T-Shirt Winner Announced

Check out my other blog here to see who won the cool tee.

TODAY IS WIN A T-SHIRT DAY!

Fabu contest over at my (favorite) other blog... here!

WIN VINYL LETTERING & SOMETHING REALLY BIG

On my other blog that I don't neglect as much as I neglect this one (OF WRITERLY THINGS, found here) I have announced an exciting giveaway. I figure if one blog can share the love, why not two, so I'm announcing here as well. While I don't aspire to be a career vinyl lettering cutter as much as I aspire to be a successful author (hence the focus of the giveaway on my other blog) I'll also be giving away vinyl lettering gift certificates besides the BIG giveaway! (Let's see how many times I can say giveaway in one paragraph.)

As Seen On My Other Blog Yesterday...
Today is the day I'm announcing an awesome give-away…the chance to win something that book-lovers and book-collectors can never get too many of…bookcases.

I am giving away a bookcase valued at $60, courtesy of csnbookcases.com. Please check out their lovely website with all the varied and wonderful possibilities for bookcases. I especially love the ones designed for children found here. Someday, I would love to design a playroom for grandkids with cool shelves for kids books. So fun!

This very well may be my first ever blog giveaway, so I'm making it a good one. The lucky winner will get to choose ONE of these three bookcases... (and no, I'm not coming over to assemble it if assembly is required.)

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Books, framed photos, and is that a box of tissue, not included.

To enter, please humor me and become a follower on my blog. (If I hit 100 followers (aiming high) I will give lucky number 100 a gift certificate for vinyl lettering worth $15. (You're welcome to become a follower here if it will make you happy.)

Let's see, how else can you make my day...hmmm...comments, lots and lots of comments... (as I cackle and rub my hands together... I've got you in my power now. You want that bookcase don't you? DON'T YOU?) So leave a comment and convince me that you'll buy my novel whenever in the heck I finish writing/revising/editing/ submitting/publishing it. And yes, I realize you don't even know the title of it yet (except for the favored few) but just promise me, PROMISE ME.

Sorry for the lapse there. How about just a comment telling me a book you got for Christmas and if you really didn't get one for Christmas then I am so sorry and I will personally file a complaint with the North Pole in your behalf. Were you just not good enough this year?

Okay, here's the bottom line:

1) one entry for becoming a follower/two if you already are (early bird gets the worm and all) as of riiiiight....NOW.
2) one entry for a comment
3) two entries for sharing the contest complete with link on your blog or any of those other online places you like to haunt. Just let me know where.

Did I forget anything? How about more prizes? I sell vinyl lettering, so I will also pick some winners to receive $15 gift certificates for custom lettering. This will be after I draw the big bookcase winner because it is so lame to be picked for a lesser prize and then be out of the running for the greater, more awesome prize. It's so, so...yeah, lame. And I am not about lameness here or over at the Of Writerly Things blogspot.

CONTEST WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED ON MY ANNIVERSARY: FEBRUARY 12, 2010!!!!!

CONTEST WINNER!

Thanks for sending all the LOVE-ly quotes about LOVE. I couldn't choose the best out of all of them, so decided to punt (kind of like the AZ Cardinals). I had my daughter choose a winner randomly, and the cute candy jar goes to...LaRee! I will drop it by your house sometime in the next few days...definitely by Valentine's Day! ;) The first several to respond to the contest blog received free lettering (I sent it last week; hopefully, you received it).

Some of the ideas submitted that I liked included:

--"Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever."
--LOVE: thoughtful kind sweet, sappy happy complete
--"BEWARE Love is in the air." (This would work well for the front door, with beware in big letters and the second line underneath smaller).

If you need any lettering for Valentine's gifts or projects, just email me.

PS. We're proud of the Cardinals, they did good!

The Valentine Lettering Winners are...

Liz
Stacy
Maria
Tiffany
Karla
Marilyn

You are the first 6 people who responded to my contest blog, so you will receive the same lettering that appears on the candy jar shown (5 commented first on the blog and one sent an email at the same time, so there are 6 winners instead of 5). Please email me your addresses (email address is in my profile) unless it would be ridiculous to give me your address when I will be seeing you today when we go Visiting Teaching, plus I know where you live anyway. :)

I will be awarding the candy jar next week. There's still a few days to submit your ideas for a cute Valentine door hanger. (See January 21 post).

Contest! Contest! Contest!

Yes, it's contest time again..this time a Valentine's Day Writing Contest. I need a catchy Valentine greeting or phrase that I can put on a board to hang on my front door. One I did last year says: HUGS KISSES Valentine Wishes. My idea, so far, for this year is SWEETS for the SWEET, and under that it says: -inquire within-. Can you come up with something better?

Here's how it will work...leave your Valentiney idea as a comment to this blog. (If for some reason you are not able to comment, email your idea to my address found in my profile). Remember it can't be too wordy, it needs to fit on a board, sized to look good hanging on the front door.

ATTENTION: This is where I reveal the fabulous prizes!!! The winning entry will receive the cute Valentine's Candy Jar* pictured above. The first 5 comments (all entries or random comments included) will receive the same lettering shown on the jar for you to apply to your own candy jar. I will accept submissions through January 31st. If there's a bunch, I may open it up for voting--we'll see how it goes. Winners will be announced the first week of February.

*If the jar need to be mailed to the winner and would cost more to do so than the jar itself, I reserve the right to mail the lettering and a $4 check for the recipient to purchase their own jar. (I bought mine at IKEA for $3.99 last year, but no, I'm not accounting for inflation...or the recession either).

HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome to 2009! New year--new fun blog stuff--

Take time to check out my new slide shows--I will be changing them from time to time. Right now the theme is Love, Family, Valentine's Day...if you need vinyl lettering ideas on other topics or for specific rooms, just let me know.

It was so fun having a Christmas contest to give away free stuff that I will have something similar in the works before Valentine's Day, so stay tuned. It's amazing how happy winning free stuff makes people and Valentine's Day is all about making people happy, right?

And the winner is...

Right now, at this very moment, I am randomly drawing a name out of the special bowl specifically designated for random blog contest winner-choosing. If you are or ever have been an employee of Vinyl Expressions, Inc. and it's affiliated affiliates, you are immediately disqualified from this random contest.

Drum roll, please...I'm closing my eyes, and digging deep (if your name is at the top, sorry)...the winner is...KARLA FREEMAN! Karla, you can choose between a holiday Tee shirt or a $3.00 discount on your vinyl lettering order.