Happy Monday and welcome to a very special edition of the weekly giveaways!
This week’s prize is a beautiful 6-Piece Origami Gift Set from paper artist, Kayo! She uses the highest quality papers and materials in her art, and her work is absolutely exquisite! (Read more about Kayo and her art here.)
The winner will receive everything you see in the photos including: 2 origami bookmarks, 2 origami greeting cards, a pair of earrings (packaged in a handmade gift box) with tiny origami paper cranes and rare vintage Swarovski crystals, and an origami “lucky star” cell phone charm!
Isn’t this set wrapped beautifully? Notice the tiny lucky stars that are sprinkled within the gift package as a bonus from Kayo!
All items are also available in Kayo’s delightful etsy shop, where she’s offering free shipping with orders of $10.00 or more through April 30th!!
Contest Rules and How To Enter
1. For your first chance to win leave a comment answering this question: If you could hire one of the following, which would it be? A maid, a cook, a hair stylist, or a chauffeur? 🙂
2. For a second chance to win, leave a second comment that answers the question: What is your favorite spice or seasoning?
3. For a third chance to win, leave a comment on any other post on this blog except this one. You can do it today by looking for a post in the archives to comment on, or you can come back during the week and add a comment on any post – old or new. You will receive an extra entry each time you do so.
You can choose any one or all of the above chances to enter.
A valid email address must be given at time of entry. You must be 18 yrs. old. The name of the winner will be listed here after the completion of the contest. The winner will be notified by email. The prize will be mailed by USPS First Class Mail. If no valid email address is given at time of entry, or if winner fails to respond to email within 3 days from the time notification email has been sent, the win will be null and void and a new winner will be chosen.
All entries must be received by 9:00 p.m. EST on 05/03/09, and the winner will be selected on or about 05/04/09.
Oh I would have to pick a hair stylist. I can do most of the other skills reasonably well, but my hair is oft times a challenge.
a chauffeur, because i can’t drive. or rather, i failed my test twice!
favourite spice… would be cinnamon i suppose. it goes well with all things sweet & savoury… plus i did bake cinnamon rolls this morning, and i’ll be putting a good dose in my curry tonight!
Only one… can’t I live like royalty or a celebrity for a day and have them all. 😀
I guess, The Cook, since it is an hourly struggle to eat like a diabetic should.
I’d hire a chauffeur because I don’t know how to drive. It’d be great to have someone driving for me.
Great giveaway!!! I love all the prizes.
I love Tabasco pepper.
I’d also choose to hire a hair stylist. Why? So that I can change my hairstyle every month. Let me tell you a secret…I have never changed my hairstyle before. It’s always a nice, clean ‘student look’. Shhh…Don’t tell anyone. =)
Hands down, a maid! Of that list, a maid is the one that would be most useful to ME and not the rest of the family. Lets see, would she clean including cleaning the bathroom, laundry, dusting every nook and cranny AND do windows…I pick maid! Lets face it..cook? Everyone here can make a PBJ or pop something in the microwave so I know they won’t starve. Chauffeur..let them ride bikes. Hair stylist…nope..got that covered. Banana Clip is the name of my stylist.
So I pick maid and now I am dreaming of all the ME time I could have if I had a maid. Stopping that..its depressing.
Seasoning or spice. Hmm…It depends on what I’m eating. If I’m eating kampung noodles, it’s best to use the oyster sauce. If I’m eating Maggi mee, I’ll definitely use Ajinomoto, although it’s not so good for health.
Favorite spice or seasoning is kind of tough. I like salt mixtures. You know, the kind that has salt, pepper and garlic plus a bunch more. That is my meat seasoner and I put it in just about everything, but not cookies. I’m an uncomplicated cook, taught to be that way the first time my husband said “I don’t like cheese on my broccoli. I wish you would stop with all those fancy recipes”. Case closed.
Crystal says: Oh Carol, too funny! I’m laughing out loud here!
I left a comment in your “Friday Favorites – Bookmarks” post. I just LOVE cute bookmarks! I’ve something to ask you : When somebody leaves a comment in your 3 other posts, does that mean that she/he has 3 more chances to win? Or is it counted as one entry (the 3rd chance)?
Crystal says: That’s a good question, Aik. Thank you for asking! 🙂
You receive one chance for every comment you leave during the week – even if you leave a comment on a very OLD post from months ago (by looking in the archives). With the blog program, I can easily see all of the comments as they come in – so they are all counted. The only time a comment does NOT count is when it’s a comment that someone leaves simply to TELL me that they have already left a comment. It’s not necessary to do that, but if somebody does, it doesn’t add to their comment total. I hope I answered your question!
Probably a cook- so I could eat more healthier meals and I could eat even if I don’t feel like cooking:p
Second one is easy- I just love cinnamon!!
If you could hire one of the following, which would it be? A maid definitely … but I bet I’d rush around on a mad cleaning, tidying frenzy before she arrived anyway !!!
What is your favorite spice or seasoning?
Cinnamon – even just the smell of it is delicious !
I would hire a maid I guess. I would like to have someone to do all of cleaning while I lounge at the pool
My favorite seasoning is garlic because I eat alot of Italian food and it always tastes wonderful with just the right amount of garlic
I would definately hire a cook. Oh how LOVELY that would be. Just thinking about it makes me feel free!
My favorite spice or seasoning…got to be garlic. Love that stuff!
Oh my this was EASY lol a maid~! I am a mother of two little girls I work part time and a hubby who works full time and I also do online schooling. My poor house is a mess lol.
Vanessa
Oh I LOVE Garlic~! I add it to just about everything~! I also love Vanilla I add it to pancakes but OH I LOVE GARLIC
I would hire a cook so I could eat yummy foods all the time without having to do any work =D
My favorite spice is cumin! It is just very yummy 🙂
Hair stylist – I can never get my hair to do what I want it to do. Not that I think a hair stylist will be able to do it any better – my hair just ignores product and everything else.
My favorite spice? Hmm…depends on the mood I’m in. Right now, it’s cayenne – a little hint of spice makes everything nice!
Unfortunately I think I’ve already commented on a lot of blog posts… : ( I’ll just have to keep a close eye open this next week or so. Hahaha!
Crystal says: Yes Chris, you can either come back during the week, or choose from 130 posts in the “archives” (located on the right side of the page) so you still have plenty of chances to comment for EXTRA entries in the giveaway! 🙂
That’s easy: a maid, in a heartbeat. I don’t mind driving, and I’m find with my hair tossed in a ponytail every day. But cleaning up after the kids? Way too tired by the end of the day. Ah, to have a maid . . . 🙂
I think I’d go with cumin as my favorite spice. I mean, what’s not to love? Just the smell of it makes me all kinds of happy.
Thanks for the giveaway!
What an amazing giveaway!
I please!! a maid!! LOLLLL
I think my favorite spice is garlic! 😀
I think I’d have to go with the cook. Just because it means that it’d be one less thing for me to worry about (especially being a college student and all, eating well can disappear very quickly when tons of work is on the horizon!)
hard question, a hair stylist
My hair is so hard to manage!
This set is too cute!
I like garlic too
Oh please, give me the maid! I’d be a lot happier cooking if I had the rest of my house cleaned!
My favorite spice is smoked paprika. I’m learning to toast spices (not herbs) before using them in cooking as it deepens and/or changes their flavor…saw that on a t.v. cooking show.
I would love to have a maid. This is one of my goals in life.
Cayenne pepper keeps things exciting.
I would hire a maid. I commute by bike, just wear ponytails, and love to cook. But I will happily leave the cleaning to someone else.
A maid. I enjoy driving, doing my own hair and cooking, so someone to clean up after me would be great.
My favorite seasoning is garlic
Without a doubt, a maid would be my first choice to hire!
Cleaning is my least favorite thing to do. Please enter me in your fabulous giveaway prize package drawing! Her work is lovely.
Many thanks…..Cindi
I don’t like to add salt to my food, but I love 6-Pepper! I would appreciate
being entered in this wonderful contest. Thanks, Cindi
A hair stylist would be the best,
To be available and free,
I’d love a touch-up, or a cut,
To feel better about me…
Not that we can’t use a maid,
A cook and chauffeur too,
But ask my kids, I’m all of those,
So it makes no sense to have two!!
ooo wow what a great prize! and fun contest!
hmm who would i hire? i think a maid for sure! i just hate to clean! anything to not have to mop and do dishes! lol
favorite spice or seasoning? well depends – for savory foods i think its mrs dash original table seasoning. i can put it on anything! its great just using on chicken or poultry and baking too! nothing else needed! for baked/sweet goods , i love cinnamon! fresh of course!
I know the first teacher!!!!!!! Obviously a maid. I like cleaning home but sometimes it becomes an obligation and it’s a little heavy.
I like driving, cooking (when the tasks of the house let me do it) and even I love change my hairstyle I hate the hours it can cost me… I don’t like going to the haidresser and lose all the morning…
kisses!
I said to you last day I love Kayo’s work, didn’t I???? It’s fantastic!
Second question:
Garlic, cardamon and curry!!!
Oh, a hair stylist would be great! It takes alot of time to do my hair! I use a flat iron. If I don’t, it is so unruly! In the summer time, I like to wear it in a ponytail, If I had my own hairdresser she could put it up in cute styles. Also, I have a wedding to go to and she could fix it real pretty. Is that going to be the next giveaway!!?? My own hairstylist. lol thanks
Pepper is my favorite seasoning. My food wouldn’t taste the same if I didn’t use it. I am not really a salt person,except on potatoes. Another week of great questions and posts!
HIRE A MAID.
You can teach her to cook, clean and drive for you, so you are definitely getting your money’s worth 😉
I’d get a hairdresser. (Hopefully she can do makeup too!) I am a complete klutz when it comes to my hair; I can’t even make a straight braid. I like to go dancing. I can dress myself, but it would be nice to have someone else help me with hair!