Giveaways!

Guess WHAT?  Tonight there is one more chance to win a Palm Pre Plus.  Along with the rest of TheMotherhood.com’s Verizon Palm Pre Plus mom blogger team, I will be hosting a Smart Mom/Smart Phone Twitter party tonight, Wednesday, March 17, from 9 to 10 PM EST.

In preparation for our guest appearance on The Fly Lady radio show tomorrow (YES!  I’m going to be on the Fly Lady’s radio show tomorrow; I hope you’ll tune in), we’ll be talking about balancing our busy lives and our best Palm Pre Plus tips and tricks.  At the end of the party, one lucky winner will receive  a Verizon Palm Pre Plus.

Here are the deets:

Participate and follow our Twitter party with our custom tweet grid at 9PM EST tonight — St. Patty’s Day!  Shamrock shakes optional.

The hashtag for the party will be #VerizonPalmPrePlus.

In order to win the Verizon Palm Pre Plus (you must have your own Verizon  contract with a data plan in order to use the phone), simply post your Twitter ID in Mister Linky below and participate with at least one tweet during the party.  When you add your link on my site it automatically gets added to the other bloggers that are participating in the Twitter party.

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This giveaway is closed.  In addition to one 12×12-inch custom piece from Modern Bird Studios, Megan and Gregg have offered to give a second winner a 50% off gift certificate.  The randomly selected numbers were 25 and 4, so the winner of the 12×12 piece of personalized artwork is Hillcrest Cottage.  And should she wish to accept, the 50% off coupon goes to courtney.  Congrats, ladies, and thank you Megan and Gregg for providing this giveaway.

In this challenging economic climate, it seems that there’s no end to the creative and innovative ways people are keeping food on the table.  Case in point: Modern Bird Studios.

Modern Bird Studios is a small family business run by Gregg Deal and his wife Megan, inspired by Gregg’s interest in urban art and his desire to use his talent to provide for his family.  He combines technology and painting to turn personal photographs into pieces of hip modern art.  Seriously, you’ve got to check it out.

Megan contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d be interested in receiving a piece of their artwork and offered to provide a giveaway for my readers as well as a discount code.  I’m pretty choosy about the reviews and giveaways I accept these days, especially the ones that I put here on Musings of a Housewife, but as soon as I saw their site, I knew I had to tell y’all about it.

The process was a piece of cake, and Megan was delightful to deal with.  I knew immediately which picture I wanted to use.

I got to choose two colors from this color chart.  I was tempted by the tan and white, but I knew I wanted to hang it on the rust-red walls of my office and I thought the black and white would be the perfect contrast, so that was my final answer.  The very next day Megan sent an image proof for my approval.  It looked great, so she said Gregg was going to get to work painting it.  He painted it on a 12×24 block of wood.  In their FAQ section, you can see a description of the process and an explanation of why he uses wood vs. canvas.  A few days later Megan contacted me to say that my painting was going in the mail, and it arrived on my doorstep the next day.  Even she was surprised at how fast it came.  I unwrapped it to find this:

I KNOW!  That’s my view whenever I look up from my computer.  What a treasure!

I guess you know what’s coming next…

WIN IT! One lucky winner will receive a 12×12-inch painting from Modern Bird Studios.  That’s a $215 value.  You will supply them with the photo of your choice and the two colors you would like the piece created in.  To be eligible to win, there are a couple things you need to do:

1. Follow @Modern_Bird on Twitter

2. Follow Modern Bird on Facebook

3. Leave a comment on this post telling me anything relevant to the artwork at Modern Bird.

I will randomly select a winner next Monday, March 1st.

Finally, if you don’t win, Modern Bird is offering MOAH readers 15% applicable towards a custom piece (from a photo) or for any of the Bloom Pre-Designed Series.  This offer expires on March 8, and the code is MUSINGS.

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This giveaway is closed.  The winner is Mel @ A Box of Chocolates!!  I hope you enjoy your new jewelry.

At Blissdom, I received a $50 gift card to the vintage pearl and I met two of the lovely ladies behind the beautiful hand stamped jewelry.

Like this.

And this.

And since I already have a couple of pieces of hand stamped jewelry in my dresser drawer, I thought that I’d use this gift certificate as a giveaway, just because I appreciate you all.  And because I have a minor case of the winter blues, and I thought it might be fun to make somebody squeal with delight.  And because I hit 1400 subscribers today, and that’s as good a reason as any to celebrate.

I’m going to ask one thing.  If you already have a meaningful piece of stamped jewelry, please pass on this giveaway so that someone who doesn’t have one might have a chance.  Of course, if you want to use it as a gift for a special someone, that’s entirely your prerogative.

Just leave a comment and tell me anything — serious, funny, sad… anything.  Just not “great giveaway!” or “pick me!”

I’ll randomly select a winner sometime next week.

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This contest is closed.  The winning number is…109.  That’s Leanne K.  Congrats, Leanne!

Remember when there was just one kind of Sharpie?  It was gray with a black cap, and it came in black ink ONLY.  Then they came out with the fine tip.  Now they make Sharpies in every color of the rainbow, in every kind of tip imaginable, baby Sharpies, fancy aluminum Sharpies with replaceable ink cartridges…  You name it; if it’s a pen, Sharpie makes it.

Just look at what they sent me.

How cute is that?  A festive ball ornament full of different kinds of Sharpies.

And like the pens, when it comes to uses for the Sharpie, the possibilities are endless.

If I was craftsy, which I most certainly am not, but if I was, I might do something like create flower pot bell ornaments for the tree using Sharpie paint markers.  You could color small terra-cotta flowerpots and let them dry.  In fact, I might just have to go to the craft store and pick up some of those flowerpots and set my 7-year-old daughter free with the Sharpies one afternoon.  She’d have a ball.  Heh.  Get it?  A ball.  Ahem, sorry.

Or you could create your own wrapping paper.

Or make your own holiday cards or thank you cards.

They make great gifts too.  Just place an assortment of Sharpies in a large soup can covered in plain white paper and decorated with Sharpie markers. Wrap it up, top with a festive bow and there you have it — the perfect gift for your child’s teacher or babysitter.

Oh and hey.  Sharpie wants to award one of my lucky readers with their very own ornament of Sharpies. I KNOW!  Fun, huh?  Just tell me in the comments how you would use your ornament o’ Sharpies, and you are entered to win.  And for an extra entry, you can tweet about the contest using the hashtag #sharpie.  (Be sure to leave a 2nd comment that you tweeted it, so you get two entries!!)  I will randomly select a winner on Saturday, December 12.

THEN. Blissfully Domestic is hosting contest where participants can show off their Sharpie-inspired creations and enter to win a $250 gift card. Feel free to use one of my suggestions above, or create your own.  Then you will need to upload a picture of your creation onto the contest post, or you can write a post on your blog and link up.  I’ll update this post with a link to the contest when it goes live tomorrow.  The winner will be drawn by random number.

This post is part of a Blissful Media campaign.

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