***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
After an excitement and entry filled holiday giveaway we’ve crowned our big winner. Well, random.org has crowned a winner. And she is… Nina (who’s planning to soak up and celebrate the magic of the season with her toddler, babe, and hubs this week as well as do some gift wrapping, toy assembling, and cookie baking by the light of the tree). Congrats!
Oprah has Favorite Things. Martha has Good Things. We have Things We Love (okay, so maybe it’s not as catchy or scream-and-cry-on-national-TV-worthy, but we tried). The point is that we’ve rounded up five prizes that we heart, covering a whole range of topics that we love talking about ’round these parts – from art and tools to cleaning and ceramic animals. All in all, it’s nearly $750 worth of goodies for one lucky reader! So without further ado, here’s what one of your stockings will get stuffed with this week:
- An iRobot Scooba 230 – A compact floor washing robot from the makers of Roomba that’s small enough to get under cabinets and around commodes (worth $299!). Because less time spent scrubbing your floors means more time spent DIYing.
- An $150 gift certificate from 20×200 – One of our favorite spots for fresh original art, including the bicycle print that my sisters got me for my birthday last month. There are lots of ways to spend your $150, like splurging for a framed piece.
- Over $200 worth of Kreg Tools – The stuff that gives me the confidence to take on my woodworking projects (this set includes the Kreg Jig Master System and Multi-Mark as well as new stuff that I don’t even have: the Shelf Pin Jig and Square-Cut) – all worth $215!
- The ceramic pig speaker from West Elm – You already know that we love this often back-ordered guy, so we begged the folks at West Elm to put one aside for the winner.
- And A Very She & Him Christmas CD (or LP) and winter hat – You’ll need some music to listen to on your new pig speaker, right? And we’re loving these festive tracks from Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward.
So now that we’ve outlined the prize, here are the regular giveaway details:
- PRIZE: See above
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … what’s on your holiday agenda for the next week? Do you have lots of last minute shopping / cleaning / cooking to do? Are you traveling? Or are you just sitting back and waiting for a certain red-suited man to hop down your chimney (like Clara)?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, December 21st at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The 50 United States (although we do try to wrangle as many international giveaways as possible)
- DISCOUNT: Get 10% off on framed print orders placed at 20×200 through tomorrow December 20, 2011 with the code YHL10
- 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 for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of iRobot, Kreg Tools, 20×200, West Elm and Merge Records,
Kate Ediger says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Should (fingers crossed) be bringing my Mom home from the hospital!!
Grace says
“Happy Holidays!” This week will be full of wrapping presents and spending time with family and friends.
Jessica S. says
Happy Holidays!
Pretty much taking it easy and waiting on the big man! I may do a bit of holiday cleaning, but other than that we are ready for the big day!!
Jenny says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
The holiday will be spent with my kids but the following week while I’m on vacation I’ll be tackling kitchen cabinet organization!
Erin says
Happy holidays! I’m going to be resting up, because we’re moving two days after Christmas! CRAZINESS!
Dawn says
Happy Holidays! I plan on spending as much time as possible with family and friends!
meggie says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Shop, clean, eat, sleep, eat, eat, shop, clean, sleep
Jennifer says
Happy Holidays!! Our plans involve cooking, cleaning and a major ugly christmas sweater party!!
Natalie says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Margaret says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I’m wrapping while asking my corgi puppy Bruce, “Where’s Santa?! Find Santa Bruce!” and watching him run all over the house….I think he thinks Santa is bacon?
Karin says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
My holiday agenda: travel to San Diego to celebrate Hanukkah with my sisters family then come back home for Christmas with my boyfriends family. Today’s my last day at work before hand so I’m antsy! <3 you guys!
JMay says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Wrapping presents and making peppermint marshmallows to go with hot cocoa mix for neighborhood gifts.
Janelle says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Such a long to do list of cleaning, furniture rearrangement, junk purging, shopping and work stuff. I’ll likely sit on the couch and watch movies instead. :)
M Howell says
Happy Holidays! We are planning a Christmas Eve finger-food feast followed by festive, fun games, singing, stories and maybe a poem or two for 24 guests.
Randa says
Happy Holidays! Cleaning house here and wrapping a few gifts!
Rachel T. says
Happy Holidays!
cleaning, enjoying time with the family!
Sheri says
Happy Holidays! I have enjoyed living vicariously through you this year since I just moved into my first house but have yet had time to do many projects. Don’t worry I have been storing up all the good ideas that I’ve seen so hopefully someday will get around to it all.
Sara W. says
Happy Holidays!! My plans for this week involve baking, shopping and then enjoying as much time as possible with family and friends!! I am beyond excited to be celebrating my son’s first Christmas!!
Katie says
Happy Holidays!
I’ll be doing a lot of baking and squeezing it all in at the last minute so it’s all fresh!
Keri Beth says
Happy holidays! I can’t wait to see my kids open the dollhouse I built for them.
Brandi says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I need to do some last minute baking and pick up some gift cards and then I’m good as gold! I’m looking forward to my little one’s first Christmas too :)
stef says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I’m at work all week. Thankfully all my shopping was finished online a few weeks ago.
Monique says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
The grandparents seem to be taking care of everything this year, which gives us time to celebrate our 8 year anniversary!
Katie K. says
Happy Holidays!
My husband and I are having xmas #2 at my parents’ house tonight, then we are cleaning our house from top to bottom so it’s presentable when his family comes over for xmas #3!
Joanna says
Happy Holidays! I actually got the pig as a gift for my brother, but as I wrapped it I was thinking about how much I would like one for myself! The coming week is full of travel and baking – most of the shopping is done, phew! A few last minute DIY gifts to complete too.
Candice says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Gotta finish up a few homemade gifts and do some decorating and we’re g2g.
Anna says
Making stockings for our first Christmas as an engaged couple/ on our own!
1916home.net says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
We want to go someplace fun, but might just stay home under the mistletoe and save some money. :)
Rachel says
Happy Holidays! This week is actually my last vacation of the year. It will be spent doing a bunch of crafts for our annual New year’s eve party, celebrating Hanukkah with my friends and then my family and then finally traveling down to Baltimore to celebrate Christmas with my husbands family!Should be a fun week!
Leslie Becker says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! My baby is due any day now so I am in full nesting mode! Cleaning, baking and trying to get the house ready for guests :)
Suzi D. says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
My husband and I are spending Christmas with my family. We’ll be baking (and eating that baking), running our annual 5K, watching movies, and even doing a little pottery wheel-ing. I can’t wait!
Amanda Culver says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS and Merry Christmas, I have LOTS of cleaning to do for the upcoming holidays. Luckily I have until the 31st before the inlaws visit!
Michelle says
Happy Holidays! We have a lot of traveling coming up. We’re headed to KS, TX, & AZ, then back to our home in CO!
Britney says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS & Merry Christmas!
I’ll be busy baking cookies to give to friends and then my husband and I are off to spend Christmas and New Years with our families!
Anna says
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
This week has a bunch of shopping (gifts + groceries), christmas caroling, present wrapping, cleaning, cooking and parties – heaven only knows how it is all going to happen!
Olivia says
Happy holidays, Petersiks! We will be flying to visit the in-laws in Minnesota. Everyone is very excited to meet the new baby, who will be flying for the first time. I’ve heard nursing can help with the ear pressure?
Anna says
oops, forgot the: Happy Holidays! I’ll be making stockings for our first Christmas as an engaged couple/ on our own!
Jason says
“HAPPY HOLIDAYS!”
5 destinations left to visit this before Christmas to spend time with family but luckily their all fairly close to home.
Carrie says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I’m heading to LA for a warm Christmas this year!
Trina says
Happy Holidays! I get to hang out with my new sister-in-law next week! So excited!
Lindsay says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A little last minute cleaning, cooking, wrapping, but looking forward to a relaxing Christmas at home with family.
Cheri says
“HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” I’ve got family coming from California and Florida so it will be a full week of showing them around town and getting ready for a big Christmas Day dinner!
Kim says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Shopping and baking then relaxing.
Jenn E says
Happy Holidays!
I’m working today and tomorrow, then I’ve got to finish shopping and get baking and cooking for the weekend!
B Kantrovitz says
Happy Holidays indeed!
We’re driving the 10 hours from SF to Corvallis, OR with our 18-month-old daughter… Yikes! But it’ll be worth it to see family and spend our holidays with grammie, grandpa and 6 doggies!
Tanya K says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! :)
Abby says
Happy Holidays! We’ll be travelling for the holiday – fingers crossed for nice weather!
Becca says
Happy Holidays! I’ve sent out my boxes of goodies and will be making more for the 3 family Christmas get-together’s coming up this weekend!
Lindsay says
Happy Holidays! Lots of traveling this week, first to my in-laws and then off to Arizona for a few days of post-christmas relaxation! Cant wait!
Kari says
Happy Holidays! I will be busy with baking, wrapping and hanging out with my husband!