Monthly Archives: January 2010

Amity #23 Penny Postcard Art

Amity — Kristal Garcia Inspiration: Tarot cards, specifially the ace and six of pentacles. A pentacle is a symbol of the world and bringing heaven to earth in tarot. The hand is offering this symbol (the penny/pentacle) to a woman … Continue reading

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The Most Important Aspect Of Goals

When you are watching the Olympics next month and all the athletes that are on the medal stands, I will be cheering on Robel Teklemariam, Katherine Eustace, Kazuhiro Koshi, Tugba Karademir and Clyde Getty no matter where the end up … Continue reading

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Madame Deals Buys $95 Worth of Food at 86% Off

Wow. Renae and Amee of Madame Deals took four trips to the grocery store the past few days to gather $95.32 worth of food for only $13.70 for Penny Experiment and a 86% savings off of retail price. That adds … Continue reading

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Change #82 Penny Postcard Art

Change — Angie Heaton Inspiration / About the Art: This is a photograph of where I used to meet my love. I love trains. The significance of the number: The box on the side of the railroad tracks has the … Continue reading

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Recycled #32 Penny Postcard Art

Recycled — Elizabeth Kertz Inspiration: When I started thinking about this piece, two sayings kept coming to mind: “It takes a village” and “A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.” By combining the two, I came up … Continue reading

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Palmetto State Saver Food Bank Delivery

The best part of Penny Experiment is when all those that have helped to make it possible get to see the final result of food being given to local food banks. Lauren at Palmetto State Saver made her first trip … Continue reading

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Give A Penny, Take A Penny #7 Penny Postcard Art

Give A Penny, Take A Penny — Scout P. Inspiration / About the Art: I just went with the colors of old, dirty pennies. I wanted the circle shape along with the gold sparkle. It looks like pennies to me. … Continue reading

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Snapshot #76 Penny Postcard Art

Snapshot — Ryk Shadix Inspiration / about the art: The painting has no object meaning. It’s just a small “snapshot” of a moment of chaos and a play of color. The significance of the number: The number 76 was just … Continue reading

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Food For Thought #35 Penny Postcard Art

Food for Thought — Julie Boydell Inspiration / About the Art: Whilst looking into the number 35, I discovered that it is a tetrahedral number (sum of the first 5 triangular numbers; it’s a maths thing). A tetrahedral is a … Continue reading

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Palmetto State Saver Gets $35 Worth of Food for 88 Cents

I hate shopping. The mere fact that I’m looking closely at coupons and actually making trips to the grocery store to buy food should qualify as a minor miracle. After reading about Lauren’s (from Palmetto State Saver) second post for … Continue reading

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