Blogging By Mail

My friend Barbie2Be had tried to get me to join in on the Blogging By Mail event even before I had officially started this blog. But I was hesitant to participate until my blog had been going for a while. When the latest round of Blogging By Mail started this past January I figured it was about time I gave it a try.

Blogging By Mail is where food bloggers, from all over the world, send goody boxes to other food bloggers.  You send your name to the event host who passes it on to another blogger. In turn, you are  sent the name of a participating food blogger (the person you send to isn't the person who sends to you). I let this events host, Dispensing Happiness, know that I would be willing to do international shipping (international obviously costs more, you did have the option to stay within the US). This Blogging By Mail's theme was "Little Things Mean A Lot". You were supposed to send some of your favorite things: spices, teas, chocolates, recipes. I figured I could do that, and sent my name in to participate.

I was very excited when I got the name of the person who I would be sending a goody box to.  Karen, from the blog Bucaio, lives in the Philippines. Since my mom was born and raised there finding Karens blog was a treasure. She mentions food and places that I've heard my mom mention. I've had fun reading her reviews of Filipino restaurants and checking out her wonderful recipes.

But once I actually had to gather those "little things" my mind went blank. What do I send? What could I show Karen of my life? I decided the best thing to do was just pick up little things here and there as I lived my life for the next month (you know I had to send her a Sharks pin!) . Once I'd gathered some things, I sent my package of goody's off.  I got worried that it might have gotten lost since it took so long to get there, but it seems to have found a home at the post office for a while before it made it to it's final destination. You can check out her report of what I sent her here. And do check out the rest of her blog, it's a fun look into life and food in the Philippines.

As for the goody box that was to have come my way? Alas, I am one of the six folks, out of the 85 bloggers who participated, who got stiffed. Whoever had my name didn't end up sending me a package. But I haven't lost hope. Maybe mine will show up someday. Even if it never does, I'm still prepared to participate in the next Blogging By Mail.

Comments

[Karen]

Sorry to hear your package has yet to arrive, I hope it's just cooling off in the post office, too.

Thanks for the nice heads up on my blog. And again, thank you very much for all that you sent.

[Mom]

I was not raised there kiddo. I spent the first 10-1/2 years of my life there. Came to the USA right after WWII in 1945.

[barbie2be]

i feel so bad that your first bbm package has gone missing. :(

[Shannon]

You know I used to do a ton of internet swaps ad I always seemed to send out better than I recieved! :( I hope you get something great next time, or maybe, just maybe your package will show up!

[Emiline]

That's a really cool event. I would love to get a surprise in the mail.

[noble pig]

What a fun event! Packages are great aren't they!