Patty Anderson Jewelry Giveaway!

Do you love gorgeous silver nautical/sea inspired jewelry!? If so, head over to the Sweet Southern Prep blog and check out this giveaway!! 

One lucky reader will win their choice of Patty Anderson jewelry and another lucky lady will win a box of Lilly Pulitzer cookies!! Good luck! :)

And if you happen to enter the giveaway, make sure you let her know I sent ya. :) 

Giveaway #3- Nautical Necklace and Wild Mountain Thyme Mini Painting

Hello all! Hope you are enjoying your week so far. I came across another amazing Etsy store. It is called Tuckoo and Moocow. The artist, Sarah, is a 22yr old college student at the University of Kansas (KU) where she double majors in Anthropology and Art History with a minor in Studio Art. 

She was married in December to a guy who has been her best friend for 9 years.  She enters juror-ed art shows and art fairs on a regular basis. Her Etsy shop, Tuckoo and Moo Cow, was opened May 19th of this year. The name stems from the first line of James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

She and her husband have been calling each other tuckoo and moo cow since they started dating 3 years ago. Her favorite mediums are oil pencil which she works like oil pastels (tedious) and watercolor. She is a part of the VAST: Visual Arts Street Team on Etsy. Her father is an artist and art history professor and her mother is a concert pianist with an MBA who usually runs non-profit organizations. She assumes she got any creative inclination directly from them.

She is a a voracious reader, and loves to go on long walks with her husband, Jordan, and Cairn Terrier, George. She journals a great deal, goes on frequent adventures, and loves history and archeology. She sings practically everywhere she goes, and has taught herself the piano and is currently learning the violin.

Her Etsy store is full of creative hand-made jewelry and paintings! Go check it out here!

One lucky follower will win this gorgeous sailboat necklace and original painting.

The print measurements: 5" x 7" with 1" border. The piece was made while listening to The Corries recording of "Wild Mountain Thyme" -- Scottish folk musicians from the 70s. 

Necklace: 1.5cm wide pendant with original watercolor painting sealed with resin. Comes with 19" chain. 

In order to enter there are only two requirements:

#1) You must follow my blog ( and comment that you are a follower.)

#2) You must go to Tuckoo and Moo Cow and comment with your favorite item in her store.

(That will count as one entry.)

**If you would like 5 additional entries, you just have to post about this giveaway on your blog. In the blog post please include a link to the giveaway, a link to Sara's Etsy store, and a photo of one of her items.**

Please post a separate comment for each entry. So if you follow and comment, that is one comment and if you blog about the giveaway, you will leave 6 separate comments.

I am going to use an automatic number generator to choose the winner. So everyone is welcome to enter and there will be absolutely no bias with the winner selected.

The giveaway starts today, July 8, 2010 and I will announce the winner in one week on Monday July 15th 2010. Good luck!!

My First Giveaway!

I love to share my favorite shopping finds on my blog. And I love to post about everyone's lovely blog giveaways. So this week, I have decided to do several giveaways of my own. Etsy is one of my favorite places to buy gifts, baby items, and fun homemade products. I wanted to share some of my favorite Etsy finds with you all this week and give you a chance to win one of your own.

For those of you who have never entered a blog giveaway, it is really simple and you have a great chance of winning. I have already won several amazing items through blog giveaways and I have only been blogging for three months now! So enter, it might just be your lucky day!!

I came across a FABULOUS etsy store when I was searching for a nautical necklace to wear to my baby shower. It is called Hiphophippos. The store is run by Sara. She is a mommy to an adorable 22 month old boy. Her little man inspired her shop name because his absolute favorite stuffed animal is a little mint green hippo. So cute!

Sara creates personalized artisian jewelry. It is gorgeous and PERSONALIZED. You know i love my monogram and name on everything! haha! The best thing about Sara's store.. if you don't stumble across exactly something you are looking for, you can send her a message and she would love to create something special just for you!

Fun Facts About Sara:

*She was born and raised in Massachusetts , but she has lived in Connecticut for 7 years now.
*She LOVE LOVE LOVES the beach and feels most at peace there.
*She is an animal lover.
*She used to be a retail manager, but since she had her son , he has become her main focus and she is fortunate enough to stay home with him while her fiance' does the dirty work!
*She has only been making hand stamped jewelry for about 6 months, but she has always loved to create things with her hands and picked this up the craft very quickly.
*She loves to hand-make EVERYTHING! And she enjoys the whole process of buffing, stamping, polishing, wrapping dangles.... and so on.

Here are a few of my favorite items from her store:

And want to hear the BEST PART... almost everything in her store is $30 or less!! And it is sterling silver!! I think these would be perfect gifts for friends and family!! Personalized items are just so fun!

Now for the fun part, Sara has graciously offered one of her gorgeous pieces of jewelry to the winner of the giveaway! The winner of the giveaway can choose anything they want from Sara's Etsy shop that is $30 and under! (This is a good majority of her jewelry!) So you pick and personalize your prize! How fun is that!??

In order to enter there are only two requirements:

#1) You must follow my blog. ( and comment that you are a follower)

#2) You must go to Hiphophippos and comment with your favorite item in her store and how you would personalize it.

(That will count as one entry.)

**If you would like 5 additional entries, you just have to post about this giveaway on your blog. In the blog post please include a link to the giveaway, a link to Sara's Etsy store, and a photo of one of her items.**

Please post a separate comment for each entry. So if you follow and comment, that is one comment and if you blog about the giveaway, you will leave 6 separate comments.

I am going to use an automatic number generator to choose the winner. So everyone is welcome to enter and there will be absolutely no bias with the winner selected.

The giveaway starts today, July 5, 2010 and I will announce the winner in one week on Monday July 12th 2010. Good luck!!

Hope you love it as much as I do!!!

Jewelry Giveaway!

Kitchen Belleicious is hosting a fabulous giveaway on her blog! She is featuring designer, Devon Baer. Devon Baer is a Manhattan Based Designer that brings her love for fashion and interiors to a new accessory line that bears her name. Inspired by antiques and the lovely world of interior design, her bold patterns and statement jewelry capture all things beautiful in the design world. With classic elegance and urban sophistication, Devon Baer's collection of preppy and whimsical handcrafted belts and jewelry reflect her personal style.

She is giving away one gorgeous  Midnight Flower Necklace designed by Devon! If you want to enter the contest GO HERE!! 

Here are a few of my other favorite designs by Devon:

Check out Devon's Etsy store HERE!! 

Necklace Giveaway!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this necklace! Leigh Ashley is giving it away on her blog. 

Check it out here!

It was made by a wonderful woman named kavitha who runs the amazing etsy store,{the jewelry deli} Check out the Etsy store for some adorable accessories.