Kawaii Box Giveaway

As part of being Kawaii Box's Blogger of the Month I'm hosting a giveaway for a month of Kawaii Box! It's a pretty easy giveaway with a ton of ways to enter through Rafflecopter! If you've been thinking of joining, this is a great chance to test out the box and see how much you like it!


a Rafflecopter giveaway
A winner will be chosen at random and will be announced over on my facebook page when the giveaway ends!

Back to Blogspot Winner!

The entries have all been tallied up, made into a list, then randomized on random.org to decide a winner for the Back to Blogspot Giveaway! There were well over 400 entries to the contest, but there can, sadly, be only one winner and that winner is Sydney Ray from the charming blog A Sunny Doodle. I've already messaged her on Facebook, so I hope to hear back from her soon. If anyone out there knows her, tell her to check her Facebook messages!

Here's a screen shot of the first 10 entries in the randomly generated list. The rest of the entrants have been blurred out, because it would sort of suck to see that you just missed winning a giveaway by one spot.

Even though there could only be one winner, I would like to once again thank everyone who entered! Because the contest was let everyone know about a changed URL, I really appreciated every single entry!  As a small thank you, I'm having a 15% off sale on the end-of-the-year items in my Etsy shop, Ophanim until January 1, 2012 with the coupon code "MERRYCHRISTMAS15". When the new year starts up again, and the holidays have stopped killing me, I hope to have a bunch of new items in the shop!

Thank you once again, and Happy Holidays to my readers!

Giveaway Reminder!

Just a quick reminder that there are about 6 hours left to enter the giveaway! Contest ends at 11:59pm EST tonight! I'll be spending Christmas eve morning counting up all the entries to get the results as soon as possible.

Thank you in advance to all those that have entered and have updated their URLs! I really appreciate all the entries, and I'm pretty excited to choose a winner!

Back to Blogspot Giveaway!

As I'm sure you've noticed, I haven't yet gotten my .com address back, and I have a feeling I wont be getting it any time soon! If you haven't yet heard me complain about this on Twitter, what happened was I let my domain lease expire and if I want to buy it back I'm going to have to cough up $8,800. Yeah, I was completely shocked when I saw the number too! Needless to say, I don't have almost 9k to blow on domain names so I'll be sticking to blogspot.

Now, I'm not going to be doing something silly and crying "injustiiiice!" because it was completely my fault for forgetting to renew my lease and it's not uncommon for domain leasing places to do stuff like this, as completely and utterly silly as I think it is. So instead of whining (any more!) about it, I figure I'll do something a bit more constructive and host a giveaway to help get the word out about my change of URL!

Up for grabs is a whole bunch of stuff I've made, stuff that normally ends up in my Etsy shop! I've tried to include some stuff for the Sweet Lolita and for the Classic Lolita as well in this giveaway and it includes:

• pink & pale yellow fuzzy star dual brooch.
• green & blue lollypop brooch
• cookie brooch
• purple/pink/yellow ice cream scoop ring
• pastel rainbow star necklace
• "Memento Mori" resin & rose petals lace bow brooch
• antique brass rose & bow necklace
• Alice resin & rose petals necklace
• Mad hatter puffy cellphone strap/key chain

These are all things I frequently sell in my shop or at conventions, and this haul would cost you over $75 if you were to buy it yourself!

 

Some slightly better pictures of the things I'll be giving away! Sweet in the top picture, and Classic in the bottom!

Sorry about the fact that I just sometimes completely suck at taking pictures :(

To win this giveaway you earn points, and each point is one shot at winning! You can get a total of 27 points, that's 27 chances to win! There are lots of different ways to earn points and you can do as many or as few as you want!

• Leave a comment on this post- 1 point
• Tweeting about the giveaway and including a link to this post- 1 point
• Reblogging this post about the giveaway on Tumblr- 1 point per reblog, max 5 points. Please don't spam your dash though :( Keep it limited to 1 reblog per day!
• Make a blog post about the giveaway and the change of domain name- 10 points
• Linking F Yeah Lolita on your blog's sidebar or link page with the new updated URL- 10 points

Since I can't be everywhere on the internet at once, and I'm certainly no psychic, if you do any of these you're going to have to let me know! In your comment on this post, if you've done any of the things to get extra points, please include your Tumblr username, Twitter username, a link to the post you made on your blog, and note whether or not you've updated your links, whichever you've done to get points! Just so I can check to make sure I'm giving you the points you've earned.

If you just want to leave a comment now and get your first point and then go do the other stuff later, feel free to! Just when you do do anything else to get points, please don't forget to comment again with the details in a reply to your original comment. Just click the little "reply" link on the lower right-hand side of your original comment!

Entries into the giveaway will be accepted until 11:59 Eastern time on December 23, 2011. After that I'll use a random number generator to choose the winner and announce the results on Christmas eve! I'll be contacting the winner (make sure you include your email in your comment! Either in the email field or in the actual comment!) and the winner has exactly one week to respond or I'll have to randomly choose one of the remaining entries.

Thanks again to all my readers for sticking with me through this obnoxiously confusing domain change, and thank you in advance to every one who enters! If you have any questions about the rules or how to get points, don't hesitate to ask!

Giveaway Winners

The giveaway has finally ended, thank you to everyone who entered! I got over 70 entries for it, but there can be only 5 winners. the names were all put into a list and then I used the random list generator on Random.org to make a list of the names, number 1 being the winners. I will be emailing all of the winners within a few days and they have a week from then to respond or I'll be forced to move down to the next person on the list. If you're a winner, please be sure to check your Spam folder for my email as my emails sometimes end up there!

The winner of the Classic prize is MintySheepDog! MintySheepDog will receive the rose and feather corsage, mori girl hair clips, Alice cellphone strap, and bag of antique styled beads.

The winner of the Sweet prize is Catmint! She will receive the bow brooch, gummy bear cell charm, a deco'd tin full of deco pieces, and a cupcake ring.

The winner of the stationary destash and pin sets are, Knottia, Allie, and Erin! They will all receive a pin and a selection of stationary. I forgot to highlight Erin's name on the proof-of-winning list, but she is still a winner, regardless of her lack of highlight XD

Thank you very much to everyone that entered and thank you all for reading F Yeah Lolita for the past year. I want to share some of my favorite comments, about what Lolita means to you, from this contest with all of you.

"Lolita to me means I can be a princess. In the awful times of life I can escape, and in the good times the world looks that much more beautiful. I love looking at everything with an eye for frills, and I really like being able to see others enjoy themselves in the same way." -Maya

"For me, Lolita is both beauty and a rebellion against everything/one in my life that attempts to change and hurt me. It's a way to say that I am worth something, no matter what other people tell me, and to bring life and love into my world. I can't dress in it very often yet, but it always makes me feel wonderful. Plus, the clothes have a beauty, elegance, and attention to detail that I don't see in many other places, and which I love."
-Bridget

"Lolita is a reminder (to me) of a simpler time, and a reminder that every girl is beautiful and radiant in her own way. That less is more and way prettier! It helped me find my inner beauty and makes me see how much I have without even putting on a stitch of make-up!"
-Brandy Harlan

"I'm fairly new to the fashion, but Lolita seems to be built on all the ingredients I love; elegance, girlishness, modesty, dolliness, cuteness and antique feel, all wrapped up in a gorgeous sugary fruit cake."
-Eleonore

"Lolita means to me having self-confidence and being able to wear what I love and what I feel beautiful in no matter how many unusual stares or disapproving looks I receive. Lolita helps me feel confident in myself and keeps my hopes and spirit high. It means believing in yourself, achieving goals, and looking super cute! "
-Emily Sansom

"To me, lolita means rebellion. Society has been pushing the idea on women that you must be sexy in order to be beautiful, you must dress to please men, and you must base your self worth on whether or not you meet their standards. Lolita allows me to reject those notions and set my own standards. By wearing lolita I'm proving that even if a woman wears modest clothing she can be beautiful. By wearing lolita I am wearing what I want to wear and NOT what men want me to wear. Lolita gives me the power to realize my own self worth and not let others decide it for me."
-Angie

Happy Blogaversary Giveaway

Finally! I got all of my stuff together for the giveaway! This giveaway is in celebration of my blogs one year birthday, 250,000+ hits, and 500+ followers. Since these are all big milestones for my blog, that all happened within a couple weeks of each other I want to make this giveaway a big one.

This is all the stuff I'm giving away. Now, as awesome as it would be if one person won all this, I decided I wanted to share the wealth, so instead of one winner there will be five winners. Two grand prize winners: one Sweet Lolita pack and one Classic Lolita pack, and 3 runners up who will win a pin and some stationery destash. With the exception of the stationery and the craft supplies, I made all of the things in this giveaway! I plan on adding a few of the items in these giveaway packs to my shop eventually, so you all are getting a sneak peek! Now, let's see what the individual prizes are!

Classic Lolita Grand Prize

This set includes a pink and red rose corsage with an ostrich feather, a pair of Mori Girl inspired hair bows, an Alice in Wonderland puffy cell strap, and an assortment of beads from my personal mix of amber and bronze colored beads, because I like to make themed bead mixes so I have an easy source of inspiration when it's craft time.

This is the bead mix, it's an assortment of new, vintage, and handmade beads in an assortment of materials. The 2 big things are domino pendants I've made, there's also a few freshwater pearls, brass stampings, shell pieces, hand-blown glass, and semi-precious chips. Anything that has a decadent antique feel goes into this bead mix!

Here's the rose clip, not much to say about it, I just wanted to get a better picture of it. It's a small-ish rose corsage on a barrette with a white ostrich feather tucked into it.

While it's not my personal style, I really do enjoy the vintage, girly elegance of the Mori Girl style. These simple, and I do mean simple, hair pins were made with the Mori Girl in mind. They are simply raw edged bows, made from vintage floral fabric on little silver hair pins. A quick note about these, the backs, where the hair pins are attached are not pretty. These were an experiment in adding bows to a hair piece and next time I would definitely go with a hair pin that doesn't have a little round glueing pad on it.

The last item in the Classic Lolita prize pack is a puffy Alice cell charm. A while ago I came across some Fairy-kei/Spank cell charms and pins that were cute printed fabric that was made into a little shaped pillow. I loved the idea and thought it was adorable, but I am not too big on the sweetness of Fairy-kei, so I decided to Classic it up a bit with some Alice themed fabric. The fabric is custom printed with a colored illustration from Alice In Wonderland. The backside is covered in vintage calico fabric. As you can see (I put this next to my own puffy cell charm that I made of the Mad Hatter) these are quite large, so unless you don't mind giant cell charms this might be better suited as a key chain. The plus side is they are very light because they are just little pillows, so they're fun to squeeze. At least, I'm always squeezing mine.

Sweet Lolita Grand Prize

This set includes a big pink bow brooch, a gummy bear cell charm, a cupcake ring, and a little deco'd tin filled with deco supplies.

This is the assortment of random deco supplies. It's a hodge podge of stuff from my deco box. There are resin cabochons, metal roses, ribbons, puffy bunny heads, and an assortment of rhinestones. It's not a huge amount of stuff, but it's definitely enough to cover something like a compact or a small container.

Here's a closeup of the brooch. It's made with an iridescent pink fabric, reminiscent of the ballgowns Barbie wore in the 80's, covered in pink tulle with iridescent sequins sandwiched between the layers. It's decorated with a couple gold chains and a sweet and glittery bear.

The cell charm in this pack features a couple little polymer clay gummy bears. These aren't real gummy bears coated in resin or gummy bear shaped cabochons, I made them myself! First, I made a clay gummy bear, baked it, then made a mold from it. I then used translucent polymer clay to make a ton of gummy bears, which I then coated in lots of gloss.

I've deco'd a small tin in a black and white theme. There are lots of black rhinestones, white pearls, and cute cabochons covering this tin.

Runner Up Prize

Besides the two lucky people who will win one of the above prize packs, 3 people will win smaller prize packs that include a little pin with a little chibi self portrait, because I know you all want to wear a picture of me pinned to your bag XD Recognize the picture from the Blogaversary post? Also included is some destash kawaii stationery, because I have way too much of it. Destash, for those of you that don't know, means that these were from my own personal stationery stash, thus I am de-stashing them by giving them away.

A close up of the pin, it's about an inch and a half tall and is from my adventures in Shrinky Dinks. The pins are not all the same color, 2 are black and the other one is dark red, you won't get to pick which one you would like, it will be random.

Now, onto the rules and the how-to-enters. You will get 2 entry points just by leaving a comment on this post, each entry point you can put towards either the Sweet or the Classic prize pack. You may either split up the points or put them all on one pack, the more points you put towards one pack, the more entries you get when it comes time to pick a winner. You can get an extra 2 points by posting a link and giving a shout out to this giveaway on your own blog, livejournal, myspace, facebook, twitter, or other personal website and giving a link to the page you posted the shout out on in your comment. You may not spam communities with links though, that will get you zero points. These extra 2 points can be split up however you want as well. You cannot put your points towards a pin and stationery pack, as those are a second place prize and everyone will just get one entry point for them. If you forget to mention where you would like your points to go, I will just split them evenly between the 2 packs. Each person who enters may only win one pack, no one can win both packs, and either of the 2 grand prize winners cannot win a pin pack. It will be 5 different people winning each prize pack.

Each point would be, so to say, a name in a hat for either of the prizes. If you put all of yours towards one, you have a much greater chance of winning that particular one, but if you split them up, you'll have a chance at both of them. You won't have a chance to win a pack if you don't put at least one point towards it. It's to keep someone from winning a pack that is not their style.

With your entry, please include your name and email address (it can be in the name/email fields of the comment box, you do not have to write your email address in the message,I will see it privately) and to prove that you read this far, a brief note about what Lolita means to you, whether you wear it, or simply admire it. Comments without this simple little request will not be accepted!

Here's a quick rundown of what you need in your comment to enter:

• Your name and email address (doesn't have to be in the message, just so long as those boxes are filled out in the comment)
• A link to where you mentioned the giveaway (optional)
• How you would like your points divided up
• A brief note about what Lolita means to you
  

I hope this isn't too confusing to you! If it is, hopefully this will help, your entry should look a bit like this:
"Hi! I would like to enter! Lolita means a lot to me because it is pretty and I like pretty things, such as unicorns :D I posted a link to your giveaway here www.my-awesome-lolita-website.com I would like 3 of my points to go towards the Sweet prize and 1 towards the Classic prize!"

The grand prizes are only eligible to people within the US. Sorry, but I don't want to be hit with high shipping prices by shipping overseas! However, if you live outside of the US you can still enter for a chance to win the stationery and pin. Please note if you are outside of the US.

Entries will be accepted up until 11:59pm Eastern time Thursday, August 5th. After that I will randomly select a winner and post the results within the following few days. When I select a winner I will contact them to let them know, if they do not respond to my emails within a week I will select another winner.

Don't forget, in honor of F Yeah's blogaversary I'll also be having a sale on my Etsy shop, Ophanim, and giving 10% off to readers of my blog. Just include the code "F Yeah Birthday" with your payment and I'll refund 10% of the price before shipping. This sale will last until August 14th!

Wow, that's a lot of info for one giveaway XD I hope you're not too confused? If you are, just leave a comment and I'll try to clear any thing up for you!

Christmas Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everyone who enter the Christmas giveaway! The winner of this little giveaway is Noel'sLife.me.

I hope to have a few more giveaways in the future, so keep a look out for more, and once again, thank you all very much!

Christmas Giveaway

The giveaway is over! Thank you to all who entered!

As a thank you for all the wonderful comments, links, followers, and hits that I've gotten since my blog opened 6 months ago I have decided to do a little giveaway for Christmas. I love doing a variety of Lolita related crafts, and over the past month I've been making some things specifically for this giveaway! And I've done a little clearing out of the "stuff I already made but never bother to use" box.

The winner will receive:

• A felt slice of chocolate cake. Click here for a better picture.
• The ring I made in this tutorial
• A crystal and crown cell phone charm
• 2 deco hair clips
• 2 pairs of beaded earrings
• a pink charm bracelet, which sadly, might only fit on someone with slimmer wrists.

To win this little gift package all you have to do is leave a comment on this post with some way of getting back to you, either leave an email, a link to your blog, or even your Live Journal username. There are a few other ways to get extra entries into the give away, you can have a total of 9 entries:

• +1 just for commenting on this post and including a way to contact you
• +1 for Tweeting about the giveaway, including both a URL to my blog and @fuckyeahlolita
• +1 for linking my blog on your blog or website
  
• +1 for being a follower of my blog
• +2 for making a post on your blog about my giveaway
• up to +3 for showing some old, commentless posts some love and being one of the first 3 new commenters, one point per comment.

If you plan on doing the things to get the extra entries, you MUST do them before you make a comment on this post, and your comment must include which of these you did, with some sort of proof such as a link to your blog or site, or whether or not you follow me. If you are getting the +3 for commenting on old posts, you don't have to tell me which specific posts you commented on, because I'll get notifications when you leave comments. If you are doing the twitter one, you just have to make sure you include @fuckyeahlolita and I'll see it.

Some obvious things that aren't going to get you any extra points:

• Spamming this post isn't going to get you any extra points.
• Forgetting to include a link to either my blog or this post's page in your tweet or blog post
• Spamming old posts with comments like "lulz I'm posting" or something, it has to be a comment for reals.

If all the extra entry points are leaving you a bit confused just leave a comment here to enter, you'll still get a chance! Entries close on Sunday, December 20th at 10PM. After that I will start counting up entries and use a list randomizer to pick a winner. Sadly, I might not get the gift shipped out till after Christmas, it really just depends how crazy the post office is between now and then. International entries are welcome! I am willing to mail this out to any country, provided the shipping doesn't cost over $10, which I doubt it will. But, if it does cost over $10 for international shipping, the winner must be willing to pay the difference.

As of writing this entry here are my sites stats:
32,433 hits
63 posts
246 comments
121 followers
106 Twitter followers

Thank you to all of you for being so great! I really do love writing this blog and look forward to any comments and feedback I receive. If this giveaway doesn't turn out to be some kind of complete disaster I plan on doing a few more in the future!