{"id":3464,"date":"2012-12-27T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2012-12-27T18:06:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T18:06:26","slug":"christmas-blog-swap-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Blog Swap 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3465\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DSC05638\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05638-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05638-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05638-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>When my friend Karen (<a href=\"http:\/\/torontogirlwest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Girl West<\/a>) posted about joining a Christmas Blog Swap hosted by Leigh (<a href=\"http:\/\/thebestthingislove.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">All You Need is Love<\/a>), I immediately threw my hat in the ring (name on the comment list!) and volunteered to take part! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was teamed up with Lisa from <a href=\"http:\/\/joggingoncoffee.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jogging on Coffee<\/a>, and we were to send each other our favourite Christmas gifts\/symbols etc with a spending cap at $20. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since I spend all of my free time in November and December at the Farmer&#8217;s Markets selling my cupcakes and cookies, I found what I wanted to send Lisa there . . . glass ornaments from a local glass artisan, chocolate from a local chocolatier and a red glittery (natural) nail polish! \u00a0These were all symbols of Christmas too me . . well, maybe not the chocolate, but it is too delicious not to spread the love across the country!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When I received my package from Lisa, I was super excited to see what she had picked out for me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05657_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3467 aligncenter\" title=\"DSC05657_2\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05657_2-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05657_2-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC05657_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0My favourite coffee throughout the holiday season is hands-down Candy Cane flavour!! \u00a0I love it!! \u00a0Lisa also sent me some super cute hand towels, that have come in very handy adding some holiday cheer to the home this year, since we didn&#8217;t have time to get a tree \ud83d\ude41 The salt and pepper shakers are super cute as well and P has had fun moving them around the house into different &#8220;display&#8221; positions and areas for me to discover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How cute is the tea mug with it&#8217;s own sweater cozy?? \u00a0I love it! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much Lisa for the cute gifts, and thanks to Leigh for organizing the swap!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook_like addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter_tweet addtoany_special_service\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464\" data-text=\"Christmas Blog Swap 2012\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plusone addtoany_special_service\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/pinterest?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcookiescupcakesandcardio.co%2F%3Fp%3D3464&amp;linkname=Christmas%20Blog%20Swap%202012\" title=\"Pinterest\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/icons\/pinterest.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Pinterest\"\/><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nwpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Karen (Toronto Girl West) posted about joining a Christmas Blog Swap hosted by Leigh (All You Need is Love), I immediately threw my hat in the ring (name on the comment list!) and volunteered to take part! \u00a0 I was teamed up with Lisa from Jogging on Coffee, and we were to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_target addtoany_list\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook_like addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter_tweet addtoany_special_service\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464\" data-text=\"Christmas Blog Swap 2012\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plusone addtoany_special_service\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=3464\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/pinterest?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcookiescupcakesandcardio.co%2F%3Fp%3D3464&amp;linkname=Christmas%20Blog%20Swap%202012\" title=\"Pinterest\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/icons\/pinterest.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Pinterest\"\/><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[624,3633,623,625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}