The Winner...

Hello my friends! 

I trust you've all had a wonderful Thanksgiving 

& I'm pretty sure you are all busy decorating right now.

I wanted to pop in and announce my giveaway winner.

Drum roll please.....

Kerin of Mill Hill Meadow, you are the winner!!!

Congratulations!

Thank you all for entering and just hanging out with me here at the old blog. 

 I appreciate each & every one of you and wish I could 

send a subscription to each of you.  Wouldn't that be fun?

 Kerin, if you could please email your address to me, 

I will send the subscription card right out! 

 See you all soon!  I can't wait to see

what you've all been up to.  

It's  

♥  Haul out the holly  ♥

time!

A Thankful Giveaway

Hello friends!

Forgive me for having disappeared from blogland, 

yet again, 

but honestly, I was at a loss for something to post about.  

Thanksgiving is upon us 

and though I'm chomping at the bit to decorate for Christmas, 

I'm trying to hold out until the day after Thanksgiving to decorate.  

That has always been my tradition, 

and as much as I'm being prodded by the blog world to decorate now, 

I'm shakily holding my ground.

This past Spring, sweet Stacey @ Poofing the Pillows had a giveaway.  

I was the lucky winner of that giveaway.  

What did I win?

A subscription to The Cottage Journal magazine!

I have to say girls, I really did enjoy this subscription.  

It's just 5 issues, but it's been 5 wonderful issues.

 Here is the latest Christmas issue:

So much to see!  So much to love!

In the spirit of thankfulness that comes with Thanksgiving, 

I have decided to give a subscription to one of you!

No jumping through hoops to enter,

(I'd love it if you followed me, but it isn't necessary) 

Just please leave me a comment if you'd like to be entered. 

If you are a no-reply blogger, 

please make sure I have an email address to reach you 

should you be the winner.  

And that's it friends.  

I will draw a winner sometime Thanksgiving weekend.  

Good luck!

 

Announcing...

...the winner of my Holiday Giveaway!

 

 My trusty assistant, Johnny, has selected....

Lynne from Dreams on 34th Street!

 

Congratulations Lynne!

 

Thank you to all for entering.

I wish I could send a tree to each & every one of you. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

 We are going to see Wicked tomorrow...yippee!

 

There are way too many exclamation points in this post!  lol

 

Spreading Christmas Cheer Giveaway

Yesterday, I was thinking....

2012 has been such a great year here in blogland.

I've met so many new friends and learned so much!

Why not have a little Holiday giveaway

to spread some Christmas cheer?

Would you like to win this cute

mercury glass looking Christmas tree?



 

Is that a "yes" that I hear?

 

Then let's make this easy.  

 

Just be a follower and leave me a comment

letting me know that you are.

 

I will draw a winner on Friday, December 9, 2012.

 

Sound good enough?

 

Limited to US & Canada entrants only.

 

Please, please,  please if you don't have a blog,

leave me an email address where I can reach you should

you be the winner.

 

Good luck!

 

Does anyone know why my signature suddenly

has a black border around it?

 

Goose Creek Candles

Hello sweet friends!

The fabulous BJ at Sweet Nothings

is having a Goose Creek Candle giveaway

until October 9th.

Have you entered to win yet?

Please click here to enter BJ's giveaway. 

I was the lucky girl who won a Goose Creek Candle

at a giveaway hosted by The Polka Dot Closet a few weeks back. 
Thank you so much, Carol & Goose Creek!

Above is the candle I selected...Apple Bourbon.

Can I just tell you how yummy the scent is?
 I love it. 

The best part though? 
I can smell it throughout my home and I really love that.

So, go on, go on...head over to Sweet Nothings to enter

and good luck! 

Giveaway Winner, revisited, and a lesson

Hello my lovelies!

 I'm not sure if you recall, but a few weeks ago

I had a wonderful giveaway from PrintRunner.

At that time, my daughter selected a winner.

Unfortunately that winner had no way for me to contact her.

Without a blog and no email address provided,

I could not relay the happy news

that she had won my giveaway.

So here in lies the lesson.........

If you are going to enter a giveaway at a blog,

any blog,

and you do not have a blog of your own,

please, please provide an email address when you comment

so you can be contacted in the event you should win. 

It's really a shame and I feel bad about it,

but I have no other option other than to select another winner.

Pulling from the hat milk glass compote again, I have selected

Lynn at UpCountry Olio!

Congratulations Lynn! 

I will be in touch. 

Happy Thursday friends!

Giveaway Winner

Hello my friends! I feel as though I've been missing from blogland again. 

 I apologize for that, honestly I do, but sometimes life gets out of control busy

and this week was just that. 

I would love to announce the winner for the PrintRunner giveaway! 

Here is Olivia:

She is ready, although giggling like crazy because as she says 

my taking a picture of her drawing a winner is just sooo stupid!  lol

The winner is: 

   

Congratulations to Betty! 

Betty, I do not have an email address to contact you. 

Please get in touch with me. 
(If I don't hear from you by Friday 5/18/12, I'll have to draw another name)

That's about all I have for today.  Lots of work going on around here,

just nothing to share yet.

Got to get ready now.  Somehow Mr. Random & I got talked into this:

A night of WWE wrestling.  This ought to be fun interesting!  lol 

A Super Giveaway

I've been contacted by the good people at PrintRunner.com
 and they would like to offer you a wonderful giveaway! 

If you don't know about PrintRunner, they are a full service high quality printing company  located in Chatsworth, California. 

 Print online or give their custom sticker printing a try. 

Either way, they will provide you with high quality

 full color printing at the best value.  

Now onto the giveaway! 

PrintRunner is generously offering one of my readers:

250 Standard Stickers, 2" x 3.5",

printed on Premium Sticker Stock,

in Full Color (4 Color Process) or  Black & White,

and they will be ready to ship in 3 business days! 

*Giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above

Thanks to PrintRunner for providing me with a set of stickers

for hosting this giveaway.

You may be asking, "Hey Gina, what would I use stickers for?"

Well...

You may be a person who loves to cook or bake.  

How about a sticker that says, "From the Kitchen of _____________"  to put on your little care packages that you send off to family & friends?  

You could even use them atop regular index cards to turn them into your own personalized recipe cards. 

You may be a book lover, so how about a,

 "This book belongs to _______________" sticker?

Who wouldn't want a sticker that relates to their blog header?  

You could use them for when you send off giveaways and such. 

Perhaps you have an Etsy shop. 

Wouldn't it be nice to have a professional looking sticker indicating

your shop's name that you can use when packaging your items?

Thinking ahead, how about a "To:   From:"   sticker that's Christmas related

for adhering to all those gifts? 

You see, the possibilities are endless and PrintRunner is ready to assist
 you with whatever you can dream up!

Now onto the rules:

To enter:

You must leave me a comment telling me

what you would do with these stickers.

Optional:

Follow PrintRunner on Twitter 

Like PrintRunner on  Facebook

Leave me a separate comment for each & I will give you an additional entry for each.

I will draw a winner on May 12th. 

Good luck and many thanks to PrintRunner!

**Rules from PrintRunner state you can only win this giveaway once over a two month period.  Deadline of submission of winners is on May 29, 2012 to be included in their  prize awarding May 31, 2012.**

Spring Giveaway Winner

Sorry to keep you all waiting, but I've been Spring cleaning like a madwoman today.

Announcing the winner of my Spring Giveaway..........drumroll please..........my son has picked..........

Shasta of In The Old Road!!

Congratulations Shasta!  Please send me your address so I can get your package out to you.

Thanks to all of you who entered my giveaway!  How I wish I could send a prize to each of you.
Wishing you a happy new week!

Time for a Spring Giveaway!

I have won so many giveaways this year, it's hard to believe.
 I want to pass some of that
 love 
around, so I've put together a little giveaway for you!

First up, we have this cute little canvas print from Kirklands.  Looking at it now, I kind of wish I bought one for myself!  (Note to self:  Go to Kirklands and buy one.)

Next, we have this wire cloche from Michael's. I love the gray finish on this.

Last, we have this sweet bird's nest from Pier 1. 

All three of these can be yours if you are the lucky winner of my
 Spring Giveaway!

Not many rules, but here goes:

The only thing I ask is that you please follow me/become a follower and leave me a comment letting me know you are.

If you would like, you can post about this giveaway on your blog, leave me a comment letting me know you did, and I will give you 2 additional entries!

Easy enough? 

This giveaway is limited to those in the United States and Canada only.

I will draw a winner on Monday, April 9th. 

Good luck to each of you!  I really do appreciate all your visits
and sweet comments here at Random Thoughts. 

Sharing Dreams on 34th Street

The weather has been so beautiful here, I almost can't believe it's still March. 

Well my friends, I won another giveaway and I just have to share.  Lynne at Dreams on 34th Street had a giveaway for a Kate Spade tote bag.

First of all, when I opened the envelope, I pulled out this: 

As if that isn't pretty enough, see those tags? 

They opened to reveal this:

To say I was speechless, is an understatement.  Aren't they beautiful charms?  They are sterling silver with a Swarovski crystal and genuine seed pearl.  She even included one for my daughter, which really touched my heart. 

Here is the fabulous tote bag.  I had to include the tissue paper because my daughter thought it was so cool!  Lynne even included a bag of pretty little tags & cards. 

If you don't know Lynne at Dreams on 34th Street, you should pop over and take a look.  She has such a pretty blog and shares the most lovely, dreamy, images.   

Thank you again, Lynne, for your generosity and kindness.  Blogland is sweeter because you're in it! 

I'll be back with a giveaway of my own soon.  Until then, I hope you are enjoying beautiful Spring weather wherever you are!

Thoughtful Bloggers

Many times I come across giveaways throughout blogland and I don't enter.  I think, I never win, so why bother entering?

I've already done a post of two great giveaways that I've won this year.  Shockingly, I've got a few more to share with you.  

I won this fantastic giveaway from Linda at A La Carte.

Linda's package was full of goodies, I felt like a kid at Christmas opening each one! Everything is so bright & colorful & matches my kitchen so nicely.  I love it all!

My next win was from Creative Carmelina.   Before I show you what I won, would it be weird if I shared the hand made envelope it arrived in? 

Pretty amazing for an envelope, right?  I thought it best to smudge addresses.  Here is what I won:

These Pride & Prejudice buttons were drawn by hand by Carmelina.  She is incredibly talented.  I'm a big Jane Austen fan, so I couldn't be happier.  Who doesn't love Mr. Darcy? 

Next up, Leslie at A Spoonful of...Everything had a sweet giveaway.

Her giveaway was for a pair of earrings.  She also included this sweet little ornament.  Perfect for my feather Easter tree.

Here's a close up of the earrings so you can read them better. 

Adorable or what?   I think they pretty much sum up how most of us feel about this little community we're a part of. 

I just wanted to share all of these with you and send a shout out to Linda, Carmelina and Leslie.  Thank you all so much!  I appreciate your thoughtfulness.  Blogland is filled with the most generous and kind people, truly it is.  If you aren't familiar with these blogs, go on over & take a look.  I don't think you'll be disappointed. 

I think it may be getting time for me to have a giveaway of my own so that I can pay all this forward.  What do you think?

Win-Win

A few weeks ago, I was a lucky girl.  As a  person who hardly ever wins anything, I somehow won two giveaways within days of each other!

The first:

Kelly at Coastal Cottage Dreams was having a great giveaway.  She was giving away some art work letters.

Aren't they fantastic?

I had to take a close up shot of the letter "A".  I love it with the rusty old key attached to it, don't you? 

I haven't figured out where I will hang/display them yet, but I look forward to finding a place.  

If you aren't familiar with Kelly's blog, Coastal Cottage Dreams, see here.  Kelly shares alot of pretty vignettes and excellent recipes on her blog.  She  is moving into a new home and I'm sure she will have a lot of home improvement projects on the way to inspire us all.        

The second:

Mariaelena of Cottage Living--from Beach to Burbs had a giveaway sponsored by Uncommon Linens.  I won a pillow & two lavender sachets. 

Aren't they wonderful?

Mariaelena has double the fun....a home & a beach cottage to decorate.  She is always sharing fantastic transformations and awesome projects.  She recently painted her kitchen cabinets and they are divine!  If you'd like to see what she's up to at Cottage Living--From Beach to Burbs, see here.   

Thank you Kelly, Mariaelena and  Kristin too.  You sure know how to make a girl happy! 

And the UPrinting Winner is...

I apologize for keeping you all waiting.  



The winner is.................

Congratulations Debby and thank you, everyone,  for entering this awesome giveaway. 

UPrinting Giveaway Last Call

Just a reminder. 

There is still time to enter my UPrinting giveaway.

Please click here for details and to enter. 

I will be drawing a winner later today.