***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.
Mona says
MATCH ME!!!
Yes, a friend set me up with a guy that later turned out to be my husband.
Karen says
MATCH ME! But I won’t play matchmaker.
Bess says
MATCH ME!
I once twirled (a.k.a shoved) my friend into a dude while we were out dancing. She missed him though and accidentally bumped into his friend instead. 2 years later they were married. (Turns about the original dude is a huge jerk so I’m glad I had bad aim.)
Jill says
Match me!
I’ve never tried matchmaking anyone, but I was nearly set up with a friend’s friend once. After meeting the guy and talking about how strange he was, my friend changed her mind about trying to set us up:)
Lauren says
MATCH ME!!!! At their 10-year high school reunion, two friends of mine from high school had a conversation about how this fellow classmate from high school and I would be a perfect couple. They never mentioned it to me (or to her) until a year later when we met by chance and started dating. Now we’re married, and they credit themselves with putting the idea into the universe and making it happen! :)
Erin says
MATCH ME!! I’ve been the matchee, but never the matcher. Being set up through friends never worked out, but I met my husband via eharmony, so technology is my cupid.
Carrie says
MATCH ME! Love at first byte! I met my husband Graham through a computer of all things. Match.com to be exact – who would have known? We emailed with each other for about a month and had our first ‘meeting’ at a restaurant in Irving, TX on February 11, 2005. Our first official date was two weeks after our meeting, Feb. 26 and lasted ten hours. The best date ever! And I like ot admit we are the perfect match.
Lena says
match me!
Sarah says
Match me! (This is such a cool idea for art.com to create!) I certainly hope I win!
Meghan says
Match Me!
I’ve never tried to play matchmaker; I wouldn’t want to be responsible for a dating disaster!
Chelsea says
Match me!
What an awesome tool! I can’t wait to try it.
Danielle says
MATCH ME! Please :)
Sherri says
MATCH ME!
Never tried to play Matchmaker. I didn’t want to be responsible if it didn’t go well!
Carol S says
MATCH ME!
I learned to avoid matchmaking by watching my mother try with friends and coworkers (although thank GOD never her children) and having a number of those pairings go down in flames. I’ll stick to blind luck, thankyouverymuch.
Steve says
Match Me!
No match making for us, all of our friends are too weird to introduce them to each other!
Lindsey says
MATCH ME PLEASE!
Kendall says
Match Me!
Amanda says
Match Me!!
I’ve never been a matchmaker before. I should start finding some girls for my brothers. :)
Sarah says
MATCH ME!
I literally match-make as part of my job in the alumni office at a university. It’s such a blast (cannot attest to what happens after I send out the matches)!
sam says
“MATCH ME!!”
my matchmaking skills struggle…every set up is a fail!
Cindy says
Match me!
angela says
MATCH ME!!!
I have played matchmaker in the past and it was a complete flop. Luckily I didn’t ruin any friendships in the process :)
Ali says
MATCH ME!
The only matches I’ve ever made have been between people and pets when I worked at an animal shelter :)
emmy A says
MATCH ME!
I got set up on a blind date by one of my mom’s friends once. It was awful. By the end of dinner he had already asked me how many children I wanted and how I planned on disciplining them. What?! Thankfully I was heading back to college several states away in a couple weeks. Don’t worry, though, I had a card (with hearts on it) waiting for me when I arrived at the dorm. Somehow he got my college address. (Darn you mom!) He apologized for “probably freaking me out.” Ya think?! Needless to say, that was the last time I agreed to any kind of blind date.
Sweet Karoline says
Match Me!
Ugh friends try to play matchmaker with me (fortunately they don’t actually tell me what they’re up to until I show up) but it never works! Don’t do it!
Ashley @ sunnysideshlee.com says
MATCH ME!
I’ve tried to play matchmaker because I can always see how awesome 2 people would be together, but then it doesn’t always work out and I’m the one that’s bummed! haha!
Michaela says
Match ME!! I was a victim of matchmaking in college. It seemed promising for a couple of months. Then it was a big fat crash and burn.
kirsten says
MATCH ME! I play matchmaker all the time, I am officially becoming my mother.
Jeannine says
Match Me! Blind Dates but no matchmaking!!
Rebecca says
Match Me! Never tried to be a matchmaker, probably all for the best!
Brooks Smith says
MATCH ME!!!
My brother-in-law and his now wife:)
Karen says
MATCH ME!
I’ve never been intentionally matched, but I met my husband when I went out to celebrate my best friend’s boyfriend’s birthday- my hubby was his best friend and we have been together ever since (6 years and going strong!) Our friends have a different story…
Rachei says
“Match Me” playing match maker always seemed to end up badly:( Not my specialty!
JessG says
MATCH ME!!
I’ve never really tried to be a matchmaker OR been matched up before.
Katrina says
Match Me! I have tried to play matchmaker many times. Unfortunately, the matches end in awkward friendships.
Rebecca Miller says
Match me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried playing matchmaker once. They went to Red Lobster and exchange about 10 words, all about the cheddar biscuits. Ugh. I didn’t try again.
Samantha says
Match me!
I’m the worst matchmaker! I have started some pretty great friendships though.
Randee J. says
MATCH ME!
I tell my husband about my matchmaking schemes and he always tells me to leave things alone! I guess I have dreams of being a good matchmaker but I doubt anything will ever come of it…
Stacy Bouchard says
Match me!
The one and only time I was set up by a friend was a nightmare. The guy did nothing but talk about his ex-wife and their divorce the entire date!
Diane says
MATCH ME! I’ve tried to play matchmaker a ton of times, and all failed, yet I still try and for some reason…my friends continue to let me do it!
tia says
MATCH ME!!
I played matchmaker with a guy I dated for a few weeks and an old friend. I knew they would work well together and they have now been together 5 years and are engaged! I became a little over confident in my matchmaking abilities and started matchmaking everyone. I should have just stuck with the success I had with the first match, because no one else worked out. whoops!
Julie T. says
Match me!
Laura says
“MATCH ME!”
Jeanne Overman says
Match Me! I’ve never played matchmaker, but once I went out with a co-worker’s nephew as a favor. Big Mistake!
Amy says
MATCH ME!
I was matched up once and it was awful..
Kelly Anne says
MATCH ME! I’ve never tried to play matchmaker but my boyfriend’s roommates have always begged me to.
Joana says
Hi! In the matches to your first image: is the the fourth one on the top row a roman temple in Évora, Portugal?
Megan D says
Match me!
I am a terrible matchmaker – I no longer try. Although we did recently introduce two friends who are now dating, with no intention of matching them on our part!
Bri Frost says
MATCH ME … no match making for me. too many possibilities for uncomfortable situations.
Whitney says
MATCH ME!
I did try once, between my sister and one of my best friends…there was a small misunderstanding and it ended in my sister and I walking home from the bar in heels.
Never again.