Awesome team effort, gals! Your costume was voted The Best Foiled Costume by the ever amazing social media community.
Starting this month, @kellyvonebers & @lamarero will receive a dozen of our favorites (for an entire year!) 
Thanks to all who participated & who came out to our One Year Anniversary bash at theWit! We couldn’t have done it without you.
Guest post today by @phampants, our worst travel tweet winner. (He gets a Dozen of our Favorites! Yeah!)
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When the awesome @brandonzeman RT’d @foiledcupcakes‘ Worst Travel Tweet challenge, I asked myself, “What story should I pick from?”
When I backpacked Europe alone last summer, I had quite the adventure. The adventure also included many mishaps. From sleeping in the Brussels train station in 40 degree weather with bums to having my 4gb flash card go corrupt on me and losing 3 days worth of pictures in Rome. Let’s not also forget that I was only allowed to live 18 days on a TINY duffel bag containing all of my belongings that weighed no more than 22 lbs. Don’t believe me? Here’s photo evidence (sans a 6 pound laptop):
Yeah, it was an interesting trip. Just as interesting as learning how to drive stick while driving on the other side of the road while in Ireland. Oh wait! That’s right, I couldn’t drive because I lost my wallet (one of three) containing my driver’s license, student ID & my debit card on the morning of Day 3 of my trip in the Dublin airport. How did I lose it? It was in my jacket pocket which also contained my umbrella. Apparently, the umbrella looked like a huge knife in the X-Ray machine, so when they took it out to check, the wallet fell out. Sadly, I did not noticed until I was in the middle of the Brussels train station 2 hours later.
So what did I do? Being the seasoned & experienced traveler that I am, I had wallet #1 and #3 handy. Those two wallets contained 350 Euros, 60 British pounds and a credit card. Now before you go all, “Oh he cheated, he had a credit card,” remember this: Europe is a CASH continent. Finding a place that takes credit card is like trying to a hot dog place in Chicago that puts ketchup on your hot dog. It wasn’t easy, but I did survived 15 days with 350 Euros & 60 GBPs.
Want to read more about my trip & the day I lost my debit card? Read more here.
Want to know how you can survive cleverly when traveling and losing your debit card? Read more here.
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Congratulations, @phampants - your story touched the hearts of millions. Well, at least of the people who voted for you. And thanks to all who participated!
I’m literally floored. In just a matter of 30 minutes and a handful of tweets, we were able to collectively donate $500 to the Red Cross Haiti relief effort today. Thank you to the following individuals who donated (and will be receiving 2 Dozen of our Favorites cupcakes as a result):
@mattchevy
@tommychoi
@johnpneedham
@mojoguzzi
@CityGirl912
And a special thank you to @rickmurray for thinking of, donating to, and participating in this fantastic idea.
By the way, even if you didn’t get free cupcakes out of donating, it’s still always a good thing to do.
I’m always amazed at what a group of totally unrelated people can do together to make a difference. You guys all freaking rock. I’m so verklempt.
- Mari
Hi, DailyCandy Kids Readers:
Lots of fun things in Celebration Sensations today, huh? We think so, but we’re a little biased.
Anyhow, onto the good stuff.
Place your order for a minimum of 2 dozen cupcakes by Saturday, 9/19 for delivery anytime between Monday, 9/21 and Wednesday, 9/30. (You know you have something to celebrate between now and then, don’t you?) We’ll throw in a free 4-pack of our upcoming fall seasonal flavors - so new and so fresh, we haven’t even named them yet. But ohmygoodness - Jocelyn did an amazing job with these recipes (as always):
Spiced Pumpkin
Pecan Pie
Chocolate Pomegranate Ginger
Apple Streusel
When Amy (our super savvy and super rockin’ Order Coordinator) calls you to confirm your order, she’ll ask how you heard about us. Say “DCK” and you’ll be among the first to try our seasonal flavors.
Yum.
Remember, we deliver anywhere in Chicago city, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties. Minimum order is just one dozen cupcakes. You can order online. And feel free to mix and match between our 20 flavors which are available every single day. Oh, and we deliver to residences, office buildings (think: work party!), hotels, beaches, wherever.
Just click, relax, and wait. Our cupcakes will be personally delivered to you just the way you want them.
Thanks for checkin’ us out. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to check you out sometime soon, too.
Happy almost-fall, happy DailyCandy Kids day, happy Monday!
xo - Mari
