A Foodie Valentine ‘Candygram’

Dana and I have made a part-time job when it comes to disliking Valentines Day. We’ve had an entires series of Anti-Valentine Parties and even had an awesome anti-Valentines date (I took her to dinner in a nearly-condemmed restaurant and she brought me to “Bat Boy – The Musical“). It’s not that we hate Valentines – we just really enjoy disliking it.

When we were in High School together (we were just friends back then), our Student council did small fundraisers by selling CandyGrams. For a few dollars each, the student council would deliver a candy with a note to the object of your affection or appreciation (they weren’t valentines specific). Sometimes there was candy, sometimes there wasn’t. It was generally a sweet idea.

Recently we found ourselves laughing about the idea of a Valentines Card for Foodies. Dana’s learning how to screen print so a joke became a though which then became a project; screen printed postcards (we’ll hand-write your message for you or make one up if you’d rather; we won’t be insulting of course but I can’t promise we’ll be romantic…). Canada Post won’t allow us to attach candy to a postcard so the ‘treat’ is the print this time.

Dana drew the four designs, hand painted them onto the screen and then printed the cards with the most jarring shade of pink she could muster.