august foodie penpal

phillynikongal — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:27:51 +0000

This month I decided to participate in something pretty cool, after reading about it over on Cherie Runs This. Basically, it’s a penpal service for foodies! You get assigned someone, and you send them $15 worth of goodies in the mail! I had a lot of fun picking out items for my foodie penpal, but she never wrote me back or anything after she received it, so I have no idea if she even got it or not, which makes me very sad.

But I digress.

So, my foodie penpal Brennah sent me some pasta, a jar of pasta sauce, some cookies and a Betty Crocker Warm Delights (which I have saved thus far to enjoy after the pizza I am going to have for lunch today LOL). Unfortunately, I accidentally left the box unattended and came back to find that Floyd decided to get into the pasta bag, so the pasta went to waste. But I am certainly planning on using that pasta sauce for something tasty! Brennah had asked me lots of questions and I told her that I loved to cook Italian food and I loved chocolate, so that was the theme! She also included a few nifty recipes, so I am going to add those to my cook book.

I can’t wait to participate in foodie penpals for September!

Do you want to get a fun box of goodies and participate in Foodie Penpals, too? Here’s how:

-On the 5th of every month, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.

-You will have until the 15th of the month to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the last day of the month, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!

-The boxes are to be filled with fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats! The spending limit is $15. The box must also include something written. This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!

-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don’t forget about flat rate boxes!)

-Foodie Penpals is open to blog readers as well as bloggers. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you are to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.

-Foodie Penpals is open to US & Canadian residents. Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We’ve determined things might get too slow and backed up if we’re trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa.

If you’re interested in participating for September, please CLICK HERE to fill out the participation form and read the terms and conditions.

You must submit your information by September 4th as pairings will be emailed on September 5th!

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This post, august foodie penpal, was written by phillynikongal, and originally posted on esther fox [DOT] com. If you're reading this on a site other than esther fox [DOT] com, it has been taken and used without permission.

#scintilla project and #marchphotoaday

phillynikongal — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:30:36 +0000

So I bet you’re wondering what the hell the focus of this little blog of mine is.

Truthfully, I have no idea. It’s really just another outlet on the internets where I can rant and post my recipes and blah blah blah. If you don’t remember, I was a part of the #reverb11 project, in which I posted a blog post from a daily prompt. It was a lot of fun, it made me think, and I “met” some pretty cool bloggers in the process.

Well, there’s another project of sorts coming up for the last part of March. It’s called the #scintilla project.

From #scintilla’s website:

The Scintilla Project gives you a reason to unlock your storytelling voice. We provide a selection of daily prompts and encouragement, and you provide a post that goes beyond the surface into Why. In some you’ll be the hero, in some the villain, and in some an innocent bystander. Every day is a new chance to go deeper.

I am not really a storyteller by any stretch of the imagination. But I do have my rare moments of humor and insight. I am hoping that #scintilla will be as rewarding as #reverb11 was, and that maybe I’ll meet some cool new people this way as well. And if not, I’ll at least have two weeks worth of interesting posts that don’t follow the norm of my usual ramblings about food, yarn, and the occasional photo or two.

Speaking of photos!

You might remember my awful attempt at participating in #febphotoaday, where we took a photo according to a prompt for each day of the month of February. Well, am I a glutton for punishment if I tell you I’m also participating in #marchphotoaday? Probably, but oh well. I’m doing it any way! If you’re on instagram, you can follow my posts at my username, “phillynikongal.” Instead of posting them daily here on the blog, I will be posting them on a weekly basis on Sundays. So this coming Sunday, I will post days 1-4 in one post. The next Sunday, days 5-11; the next Sunday after that, days 12-18, and so on and so on.

Finally, I haven’t forgotten about the posts I said I would make, including the stove-top mac and cheese. No worries!

Happy blogging

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