Can you believe that Yes and Yes has been trundling along the information super highway for two years now?! Yes. And doesn't everybody like to commemorate birthdays by ripping the paper off of new shiny things? Lucky for us, some incredibly lovely readers stepped forward to donate products for Yes and Yes's Great Birthday Giveaway. Let's see what's in the goodie bag, shall we?
Colorful polymer clay bead necklace from AC's CraftsColorful polymer clay beads on a leather cord and silver plated chain are sure to match any outfit. The beads are baked, painted and then attached by silver plated wire to a silver plated chain. The necklace is finished off by a leather cord and silver plated lobster clasp.
Owl bookmark from Between The Lines Between the Lines is a shop solely devoted to "Treasures for Books and Their Lovers."If you love books, you'll surely love these! Owner Cassie is a lover of all things that have to do with books. She dreams of owning a book store one day and having sleepovers in it regularly.
Fabric headband from Heart and SpadesHeart & Spade headbands, available year round, are often described as ethereal, whimsical, and just plain old fun. Winter months often bring cozy items to the shop, such as infinity scarves and other hand knitted accessories. Each item is made with individual attention and care, and custom orders are welcome
Funshine Sunshine © 2009 Klair ScattergoodRhomany is the artist name of Klair Scattergood, a mixed media artist, art journaller and children's illustrator from the UK. Her pieces are cheerful and colourful, invoking the bright feeling of summer childhoods, when becoming an Indian princess was as simple as donning a chiffon scarf and going to sea as a pirate needed only an upturned table and a sheet. As well as creating artwork for children, Rhomany runs online workshops in bookbinding and art journaling, for anyone who wants to rediscover the magic of playtime. * p.s. this is extra awesome because Klair will actually alter the hair color of the character or the colors in the picture - so you can make it look like you!
A Set of Karma Cards
Are you guys sick of these yet? I rather hope not. Tuck those cards behind changing room mirrors, under windsheilds and or in mailboxes.
Polaroid print of your choice from OPB StudiosAlli of OPB Studios is a photographer who specializes in creating fine art photographs using vintage Polaroid cameras. Her work is heavily influenced by the past and by light, particularly the soft light that filters through windows. Her photos are romantic and vintage-inspired, but undeniably modern.
Forget Me Not Notepad from Neroli Blossoms BoutiqueNeroli Blossoms Boutique is a fun little shop carrying clothing, accessories, and gift items. Clean lines, fresh designs, fun, flirty, and feminine are all factors that you'll find in the products. A great little store to find something that isn't everywhere else!
Three pounds of Wildcat CoffeeWildcat Coffee organic coffee is roasted to order and shipped within 24 hours. How's that for hustle? Coffee beans are sourced through the Farm Gate program which ensures the grower gets a very fair price for their crop and keep all the money. No handling, coop or auction fees!
Grymm & Epic Guide to Blogging by Steff MetalSteff Metal is a NZ-based writer, artist and metalhead - and writer of 101 Ways to Cheer Yourself Up. In the Steff Metal etsy shop you'll find "bright" dark gothic / heavy metal artwork, and writing packages for etsy sellers and small businesses.
A digital design of your choice from KatypieKatypie creates gorgeous one off digital designs for you to print. She can make invitations, birth announcements, business logos, posters, scrapbooking pages, storyboards... she even make your blog pretty. Check out her website or facebook page for samples, prices and special deals.
What a fantastic haul! Please do take a few minutes to pop by the online haunts of these lovely and generous readers and say hello.
To enter? Leave a comment - including your email address - detailing your favorite birthday gift. And if you're keen for a second entry, blog/tweet/facebook about this contest and include the link in your comment.
Best of luck!
175 comments:
squee!! I love birthdays! What a wonderful idea! I absolutely ADORE the clay bead necklace (from AC's Crafts), how beautiful and what a way to brighten up your day! I can so imagine wearing it with my favourite LBD! Thanks for the opportunity to win and Happy Birthday Yes and Yes!
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Happy Birthday Yes and Yes! How exciting!
My favorite birthday present would have to be the slip-n-slide I got one year, the kicker is it was for my 18th birthday. I had always wanted one so my best friend got me one. Then we (along with 2 other good friends) took it outside in a thunderstorm and played until our little hearts were content. It was like being 5 again and I loved it!
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So... this pretty much looks like the best giveaway of all time...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Yes and Yes!!
My favourite birthday gift would have to be from when I was 10 years old. My dad bought me a cassette player. It was chunky and very yellow with giant grey buttons that clicked really loudly when pressed! It had three functions: Stop. Rewind and Play!
suyi89 (at) gmail (dot) com
Happy bday, yes&yes! I just love bdays, they are the perfect excuse to indulge, right?
Anyway, my fave gift was a handwritten letter from someone I love with all my heart.
I've tweeted about this awesome giveaway: https://twitter.com/MoniLozano/status/15319024068
Email: supermoni [at] gmail [dot] com
Ooooooh! How very lovely!!
I can't decide personally between the lovely owl bookmark or the guide to blogging with the wonderful cat picture attached!
I will be tweeting/fbooking about this also asap!!
Sarah.
berlzrules@hotmail.com
https://twitter.com/Sarah_J_Evans
http://thesecretistobelieve.blogspot.com/
Oh, I love that owl bookmark and I would never say no to delicious coffee!
Congrats on two years!
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Well my favorite bday gift would have to be the car stereo/speakers set I recieved for my old car a couple of years back.
The only thing I absolutely need in a car is good sound quality for my music, so when my parents bought me those speakers for the old hand-me-down family car, I was thrilled.
The only bad thing was I totalled the car about a month later. Suck!
This is fabulous, Sarah! I'm in!! My fave birthday present was a full day of aquatic-related activities and gifts that Joe gave me a couple of years ago. We went to the Shedd aquarium, walked through the rain to the Children's museum (I don't think the rain was part of the plan, but it tied together well) and had sushi for dinner. Theme birthdays rock!
clarebld(at)yahoo(dot)com
I just tweeted it, too! http://twitter.com/ChicagoLaundry
What a cool giveaway! Happy Blogiversary to you!
I do love that bookmark. It's so adorable.
Happy anniversary. I am so glad I found your blog and "live long, write much and prosper". All the gifts are so well done....any would be a joy.
Want want want! <3
My birthday weekend has just gone and I'm very sad it's all over! My favourite present was all-you-can-eat chinese food for lunch: NOM NOM NOM! I could live on that stuff forever and had such a nice time at the restaurant :)
Oooohhh, such lovely gifties!
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Hooray!!!!!
I would like the bracelet, but shoot, I'd be thrilled for any of those!
Happy Birthday!
Best birthday gift to date, I'm 7 years old and the marketing genius's at Mattell have worked their magic-I WANT a Puppy Surprise, and wouldn't you know my passionate commitment to my desire for 5 months (yep, five months for a 7 year old) worked out!
From then on I've been a believer in the law of attraction. and right now I'm attracting the polymer necklace :)
jenna(dot)v(dot)gray at gmail(dot)com
My favorite birthday present would have to be my 16th birthday present from my Dad. We are a middle-class frugal family so this was truly spectacular. He took me to the top of the Hancock building in Chicago for dinner and a carriage ride and gave me a pink sapphire ring. I love my father and treasure the time that we got to spend together!
My best birthday present ever was being born ;)
Second best was a trip to Brazil for my 15th birthday!
Also, I did a tweet about your giveaway :)
http://twitter.com/MissLorra/statuses/15323925211
Happy Birthday, yes and yes! It's amazing to know that such an inspiring blog is in it for the long haul. I love the owl bookmark!
My favourite birthday present was from someone I didn't eve know cared that it was my birthday. I had been going through a tough time, and it seemed that a lot of the people I considered 'friends' didn't seem to notice. This girl haf heard about what was going on, and came up to me at work and handed me a little tealight. As she placed it on the counter, she said 'I heard you could use a little light in your life', and smiled. She was right.
Coincidentally, there was a terrible storm that night and the power went out while I was writing an important letter. Just as I thought to myself 'This can't get any worse! I realized I had the perfect candle to light up my night, and finished my letter with it. It was kind of surreal.
I started to re evaluate those I kept close to me. I've since gained the most wonderful group of supportive friends,her being my best. Lin, if you're reading this, I love you!
miss_shilo@hotmail.com
Man, such a great giveaway!
My favorite birthday present is probably the awesome netbook my husband got me because I kept complaining that his 17-inch laptop was too big for my lap.
Email is rtlegere (at) gmail.
How fun! Happy 2-year-birthday to yes and yes! My favorite birthday gift was probably the scrapbook my sister made for me the year I graduated from high school (my birthday was right around graduation). It was chock-full of family pictures and my favorite quotes-- such a thoughtful gift!
This is such a phenomenal idea! I love seeing how creative your readers are!
The best birthday present I ever received was a vintage copy of ee cummings fairy tales...the original with the cool illustrations. There is one titled "The House That Fell In Love With A Bird." How can you not love that?
It was a very trying time in my life-stress, illness and finances. I was washed out with despair...my friend wanted me to remember that I still that magical part of me inside and get it touch with it again. I did and am forever grateful.
My favourite birthday gift was a Nikon D60, given to me by my parents when I was in high school. We didn't have much money growing up, so I was more than surprised when I opened it up.
Photography keeps me outside exploring nature, so I can share it with others. It also got me a small scholarship to college!
While digital is amazing, I have to say that I miss the days of rolling my own film, developing the film and enlarging the photos. Being in the dark room, seeing a picture appearing before your eyes? It's such a fulfilling experience.
cookejar(at)gmail(dot)com
http://filigreeandflowers.tumblr.com/
Love that bookmark!
I have been very lucky when it comes to great birthday gifts. My favorite birthday present was my 8th birthday party. It was my golden birthday and my Mom bedazzeled me a golden shirt with golden animal-print leggings and gold-fringe socks. I had a gold cake with gold candles and I got a gold locket with my birthday, initials, and "golden birthday" engraved on the side. It has a picture on Mom and Dad on the inside :)
My birthday falls exactly one week before Christmas, so my family has always tried to make them separate events, not lump them together.
My favorite birthday gift was in 2001 - the day after my birthday I was travelling home from an internship at Walt Disney World. I thought just my parents were picking me up, but my entire family met me at the airport, wearing cardboard Mickey Mouse ears, holding signs and singing "It's a Small World." We got home, and we all had cake. It was honestly the best birthday I can remember.
Please email me via the contact form on my website - I'm uncomfortable putting my full e-mail address here. Thanks, and sorry!
Yum, coffee! My best ever birthday present was when my boyfriend took me to the Six Flags park in Houston. We were the only people there and rode the roller coasters as many times as we wanted without waiting in any lines. It was awesome!
oops-this is laura at little orange kitchen---forgot to leave my email--I commented about ee cummings a few above.
littleorangekitchen@yahoo.com
Happy Birthday!!! That necklace is GORGEOUS!
My fave birthday present has to be the pearl drop necklace on a delicate gold chain that my boyfriend got me...after only two months of dating! (We started dating RIGHT before presents season--Chrismas, my birthday in January, his in Feb, and of course Valentine's Day.) Some guys would have freaked out, and it wasn't the extravagance of the gift so much that I loved, but that it showed how crazy he was about me already and that he was in it for the long haul!
Happy anniversary! These gifts are amazing! My favorite birthday gift was probably the pearl (my birthstone) ring my mom got me for my 16th birthday. Actually, my birthday is coming up in the next few weeks and this year I'm celebrating by going to New York and seeing Wicked! YAY!
katie.bahr@gmail.com
Happy birthday! Love this blog.
My favourite birthday gift ever was a party my husband threw me–80's themed with all my friends at a cottage. Lots of fun!
My favorite birthday gift? A vintage turquoise ring. I had been admiring it in a shop window for months and someone thoughtful got it for me. :)
babydeboheme (at) yahoo (dot) com
Woo hoo can't wait to wear that adorable headband ;)
Yay, happy anniversary for your blog.
The gifts all look lovely!
My favorite Birthday gift was for my 21st. I was thrown a surprise party! I really didn't have a clue about it. It was so much fun.
Happy Birthday Yes and Yes! I'm not sure if Canada is included in this giveaway but I am in love with those karma cards! I would put them everywhere. EVERYwhere. Also, blog mention = done.
:)
Oh! I forgot my fav birthday gift!
For my golden birthday (turned 13 on the 13th) my mom gave me a beautiful jewelry box with my name engraved on a little gold plate. I've taken it with me everywhere I've moved and it holds my most treasured things (not always jewelry hahaha).
gn853909@dal.ca
Happy Blog Birthday! You sure do know how to throw a party.
Best birthday gift: a visit from my sister who lives far away.
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I got a gold locket from one of my Grandmas for my golden birthday (4th). I still have it, and it's one of my favorite posessions since it has an engraving from my Grandma.
minnchic (at) gmail (dot) com
oh, my sweet daddy gave me the best birthday present!
When I was a baby, he bought a beautiful and delicate flower-shaped diamond necklace. He kept it hidden from my mama through two moves, and then let her in on the secret because he was afraid he'd lose it!
On my 16th birthday, he presented me with a small velvet box that had his first business card folded on top. I lifted the card and found one of the most special gifts I've ever received. It means so much to me still!
rebekah[dot]diehl[at]gmail[dot]com
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I love love love the owl bookmark. It just so happens that this morning when I was reading my FB news feed my frien put up a picture of an owl that got blown into his yard from the storm last night. He snapped a picture before a group of other birds started in on an aerial owl attack. So, anywho, I'm pretty sure this owl and me are meant to be. Thanks!
allison.alyse@gmail.com
Amazing giveaway!
I think my favourite gift ever was my first diary. It was one of those lockable ones marketed to young teenage girls and I think I was about 11 years old at the time. I became obsessed with recording the mundane details of my daily life and I think it helped me realise that writing is a big passion of mine.
sparkleandglitter[at]rocketmail[dot]com
Happy birthday! (My 31st is later this month). My favorite birthday gift is a ring my husband gave me last year when I turned 30 - I wear it every day.
mcculloughland@att.net
Oh this is SO LOVELY! All of the gifts are amazing, thought I'm particularly fond of the cute headband.
I think my fav birthday present, that I can remember right now, was a trip I took with my mom to Arizona. That or the vegan chocolate peanut butter eggs my best friend sent me this year :)
Blog post: http://michellegal.wordpress.com/
And my email is michellesamoa [at] gmail [dot] com
:)
Hannah B
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My favorite birthday gift was when my dad took me to see Phantom of the Opera broadway musical. It was so neat and fun to be with just my dad :)
um, if i tell you that my favorite birthday gift was a skip-it, you won't laugh at me, right? oh, you had one too you say?! well, phew! we really rocked those skip-its, didn't we? with spandex shorts and scrunchy socks! er...
LOVE all these artful works you're giving away. BEAUTIMOUS.
I love, love, love Karma cards. I have a similar deck called Wisdom Cards and I love to just hand them to people.
My mom and dad gave me a new digital camera last year. I wasn't expecting it - I had their old one and it wasn't quite working right, but I wasn't ready to give up on it. They know how much I love to take pictures, so it was extra special of them to think of it.
My favourite birthday gift was the underwater camera I got for my 9th birthday (which was a pool/baseball party). It was bright yellow and probably weighed two pounds, but I got a whole lotta uses out of it before it called quits a few years later (9-year-olds aren't always attentative with things like cameras).
For this birthday, I could totally use me some delicious coffee! You can let me know if I got lucky (or just say hi!) at fille.banane@gmail.com or check out my baby-blog at http://labanane.tumblr.com/
Happy blog-versary, Sarah!
My favourite birthday present was my SLR Camera, cliche i know but it is my favourite object that i own! Happy Birthday Yes and Yes!
My email is:
bassplectrum@hotmail.com
Thanks!
I'm torn when it comes to my favorite birthday gift. The obvious choice is the Nikon D200 that I received two years ago from my father: I was expecting, maybe, if I was lucky, a D90, and I was really wowed when I opened the box. So wowed that I ran around waving the instruction manual at people and squealing.
I think the winner, though, is what my husband got me on the first birthday we spent together. He had broken up with me the night before (forgetting that it was my birthday), and when he realized what he had done, felt awful. He wanted to do something to make it up to me, but it was 3am and he didn't have a car. His solution was to dig up flowers from the landscaping in front of our dorm, put them in Styrofoam cups, and set them all around my room.
I don't think I've ever been more surprised than when I woke up miserable on my birthday to find that he'd gone to all that trouble (and he retracted the breakup, too!).
aribabybug at gmail dot com
hooray for birthdays!
my favorite gift: a spa day this year from my husband...the perfect timing as it was in the middle of dissertation writing and a reflection of how well my spouse loves me and listens to what i/my body might need.
e.mail: schoonta@msu.edu
I would love love love a polaroid print :)
fallandthesunshines@hotmail.com
Happy blog birthday!
I remember birthday celebrations way better than presents, and I must say my favorite birthday was celebrated in Vietnam in 2008!
What great giveaway items! So many great options! Love that bookmark...
My favorite birthday present (thus far) was the gift I received when I turned eight years old. It was my golden birthday (turning eight on the eighth of the month) and my mouth had just been filled with braces. I had a retainer, the head gear that wrapped around my head... you name it. I went from being chipper and chatty to quiet and depressed. Imagine my surprise when I came home from school one day and there was a kitten in the laundry room! My dad claimed he was allergic all these years, but it turns out he just didn't like cats. However, he adopted a kitten for me because he knew how much I loved animals. She lived for 16 years and was an amazing, loving pet!
Happy birthday!!!! My favorite gift of all times was a trip to Detroit to see Rent with my family on my 16th birthday. We ate at this fancy restaurant and then saw the show (which I love) - I felt like such a grownup :)
What a great collection!!! I've got so many good ideas for birthday gifts for friends now! My favorite gift was a stuffed pig a friend gave me the year I went to college- she said she wanted something silly sitting on my bed so I couldn't NOT remember her ;)
I tweeted your contest too! (I'm @sideofsneakers) and I forgot to leave me email on the comment above it's rungirlrunn at gmail.com ;)
Wow! I recently stumbled upon your blog. I love it!
I tend to remember good birthday memories more than gifts.
My favorite birthday memory happened a few birthdays back. I rode all over town with a bunch of friends on freak bikes. I was on my old pink and purple tall bike (a 6 foot tall bike made up of two bikes one welded on top of the other) wearing a pink and purple tutu.
sara dot cougill at gmail dot com
Oooh! So many lovely goodies! My favorite birthday gift was a trip to Denver and then seeing Mary Poppins at the Denver Art Center! So fun.
guthrie(dot)caitlin(at)gmail(dot)com
Ooh, lovely! Especially the owl book mark!
I think the best present I have received was the Holly Golightly's Truly She is None Other on vinyl. My boyfriend gave it to me, when we had only been dating for a little while, and I didn't think he was getting me anything. I had mentioned loving one of the songs on the album, and he had looked all over and finally ordered it for me. It was a complete surprise and absolutely the perfect gift.
he_huovinen(at)yahoo.co.uk
I pretty much ADORE the polaroid prints and the forget-me-not list. Lists for the win!
My favourite birthday gift that I ever got was tickets to go see Il Divo. I had seen that they were coming to my town, but given up hope of seeing them due to the extravagant price. BUT! My precious family knew me well enough to spring for two tickets for my birthday! Yessss!
glynis(dot)cassley(at)gmail(dot)com
My fave birthday gift?
A deer antler!
My dad and brother found it one year in the forest. They thought "Ginger would like that!" (I like nature-y stuff) picked it up and cleaned the moss off and presented it to me on the big day. (It was a naturally shed antler, no animal harm!)
I thought it was so sweet that they thought of me and knew that I would love it! Plus it's just really cool-looking.
As for the gifts on offer, I really like that necklace! I will definitely check these sellers out :)
Email is in the blogger profile :)
My favorite birthday gift was being taken to see the Phantom of the Opera when I turned 12 and was OBSESSED with show tunes.
A very happy birthday to Yes and Yes!
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I tweeted, too: http://twitter.com/justatitch/status/15336015634
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Ooh I adore that necklace! It's so colourful, and it looks like it would definitely add a nice pop of color to my homecoming outfit. I hope I win it!
My favorite birthday gift was the time my friend bought me Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. I don't think I'll ever stop playing them. The colors and scenes in the game are so beautiful, especially Yuna's outfit in FFX.
euphemia1995(at)gmail(dot)com
2 years, wow, congratulations on the success! Here's hoping Yes&yes many birthdays to come!
The best birthday gift that I can recall right now would be from my last birthday, my 18th. My parents managed to send me on my college program's trip to New York. Four days running around that city with some of the greatest people I've ever met. Plus we were all Fine Arts students, so you can imagine how much we gorged ourselves on the museums (I spent half a day just in the Met's Egyptian exhibit), and yet there was so much that we didn't get to see! So of course another trip is in the works.
hoperin(@)live.com
Happy Anniversary !!!
These prices are just awesome, really.
This year, I'll turn 25. For some it's not big deal, but it is for me and I want it to be special. One I'll remember and will talk about in years.
The perfect birthday gift ? Having all my friends and close family gathered to celebrate. As I'm a French woman expatriated in Canada I wish they could come for my birthday...
the best birthday present I ever received came for my 13th birthday. my aunt and uncle (who were young and hip...the apple of my young eye) came bearing a wrapped present that was playing music. the entirety of Survivor by Destiny's Child, to be exact. the present inside was a new CD player, which they had stuffed with new batteries and wrapped it with my new CD playing. it was hilarious, plus I loved that CD and used the player for years.
smongan@mail.depaul.edu
Happy birthday! What a fun giveaway.
I'd have to say my favorite birthday gift was a comic strip (created in Microsoft Paint, of course) from a special someone documenting our relationship. I swoon!
I can't remember if my email address is in my account, but it's plysaght at gmail dot com. :)
Two years of uplifting, informing, and accompanying your readers! Congratulations. This is one of my favorite blogs and I'm glad I found it.
What a nice giveaway! And how cool is Rhomany.
My favorite birthday gift...the thing that always springs to mind and makes me smile is the toy version of a McDonalds Happy Meal. I was around the age of seven and we had foregone a party with my friends that year so it was pretty much just my parents and grandmas sitting at the dining room table with me. A pretty serious birthday for a little kid, and seeing all the bright plastic components of the hamburger, drink, fries, and Happy Meal box just lit me up. And even though I'm twenty-five, I think I would still be giddy to get something like that, silly as it may sound.
yabobubble at hotmail dot com
my favorite birthday present this year was my dwell studios bedding!
My favorite birthday gift ever was 2 years ago. I was surprised with *swimming with dolphins* trip. It was something on my bucket list and my hubby to be decided to help make my dream come true!
So I spent over an hour playing with dolphins, and then the same hanging out with 500 pound sea lions... it was amazing!!
Happy Birthday!! (this is an amazing giveaway!!)
dairyfreebetty(at)hotmail dot com
Let me just say, I love your blog! I have been reading it for almost a year. You inspired me to start my own blog and 20 things to accomplish before I turn 20 list.
My favorite birthday gift was from this year. My parents started a savings account for my trip to Italy next summer. I am so grateful that they are willing to help me finance my trip.
rachaelshafer@gmail.com
Happy Blog Birthday!
My birthday was just last Saturday and my favorite gift is my Nook! I love it!
My email is winningam@gmail.com
Feliz cumpleaños Yes and Yes! May you have many more!
My favorite birthday gift was when I was 7 I got my very own cabbage-patch kid. It was a boy and he came with cute blue overalls and a certificate. I was beyond excited! I carried him everywhere and I had him for years and I used to sing to him at night and take him to the park to play. We were very happy together!
email: lgoliverosatgmaildotcom
Forgot to say I love the owl bookmark. Perfect for my constantly growing collection of books to read!
Aw thaks so much for this giveaway! I'm loving the bookmark. Perfect. And as always, the Karma Cards. One day I will have some of my own. :)
KForzese07@yahoo.com
kristielynneforzese.blogspot.com
Yay for Birthdays!
My fave birthday present?
Defintely when I got the telephone and phone book charms for my plastic charm necklace. I was probably, ohhh, 7 or 8. The charms were complete with bell that would ring and pages that would flip so you could jot down all those important numbers you already had memorized anyway!
You guys (who at least grew up partly in the 80s, lol) totally know what I'm talking about. It's like this: http://i-love-my-80s-toys.popsugar.com/Plastic-Charm-Necklaces-526041
Oops, I forgot to leave my email:
unexpectedsunlight@gmail.com
My favorite are the karma cards!
In high school my mom gave me a sticker book of faces, and my friend and I would make dumb faces and stick them on peoples' windshields in the Walmart parking lot.
I imagine karma cards would be the adult version of that.
This may not have been for a birthday, but when I was away at college my sister made me a VHS compilation of the best episodes of Lois and Clark... I came across the tape recently while packing and (though I no longer have the means to play it) could never consider getting rid of it! My sister rocks.
Happy birthday!
I know that one of my items is in the giveaway but I can't resist commenting - all the other items are so beautiful too, I'd love a chance to win. :)
My favorite birthday present, of what I can remember, is a handmade cloth bound journal from this boy I liked, who is now my husband. :)
allypops{at}gmail
AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!!! I am in love with that owl bookmark :)
My favorite birthday gift is from this year. My mom got my sister and I tickets to go see Lady Gaga and I am super excited.
Have a great day!
katienickeson@hotmail(dot)com
oh my goodness, that necklace is sooooo pretty.
my favorite birthday gift, I think, was last year when I was abroad and feeling kind of sad to be away from most of my friends for my 20th. A few of the girls from my program kidnapped me from classes, took me to lunch, and then made me a cake.
I then met a charming boy while out that night, who I ended up seeing for a while- that was also a lovely gift :)
my email is ohgaloshes at yahoo dot com
Birthdays are the most incredible thing ever! I try to celebrate mine for a week at least. My favorite birthday gift was the year my friend came down to see me on my birthday (which was a gift enough!) and we went on bike rides and she made me strawberry shortcakes because it's my favorite birthday dessert. They were beautiful and it meant so much to me that she had done that.
My email addy is rebecca (dot) chernay at gmail (dot) com.
Congrats on the 2 years! What a great giveaway.
My favourite birthday present ever was the summer school course at Guildhall I got from my mum for my birthday last year. Such an amazing experience and investment in my future.
My favortie birthday present is from this year. My husband and I got married without all the to do, no proposal. Just hey we live together, we have a kid, lets get married. And last year we seperated. We got back together and are actually better then before. But for my birthday he took me to where we first met and proposed to me in front of all the people and it made me cry in an amazing way.
Happy birthday to Yes and Yes.
my email is sweetbutterbliss@gmail.com
I love the Polaroid Prints from OPB Studios! My favorite birthday gift was a trip to Guatemala : ) My address is gibbonso@seattleu.edu
My favorite birthday gift, hands down, was the new Canon camera I recieved for my eightenteen birthday a couple weeks ago :)
Happy birthday yes and yes!
My favorite all time present ever is my Lucchese cowboy boots. They are rediculously awesome!
I'd love me some of your karma cards! Yes, yes! :)
Happy birthday Yes and Yes! (or Penblwydd Hapus in Welsh) This blog makes me smile so much!
My favourite birthday present was from the universe when my boyfriend and I hopped over to Barcelona for my 21st, and just so happened to walk past a poster advertising a Belle and Sebastian gig the night of my birthday - one of my favourite bands. Ace night. Love that city!
sian.regan@gmail.com
I have blogged about this giveaway on my blog! My email is cbmccully@hotmail.com
Hey I would love the Karma Cards. It would be great to give them out to my students :) chrisabercrombienz@gmail.com
Here is my twitter entry http://twitter.com/crumblecromwell
Have a great birthday day!
My favorite gift to date, was the book/journal "Wreck this Journal" -http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/ I still am completing it, it's fun! & so up my alley ;)
hmm favourite birthday gift would be this beautiful lamp that looks like a large leaf with natural zebra grass on it!
kshuttle@uoguelph.ca
My favorite birthday gift I ever received would have to be when I turned 9 and my dad finally agreed to get a dog. He passed away last year but the 14 years he was a part of our family will never be forgotten.
Oh and I retweeted this post here: http://twitter.com/lisa_ttro
lisa@turntherecordover.com
My favourite birthday gift ever was the year my husband not only remembered, but cooked all our meals and cleaned the house so I could lay in bed and read all day. That was awesome!
(In case of emergency/winnings, I can be reached at citywitch (at) gmail) :3
Oh Sarah! How I would love to win all this great stuff. I'm just way too chicken to post a real email address for all to see. Yes, of course, I have one other than my personal one I could use, but aye. Just can't do it.
At any rate, happy birthday, and some brave soul will be much luckier than me!!
I would love to get the funshine sunshine picture to have as inspiration on my wall. The best present was probably a scuba diving course for my 18th birthday. It took place in a cold quarry in the UK but it has led to be diving all over the world for work and pleasure and I love it!
Keep up the amazing blog Sarah xx
jadeberman hotmail com
My favorite birthday gift? A basketball. Not that there was anything special about the basketball. It was the presentation. See, it wasn't my birthday, it was my dad's, and after some big fancy breakfast and all us kids gave him our little presents, Dad said, "just a minute..." disappeared around the corner, and with a great big plastic bag full of gifts for all of us singing a "Very Merry Unbirthday" as he distributed them. My dad rocks.
saregardner@gmail.com
My absolute favourite birthday gift was the dual present of a bat skeleton and a new coffee maker from my boyfriend our second year dating.
Coffee and bones make me happy!
palmer.jak@gmail.com
Happy Birthday Yes and Yes! Although, I'm a relatively new follower, I have loved it!
I received my favorite birthday gift this year. My birthday was during mid-terms, and I didn't have the energy to plan anything, but my best friend completely surprised me and flew down. He whisked me off to LA, the weekend after and I didn't have to plan a thing and we had a blast together!
rachelclayton95@gmail.com
My favorite birthday gift would have to be one I recently got from my best friend. She put gave me oreo cakesters (foodgasm x 100billon), an adorable bulletin board that we had both drooled over when we saw it while shopping, and a poster with pictures of memories.
Either that or my iphone :) Seriously, that thing is my life.
Loving it all, especially the Karma Cards! Think I could put those to good use right now.
Happy Birthday, Y&Y! One of my all time faves. :)
hello!
my favourite birthday gift would have to be the popcorn machine an ex got me last year. he also bought me a vegetable steamer (it's the thought that counts right?). I haven't used that once but I use the popcorn maker every. single. day. Priorities!
emmaleesharp@gmail.com
Oooh! beautiful giveaways! I love that you are also giving away Karma Cards :)
Happy Birthday!
My favorite birthday present was the time I got to hand-pick an entire box of See's chocolates, and then eat them all myself.
I love the clay bead necklace!
junkanita@gmail.com
Happy birthday to you, yesandyes!
I love thoughtful gifts instead of perfunctory ones. So my favourite gift was small but special. My parents always give me something from the two of them. The year I turned 18 got a present from just my Dad. He's a pretty shy man and not at all open about feelings or anything. He had given me a Far Side desk calendar with a new comic for everyday. I loved this gift so much because it showed me that he understood and appreciated me and my sense of humour, something we now openly share!
len_eastwood@hotmail.com
Such beautiful gifts but, since I'm trying to shed the things I already own before I move overseas, I don't want to enter just wish you a happy birthday.
Email: MoreMagicAlways@gmail.com
Well, I love books because I think they hold MEMORIES and I love that.
These are fabulous! My favorite birthday gifts were both from my husband - the first gift he ever gave me and the one this year. My husband I met in 10th grade and became good friends in 11th grade. Partway through 11th grade, I started to really like him, especially when he became hospitalized for a few weeks and just seemed sooo brave. (I didn't hear all of the whining to his parents!) My birthday party was the first thing out of the house that he went to after being hospitalized and he gave me this adorable ridiculous orange fluffy thing that made a "boing!" noise when you hit it on the floor. Absolutely ridiculous and cute and perfect. This year, he made me chocolate lava cakes and reservations at Volt, the restaurant from the runner-up on Top Chef. The food was amazing, and my husband is a culinary student, so it was really fun to share the experience of eating such great food with him.
- Shannon
Happy 2 years! My favorite birthday gift was the doll cake my grandma would make for me each year. There was always a lot of excitement about finding a doll and then decorating the cake with lots of frosting. You just can't beat grandma's chocolate frosting!
Owl bookmark! Oh it is so cute in all it's booky goodness
Oh! I like this question. My favorite birthday gift was for my 14th birthday and my best friend at the time, Andrea, gave me a coconut. I had never had one before and they always made me curious. What was sweeter than the coconut was the fact that she wrapped it up in bright pink tissue paper and tape. So all day long (it was a school day) I walked around with a bright pink ball of sweetness.
-Shelby, shelbyanjelica@gmail.com
Happy Birthday Yes and Yes!
My favorite birthday gifts were trips that we've taken and left either on or near my birthday. One year in particular we went to the far West of China (nearly to Pakistan) and spent three weeks hiking/traveling around. It was fantastic!
Congrats on 2 years! My favorite birthday gift was from my 23-year-old son last year. He gave me a new kitten, Lilly, who has been a constant companion, confidant and someone to hold and love on those days that I just don't feel so great. When I need a pick me up or having a bad day, Lilly is a constant, sweet reminder that all is not bad. It is a birthday gift that keeps on giving. He did good.
galew417@comcast.net
My favorite birthday gift was from my dad a few years ago. It was my first birthday after I moved to the US for grad school. I was feeling pretty lonely and homesick and he called all his friends/acquaintances in the US and arranged for five bouquets of flowers to be delivered to me.
ranjita_1514@yahoo.com
Congrats on the milestone!
Favorite birthday gift had to have been the My Little Pony set when I turned six, there was atleast 8 in there!
Ah! Favourite birthday present: A hand-drawn macbook gel skin, done by my best friend. I guess you can submit the drawing online and they will print it onto a gel skin!
So my laptop gets protected and when I use it I think of her! Definitely helps when I'm at school 1,300 km away from her!
Best present ever? Two hand knit scarves from Mexico that my housemates at surf camp gave me just this past Sunday for my 25th birthday. They had only known me for 3 days but totally surprised me with an absolutely unsolicited and impromptu birthday celebration complete with scarves, tequila, and birthday cake. I couldn't have been more grateful for my brand new friends.
Lauren (lauren ::dot:: caselli ::at:: gmail ::dot:: com)
Part 1?! Dude!
My favorite birthday gift...that's a tough one. I've had so many great gifts! Maybe my very first Moleskine, given to my by my bestie years ago.
oooo!!!! i want to win all of it! all kinds of goodies :D
my favorite birthday gift was the ipod touch i bought myself (with some help from birthday money) this year.
yayy
lifeisgood48@gmail.com
My favourite birthday gift was my wacom tablet, although a close second was a letter a friend wrote me one year about how she felt about me.
sarahcp at live dot com
Love this idea...
My favourite birthday gift was last year. I turned 20 twelve days after I moved to England for an exchange, and my new flatmates bought me a polka dot mug because they knew I was homesick, and I had lamented on my lack of a "special" mug to drink hot chocolate (or tea, because they were determined to bring me over to the dark side!) in. Unfortunately, I broke it a few weeks later, but I taped it up and planed a little flower for my windowsill, and to remind myself how awesome my new friends were!
justbeawesomeinstead@gmail.com
I think my favorite birthday gift was a laptop from my parents
My absolute favorite birthday gift was a debutante ball for my 16th birthday. I had always wanted to be in a fancy ball, and an organization in the Greater DC area was having one, so my mom said I could do it, but it would be the only present I got. I've never said YES so fast! It's kind of silly, but turning 16 in a pretty ball gown and a tiara was all of my childhood dreams come true.
alexisc@uchicago.edu.
The best birthday gift I ever received was a poem from my parents. It started with "For birthday number nine, we got you something fine" and ended with "it's something quite pretty....you're getting a kitty!" Afterwards, I got to go to the animal shelter, and pick a kitten to adopt. It was fantastic!
a.piratical.lady@gmail.com
Hi! My favourite birthday present would have to be the trip to Berlin with my mom I got for my 18th birthday. Seriously loved that :D
melissamaebe@hotmail.com
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I'm about to spend around a thousand dollars on books for university next year. I think an adorable owl bookmark that's free might take a bit of the edge off of that. Happy birthday to your wonderful blog, it's part of my daily routine :)
lanika.vivian@hotmail.com
thanks so much! I like the polaroids the best.
I adore birthdays, both mine and everyone else's. And not just for the presents, either! I love that everyone gets a day that's all about them. :)
My best birthday gift was the surprise party my 7 best friends threw me in high school for my 18th birthday. I was suspicious leading up to it, but then the day before, I was TOTALLY thrown off track and was completely surprised. It was fabulous.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win this awesome giveaway! And a happy bloggy birthday!
[E-mail: tink.inthepink@gmail.com]
My favourite birthday gift ever... probably a helium balloon my friend brought to lectures and I had to sit with all day. Simple, cheap, but had me smiling all day.
ssg (at) wakeupitstuesday.org
Happy Birthday Yes and Yes!! Birthday's are probably one of my favorite reasons to celebrate. This past year I celebrated my 21st and in true south african tradition my parents bought me a "key to the house" necklace symbolizing my transition to becoming an adult. It is one of my favorite peices of jewlary and brought me to tears when I opened it.
[email: jen_sasman23@hotmail.com]
Oooh! Happy Birthday Yes and Yes!
My favorite birthday present must be the marble rolling pin I received a couple of years ago. I love to bake, and while it was given to me with the expectation that I would regularly make croissants and other such flaky goodies for the gifter, I love it. It is also pretty effective at keeping my boyfriend in line.
Happy birthday! What a great way to celebrate!
My favorite birthday gift was a life size poster of Don Johnson. At the time, I was about seven or eight and Miami Vice was at its peak. I hung the poster on my bedroom door and blew Don a kiss from bed every night for quite awhile!
Curses. I forgot to leave my email!
raynamar (at) yahoo.com
oh yeah, put me in this drawing too, missus.
fave bday gift? probably the stonewash guess jeans with zippers on the ankles that I begged and begged and begged for...and GOT for my 7th birthday. they paired really well with my missing front teeth and ridiculous perm. go me.
colleen.r.smith@gmail.com
my fav birthday gift is the fireworks I get every year (july 3rd)
Seriously the coolest and best birthday giveaway ever! My favorite birthday present would have to be my puppy. He brings me so much love and joy. Here's hoping I win!
lensimpressions AT gmail DOT com
Wow! Such great things! I love the owl bookmark.
lovelydomesticdiva (at) gmail (dot) com
Oh, these are all gorgeous. That painting is really lovely.
Favorite birthday gift...that's hard. I just had a birthday where my college friend Tess made the long drive from Seattle to see me, and that was pretty fantastic.
E-mail address is saturdayjane@gmail.com
Yay!
My favourite birthday present ever was when my husband and I were first going out (we'd only been together a couple of months) and he made me a CD with all of the songs that reminded him of me (or us). He called it "When Darth Met Tinkerbell" (I love Tinkerbell and he loves Star Wars). He even designed an album cover and explained why he had chosen each song. I cried for about an hour! There have been other editions since like "Darth & Tinkerbell's first Christmas" and "When Darth asked Tinkerbell to marry him" (that's how he proposed to me!) He's such an old romantic. x
When I was 11, I got my own bedroom for my birthday...going from sharing with my three sisters to my very own space was blissful. Although I outgrew the color on the walls (lime green was my favorite color for about six months right around then), the fact that my mom cleaned out the combination room/office/catch-all room, painted it and collected furniture for it all while I was at school (while caring for two children under the age of 5) still makes me feel loved.
rachaelclayson at gmail dot com
I think my favorite birthday present is probably yet to come, for I'm just turning 17 this year, and I do think I've got looots of time for recieving presents yet (YAY). But still, homemade presents are always the ones I cherish the most!
azulpopp@hotmail.com
Totally awesome giveaway! ^_^
I'm not sure what my favorite birthday gift was. I stopped getting them after age like 18? So probably a Barbie playhouse or something of that nature =P
I'm normally not big on gifts, so none of them really stand out in my mind. I guess my favorite birthday gift was probably the card my dad wrote for me this year. He's normally not very sentimental, but this year he got me the sweetest, most perfect birthday card of all time! Definitely the coolest birthday gift ever.
My favorite birthday gift so far has probably been tickets to see the musical WICKED. It's one of the most incredible shows I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot) and was definitely a night I'll never ever forget.
mimagirl(at)gmail(dot)com
Oh gifts...never really been my thing, but I remember when I was a kid my dad gave me this huge book of photographs of nature and animals from National Geographics. I got lost in that book countless times over the course of my childhood. :) need to dig it out now!
My favourite birthday gift ever was a sweater my grandma knit for me.
ikkinlala AT yahoo DOT ca
robot wine rack. or the year i got a guinea pig (it wasn't her fault i was allergic)
love you yes and yes! happy birthday!
My favorite birthday gift would be my canon rebel XSi that I got this year for my birthday (:
star.wishbringer@gmail.com!
I got a plane ticket anywhere in the world, once. That was pretty excellent.
I once received a 50's boardgame called Pollyanna. It basically has absolutely nothing to do with Pollyanna, and is completely amazing.
cornball8@hotmail.com
My email is address is emh0917@aol.com
My favorite birthday gift would have to be birthday sex. mmm!
midorij9@gmail.com
One of the best presents I've gotten was confetti from a concert that my best friend and I were supposed to go to together, but that I ended up having to miss. It was literally just little pieces of paper in a box she had decorated, but i thought it was really sweet.
my favourite present was when my friend printed out approx. a million of her TUT (Love letters from the universe!) emails for me. She went through all of them, and replaced her name with my name, and then stuck them all on pretty cards, with glitter and other magical ornaments. She put them in a jar and told me they were "to be looked at when you what to turn despondency into vivacity!" It was a really excellent present.
ps my email is monbot@live.com
:)
ps my email is monbot@live.com
:)
My favorite birthday present was from my then-boyfriend (now-fiance) during freshman year of college. We went to different schools and were just figuring out the long distance thing when he surprised me with a pair of tickets to go see Wicked. I'd spent many work evenings the summer previously trying to win the lottery tickets they'd had, without any success. He'd even asked me, after he'd bought them, what my perfect gift would be and that was totally it! I think he might regret it a little now because he'll probably never top that one.
kwugirl at gmail
my favourite birthday present? it had to be my laptop. that thing is my baby, ngl.
rebecca.is@live.com
Everything is so amazing! My favorite birthday gift ever was a donation to a wolf sanctuary paired with a visit to see the wolf I was sponsoring. Howling with a wolf pack is by far one of my favorite memories!!
email address: tikinu@yahoo.com
Wow, there are a lot of good ones, but one of my favorite is when my sister made me a charm bracelet, it was very thoughtful.
mercifulrelease at gmail dot com
Hola!!! Happy birthday!!!
My favorite birthday present has to be from when I was a wee child. Barbie and Hello Kitty galore!! =)
Surprise birthday dinner, drinks and board games with my friends! That was a great birthday, even though my air conditioner broke in my house. p.s. my birthday is in June and it was 90 degrees inside AND outside of my apt. good times though!
Happy birthday!
elenaperez64@gmail.com
My favorite birthday gift is a toss-up between a surprise party my friends threw me in college, and a Trivial Pursuit that a boyfriend got me last year. Nerdy birthdays are the best.
andrea.m.moore@gmail.com
It's really difficult to choose a favorite birthday gift! What is standing out to me right now is the gift that my boyfriend gave me for my first birthday when we were together. We'd only been dating about a month. He knew that I loved poetry, and although he'd never read much poetry before, he went to a bookstore and spent a long time looking through the poetry section trying to find something I liked. He picked out a book by a poet I had never heard of before, but I ended up loving it, and especially the thoughtfulness behind the gift.
Email: withfairysails@gmail.com
Happy birthday Yes and Yes! I love reading it when I'm feeling a little down - it's a great pick-me-up on a bad day! :)
tathe(dot)weven(at)gmail(dot)com
My favorite birthday present was from when I was 18. I'd been really into wildlife rescues at the time and had taken to watching those hour-long infomercials on how to save animal lives, though I couldn't afford to donate any money, myself. My mom went to Build-a-Bear and bought me a stuffed leopard that they sold - and they donated 100% of the profits to the World Wildlife Fund. I still sleep with the doll, hoping the money for him went to saving some precious lives out there.
Happy Birthday Sarah!
I don't know if you would call this my favourite birthday gift or most memorable, but it definitely sticks out in my mind. For as long as I can remember my grandfather was a cold, hardened kind of guy. He never really formed a relationship with my father so everyone was surprised when he took a shine to me.
Around my sixth or seventh birthday he gave me a homemade stuffed bear with lopsided eyes. I don't remember where he got it from or why he gave it to me but I remember feeling really special. He's since passed away and as I aged his affection and respect for me faded, but that bear reminds me of the connection we'd had.
I hope you have some great memories this year!
Lisa (lisa-delaney@hotmail.com)
My favorite birthday gift that I ever got was a silver leaf on a leather cord-- and leaves have been my favorite ever since!
Mjhrich@gmail.com
I also blogged about the giveaway!:
http://icanseemeinyoureyes.blogspot.com/
-popper
Happy Birthday! My favorites are the old Polaroids (awesome) and the coffee beans. Okay, the polaroids win. :)
Happy Blog Birthday! Is it too late to enter? I hope not. The giveaway looks great!
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