Patio Par-tay

(via PhillyMag.com)

Last week I was lucky enought to sneak in be invited by Julie to a Philadelphia Social Media Moms party generously hosted by E.P. Henry at the Philadelphia Magazine Design Home. (holy cow that was a lot of links)

The house is enormous! It made me a little sad to see so much extravagance on an old country farm property. All I could think of was 1. I would never see the Dude if we lived in 12,000 square feet 2. it would take me 3 months to clean the house (I would need 5 Zoilas) and 3. how many sinks and tvs do you really need?

(via JulieBouf)

But...it was very lovely. You should really stop by the house...100% of the $20 ticket proceeds goes to the Ronald McDonald House.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention - the house has a Panic Room.


**Disclosure: This party was sponsored by E.P. Henry. All of the opinions are mine and not influenced by E.P. Henry. I did get a really nice gift bag with the perfect diy/6 AM dog walking hat.

I like to aim low

How far would you drive for a bag of free stuff? Apparently for me it’s about 180 miles round-trip.

Julie convinced me to go to the Aiming Low blog party in NYC last week, and the payoff was a swag bag.

Thanks to Aiming Low, HP and New York City for being super duper hosts. The swag bag contained an awesome treat that added to my motivation to order a netbook (which should be delivered tomorrow). NYC- you did let me down a little by being rainy, but I'll get over it.

Since Julie is a better storyteller and I feel like I might be getting the influenza, check out her post about our trip.

What are your thoughts on sponsored events? Sometimes I feel weird about it, but then I remember all of the alcohol sponsored store openings I've attended.

(Jackie, thanks for being my editor today in my time of illness)