Runs on Coffee and Cream

This past week has been a really busy one for IGGPPC... twitter, Facebook, and emails have blown up! Why? Because we're planning and organizing a Summer Camp!


I am SO excited for this! A big chunk of my childhood was spent at trailers that my family members owned. My summers were filled with bon fires, swimming, and catching fireflies. I miss campgrounds a lot. It's probably why I encourage my Dad to have a bon fire every time I visit my parents and it's also why I cannot wait to have a house to have my own fire pit!

There are a TON of activities, games, and webinars being planned for Summer Camp. Check out the post here which is being updated daily as we confirm things. It looks like I'll be helping organize a movie watch-a-long and I'll be covering s'mores recipes/info (are you shocked?!? haha).

We also opened up Round 15 this past Sunday, so if you're interested in signing up, click here. It's our last round until Summer Camp so we can use July to fine tune all our plans.

I've been reading blogs for a very, very long time. During college I started to read certain blogs regularly, so it's been about 10 years now! One of my favourite blogs that I've come across during my blog-reading years is Katie's, Hook, Line & Sink Her. I find Katie's posts incredibly entertaining, endearing, inspiring, and just plain awesome.

We did a sweets swap over a year ago which was incredibly fun. You can see all the treats here. Well we decided to do another swap back in the Winter. Surprisingly enough, we both received each other's parcels within a week of each other. You can see what I sent Katie this time in her post.

It felt like Christmas opening up Katie's parcel...









Receiving amazing parcels like this just brighten my month. I'm already keeping a look out for other fun treats and gifts for future swaps! Thanks Katie <3

xo Jen

"Some Days, I wish I was a Cat"... the perfect notebook for me!


And how cute is Emma's Spock design? I received a few postcards with this design.


A tea bag-shaped pouch?!? Amazing! And the Kissing Booth Tokens pouch is being carried with me everywhere in my purse.


Receiving such personal and wonderful parcels from the IGGPPC ladies, is just another reason I adore that community <3

xo Jen

P.S. We're still taking Round 13 registrants for another two days... Sign up here!

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for me. Before Christmas, we decided to launch a new site for the International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club. We wanted to move it over to Wordpress so we'd have more flexibility with it. Well we've been working day and night, all 5 of us and a few new staff members that joined in a week or so ago, on the design, moving over content, setting up bloggers, and just making the new site pretty! We launched the site last Saturday and it was a smooth transition!


You can check out the new site here. But one of the best things about the site is that we've added in achievements. We have achievement codes hidden throughout the site so when you find one, you can redeem the code for points. We've also included achievement points for things like 'first post', '10 replies', or participating in swaps and signing up for a pen pal round. It's been so much fun hiding them and having the members searching for them! It's become a bit of a competition with some of them haha.

We also launched Round 10 today to sign up for a pen pal, which you can sign up for here. I'm so ridiculously excited to see where IGGPPC takes us this year! 2013 was crazy fun and so exciting! With the new site being launched, a much better forum, more swaps, and extra staff to help, I can only imagine the things we can accomplish this year!

Recently, I came across an Etsy shop with the cutest stationery - La Papierre! The Strawberry Shortcake letter set instantly won me over and I continued browsing through the shop falling in love with all the adorable designs. I'm a huge fan of the vintage-inspired graphics on the stationery and I love that some of the envelopes have designs on them as well.