Showing posts with label pay it forward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pay it forward. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Violet Has Mail!

This post is woefully overdue, but here it is.

A few weeks ago, a comment exchange with Holly of Cold Spaghetti  resulted in an offer of silly bandz. I gave my consent and address and soon a letter arrived in the mail for Violet.  As much as I love e-mail, there is no substituting the joy of an actual paper letter with your name written on the front....er, a letter that contains Silly Bandz and NOT a bill, that is.






Holly is clearly the Mama of a little girl, because she KNEW even the packaging would be a source of ecstatic joy!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wardrobe Wednesday: From Denmark with Love

Our downtown post office is a place of wonders, where I can see homeless people trying to mail tattered, 20 year old sweepstakes cards and enjoy smelling the mixture of old lady perfume and unwashed feet.  I go in there for two reasons:

1.  To send packages back from whence they came when certain online retailers send me pre-snagged tights. I'm talking to you we love colors.

2.  To pick up signature requiring parcel posts that always arrive serendipitously on the ONLY afternoon I am not at home to sign for them.

Lorry promised me some time ago that she would send me her old Apple Store duds, so that I could wear them about town and further the cause of recruiting soldiers for the Mac Army.  The box was overflowing with Apple embroidered goodies, which I had every intention of modeling for you, but alas I have been unable to remove my jammies today or shower.  Violet will have to do.  She can totally pull of the all-day jammie look.



Friday, May 29, 2009

And Now Back to our Originally Scheduled Programming

So, before AT&T robbed me of the internet, I was holding a contest. Remember?

Pay It Forward? Ring any bells?

Anywho...

I have a winner.  By random selection Magpie Musing has won a fabulous and totally personalized prize (that's why I asked all those questions). Go visit her blog, but don't pester her to reveal her gift yet.  I told you I was a procrastinator.  Magpie will probably get her package just in time for Labor Day.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Pay It Forward: My Way

I recently got a lovely gift from Rachel of A Reservation for Six, but it didn't come without strings attached.  No, I must now Pay It Forward (click the link if you are a nerd like me and want to know where the phrase originated) and send a surprise to one of my readers.  I am also going to make you answer a few questions before I give you free stuff, because I'm difficult like that.

Okay, so here's how it works:

  1.  You comment on this post, with the answers to my questions.
  2.  I pick ONE winner at random. I'll wait 7 days to do this.
  3. You jump up and down when you win and then wait patiently for your super, special gift to arrive in the mail.
  4.  Keep waiting. I'm a procrastinator and a perfectionist.
  5.  After you get your gift, you Pay It Forward on your own blog and give someone else something cool.

Now, if you are still interested, I just have a few questions to ask:

  1. What do you drink in the morning?
  2. Are you the kind of person who writes Thank You cards (and actually mails them)?
  3. Do you use a mouse pad? Should you?
  4. Do you like to carry a notebook in case inspiration strikes?
  5. Visit my Flickr page and look at my Pay It Forward Set. Tell me which photograph you like the best. Would you get a tattoo of it on your butt, or hang it in your bathroom, etc.? I NEED to know.

I'd do it if I were you. I don't have THAT many readers, so the odds are really good.

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