1.02.2009

GIVEAWAY!

Edit: To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment on this post and reserve emails for Christmas card requests. Thanks!

Edit, again: Ends when we pick winners tomorrow morning! Must I enter you emailers myself?! :)

Three gifts that don't hold a candle to gold, frankincense, and myrrh...

FIRST GIVEAWAY:
A Christmas card. Last night, the eighth night of Christmas, I finally drew a Christmas card. Today I sprinted to the mailbox just as the mailman was ready to pull away and heaved them in through his window. I hope they arrive in time for Epiphany to the lucky recipients, all except for Spike, Ben & Amy, Fred & Elizabeth Brown, and maybe a few other chums. I accidentally had your unaddressed envelopes in the stack I handed to the mailman. I hope they are returned to me, but if they're not, please know that we love you just the same. Just the same.



If you are Michelle M., Sharon P-Widdy, or another friend who has moved and has not given me the new address (for shame!), and you'd like a card, please email your address to me.

AND if you are a shotsnaps reader, any reader, and you'd like a card, please send me your address at leftymylou at gmail dot com, and I'll gladly send you one.

I'm thinking this may be the last year I mail out Christmas cards, so get 'em while you can.

SECOND GIVEAWAY:
A doodle plus a vintage Polaroid camera. The camera comes with an unopened package of film, several flashes, a carrying case, and an odd roll of Kodak 110 film. The only catch is that having not tried it, I don't know if it works. This will be the hero's task.




So, if you live in the continental U.S., and St. Nicholas forgot to stuff a Polaroid in your shoe, just leave a comment on this post to be entered to win. As a bonus (and to cover my back in case the camera doesn't work), I'll also give the winner their choice of a full-size print of any of my last four Christmas doodles-- Wise Men (above), Winter Wren, Mary and the Child, or The Lion and the Root. (Scroll to the bottom of each post to see the doodles.)

THIRD GIVEAWAY:

A doodle. If you live abroad or outside of the continental U.S., and you feel gypped because you can't win the doodle/Polaroid combo, leave a comment here, anyway! I'll mail you your choice of a print of Wise Men (above), Winter Wren, Mary and the Child, or The Lion and the Root.

Winners will be chosen after Epiphany, on the morning of January seventh, through a random drawing from a hat. Enter away!

And Merry Christmas to all!

12 comments :

The Old Life said...

your give away post is too cute! I love the card its fabulous and the polariod! I LOVE those! I seem to have misplaced mine sad sad day but yay for old pics!

God Bless hope your christmas was wonderful

ps. love that you celebrated advent with your girls!

Grace said...

I'd love to have all the cards, And the polaroid! Please pick me. And Happy new year to you Owens. :)

Liana said...

pick me, pick me :)

elizabethfrances said...

little old me please !

i am entering my name in for the second giveaway ( polaroid ), and wondering if my card will be lost in mail never never land or if it will be returned to you ? last christmas i sent sue's mom a christmas card with the wrong address and it was not returned to me until late February ! so i hand delivered it to her in July.

sharon said...

And I thought your blog couldn't get any better! I'm in!!!!!

And I will send you my address- I LOVE your Christmas cards- they become my yearly decorations, and I am terribly sad that this will be the last year of them. Say it aint so!

Oh- and I just posted a post that I should have run by you first... if you want me to delete it, let me know!

Full of Grace said...

I got your card- Thank You! Seems you addressed it and forgot!

Michelle P said...

What fun! I rarely win anything, so I feel like I must enter, just to possibly have the joy of winning. :) What gave you the idea?

Unknown said...

oops i'm too late for the give-away but what a great idea! i also LOVE the pictures from christmas...you really know how to capture a moment!

and that baby......just wanna reach throught the screen and kiss those chubby cheeks!

God bless!

alltheposts said...

Wow, a giveaway!! You're too ambitious.

Anonymous said...

wow your pictures on here our awesome great site !!!!!!!!!
~Rena~

Abigail said...

Sharon,
I read your complimentary post and have never been more offended. (And if I make time for cards next year, you'll definitely get one, tho' I think this year's was my swan song.)

Local Elizabeth Brown,
Strange but true fact: I am chums with TWO Elizabeth Browns! The other's card was returned to me, alas, but I'm glad yours arrived safely.

Michelle,
I bought the camera for a dollar, but didn't want to get used to it myself because the film is so expensive. I thought it'd be fun to give a camera away on shotsnaps, even a camera that may not work.

Susanna,
Not too late! You won yourself a doodle with this comment!

Rena,
Great to hear from you! I'm glad you found your way here, and thanks!

Everyone else,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

w. said...

I missed getting my name in the hat, but had a wonderful gift nevertheless in "Winona, A Little Indian of the Prairies." I immediately read it cover-to-cover with a goofy grin the whole while. Thank you!