I am soooo excited to announce this give-a-way of Jenny Hart's brand new book Embroidered Effects. Chronicle Books is hosting this little free for all (well one, but you know what I mean), so thankee thankee CB! Embroidered Effects is filled with stitches and patterns for all levels of stitchers. You don't embroider? Well, here's your chance to learn or your chance to cross off someone on your prezzie list! What a GREAT gift.
Please leave a comment, I'll close the post on Thursday morning. Also for all you Jenny Hart fan's out there, I'll have a Q&A with her in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
I am super excited to greet you this Monday morning with not only the awesome work of Hilary Pecis but a chance to win the above print through Little Paper Planes. LPP is offering a very limited run of Hilary's "beautiful collaged moments", only 15 are available and one could be yours! Please leave a comment, I will leave the comment section open til Saturday. While you sit patiently with baited breath to find out if you won, check out this great interview with Hilary on LPP.
The good folks over at Yellow Bird Project have asked the blog to take part in a mailing list competition. You have the opportunity to win a bunch of different prizes...but the only hint you'll get are the pics you see here! So head on over to Yellow Bird and add your email address to their mailing list to get YBP's monthly newsletter, new t-shirt design announcements, exclusive promotions, competitions, and lots of other great info. Here is the page you need to go to: http://www.yellowbirdproject.com/mailing_list_competition_horses
This adorable print by the ever talented Lisa Romero is available to you, yes you (plus some other goodies that will be revealed when you open your wee package!), granted you are the comment I pick on Monday a.m. So you know how we do it: leave a comment, whatever your sweet heart wants to say. I will randomly choose a number through the randomizer and send it your way! It's pretty easy and what better way to kick off the hump day on a short week? Good luck!
I am super excited to post this give-a-way by Sublime Stitching. They're offering one reader this super cute pattern by Carson Ellis. It's #9 in their artist series, it's just perfect for the summer. I first learned of Sublime Stitching years ago through BUST magazine. I love what Jenny Hart has done for embroidery! It has been a favorite hobby of mine since I was a kid, and leave it to Sublime Stitching to take art and combine it with craft so effortlessly. So rad. Carson Ellis is an amazing illustrator and I can't think of a perfect summer time combo. Just leave a comment. I'll pick a winner on Monday a.m.
Little Leaf Adornments is offering one lucky reader this adorable unicorn ring. So cute right? Just leave a comment to enter...I'll close the give-a-way Friday a.m. If you can't wait that long, you can head on over to Victoria's etsy shop and buy one yourself. To see more of her collection you can keep an eye on her blog. Like this elephant ring for instance, perfect on it's own and goodluck is included! Ha!
Recently I was contacted on behalf of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's to offer a giveaway on the blog. I have been listening to the new YYY's on repeat since the day I got a copy, so needless to say I am pretty pumped to be able to offer this to you guys. It's Blitz! is seriously the perfect Spring time soundtrack. It's full of intensity that we expect from the YYY's but also a lighter, dreamier side. I can't say enough good stuff about the album. Among the many favs on the album...Heads Will Roll and Hysteric are current repeats on the ipizzle.
Three readers will receive a copy of the new cd It's Blitz! and a poster. Kind of awesome, right? All you have to do is leave a comment. I'll choose the winners on Saturday a.m and contact them through email.
If you haven't heard the new album check out the YYY's myspace page. Also, they are about to kick off a huge tour on the 23rd, if you can catch them I highly recommend it. Here's a little info about the album:
"It's
Blitz!" was recorded with Nick Launay (producer of YYYs 2007 released
"Is Is" EP) and longtime collaborator TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek. The
album sessions took the city dwelling band from the snow-covered fields
of rural Massachusetts and Long View Studios, to Sitek's Staygold
complex in Brooklyn before heading south to a studio in Tornillo in the
Texan desert for further confinement and recording. "It's Blitz!"
signals both a glance backward and a step forward for the Yeah Yeah
Yeahs. Guitarist Nick Zinner had brought along an old keyboard he
bought on eBay to work with during the writing session not expecting it
to end up on the album. However, the sounds of the vintage Arp were so
right for the new songs that they found their way into the atmospheric
washes of "Skeletons", the disco wiggles of "Heads Will Roll", and New
Wave melodrama of "Soft Shock". "Obviously, synths have been in rock
music forever," Zinner says. "But to us it feels new, which is all we
really care about--that excitement."
In the meantime check out the new blog Lisa just started, where she shares about her life, art and her little love: Wilfredo. Next week I'll have a studio visit to post as well...while I was in SF (I'm still here!) I got to hang out with Lisa and see her beautiful studio...stay tuned!
Chronicle Books is offering three readers Mike Perry's Iron Me On: 50 Sheets of awesome fabric transfers. Mike has a piece in the upcoming You've Got Light In Your Eyes at Needles + Pens, so I thought what better way to celebrate festivities then give you things! The book is on back order it's so popular...so you're psyched. Just in time for summer, you can iron some of Mike's signature doodles and drawerings onto your cute little t's that you look so foxy in. Please leave a comment, and we'll pick 3 winners on Monday a.m. Good luck, I am pretty sure you are going to win this time.
I love this print by Tony Bevilacqua! He was cool enough to let me offer it to one reader...So just leave a comment, and I will choose a comment at random on Saturday. Check out the pic below in the studio visit...Tony is actually pulling this print (it's six colors!). If you can't wait....you can pick up stuff from Tony in his shop. Rock it out.
The lovely and ever adorable folks at Chronicle Books have so generously offered the Listography books as a giveaway today. I believe the very first book I wrote about here on the blog was Listography. I am a big fan of lists and for as long as I can remember I've carried a notebook with me. Listography makes it cute, easy and perfectly bound for you! Chronicle Books is offering all three books; Listography, Love Listography and My Listography (for the chirren and youngins) to three readers. You know how we do it...leave a comment and three winners will be chosen at random on Friday morning.
***You must enter Yellow Bird's Mailing List to participate in the giveaway!***
I'm super excited to announce a giveaway in conjunction with Yellow Bird Project. Yellow Bird Project is an awesome charity that asks bands like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bon Iver, My Brightest Diamond to choose a charity of their choice and design a t-shirt. Then Yellow Bird produces the shirt and 100% of the profits go to the said charity. Pretty rad! Some of the charities Yellow bird supports are Art for Change, Amnesty International, Teenage Cancer Trust and to see all the charities go here. Yellow Bird is a great way place to shop for prezzies for your loved
ones, because not only will you be getting a unique gift, but you will
be helping out a charity. Tis the season of giving...
Yellow Bird needs your help to get the word out about their organization by asking you to sign up for their mailing list. They have graciously offered to give away two t-shirts, one Bon Iver and one Au Revoir Simone, seen above. All you have to do is go here and sign up for Yellow Bird's mailing list...and you'll be automatically signed up for the giveaway. So no comments are necessary (only if you want to say hi!), just head on over and leave your email address. It will be used solely for Yellow Bird Project. We'll close the giveaway Saturday. Have fun!
drew from gelaskins was kind enough to send jen lobo's print nantucket sleigh ride to me. i love the epicness of it. it's right above my desk, keeping me lost in it instead of doing things i need to be doing.
but wait! wait! drew also sent along a bunch of gelaskins for me to give to you. i've linked them here for you to look at (isn't technology so neat?): 1 for a classic ipod, and twodifferent skins for iphone 3g and 1 laptop gelaskin for 15.4" laptop. so that's 4 total, people. perfect for that new iphone you just bought, or that old beater of an ipod you have right? or perhaps prezzies for the upcoming holiday season. yippee! i'll keep the comments open til tuesday a.m. please leave a comment if you'd like to be included.
i'm so excited! and really very honored to offer 5 readers 5 posters from advice to sink in slowly! that's FIVE readers get FIVE posters EACH! just in case you can't add, that's 25 posters in total! sorry to yell, but i am just so excited! ha! the oh so very gracious john stanbury, the brains and the brawn behind advice to sink in slowly has offered this giveaway as an exclusive peak at this year's designs. exciting, right?
the entire group will be revealed in full when the new advice to sink in slowly website
launches in approximately 3 weeks time. there is much planned too! the new site will showcase a wider
range of submissions passing on personal advice in a creative way in
the form of songs, written content, films and objects. a new range of submissions in different formats will be piloted
every few months for view. an album of songs is slated to be released in december
and a series of short story posters will be released in february. wow! it all sounds so exciting so book mark advice to sink in slowly's new website. i'll post when the site is live for sure.
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