The big giveaway day is finally here! Over 30 businesses from as far away as Australia and as close to home as Antigonish, Nova Scotia have contributed items to our Oh My! Handmade Holidays Giveaway.
I thought long and hard about how to put together a creative and exciting giveaway that would give back to our readers and the small businesses who have contributed. But I also wanted to raise awareness about the many causes and organizations that are working to make our world a better place to live- and give back to them in some way.
Mix those ideas together and you get the Oh My! Handmade Holidays Giveaway and two covet worthy gift basket prizes filled with handmade goodness and valued at around $950!
Here’s how it works-you can enter this giveaway in two ways (and yes you can do both!):
1. ENTER FOR YOURSELF
Visit at least two of the participating businesses above and leave a comment here about your favorite shops.
Get 3 extra entries by leaving a separate comment for:
- Tweeting about this giveaway using the hashtag #ohmyhandmadeholidays and including @ohmyhandmade in your tweet.
- Posting this giveaway to your Facebook page and tagging @oh my handmade
- Blogging about this giveaway with a link back to this post-please share the link in your comment.
2. ENTER FOR OTHERS
Do you know of a shelter for women, an environmental group, a organization feeding the hungry, an art program for inner city kids, or another cause that could use a little financial boost?
Here is your chance to nominate up to 5 non-profits, charities or organizations that would benefit from the chance to auction or raffle off one of these prizes as a fundraiser. The winning organization will have the prize shipped directly to them.
To enter your cause simply comment with the name and website of the groups you are nominating. Get all your friends/family/co-workers to nominate the same group to increase their chances of winning!
And the prizes are:
OH MY! HANDMADE HOLIDAYS GIVEAWAY BASKET #1 (valued at appx. $580)
Gift Basket #1 includes:
-Bird & Little Bird Semi-Fantastic Mr Fox pattern from Magpie Patterns
-“Smile” Acorn print from Noisette Illustration
-$50 gift certificate from Pink Panda Fabrics
-$25 gift certificate from Perideau Designs
-1 set of 12 Retro Holiday Gift Enclosures from InkSpot Workshop
-Silkscreened apron from Sweet Harvey
-Ceramic dangle earrings from Redraven Studios
-Set of Christmas cards from Sarah + Abraham
-Friends for Tea button set + gift tags from Bumpkin Bears & Friends
-2 x girls hair accessories from Shabby Lane Boutique
-Pair of red crocheted texting gloves from Issa Ino
-Set of 16 Thank You cards with coordinating envelopes from Kara Correspondence
-Mommy To-Do list from Pixie Chicago
-2011 Calendar and gift certificate toward personalized stationery from Bella Paper Goods
-10 roll pack of mt washi tape + two handmade sticker sets from Omiyage
-Copy of Mable Murple by Sheree Fitch from Nimbus Publishing
-Set of two hair clips (penguin & snowflake) from The Bowtique
-Gift Certificate from Maken Designs
-Set of greeting cards + thank you tags from Sugarstick Parties
-Cutie Clip hair barrette from Cute As A Button
-Dolphin themed canvas wall art from My Wonderful Walls (the canvas will be shipped directly to the winner because of the delicate nature of the item)
-Customizable day planner from The Ideal Planner
-Crayon Doodlers + a Color Me 12 Month Calendar from Crayon Couture
-Needle felted owl family in nest from O Happy Day Handmade
-Bib and burp cloth set in Michael Miller print from Modern Little Ones
OH MY! HANDMADE HOLIDAYS GIVEAWAY BASKET #2 (valued at appx. $375)
Gift basket #2 includes:
-$50 gift certificate from Pink Panda Fabrics
-2011 Desk Calendar from Sarah + Abraham
-Mommy To-Do list from Pixie Chicago
-Set of 12 Christmas Lights Gift Enclosures from InkSpot Workshop
-2 sets of handmade stickers from Omiyage
-Bird & Little Bird Mostly Marvelous Ms. Rabbit pattern from Magpie Patterns
-Notecards, folded labels and thank you tags from Sugarsticks Parties
-2 illustrated birthday cards from Bumpkin Bears
-2011 calendar from Leen Machine
-Set of two hair clips (holiday flower & penguin) from The Bowtique
-Deluxe Grab and Go lunch mat with stainless steel cutlery from Pip’n'Milly
-BLANKS notes + sticker set from Flutterbye Notes
-Holiday notecards and gift tags from Doodle Kreations
-Jr. Headband from Cute As A Button
-Upcycled dress from New Jersey Knits
-Crayon Doodlers from Crayon Couture
-Small needle felted owl family from O Happy Day Handmade
This giveaway will run from today (December 5th) to December 24th with the winners chosen on Christmas Day and announced with a post on OMHG. The giveaway prizes will be shipped in the first week of January.
By entering this giveaway you are agreeing to the oh my! handmade giveaway policies
Good luck!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED THANK YOU ALL FOR ENTERING-MERRY CHRISTMAS!
There are so many great shops here. I absolutely love Shabby Lane Boutique and Sweet Harvey. I would love to win either basket!
I love Bella Paper Goods; they have the CUTEST Christmas cards!!!
I love everything PixieChicago but especially the text note cars. Loving Shabby Chic Boutique’s Lyla headband!! BeautifuL!
I twitted about you!
Shared you on my facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/lani.gillett
Blogged about this amazing giveaway!
http://laniderrick-itsmylife.blogspot.com/
Love the Shabby Lane boutique headbands and would love some patterns and fabric from Pink panda
Wow – this is amazing!!!
I LOVEd the redraven studios jewelry and the wall murals from my wonderful walls. I also loved the inkspot workshop bicycle gift enclosures – so awesome!
This is gift giveaway is a dream!!
I love Sarah + Abraham’s adorable imagery!
I love the Bumpkin tea cards, and a whole LOT of stuff at Omiyage…
I love Pip N Milly Creations! I have the ultimate messenger bag from Fiona, she is amazing at what she does!
I nominate the Nanaimo Child Development Centre. http://www.nanaimocdc.com/
Wow! What a huge giveaway!!
The aprons over at Sweet Harvey are adorable!! And I can always use some washi tape from Omiyage. So excited about this great giveaway! So much awesomeness!!
:)
I love Pip N Milly Creations, love her bags, and hope to soo purchase one!
There’s something about paper and ink and awesome designs: I love the sweetharvey shop on Etsy as well as Inkspot Workshop.
And I’d like to nominate Adsum House for Women and Children. It’s an amazing place in the North End for women and children needing emergency shelter. http://www.adsumforwomen.org/
And just linked to this giveaway on my facebook page. Yeah!
Great giveaway! I really like the Semi Fantastic Mr. Fox from Magpie Patterns and the Pip N Milly Lunch Mat!
I love New Jersey Knits!!! Biggest fan ever! And continuing on with the upcycled products Da-Atis is really great too.
Wow! so much to love, where to begin?!?! The foxes screen printed on tea towels really got me from Sweet Harvey… might need to go order some of them! The quilts by Maken are gorgeous! (always wanted to learn how to quilt, maybe I will be inspired now!) and the Sima texting gloves would be well loved by my sister if I could bear to give them as a gift!
I tweeted away about this… not that I’ve got twitter figured out quite yet… still very new to social networking! :)
I wanted to nominate Adsum House, but see that Mary already nominated them… so I second the motion? http://www.adsumforwomen.org/ Amazing shelter for women and children in North End Halifax.
Love the Modern Color Block Ornament cards from Bella Paper Goods! I also love the crayon doodlers! I am so going to order some of these! <3 them!
Blogged about it too!
Here I am literally foaming at the mouth about the handmade crayons! Look at those adorably cute colors – I hardly use crayons, but I would make an exception for those beauties. And O Happy Day’s felt dollies are adorable – I wonder how long it would take for my cat to eat them :P
I’m going to link this to my facebook :]
Wow!!!
I love Sarah+Abraham!
And I tweeted about the giveaway. My username is @mamatiff
This is all so amazing. I am already in love with Magpie – the knits she has in the shop make me want to quit my job and spend the rest of my life knitting gorgeous luxe presents! :)
Going to each of these shops is going to take me all night, and I can’t wait. :) Three down, so many more to go!
Woah…everyone of these contributors is awesome!!! If I HAD to pick just one I would say that Pink Panda Fabrics is right up my alley. Thanks for this awesome giveaway!!
I have a special fondness for the tshirt quilts at Maken and the tulip purse at da-a tis.
Linked in my facebook too
Absolutely love Maken and everything at Pink Panda Fabrics! Its all GREAT!
OK – this is an amazing giveaway! I have loved Sarah and Abraham for awhile and have found out about Oh Happy Day Handmade because of the giveaway. They are both so very talented!
I have also tweeted you and posted your giveaway on my Facebook page!
my username is @hopelovescards
Oh and my favorite charity is the Eastern North Carolina chapter of the National MS Society!
here’s a link to them!
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NCT/index.aspx
I’d like to nominate -
Loved all things felted at O Happy Day Handmade!
posted you on my wall, but couldn’t tag :(
Shared on facebook and my blog
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1542115964
http://peterandlacy.blogspot.com/
I really love office supply type products, so I have to say I love Ideal Planners, Inkspot Workshop, and Pixie Chicago. And my son would love anything from Crayon Couture…how cute!!
tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/kcoud33/status/11655868114280449
kcoud33 at gmail dot com
I love that you are donating one of these baskets to a charity fundraiser. I would like to suggest Dress for Success (http://www.dressforsuccess.org/), a group dedicated to helping women develop self esteem, become self-sufficient, and independent.
kcoud33 at gmail dot com
Love Omiyage and Pip ‘n’ Milly – how cool are the Grab & Go Lunch Mats
love it all …. Inkspot Workshop, Pixie Chicago, Sweet Harvey
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Love screenprint apron from Sweet Harvey, Day Planner from The Ideal Planner, and Crayon Doodlers from Crayon Couture
They’re all fabulous shops but my favorite are Pink Panda Fabrics & Sarah and Abraham!!
Wow, I am majorly in love with Sweet Harvey! Pink Panda Fabrics, and Magpie Patterns are also up there in the top favorites. All great and generous shops though. Beautiful work!
What an amazing giveaway!! i dont know how to choose a favorite — I definitely need/want the day planner from the Ideal Planner and LOVE the dresses from New Jersey Knits! So cute! :-) (I especially love her “my mom rocks” one!)
We run a mentoring program for a ministry called Vision Atlanta mentoring (www.visionatlanta.org) and there’s one family we work with who could REALLY use some love and cheering up this year . . . I would LOVE the chance to offer them this gift!
The baskets looks amazing! There are so many great shops to choose from! I particularly love the crochet glovs from Issa Ino and everthing from Sugarsticks Parties! Merry Christmas and good luck to all! :) Thanks for the opportunity to enter for these fab prizes!
I’ve shared the link to the contest on Facebook encouraging my friends to enter!
I’ve just tweeted about the fab giveways too!