***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
Our winner, thanks to the willy nilly matchmaking skills of random.org, is… Sharon (who’s hoping to be matched up with a piece of art to finish off a master bedroom renovation). Congrats!
Art.com is full of affordable stuff to help solve Naked Wall Syndrome (like these horse prints that we recently purchased) so we’re psyched that they’re giving away an $250 gift card to one of you lucky folks this week. They’ve launched a new tool called Match My Image that promises to come in handy next time you’re hunting for the perfect piece. You just upload an image – maybe of a fabric that you’re trying to coordinate or a photo that you’re using as inspiration – and it spits out a slew of art in that color scheme/vein that’s available for purchase. Here’s what we happened upon when we uploaded a couple of personal pictures (a photo of the river here in Richmond and a painting that Clara recently whipped up). Fun, right?
- PRIZE: A $250 gift card to Art.com
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “MATCH ME!” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: … tell us if you’ve ever tried playing matchmaker? Or has someone else tried to match you up? How did it all work out? Was it amazing? Or should you (or your would-be matchmaker) stick to their day job?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, July 13th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday morning for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We weren’t paid or perk’d for hosting this giveaway, we just take them on to reward our lovely readers! See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics from Art.com.
Allison says
MATCH ME!
Yes, my boyfreind and I played match maker hooking up a guy from his office with a girl from my office 2 years ago. We are going to their wedding in October, so guess we aren’t so bad at it. I on the other hand am still waiting for my turn to the alter. Not getting impatient or anything…
Courtney says
My now best friend tried to set me up with a guy years ago, long before her and I became so close (we were just co-workers back then). The “match” didn’t work, but I got to know my co-worker a lot better and we soon became great friends ; ) I suppose it was an unexpected match!
Courtney S. says
MATCH ME! I have played matchmaker before. There was a guy I worked with many years ago and our personalities seemed to clash once in a while. Since my BFF and I have the complete opposite taste in men, and since I didn’t quite care for this guy, I figured they would be PERFECT! They met, they dated, they married and they just celebrated their 8th Anniversary yesterday! :)
Serina says
MATCH ME!!!
I tried my hand at matchmaking once and the poor guy was shot down, so never again!
Crystal says
Match Me!
No matchmaking for me
Jennifer D. says
MATCH ME!
After getting tired of my best friend trying to set me up with yet another freak she just met online, I took matters into my own hands, joined eharmony, and met my husband that way. I recommend that site to all my friends looking to find a mate.
Alex says
match meeeee
never tried – but with an upcoming wedding and the power to sit people anywhere we want……
Heidi says
Match Me!!
Never tried to play matchmaker before and I don’t think I’d be very good at it either lol!
Sarah says
MATCH ME!
Never been matched up but have definitely tried to match others up and it always ends not so well! :)
Allison says
MATCH ME!
I’ve never played matchmaker, but I sometime watch the show “Millionaire Matchmaker” on TV and I think to myself, I can’t actually believe this woman gets paid to do this?!
lounytoon says
MATCH ME! Learned early on to not play matchmaker, just pick a place, add friends, stir and see what happens naturally.
Lucia Kitchen says
Match me!! And the last matchmaking date I went on? We’ve been married almost three years :)
Stefanie says
MATCH ME! My husband and I were “nudged” together by a mutual friend “matchmaker” :D Worked out pretty well for us!
Marla says
MATCH ME!
I usually just match up people in my mind or in a conversation with someone “oh, wouldn’t so-and-so make a cute couple?”, but stop at that. Don’t want to get myself in trouble – haha.
Stephanie H. says
Match me!
The hubs and I introduced two friends to each other and they hit it off perfectly. So perfectly, in fact, that they got married a year before we did and now have two beautiful kids, one boy and one girl.
Jessica says
MATCH ME! I always want to play match maker but just don’t have the skills!
Amy A. says
MATCH ME!
Lin says
MATCH ME! Never, never, never fix up friends.
Emily V. says
Match Me!
Never been the matchmaker. My friend played matchmaker with me and my husband. It worked!
Mara T. says
MATCH ME!
I’ve tried matchmaking before, but nothing amazing really came of my efforts. As in I am not responsible for any long term relationships. But I do have this one friend I am still hoping to help find a lady…
Nina says
Match me!
I try not to matchmake, but I’m thankful for the friends who set up my parents on a blind date in college in 1971. They were very happily married for over 38 years after that. My dad passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago and I’m just thankful for the matchmakers in their lives because I wouldn’t have been here without them, nor had the opportunity to see what a testimony my parents’ marriage was for all!
Lindsay R says
MATCH ME!
My parents were actually the matchmakers of my husband and I. We were both working at the same restaurant in college and didn’t even know each other. My husband waited on my parents table when they came to visit me and they fell in love with him. After much pushing from them we went out on a date and have been together for the past ten years and married for the past eight and half with two beautiful children. Who would have thought that my parents had such good taste. I guess it goes to show that your parents really do know what is best.
Mindi says
Match Me!!!
Courtney says
Match Me! I have tried and failed many times to play matchmaker.
Jennifer says
Match me! I met my husband on match.com and have met many of our framed prints on art.com!
Jenn says
MATCH ME!
I’ve never been set up. :)
Rebecca says
Match me!!
Holly says
MATCH ME!
Haven’t played match maker but I sure have predicted some!! :)
Kimberly says
MATCH ME! I never try to play matchmaker for people because 1) someone tried it for me and it was awful and 2) if it doesn’t work out I don’t want to be blamed. Leave the matchmaking up to the parents!
Megan says
Match me!
Not exactly a romantic example of matchmaking, but still matchmaking! My freshman year college roommate and I got “set-up” by a mutual girlfriend who said we would get along great! She was right-we’ve been best friends ever since!
Leah says
MATCH ME!!
I set up my brother-in-law with one of my best friends and they’ve been married for three years now. It is weird to know stuff about your brother-in-law that you normally wouldn’t. :)
Tiffany says
Match Me!
I haven’t done any matchmaking since the teenage years, and it didn’t work out so well then.
Courtney says
MATCH ME!
I’ve never played matchmaker and have never been matched. Thank goodness!
Heather says
MATCH ME! PLEASE MATCH ME! My sweet husband and I are a product of match making. I worked with his aunt, she held a match making pool party and we were one of three couples that stuck. He and I and our cute 2 kids are a match made in heaven :)
Mary M. says
“MATCH ME!”
I set up my sister & a friend of mine… and yes! It did turn out amazing!
Dawn Samuels says
MATCH ME! I have played matchmaker of times with good success but I tread very carefully.
Liz says
MATCH ME!
Never played matchmaker, but all of our friends knew we (my husband and I) would get married. they made bets on it in 6th grade.
Korina says
Match me! My hubby is the matchmaker, he hooked up his sister and to her husband, and this weekend his cousin is getting married to a girl he introduced him to!
Andrea @ DwellRepurposed says
MATCH ME PLEASE!! I recently matched two friends and they are doign great as a couple! Maybe I should be a matchmaker!
Jessica says
Match me!
My husband and I played matchmaker once and the couple is still together! But I can’t lie, sometimes it feels as though we are just waiting for a bomb to go off…but we wish them the best if luck ;)
C Marie says
MATCH ME!
No messing with fate here!
Nichole says
MATCH ME!
I tried to set up this really cute & funny guy with one of my friends back in high school. (Thinking…he’s such a catch, my friend will be sure to like him.)
They weren’t a match….but we were. We just passed our 5 year wedding anniversary. :)
Betsy says
MATCH ME! (What a cool tool -hey that rhymed- from Art.com!)
My first job post college was working with a high end matchmaking firm. During my time there, I was able to witness and be a part of several successful matches. It was a fun and rewarding gig! Never a dull moment at that office!
Maureen says
Match Me!!
A friend played matchmaker on me. It was the first time I had ever met up with a guy for a date that I had not even really spoken to on the phone (just to set up the date). Worked out well, we were married 2 years later :)
Kim says
“MATCH ME!”
Never gone the matchmaker route!!
Sarah Martin says
MATCH ME!
My friend, Russ, tried to match me up with a couple of his friends over the years, but it didn’t stick until the third try. Kevin and I are now married!
Lindsay says
MATCH ME!!
I haven never been matched up or tried to match anyone up. I don’t think it’s fair to put someone under that kind of pressure!
Kelli says
Match Me!
Tried it…failed…
Kirsten says
Match me!
And people tried to set up my husband and I for a year. In which we resisted and kinda hated each other, then grew into people we could love and fell in love all on our own after people gave up on us. Now they try to take credit still, the jerks.
Jocelyn A. says
Match Me!
I can’t think of a matchmaking fail or success although I’m sure I’ve probably tried before!