Prints I Want

Paper Jam Press on Felt & Wire is a shop that I admire a lot. Not only do I like the snippets of lyrics she picks to print, I love that the songs get stuck in my head and make me feel slightly nostalgic for just a bit. It's possible that it also ages me quite a bit, but whatevs. I totally agree that these are words to live by, too. Because…. you can't touch this! And I'm something like a phenomenon. ;) Somebody buy me these!

Winner's all around

The winner of a free ad space at Hollie Takes Notes is Natalie from A Moment of Wonderful. Congratulations Natalie! Email me - annaelder [at] ymail.com and we will get you set up! 

I know there can only be one winner of the giveaway, but everyone's a winner today because I've got a free printable for you! Catherine of Design Editor has made a drinking game for the Oscar's! Seriously, how fun is that? Here are her directions for the game:

"CHEERS, OSCAR! DRINKING GAME | Hosting a viewing party? This will make things a little more interesting. I've included lists of things you might see on the show, divided into categories that will prompt you to take a sip, take a shot or totally down it. If you aren't a drinker, you could try turning the game into bets. 

 RED CARPET REPORT CARD | This is your companion as you police the red carpet. I've included a list of nominees and presenters with space for notes and grades. 

Both of these designs are on one 8.5 x 11 PDF. I trimmed it down the middle to make long cards, but that's up to you."

Download the printable here: Cheers Oscar! (you may need Adobe Reader in order to open this, and you download that for free here)

To be honest I don't usually watch all of the Oscar's. I usually catch the end for the best movie winner and then check out the best of the best dressed celebs online the next day. But with these cards to print off on my fancy new printer…yeah, I think I'm gonna have to now, right? What about you? Do you watch, host a party or skip the whole thing?

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

I can't contain my excitement!

Are you familiar with Minted? Only the coolest website for ordering stationery. Whether it's weddings, announcements, note cards, journals, and now art prints, they've got it all. But Minted is unique because the designs are submitted by the Minted community and then the community votes on which designs they like the best. Winning designs are then sold. What I love about Minted is that designs are super modern and fresh and are continually working to stay ahead of the design curve.

A few months ago they began their very first Art Print challenge and I submitted a few designs. And today I am BEYOND excited to announce that one of my designs won! But that's not all - this print was also a runner-up for Best personalizable wedding art print. Yeah, so it didn't win, but to be a runner-up?! I'm honored. 

This personalizeable print will be available for purchase soon and will be offered in a couple different color-ways. I will be sure to let you know when it goes on sale. And you can guarantee I'll be ordering one for myself. duh. 

Today is the last day to enter the giveaway for Ad space on Hollie's blog! Enter! 

Wednesday Giveaway Yay + A Guest Post

Hello bloggie friends! I have a super fun and totally worth it giveaway for you today! Hollie of Hollie Takes Notes has so graciously offered to give away one medium ad space (200x250) on her blog as she is now offering sponsorships at super affordable prices! I'm sure you're no stranger to her blog, but if you are here's you chance to get acquainted (I promise you will love it). The winning ad space will run through the entire month of March, and get ready because her blog is gaining readers significantly every day! If it so happens that you've already purchased ad space with Hollie for the month of March she has agreed to extend your spot into April. Ad spaces on blogs are one of the best ways to get your blog or shop out there and reach readers you may not otherwise. Your ad space win will also include a feature post and links to love. Entering is easy!

How to enter: (one comment)

You MUST be a follower of both my blog and Hollie's blog.

Leave a comment below telling us so. 

Extra entries: (one comment per entry)

1. Follow @itsmehollieann & @theniceblog on Twitter.

2. Follow us both on Pinterest here and here. 

3. Follow holliegolightly and theniceblog on Instagram.

4. Tweet about this giveaway.

(ex. tweet: just entered a #giveaway on @theniceblog for ad space on @itsmehollieann.)

This giveaway is open until Thursday at midnight with the winner announced Friday. Winner will be chosen at random by random.org.

Best of luck to everyone! 

WAIT! There's more! Today I am also guest posting over at Hollie's blog. I'm sharing some of my favorite ways to incorporate color into your wardrobe from minimal to totally bold. So be sure to check it out and leave some love. 

I give up

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I've been searching the internet and racking my brain for the past 3 hours (seriously) and I've got no ideas for a blog post today. So instead this is what you're getting. I'm super frustrated at my brain. It doesn't seem to be working very well. I'm forgetting things and lacking in inspiration and ideas. My creative juices have gone dry. I'm thinking that what I really need to be doing is spending the day in bed. ;)

I'm also going to take this lack of a real post as an opportunity to rant about something. Those stupid word verifications blogger's are using to make use prove we're not robots were enhanced recently and they're now two words and really hard to see. Because I would love to leave a comment on your blog post, I find myself trying up to three times! If it doesn't go through after that I give up and leave your blog. If you're someone who isn't getting as many comments as usual and you have this setting this might be why. There are other ways to keep track of your comments and weed out spammers. I personally have emails sent each time I receive a new comment (it's a great way to reply to a comment also), and have old posts (after 5 days) require my approval before it will post. I get spam sometimes, but it's mostly on old posts. This way you can delete or mark as spam. Blogger also has a pretty decent automatic spam detection. If you have settings like this you shouldn't have a problem with spammers and you have full control if  you want to delete a comment. I know that I'm not the only one annoyed by this "enhanced" feature, so please think about changing your settings.

Majority Rules

this? or this?

Friday I have a hair appointment. I was pretty set on just enhancing my current color, much like the first image from The Beauty Department, and then I was talking to Matt about Oliver Palermo and googled her to show him a photo and saw this one and I love it a whole lot. So now I'm torn on what I should do with my hair. I might go with you what the majority here thinks I should do. What should I do? I'm only referring to the color, not the cut. 

A Toast to the Weekend

*note to self: do not try to edit your blog posts from your ipad. it deletes the entire thing. ugh. 

Make it:

2 oz VuQu vodka

1 oz. Chambord

1 oz. champagne

Pour vodka and chambord over ice in a martini shaker. Shake and strain into champagne glass, top with champagne. Easy peasy! 

I'm sorry, but I don't remember what I wrote since my stupid ipad deleted my entire post. But, go check out this vodka. It sounds really good. 

Cheers to the freakin' weekend!