Accidents happen - particularly when running prints for my Etsy shop. The random ink splotch here, alignment a little wonky there; you get the picture. What's a girl to do then with an assorted amount of otherwise nice prints? Host a giveaway!
So here's the deal: the winner gets a package from me containing about a half dozen prints of varying sizes. All of the prints are top notch quality, but have been trimmed down to get rid of any imperfections. Frame 'em, use them as bookmarks, stick one on your fridge, the choice is up to you. I'll also add in a few assorted extras (paper, old postage stamps, etc.) if that's your cup of tea.
The details:
*All you have to do is leave a comment between now and Saturday, November 15. Recommend a good page turner. Post a link to the best recipe for chocolate pudding. Offer a music suggestion. Your call.
*No restrictions on your locale: I'll ship to Beantown or Bolivia, or any place in between. South Pole, I don't think it'll work so well for you though.
*After that, I'll choose one of the comments randomly, contact you via email for your address and away your brand spankin' new prints go.
Easy as pie, huh?
57 comments:
I adore your work and I hope it's not selfish of me, but I would love a chance to win this sweet little package :)
And I"ll drop a music recommendation just for fun: Bess Rogers :)
I love your work, what a thoughtful idea.
I recommend this little unknown band...watch their video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBLeqhZeXY
or go to their website to hear their music...
http://www.myspace.com/droneriotband
Such cute stuff. :)
I'll recommend a good blog...mine!
http://justwemoms.blogspot.com
and another one I enjoy (that I don't write):
http://simplemom.net/
so i'm greedy. i know i already own some of your work but how could i pass up the chance at more?!
without further ado.
my most recent favorite song is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OTv6Cjk6U
And a few great books:
Mystery:
The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly
Sweetness:
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (something tells me you've probably already read it)
Profound and lovely:
Miss Garnet's Angel by Sally Vickers
I so love your work and have a few of your prints on my very long wish list. Your style is beautiful! I'd love the chance to win some prints; they'd go lovely in my children's rooms.
My recommendations: Basia Bulat - totally beautifully poetic - just like your art! (check out http://www.myspace.com/basiamyspace)
Three great books: I am half way through Eat Love Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is pretty good so far. I also love Fortunes Rocks by Anita Shreve. Very moving. And Educating Alice, by Alice Steinbeck - great travel memoir!
Thanks so much for this opportunity to win such beautiful works!
woo hoo! maybe this will be the one time i win a random drawing! i love your art!
here's a link to my new favorite recipe - (nothing fancy - just tuna casserole, but i tried it this week and it's going to be on regular rotation at my house from now on) - http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Tuna-Casserole/Detail.aspx
What a fun giveaway! I'll recommend a few fun picture books with wonderful illustrations, since I'm an illustrator: Toot & Puddle books by Holly Hobbie, Pssst! by Adam Rex, and Flight of the Dodo by Peter Brown. All superbly written and illustrated.
I always recommend Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. No one is allowed to interrupt me while I'm reading it; at least that' what I'd like to have happen.
As I love your work the only thing I can say is that it's a great idea :)
As for music, I can recommend something I've found through another flickr user. I must say it's totally not what I usually listen to, but it's this kind of song you play again and again and again... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIBQU_Tmf0Q
And one more, more my thing, this time from film score: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPRl3rELg0
As for books, if you like tales, fantasy and ironic, mischievous humour, I'd recommend Terry Pratchett's books - any of them really.
I love your work so I would love for a chance to win one of your prints :D
and I'll be recommending a simple book by Lois Lowry called The Giver (http://www.amazon.com/Giver-Lois-Lowry/dp/0440237688). It's one of my favorites; it's actually a book for young adolescents but its semi-philosophical and thought-provoking story appeals to adults as well :)
Nice idea.
I would recommend an Icelandic band Sea bear.
http://www.seabearia.com/mp3.html
Your work is wonderfully inspiring.
We just received the nominees for the NC Children's Book Award. Rules, by Cynthia Lord, is inspiring and it made me cry. (It takes powerful writing to do that!)
well, you know by now that I love everything you do.
count me in!
i also love every song that these people have ever sung: The Clarks and Julian Velard
(you can google 'em or visit my blog for the links)
xo
di
haven't tried these yet but they look delicious!
http://faerys-kitchen.blogspot.com/2008/10/melted-double-chocolate-pots.html
and as far as music, i never tire of the decemberists.
i love your prints, thanks for the opportunity! :)
Ooh, a giveaway - what fun!
Music - been listening to The Weepies, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Elbow, Ravens and Chimes and Joanna Newsom.
Books - Ever read Elizabeth Berg? Her writing is wonderful. And you have probably already read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, but thought I would mention them as they are so fantastic :)
How nice!
I've been lurking here for a while (hi). Nice work and blog.
author recommendations: Danzy Senna and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Oh...pick me, pick me!! (I am jumping up and down, waving my arm in the air)...
For some recommendations:
Books that I'm loving righ now with awesome illustrations (and some of my favorite artists):
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell & The Little Bit Scary People by Emily Jenkins and Alexandra Boiger
Music:
Adele and Lenka are some of my top songs I'm listening to lately
Thanks for the giveway, I love all of your artwork, you have a great style, very whimsical, and something that always brightens my day!
Lots of wishes
Melissa
fiddlesticksandfunnygirls.blogspot.com
i would highly recommend this book in chance you haven't read it yet - gauguin's biography by henri perruchot
and another one - of case you're a passionate reader - if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino
and a song that've been listening a lot to lately - http://soundcloud.com/moovmnt/ant-vala-go-feat-wendisue-lil-sci-flying-lotus
Ooh, hurray! I'm going to make a local food recommendation! If you like sweet, fall-ish things to eat, go to Terra Cotta Pasta and try their Butternut Squash/Sweet Potato Ravioli, with their Maple Cream sauce. It's absolutely a delicious combination! Hope you're having a nice day!
Wow, can't resist that! :D And of course, when you said "pie" the first thing I thought of was an apple pie recipe that Alicia Paulson posted on her blog awhile ago. It's my goal to make it at least once this season. It looks yummy! http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/2008/10/sour-cream-appl.html
My goodness, aren't you popular with this post? Makes me want to do a giveaway to smoke out any lurkers. :)
Easy as pie, you say? Okay, I'll offer a recipe for citrus pumpkin pie:
http://www.recipezaar.com/Citrus-Pumpkin-Pie-in-a-Nutty-Crust-13561
It's delicious-- a fusion of summer and fall flavors. And it could be (as it was for me) a way to use up a bunch of ingredients already in the fridge. Cheers!
http://www.recipezaar.com/
Citrus-Pumpkin-Pie-in-a-Nutty-Crust-
13561
The whole link doesn't seem to have made it through in my last comment, so I've broken it up into lines. Hope this one works!
P.S. Love the characters here! I'm going to pretend their names are Albus and Lily Potter, progeny of a redheaded girl with a penchant for quirky patterns and a boy with glasses and hair that just wouldn't lay flat. Anyone? :)
....aaaand, I'm done stalking this post.
My goodness!! I love love love your stuff. My music recommendation to you would be Fleet Foxes!
ooo ooo, a theodesign giveaway!!!!!! And a super generous one too!
Okay, here goes...
Music: I think you might like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHTwV6Q_il0
This song always puts a smile on my face.
Books: Okay, I'm not sure if this would be your thing or not, but "Twilight" has me totally totally hooked!!!
Otherwise, at the other end of the spectrum is 'Sixty Lights' by Gail Jones. Stunning stunning book!
Hope you find something in there that you come to love :)
Oh I would love to have one of your prints hanging in my house!
I'll recommend to you a great blog - http://curlypops.blogspot.com and one of her recent posts with a recipe for an absolutely devine banana bread - http://curlypops.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-banana-recipe.html
Can I play? I would love to win some of your art work. I'm going to recommend The Time Traveler's Wife - one of the best books I've ever read!
Your artwork is wonderful... enchanting... marvelous! And that's such a great idea for a giveaway. Thanks for allowing me to throw my name in the hat...
How about a recommendation for a site for free downloads of folk and other music?
http://tinyurl.com/pkt3w
(p.s. 1: It's all links to songs bands have offered up themselves, so totally on the up and up.)
(p.s. 2: paintandink @ gmail . com)
Pick me, pick me.
Best page turner.
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Thanks xoxo
coming over from flossy-p. so nice of you to giveaway some of your beautiful work. Thanks!!
I am loving tricot machine - a french canadian group. Check them out here:- http://www.myspace.com/tricotmachine and on my blog I have a neat video they made totally using machine knitting! :)
I love visiting your blog so much and it would just be incredible to have some of your art work around our house. I'm already imagining putting little framed prints around my son and daughters rooms.
Please, please consider me for the giveaway.
I'd recommend 'The Bean Trees' by Barbara Kingsolver and 'Bogwoppit'by Ursula Moray Williams (my childhood favorite). X
Ohh i just finished reading the Twighlight series i could not put it down.
author Stephenie Meyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(novel)
Oh how fun! I'm excited! I listen to so many bands it's hard to contain them in a short comment, but the ones I've been listening to lately are Rilo Kiley, Lucero, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, The Acorn, Ruby Coast, Blind Pilot and Two Hours Traffic.
As for books, I've been on a James Rollins kick lately, but being a grammar junkie and a fan of Mignon Fogarty, I've been recommending her book Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing to everyone. She also has a weekly podcast.
Favorite podcasts: Grammar Girl, RadioLab, This American Life, CBC Radio 3, APM: The Story, The Moth, NPR StoryCorps, NPR All Songs Considered, Diggnation, The Bored-Again Christian, NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Roots Rock Radio Show and The Totally Rad Show.
And I would be remiss if I didn't mention my favorite webcomics: Cyanide & Happiness, xkcd, A Softer World, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, the WAREHOUSE, Double Fine Action Comics, and The Fart Party.
I hope you find something you like. Thanks!
Wow! Some seriously awesome selections here, you guys rock. :-)
Your work is simply beautiful and I would love to win so that I could put some of your artwork in my grandchildren's Christmas stockings.
Speaking of Christmas, here is my favourite recipe for traditional shortbread:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/18723/traditional+shortbread
Have a wonderful week.
Regards
Robyn
What a great giveaway!
I wish I were more up on things to recommend. I'm not on the cutting edge of music, or books, or anything. I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov - which is amazing but I don't know that I would call it a "page-turner." ;) I'm pretty excited about this book which was released today and is on its way to me now - but I have no idea if you knit or not. And I'm psyched about craftivism in general (including Amanda Soule's new project at mamatomama.org.
Oh, and for a yummy-looking recipe, check here . I haven't tried it yet, but I plan to soon.
Exciting giveaway!
It will have to be a music suggestion as right now I think the coolest man in the world is CW Stoneking.
http://www.myspace.com/cwstoneking
This girl has a great style--folk, jazz, soul--beautiful voice!
http://keppiecoutts.net/music.html
Love your work, Abigail!
Love your art! "The Raucous Royals" is a fun book by author and illustrator Carlyn Beccia. Here is the link to her terrific blog http://blog.raucousroyals.com/
My favorite holiday treats are eggnog cookies. Enjoy!
http://www.northpole.com/Kitchen/Cookbook/rec0458.html
How.....you are such a lovely person, just giving away those nice drawings...
I recommend things from my country, Portugal.
Music: The Legendary Tiger Man
Illustration Blog: mariamacareu.blogspot.com
Book: O Livro do desassossego- Fernando Pessoa
Big Kiss
Oh how exiting Abigail, a giveaway of your beautiful art!! Yay!
Ok, let's see. I'm really into Jason Mraz right now, actually I'm in love with him, but that's another story... ;o)
I listen to "I'm yours" like 20 times a day. It's such a happy song. I love it.. here is a link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A&eurl=http://www.lovetoillustrate.blogspot.com/
I would love to be entered to win.
I am leaving you my daughters blog address where you can get the recipe for the best brownies ever.
I hope you try them.If you do you will not go back to your old recipe. They are that good!
http://jabberingjaime.blogspot.com/2008/02/tantalizing-tuesday-one-day-late.html
Thanks again.
Lois
Hi Abigail.
I just left the address for brownies and realized that it wouldn't go through as is.
To get the recipe you will need to go to http://www.jabberingjaime.blogspot.com
Go to her Posts by Catagory
Go to Yum
Go To Feb.13/08 posting entitled
"Tantalizing Tuesday one day late"
and I guarantee you it will be worth the work of getting to the recipe.
Lois
PS
Most of Jaime's recipes are really good but the brownies are awesome!
I really love listening to the best of Simon and Garfunkle and I know we are both fans of the Flaming lips.
I'd also have to say that in the days before children I read ever Maya Angelo book I could get my hands on.
Keep up the fantastic work.
I always adore some Enya, some hot chocolate and raising bagel with cream cheese. Simple but hits the spot.
Ani
foodiechickie.cm
I'm all about books and great art so here are some recommendations,
Jonathan strange and Mr. Norrell by Susana Clark. (this is a great book if you like Jane Austin, Charles Dickens, and fairy tales)
Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
John, Paul, George and Ben by Lane Smith (one of the funniest picture book I ever read!) and
Clara and Asha by Eric Rohmann
And just for kicks here is one of my favorite websites of all time.
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/
Thanks for the opportunity Abigail!
I always enjoy what new creations are nestled in your blog. It's a bit like the tingle of excitement you get as a kid when it's your turn to open the advent calender....
anyway, back from memory lane.
book recomendation-- "The botany of Desire: a plant's eye view of the world"...and I'll second the recomendation for "The Giver"...
music?--how about Wailin' Jennys and Guarneri Underground
daniel clowes is my fav graphic artist. i'm not into comic books about super heroes, i like reading about every day people. ghost world and art school confidential were based on his books, but my fav is called david boring. now that would make a great movie!
...love your work....for another great give away go to http://www.brisstyle.blogspot.com
where the brisbane street team are celebrating the holiday season...cheers chrisy / artdecadence.etsy.com
I love your style. I'll recommend a great movie - it's old (came out in 2000) but it's got such great style!!.... Chocolat. Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss, and of course Johnny Depp. Make sure you have a bag of chocolate on hand, you'll be wanting to eat some by the end!
Movie recommendation: The Fall.
It is amazing.
I recommend the knitting book "Vintage Knits" by the Rowan Staff. You can find it for about $7-ish these days and it is filled with beautiful, classic patterns... All the stuff you want to run across in 2nd hand stores and such.
There's a crocheted shawl in there, too, that's just stunning.
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