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Fab Freebie: Gotta Hand It To You

***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***

Thanks to random.org, we’ve got a Merry (belated) Christmas prize going out to… Kristin Aune (who made t-shirts for both of her kids, ornaments, buckeyes and has been trying to perfect her fudge pie recipe). Congrats!

Wahoo. Hope you guys all had an awesome holiday weekend (you can see a sliver of ours here). As we mentioned on Friday, we’ll be stopping in with one quick post each day this week (amongst family hosting, feverish book-deadline writing, and priming & painting all of our kitchen cabinets). But we couldn’t wait to share today’s giveaway that we wrangled after seeing so much amazing stuff at our local Handmade Holiday craft fair. So this week’s lucky winner will get:

  • An 8×10 letterpress print (any choice of quote & color), a set of blueprint notes (airplane, boat, golfcart, knots, wave, or lighthouse) and a leather blank book from Almanac Industries. These Baltimore-based bookbinders and letterpress gurus bring a wonderful worn and masculine vibe to these printed prizes.
  • $50 towards Funnel Cloud Studio on Etsy. Obviously we love her Virginia-themed art, but she also has a bunch of cheerful patterned prints and cheeky illustrations to choose from too.
  • A 26-letter ornament set and this green vase from Turnerbots. And we thought our J, S, C and B initial ornaments were cool. Someone’s about to get a whole alphabet full of candy colored ceramics, along with a V-A-S-E.
  • $50 towards Zou Zou’s Basement on Etsy. We loved the bunny print that we bought, and this $50 is enough to snag two of her colorful prints.

  Handmade Giveaway 2

  • PRIZE: Everything mentioned above
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “HAND IT TO ME” and tell us…
  • BONUS QUESTION: … what you’ve made with your own hands recently. Did you bake something for the holidays? Did you give a handmade gift this weekend? Or have you tackled a DIY or homemade art project recently?
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, December 28th 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: 10% off any item in Turnerbots’ Etsy shop until January 15th, 2012 with the coupon code YOUNGHOUSE.
  • 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 Funnel Cloud Studio, Turnerbots, Almanac Industries and Zou Zou’s Basement.

Comments

  2. Regan says

    Hand it to me!
    The hubs & I teamed up for a gift for our sis-in-law. He cut a cross-section from a branch from the cedar tree in our backyard & I made wire holders that we attached to said board. We put air plants in the wire holders & attached a picture hanger to the back of the board. Super cool (if we do say so ourselves!) ;) Now I want to make one for us!

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  8. Bethany says

    chex mix : ) (with a secret ingredient!) my husband had been begging for it for months and I finally got a chance to make it, takes a while but is totally worth it!

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  12. Cindy says

    “HAND IT TO ME” I make lots of things but I did just take a cool old silver tray and put blackboard paint on it and made it a black board. Then I took a old picture I had and didn’t like and put beveled mirrors on and and made it into a awesome mirror.

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  14. Alison says

    HAND IT TO ME!
    My kids and I made a ton of baked goods over the holidays. The real projects begin as soon as the tree is put away. We just moved into our new house and there is much painting and decorating to be done.

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  15. Emily says

    Hand it to me!

    I didn’t get to DIY anything this year. Crazy end of year work plus a 13 month old with pink eye. Even though I didn’t get to make any of the stuff I had planned, I still had loads of fun spending time with my family.

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  16. Maureen says

    HAND IT TO ME!!!!! (Please!)

    My three year old son and I made painted glass ornaments for the whole extended family {We made something I pinned on Pinterest- yay!}

    I also made a fabric coverd coloring book for my niece with her name on it in cute wood dot letters.

    Great memories and everyone LOVED their gifts!!

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  19. Kim says

    HAND IT TO ME! I made red velvet cheesecake and cheesecake stuffed chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. Cheesecake is popular around our house.

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  23. Sarah says

    HAND IT TO ME!

    I tackled red velvet cupcakes which seemed easy at first but became a real challenge when the mixer broke :)

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  25. Jenny West Bullock says

    HAND IT TO ME!

    I made Christmas dinner, as well as necklaces for my daughters. I also found some vintage bingo chips and framed them for my husband.

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  26. Brianne says

    HAND IT TO ME! I baked dozens of cookies for Christmas and decided to do some fancier wrapping for all my Christmas gifts this year.

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  29. Daniel Harris says

    HAND IT TO ME!

    I helped my wife make cookies and helped put all my daughters toys together from Santa and the family.

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  30. mere says

    HAND IT TO ME…

    I made . . a mess. We’ve been in the process of marrying and moving. But I did make a batch of cookies. Fortunately my mother hooked us up with real christmas cookies.

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  32. dana says

    HAND IT TO ME!

    this christmas season was brought to you in it’s entirety by my two hands. handmade ornaments for the tree. all presents and hostess gifts. can’t forget the baked goods. it felt really nice to give people one of a kind items.

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  33. Erin Macdonald says

    HAND IT TO ME!!!

    For my husband’s Hanukkah and Christmas gift, I preplanned and prepaid for 12 dates for the two of us, one for each month of 2012. Then I made lil cards for each month’s envelope to explain each date, to go along with the gift cards. It took forever to finisg but we’re both happy with how they came out.

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  34. Meg says

    HAND IT TO ME!

    I used the styrofoam trays that vegetables come in from the store and paper mached them with Xmas-themed paper, then decoupaged photos to them to make trays for my customers and friends. I also cut out letters to spell names and decoupaged wrapping paper over them, then stuck them on gifts to spell out the recipients name.

    Love your blog and ideas!

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  35. Heather D says

    Hand it to me.. please :)

    I made homemade pistachio almond cookies thanks to pinterest. And will be making gingerbread cookies this week!

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  36. Adrienne says

    HAND IT TO ME! My husband and I hung some floating Ikea shelves. We thought about DIYing them, but getting them centered and leveled was as involved as we could get this time of year.

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  39. kathleen says

    Hand it to me! We celebrate this weekend and I will finish 2 pairs of pj pants before our family pic on “Christmas” morning, 12/31.

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  40. Stephanie says

    HAND IT TO ME!

    I, too, made a grey felt wreath, multiple wine cork wreaths, a book page wreath and many other edibles!

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  43. Karen hornsten says

    I have been making little gifts for over 40 years for family and friends. This year I crocheted Cotten or soft yarn face cloths, made hand cream, and created quite a few decorative folded, origami star decorations. I tried my hand at envelope books with personalized photos also. It means a lot to me to give handmade gifts. This year my grandaughter crocheted a beautiful hotpad for me. And guess who taught her how to crochet? I think this was my favorite gift. Karen

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  44. Meg F. says

    Hand it to me!

    I made our family’s big Christmas breakfast. My parents were thrilled they didn’t have to do it and I loved making it for my family.

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  45. Andrea says

    HAND IT TO ME

    Let’s see I baked, and made some glittered cookie cutter ornaments with my three year old as gifts. Had all intentions of learning how to felt but time got away from me. put it on the list for next Christmas. And I’m so jealous of this fair you got to attend! I feel like any craft fair I attend are filled with crocheted towels and kleenex covers.

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