***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.
Audrey says
Match me!
I’m a new reader and I totally think I deserve some swag. :)
Charlotte | Living Well on the Cheap says
Match me! Sadly, I’m no good at matchmaking.
Debbie says
MATCH ME!
I tried to play matchmaker twice with the same friend. FAIL.
Katie J. says
MATCH ME!
I tried setting up a co-worker once… it wasn’t an epic fail, but I probably won’t be trying that again. :)
Fernando says
Match me!
I have been matched up but never played matchmaker!
Nora says
Match me!
I tried to play matchmaker in high school but it was unsuccessful!
Lori says
Match Me! I haven’t ever tried it and would rather not!
Kai S says
Match me!
All attempts at matchmaking failed. All I can say is I’m glad no one ever tried to match me up with someone! Very happy to have found my husband without help :)
Chris S. says
Matche Me!…please :)
Dee says
MATCH ME! Yes, I tried to play match-maker twice for the same guy, and both times it was a fail. My bad!
Rachel says
MATCH ME:
Since I’m one of the only single gals left in my group of friends and family, I’m always the Matchmaker’s guinea pig.
Ashley says
“MATCH ME!” and… I tried to play matchmaker once…it didnt work out so well so I guess I’ll move on to bigger and better things :)
Denise says
MATCH ME! I’ve never played matchmaker before but it sounds kind of fun.
Kellie says
MATCH ME! No experience as a matchmaker, but I’m starting to think maybe I need one!
Penny says
MATCH ME!!!
I’m looking for someone to make me a match!
Katie says
Match Me!
I’ve never played matchmaker before but my husband and I met through a mutual friend who I don’t think was trying to match us but it kind of happened anyway? It all worked out in the end. =P
Ashley says
Match Me!!!! I’ve never played match maker, or had anyone match me up with anyone (besides in elementary school when the teachers pair you up with classmates for projects).
Jessie says
Match Me! Tried to hook my roommate up with this cute guy I knew… She was not interested, and it turned out he was only interested in her because he thought I was not into him. Once this information became known we immediatly started dating and were married w/in 18 months :) Expecting our first child in Oct!
Kim says
MATCH ME!!
Katie says
Match me!
The only time I made a “match,” the girl ended up being a complete psycho but my husband’s brother dated her for a year anyway. I kicked myself for 12 straight months for that one! Never again.
Corrie says
MATCH ME!
my friend likes to take credit for matching up my boyfriend and i since we met at her graduation party (even though we had a number of mutual friends prior). we’ve been together 7.5 years. :o)
Stephanie says
Match Me! I’ve never really tried to play matchmaker, I don’t want to be responsible for that ;)
Wendy D says
Match me!
A fellow teacher played matchmaker for me. Neither my date or myself had ever been on a blind date before. (Yup, blind date virgins.) Two years later to the day, we got married. In December we will celebrate our 8th anniversary with our 3 kids and big ole dog Buford.
Donna says
MATCH ME!
My mother was a bank teller, and when I moved back home after college, she matched me with two of her customers… those she knew had stable checking/savings accounts! Neither match panned out romantically, but I am still good friends with one of them!
Olivia says
MATCH ME!
And I’ve never tried to set anyone up, but I would if I thought they were compatible.
HOWEVER!
When me and my husband were just in high school we dated in the summer and broke up. Later at the county fair, his twin cousins from our West were visiting (unknown to me they were his cousins).
They were hanging out with a friend of mine, and told me I should meet someone who would be a perfect match. We ran into that match and it was Joel, my ex (my husband now)… it was strange having her say we were perfect for each other and we had already dated (unknown to her).
It wasn’t a bad break up, just the wrong time and we both still very much liked each other :)
in the end, we were together and still going strong!
Liz says
Match me!
My husband and I played matchmakers while we were engaged. We each had a friend who had really similar interests so we decided to get them together. They must have hit it off because they got married a year later!
Jenny says
I tried to play matchmaker only once as well. I still maintain that it might have worked if they both just hadn’t been so aware of the matchmaking going on behind the scenes, darn it.
Ashley says
Match me!
Almost three years ago I was matched to my lovely boyfriend by a mutual friend, and last week we signed a lease and will be officially shacking up a month from now! This blog serves as daily inspiration on how we can make our new (and terribly tiny) love nest ours. Hopefully he will enjoy home improvements as much as John does :)
Teri M says
“MATCH ME!”
I’ve never played matchmaker. I’ve thought about it, but that’s as far as it went.
Laura T says
Match me! I have no single friends to match up so no matching for me.
Laura says
MATCH ME!!
…my dear grandmother works in a doctor’s office, and she is forever trying to match me up with med students.
“Laura Lea, don’t you want to come down and visit tomorrow? There’s this adorable boy, so polite, and he’s tall!”
Oh, nanna.
Christina says
MATCH ME
I have not played matchmaker and I’m sure everyone I know is thankful for it!
Maria says
MATCH ME! :)
I was Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof during high school…and she sings “Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match!”. One of the best parts I ever had.
I don’t play matchmaker in real life, though I accidentally introduced an old girl friend to a guy friend and they dated for a while.
Erin R. says
MATCH ME!
Thanks! (I don’t have any matchmaker stories.)
Wendy Benoit says
MATCH ME!
Never played it but now Im intrigued!
Wendy-
Erin says
MATCH ME!
I have plotted about being a matchmaker and thought I had the perfect couple lined up… until one of them got married. To another person. Oops! I’ll stick to my day job…
Kris says
MATCH ME!
Never played matchmaker. I value my friends too much.
Annalyn Parrish says
Match me!
Andrea says
Match me! My shopping cart’s already full :)
Sydney says
MATCH ME! or should I say “match my things!”
I’ve not played matchmaker- don’t know enough single people sadly.
Elaine says
MATCH ME!
As a happy newlywed, I long to be a matchmaker – I look at all my single friends as potential “clients”. Sadly, none are willing to subject themselves to my matching attempts.
Holly says
Match Me!
Amanda S. says
MATCH ME!
I only played matchmaker once by telling my brother a friend of his liked him. He married her! :)
Carly says
MATCH ME! As the last remaining single friend (sheesh, I’m only29!) I have been “matched” many times. All essentially epic fails! Oh well.
Alana says
MATCH ME
My college roommate played match maker-and I end up marrying him about a year ago :)
Melissa L says
MATCH ME!
I’m a horrible matchmaker!
Kaiann says
MATCH ME! I’ve played Cupid and it hasn’t turned out that bad!
Laura says
Match Me!
My husband and I were set up on a semi-blind date (I saw him from a distance before we actually met). 5 years later, here we are, happily married :-)
Betsy says
Match Me!
Roxanne says
MATCH ME! We’ve played matchmaker a few times and finally decided to stop. But then we had couple of single friends meet and despite us trying not to get involved, they convinced us to give phone numbers and now they’re married :)