An Awesome Giveaway. Beautifully Bali. Subscribe to Win.

Who likes presents ?!

I know you are jumping up and down.

‘I do. I do.’

Stop that. Your cat is probably wondering what the heck you are up to again.  Seriously, this is getting embarrassing.

Well, my friend.  Get a hold of yourself.  I have an announcement to make.

The

DESIGN THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE

first blog giveaway.

Drum roll please.  Or at least a big air fist pump.  And don’t get too excited…you are NOT getting the boobs in this next photo.  Just the dragonfly.

 I must keep the only firm breasts I have.  Even if the firm breasts are made of mosaic glass.  They still count.

 * snicker *

All items are handmade in Bali, Indonesia.  Hand picked by yours truly.  Dangerous.  Picking out items while shopping in Bali is equivalent to shopping for a puppy.  I want them all.  I saved the best ones for a giveaway.  Lucky you.

How do you enter the contest ?

SUBSCRIBE 

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I am a lazy sod busy gal, so that usually means one new blog update per week.

How do you subscribe !? :

It’s easy sneezy peazy.  Pinkie swear it.

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NOTE :

* Current subscribers are already qualified to win, you lucky dogs.  Jump.  Jump for joy *

Now if I screw this give-away thingy up, hang in there with me.  I am new at this give-away-a-present-on-the-blog-and-pretend-that-it-is-easy-to-do.  This is like going on a first date, and hoping that you don’t get toilet paper stuck on the bottom of your shoe.

Wish me luck.  For your sake.

The winner will be chosen randomly (aka computer generated).  The winner will be announced from a top secret envelope.  Like American Idol.  I would cheat if I was 12 years old and playing crazy eights card games with my friends. But this time, I will be all official like.  Technically, I am still 12 though.  In case you were wondering.

I chose a gift that was easy to ship.  Otherwise I could go postal. If this first giveaway was a big large cumbersome thing, I would probably throw it in the post office door.  I would do the arm wind up, and whip it through the entrance-way.  Thankfully, I live near a small town, and they KNOW ME.  If something comes flying through the door…they know where it came from.

 ’  That crazy lady that likes to make twig curtain rods. ‘

Not gonna lie….Twig projects = twig can sometimes, suddenly, swiftly fly through the air.  Then I stand there looking all perplexed.  Like I had no idea how that twig rod flew out the window.  As if I would ever hurl a twig through the air.  I would never do that.  I would totally do that.

I wish I was a dragonfly.  Brilliance.  Flying through the air BRILLIANCE.

AND

Dragonflies are symbolic for living IN THE MOMENT.

Maybe I should keep this DRAGONFLY.  I may need it more than you.

Now this is not just any old dragonfly.  I wouldn’t do that to you.  Well, I might.

 It can balance on the corner of just about anything.

One could label it a miracle dragonfly.  In my house, I move my dragonfly around to see just how very talented it can be.  It balances like a cirque de soleil balancing act.  It has moved around the house so often, it’s like finding WALDO.  I like to test him.  I can’t believe that it can balance itself so perfectly. Anytime.  Any place.  I can’t balance on one foot for more than one second.  The dragonfly makes me look like an idiot.   I am sure my brother will enter this contest.  He loves it when I look like an idiot. This is pure, sibling FUN to him.   And normal.  He is accustomed to me looking like an idiot.

News flash : The blog giveaway is more that just a miracle dragonfly.  It is :

Two dragonflies

One yoga mat cover

A softly scented candle in a hammered tin container

Four jewellery boxes with four necklaces

All items are handmade in Bali and smuggled into Canada by me, myself and I.  Jokes.  Kind of.

In my next life, I am going to have a love affair with a customs officer.  After paying customs, duties, shipping, blah blah blah ….I am convinced that having ‘ a love interest ‘ with a customs officer is probably a really smart, money saving idea.  I missed my calling.  I should have been a hooker.

I bought all the blog giveaway items near the small zen-like yoga-ville town of UBUD.  Ubud is one QUIET place.  I stayed at a yoga retreat for one night.  P.s.  The closest I have come to yoga, is ordering handmade yoga mat covers.

My yoga prowess= owning yoga covers. Impressive, huh?  My plan was to be all yoga-esque for 3 nights in Ubud.  That didn’t happen.  You could hear a pin drop at the yoga retreat.  That quiet.  I almost lost my mind.  The retreat also didn’t sell any alcohol.  There was no food that was bad for you.  Just healthy, raw, organic, pure living.  Not a bad thing in sight.

 That, my friends, is what I call PRISON.

Ubud is in the northern mountainous region of Bali, Indonesia.  It is STUNNING.  Rice fields, beautifully kind people, gorgeousness abounds.

It is also the area where EAT PRAY LOVE was filmed.

 {just thought I would share that little tidbit with you}.

Maybe Julia Roberts touched the dragonfly.  No she didn’t.  I can’t lie for long. I did tour her hotel where she stayed at during the filming of the movie.  My driver thought he would share the stunning hotel with me…. for design ideas.  ( I buy goods in Bali for container shipping).  You can read about that here.  After touring the hotel, I didn’t know if I should kiss my driver, or kick him.

 I was inspired and depressed all at once.  I had to go back to my reality hotel after that luxurious tour.   It was like eating the finest quality cheese ONCE and then eating plastic wrapped cheese slices for the rest of your life.  You know the kind.  There is more nutrition in the plastic wrapper surrounding the cheese slice than the ‘cheese’ itself.

That bad.

 I decided that it would be really nice to be a movie star.

To do a giveaway, one must typically figure out a retail cost for the giveaway.  I need your help with this one.

 See if you can figure out the $$ value :

A flight to Bali, hotel, endless eating, but not drinking.  I would never do that.  Cost of traveling the island, shopping at 3 million stores, cram jam packing everything possible into luggage.  Jump up and down on luggage to close it.  Wrangle it.  Sit on it.  Sweat. Worry about busting the zipper while closing luggage.  Sweat some more.

 Luggage overweight charges.

Yes.  On one of my buying trips, my overweight luggage had a fee of $1600. Yup. $1600.

  I swear it.

There are two things I don’t joke about : Luggage charges, and cupcakes*.

 *Cupcake eating is serious business.

  As I stood at the ticket counter in the airport {with jaw wide open, and chin hitting the ground} I imagined wrapping a seat belt around my luggage and having it sit right beside me on the airplane. At that price, I could have flown the luggage first class.  I wouldn’t have even had a chance to sit with it.  I was in the bag of the plane with the rest of the real people.  I don’t mind sitting at the back of an airplane.  Have you ever seen an airplane fly backwards into a mountain? NOT.  Back of the bus, all the way for me. No probs.

How did this story end?

I left my luggage in Bali.

So, the dragonfly is worth $1600 at a minimum.  That was the risk I took by stuffing dragonflies in my bra.

It gave a whole new meaning to having perky nipples.

Value of Giveaway gifts = one million dollars.  LOL.

 HAPPY WINNING TO YOU.

Now go enter the contest.  Subscribe by June 5th to qualify.

You can’t win if you don’t subscribe, dufus.

Namaste.