Girl History Month - Ching Shih The Pirate

Reblogged from Romancing the Bee:

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Ching Shih (1775–1844) was a prominent pirate in middle Qing China, who terrorized the China Sea in the early 19th century. A brilliant Cantonese pirate, she commanded 1800 ships and more than 80,000 pirates — men, women, and even children. She challenged the world superpower empires at the time such as the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty.

Undefeated, she would become one of China and Asia's strongest pirates, and one of world history's most powerful pirates.

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In celebration of Girl History Month, a badass pirate you must read about! Thanks to Romancing the Bee for the interesting posts on women in history!

Are you excited for THE BAKE SALE?

Reblogged from Veronica's Cornucopia:

Update: The bake sale is over. If you missed it, I will make you an offer Monday or Tuesday that you can't refuse.  Click here to see how much we've raised for Suzie so far.

Do you know what time it is?  The online bake sale fundraiser for Suzie is tomorrow!  *happy dance*  I'm so excited and anxious to open the sale up to everyone because there are so many delicious treats that have been donated, and certainly something for everyone. 

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Hey friends, I thought you might be interested in this online bake sale for a good cause going on tomorrow at Veronica's Cornucopia. Check it out!

Potpourrie

Ahhhhh, its Friday. The weekend is barreling towards me and I’m not 100% prepared.

Today’s post is a mish-mash of everything, hence the title.

First up- “big” announcements (eye rolling).

I am very blessed to receive not one but two blog awards from Sarah at Curious Cuisinière- the Kreative Blogger award and the Blog on Fire award.  I’m particularly enamored with the second one because it reminds me of the Hunger Games (I. AM. KATNISS).

Thank you so much Sarah, and please take time to visit her blog. She has fun recipes and isn’t afraid to try something new- think pancake wrapped sausages. Yes, that is a real thing. According to the rules, I am to tell you 6 interesting and unusual things about myself and then pass the awards on to 6 other deserving bloggers.

1. I am obsessed with the Hunger Games
2. I would die quickly in the Hunger Games because I am weak and cannot identify wild plants to eat
3. I still get nervous when flying
4. I have 25 cousins on my Mom’s side of the family and 0 on my Dad’s
5. I read US weekly as a guilty pleasure
6. Fritos are my favorite salty junk food

The blogs I’m passing the awards on to are:

1. The Teenage Taste (The food photography alone will make you drool)
2. Sugar Dish Me (Great food and hilarious commentary about living in trailers)
3. Wife Meets Life (Lots of DIY info)
4. Georgia About (Great glimpse into the culture and cuisine of Georgia)
5. Omeletta (Self proclaimed food nerd, ‘nough said)
6. The Camel Life (Absolutely hilarious blog about life- good bad and ugly)

I also want to mention that Heather over at Sugar Dish Me gave me the One Lovely Blog award, but since I recently received that and posted about it, I’m not going to be greedy so I’ll pass on that one. All the same, thanks Heather!

Next item, I’m going on vacation for a week! Every 4th of July our family gathers up north at our cottage. I look forward to this every single year without fail. BUT, this means I won’t be available to make frequent postings. I’m nervous about being away for that long, will all my readers forget about me? Will they find new blogs to follow? Noooo, don’t leave me (tiny voice, sniff sniff).

Maybe I can post a little bit from up there, but I can’t make any promises.  I’ll miss you all! When I come back, I’ll have so many recipes from up north to share.

Cheers-

Erin