Hello friends, I’m late as usual but I wanted to announce the lucky winner of my Shabby Apple $50 gift card!
Random.org picked…
#31, who is Julie at julie.m.xxxxxxxx@gmail.com! Congrats Julie, I’ll forward your email to my contact and hopefully she’ll be in touch soon. I hope you get something really, really cute and fun.
Good Lord, I am TERRIBLE at remembering to tell people they won things. I remember to PICK a winner on time, but having their name in my head doesn’t a) let them know they won or b) get them a prize. SO!
The winner of the Social Cooler from PackIt is…
Comment number 12, Amanda! Congrats lady, I hope you have a great time with your cooler at the beach and the zoo and on picnics and doing tons of fun things this summer with your girls!
And if you’re not Amanda, be sure to like PackIt on Facebook to keep up to date with other chances to win great stuff. Or head on over to their site and just buy one already because they’re awesome!
Back in July, one of my bloggy heros Loralee posted a link to a contest for an all-expenses paid trip to The Creative Connection Conference in Minneapolis.
All you had to do to enter was write a 250-word essay about your creativity and how attending would help you develop as a person and an entrepreneur.
So, hey, nothing to lose. I wrote an essay, frantically using up more than my fair share of contractions trying to keep it under 250 words. Because, HELLO, creating stuff is awesome. I do it a lot. It’s not always pretty or perfect or brilliant, but I love my blog, my photographs, my knitting, my baking and the chance to meet and network with other (way WAY more amazingly creative) women sounded like a dream come true.
I sent my crazy rambling words off into the ether and forgot all about it.
OK, I didn’t really forget. I thought about it. A lot. I thought about how amazing it would be to attend a conference like this (HELLO, THE PIONEER WOMAN IS GOING TO BE THERE). I thought about how much of myself I put into my little essay. I thought about it right up until the day they were supposed to contact the winners. Then I thought bitter, angry thoughts about the jerks who got picked instead of me.
And then yesterday I got an email.
Hi Suzanne,
Congratulations! We have selected you as one of our three winners in the Create.Craft.Connect contest sponsored by Lark Crafts and The Creative Connection!
We were so inspired by your incredibly unique entry (love your belief that creativity isn’t about talent but the love of making things!) that we’d like to send you to the conference in September.
WHAT THE WHAT? My best guess is I was runner up #17 or something and the other winners had to turn it down for some reason, which would explain why I was contacted so late. But who the heck cares, I’M A WINNER!
I passed out for a minute. Then I sobbed a little. Then I tweeted like fourty bazillionty times. Then I sobbed a little more. Then I jumped up and down. Then I peed my pants because I couldn’t bring myself to step away from the computer in case the email message somehow disappeared.
Can you tell I’m excited? SUPER excited. I’m also terrified I’ll spend the whole time standing in a corner because I don’t know ANYONE. I also feel like a terrible mother because I’ll be leaving Baby Evan AGAIN for three more days, not to mention dumping him with my parents for most of Labor Day weekend while E and I attending wedding festivities. And then I feel ever worse because I don’t actually feel THAT BAD about getting some more baby free time before Baby Squared becomes a reality. Mama likes sleeping in.
I don’t have any actual plans yet, no plane ticket or confirmations or instructions on how to sign up for the workshops or whatever. Which means maybe this is just some sort of extra-specific spam and tomorrow I’ll get an email saying the best way to contact them is this Nigerian phone number and while they’ve got my attention could I help their great uncle transfer $23,000,000 out of the country? All they need is my bank info. I don’t think I’d be the least bit surprised.
BUT. If it is real, I will soon be accosting Ree Drummond with my giant pregnant belly and tracking down Allison from O My Family to prove she really is as cute in person.
I need to go change my pants again.
p.s. Who can suggest somewhere to get awesome, fast, cute, cheap business cards? Because if I’m going to pretend to be all like “Oh hai, Am legitimate bizness woman!” I think I need cards.
The winner of the Planet Wise Wet/Dry bag is…
Comment #51 belonged to Bellegourmande, who I happen to know has a brand-spankin-new bebeh at home and could certainly use this awesome bag! Yah! Now you just have to pick out a pattern, which is a good way to waste part of a Friday, don’t you think?
On Monday I’ve got one more cool giveaway that TWO people are going to win. Here’s a preview:
And a link so you can check them out if you want. Like my friend Jen said, I’m doing AWESOME with the eco-friendly stuff. Truthfully, I’ll never work with a company I don’t love or give away anything I wouldn’t (or don’t already) use myself. I think that’s the best way to do this bloggy giveaway thing, don’t you?
Comment #10 belongs to Holly from A Baby Grows in Brooklyn! Congrats Holly! I’ve sent you an email with details on how to claim your prize.
Thanks to everyone who entered, I appreciate you taking the time to comment and I enjoyed hearing about how you recycle! It inspired me to actually wash out my last peanut butter jar.
My next giveaway is all ready to go and I’m super excited – it’s something I own and love and I specifically begged requested the company work with me to offer. I’ll put it up on Monday July 26th!
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As a housekeeping note, I had some trouble yesterday with my posts disappearing/not showing up in readers, so if you didn’t read my story about E’s decision to re-enlist or see the gratuitous men-in-uniform pictures, please scroll down (or click through) and check it out. I think E’s a little sad no one said how handsome he looked.
Bonjour! No I'm not French, it just sounded fancy. Sorry for the confusion. I'm Suzanne, a 30-year-old Navy wife, blogger, baker, and amateur at pretty much everything else. The stars of the show are Evan, born 4/5/09 and Caroline, born 12/19/2010. I love hearing from you so if you have questions, stories or ideas to share, email me at bebehblog at gmail dot com.
