July treasury did not comment on the June treasury. Even so, I ended up bringing back three people from the June treasury. I really prefer to have the repeated inclusions skip months.

Those people all ended up on the bottom of the treasury not because they aren’t wonderful, but because I included them this time primarily to fill the treasury. I’ll feature them in the future when they comment, or haven’t been included so often.

Then there is the case of Cledchamps. She participated in the Treasured Treasuries thread without promoting her own treasury. This automatically put her at the top of the list. Normally she would have been given the first slot – the one that represents the whole treasury in many places. Unluckily, she forgot to comment on the five treasuries that she supported.

I know, I said before that I wouldn’t include people who do that again. But the fact is that she generously favored those treasuries. So I included her, but dropped her to the bottom.

The stores on top are the kind of selections I normally find for the Super Hearts Treasuries. Most of them are new not only to the Super Hearts Treasuries but to the Treasured Treasury thread in the APC Team as well.

There is one of them that needs particular comment. That is The Little Paper Wing. Quite frankly, this is nepotism. The Little Paper Wing is a new store just launched my Kate – who is both my daughter and my partner at Faire Miscellany. In her case, it worked against her. She did a full support of the treasuries ahead of her in the Treasured Treasuries thread without putting in a treasury of her own. Normally that would be enough to land her in the first slot. But because of our relationship I moved her over a few place, and very nearly moved her down a row.

In other news, we will be taking a short break on the Super Hearts Treasuries. The next one will be going up as quickly in September as I can pull it off. This is partly because I was unable to confirm with Christina Marquette that she would do the August and September treasuries, and partly because everything is moving so slowly this summer.

The September treasury will be made of people who comment on the July treasury. I’ll be drawing from everyone in the Treasured Treasury list starting from right now and going until I can fill the treasury. So GO COMMENT!!

I have dropped the option of working the Post 1 Favor 50 thread as a way into the treasury. This is not because I no longer support that thread, but because it’s so much easier to find people through the Treasured Treasuries thread that I never got around to checking it. It’s the mechanics, not the people.

I still intend to roll out a button that people can use in all the other threads in the APCTeam to catch my eye, but it will have to wait. I’m not going to be doing the August or September treasuries. I’ve arranged for my fellow leader Christy Marquis to do them in my absence. I’ll be back at it with the October treasury. I might as wait until then to try the button out.

Meanwhile I am very pleased to see that participation in the Treasured Treasuries thread has been wonderful. We had another participant who did not post her own treasury. Yay, Hayah! Naturally I gave her the first square.

Susan of PippinPost would normally end up near the bottom of the treasury along with my other regulars, but she was very, very supportive of the April and May Super Hearts as well as a great team member. I felt bad about not being able to include her in the May Super Hearts.

Outside of that I tried to rank people by how active and supportive they were in the Treasured Treasuries thread. However, there is an element of the random involved. That’s is just as well because I intend to mix this treasury up quite a bit as part of my monthly contest – which I will post as soon as I decide what I’m going to give away.

We have now reached the point where I no longer even glance at the people who are in the current treasury when selecting for the next. As the regulars get fewer chances to be included in the Super Hearts I intend to bring them up from the bottom of the treasury more often.

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