This giveaway has ended. See who won here.
It’s an exciting Friday for us. Last night was our first night sleeping at the new house. Most of our big furniture has been moved and we’re in the process of moving over our smaller stuff. Exciting for us, and this giveaway is exciting for you. It comes from Chris Loves Julia, a fantastic blog and Etsy shop. My gal Julia is one talented lady, creating beautiful chalkboard drawings as well as modern and abstract paintings.
My favorite chalk board drawing is this Kermit the Frog quote:
If you need art for your kitchen, how about this Cow Butcher Chart:
Or That’s Amore for any room in your house.
The Goods: Any chalkboard drawing from the Chris Loves Julia Etsy shop!
To Enter: We ask that you please subscribe to Our Humble A{Bowe}d. If you don’t want to receive e-mail notifications, that’s fine. Let us know if you follow us through Google Reader or another form and it will also count. To subscribe, click the “Sign Me Up!” button under “Be the first to know.” Once you’ve subscribed, leave a comment, which can (but doesn’t have to) include our Just for Fun question.
Just for Fun: Tell us if you’ve ever won an award, and maybe what it was for.
For additional entries:
1. Add Chris Loves Julia to your Etsy favs, come back and leave a comment telling us what your favorite item is.
2. Like Chris Loves Julia on Facebook, come back and leave another comment.
Contest Closes: Thursday, May 3rd at 11:59 pm, central time.
Number of Winners: One!
Ships: Anywhere in the United States
Other Info: We will select the winner using random.org and announce on Friday, May 4th. Good luck!!
And, Julia was kind enough to offer a 10% discount on chalk board drawings using the code HUMBLE10. So get some shopping in and save a little cash.
P.S. This blog post is coming to you, live from our new house. Literally, I just got my computer moved over and set up.
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Im a subscriber and I love Julia’s chalkboards!
I subscribe!
I was trying to think of the name of different Journalism awards I won in college, but then looked over at my refrigerator… I have a Winner of the Movie Game Award from my friends at work. So I’ll go with that!
I favorite Julia’s etsy shop
Subscribed! My only award was senior year I won a spirit cup at graduation for spirit, scholarship, and service, so cheesy but now I have a giant trophy chilling at my house.
I already like Chris Loves Julia on Facebook!
Liked on facebook!
i subscribe!
I love chalkboards!
I’m a subscriber. I’ve never won an award except for a ribbon for a coloring contest in 4th grade.
I Like Chris Loves Julia on Facebook.
Kimberly B.
I subscribe! I won MVP for my high school tennis team once. I still think it was because I was the only senior on the team. I mean, how can someone who has never won a match be the MVP? Sympathy vote? I think yes…
Added Chris Loves Julia to my Etsy favs,.
My favorite is Now, That’s Amore.
I am a subscriber
I’m a subscriber! In 6th grade I won an award for having read the most books out of anyone in the entire school.
Subscribed! I once won an award in 6th grade- Daughters of the American Revolution Citizenship Award-which made me feel very cool back in the day!
I added them to my Etsy faves. I love the Kermit quote.
I am a subscriber via email! I was an avid equestrian growing up, so won lots of ribbons in horse shows…that’s about it though! Thanks so much, LOVE those chalkboard drawings – esp the cow!
I subscribe! Let’s see…I won the “2012 Bracketologist Award” in my office for my winning March Madness Men’s bracket! 🙂 …I don’t even follow college basketball…
I added them to my favs. I LOVE the kermit quote…I need it!!
I like them of FB!
I follow with Google Reader.
i liked on facebook. And I wont an award when I was 10, best lambada dancer of the school! lol
I would love to win one of the chalk drawings. The only awards I have ever won were for academics in high school. Maybe I peaked too early, but science awards are a pretty nerdy way to peak.
Sorry for the second comment. I subscribe to google reader.
I follow you on Google Reader. I won Ms Lyndon (the town I grew up in) when I was 11. Basically I got to ride in a convertible, wear a sash and wave. There I was, plastic sunflowers in my hair, buckteeth and bifocals and all.
I’m a subscriber! I received a lot of academic awards throughout my schooling.
I’ve also added Chris Loves Julia to my Etsy favs!
I subscribe via email, and I won a pretty spectacular scholarship to go to space camp when I was in the 8th grade! It was a dream come true for me then, and the best thing I’ve ever won!
Congrats on the new digs!
I’m a subscriber and would love that butcher cow for my “new to me” kitchen!
Faved Chris Loves Julia on Etsy, and I love the that’s amore heart drawing!
I liked C loves J on FB for another chance to move that bovine to my kitchen!
And I liked them on facebook as well 😀
I am a subscriber. I once won an award for a big(for an undergraduate) research grant. That was awesome.
I’ve never won any awards 😦
I Like Chris and Julia on Facebook
Added Crhis and Julia to my Etsy favorites.
I subscribe to your blog via email!
I won the math award in high school – nerd, I know 🙂
Congrats on the new house! So exciting!
i subscribe in google reader and I LOVE the kermit quote! My weirdest award was being named first place in the annual organ performance competition in Wisconsin when I was in high school. GO PIPES! 😀 thanks for the giveaway!
Too bad I can’t win in Brazil! Those are chalk art pieces are cute. As for an award, I won a “Most likely to get stopped by the Fashion Police” from my co-workers. They loved my bright colors and prints =)
i love the kermit one, but the amore one is a close second! i won the french award in high school, which is really pitiful because i am no good!
I am a subscriber! I won Most Outstanding Junior in Psychology award in college.
I added Chris Loves Julia to my Etsy Favs
I like Chris Loves Julia on Facebook
I’m a subscriber!
I recieved an award in college for excellence in chemistry- yes, huge nerd here 🙂
I’m a follower through Blogger!
Thanks for the cool give away!
Great artwork! I subscribe to you through Google Reader.
In high school, I received an award for having the Best Lipstick because I had a trick for setting after I had applied my lipstick. (I ran an ice cube over my lips.)
I subscribe through Google reader. I won some school awards, can’t even remember what they were for, just that the award ceremony was so boring.
Congrats on the new house!, I can’t wait to see what you do!
I subscribe, I get your email every day that you post.
I subscribe via Google Reader, and the award I received was Little League Outfielder of the Year award when I was 10! Haha, never been prouder.
I subscribe to e-mails as well as rss feed. Can you tell I love your blog! Thanks for the chance to win.
I liked Chris loves Julia on fb
I fav’d Chris loves Julia on etsy and I love the fish drawing. It has all the colors in my re-design for my bedroom, black, grey and blue plus the pops of color.Gorgeous.
I won most improved cheerleader my softmore year!
I won best dressed in high school!
Liked C loves J on Facebook!
I follow you thru Google Reader. I won a golden bowling pin at a work Christmas party once and I display it proudly!
I’m already a subscriber. thanks!
I subscribe through Google Reader!
I’m one of those people who always “won” an “award” for perfect attendance in school.
Its a toss up between the Kermet quote and the heart drawing! Gorgeous, all of them! (I follow via google reader)
I also made her site a favorite on etsy!
I subscribe…and I love love love this giveaway!
I favorited their shop on Etsy.
LOVE Chris and Julia! I’ve been reading their blog for months now and would love to take home that quote chalkboard drawing!
I follow through Google Reader.
Congrats on your new house!
I won the state spelling bee in middle school.
i won the congeniality award in choir in high school 🙂 The chalkboard art is beautiful!
I favorited! i love the kermit quote!
I facebook liked too 🙂
Subscribed!
added chris loves julia on esty
I’m a subscriber! I haven’t won any awards since I was a teenager.
I am already a follower – love the posts about the new a”bowe”d
I follow through google reader and I LOVE her drawings!
I follow you through email AND Google Reader — never miss a blog post this way! I’ve won a few awards through school and through work, but nothing too exciting. Well, except for the days off that went with the work awards — that was pretty exciting for ME!
ChrisLovesJulia is a cute site — can’t wait to see to see more of her work. So far my favorite is the fish drawing. Seems the most versatile and I love the intensity of the colors against the black background.
this is a fun giveaway. in nursing school I won an award for most likely to apply a tourniguet to the wrong body part… (the neck) eeek! I follow you on google reader
I follow now through google reader… also, I did win an award for writing an essay about how kids could stay away from drugs. I was in third grade, and in front of the whole school I was presented a new bike!
I added them as a favorite on Etsy. I think my favorite is the Kermit the frog print as well…
I liked chris loves julia on facebook!
I already subscribe and love your blog. I have never won any award or trophy sad as it is!
I’m not sure I’ve ever won an award, maybe some writing contests in high school.
I subscribe to your amazing blog! And I got an award for being the first kindergartener in the history of my school to climb to the top of the ropes in gym class. I was a super muscular little six year old girl, ha.
I subscribe! My weirdest award was as a waitress in college one of my customers gave me a ‘waitress of the year’ trophy as a joke. I have it to this day!
Ps got and LOVE my prints!
I subscribed! Love watching your remodeling projects. We won ‘Best Interior Rehab’ from our local Preservation Alliance for our first house we renovated. Check out our blog (nothing fancy) youngoldhomes.blogspot.com. Can’t wait to see what projects you have in store with your new home! Congrats!
I am a follower of your wonderful blog via e-mail. I can’t really remember many awards I have gotten in the last few years
I favorited them on etsy and love the Kermit the Frog quote
I subscribe! I’ve won a couple of awards at work.
I added the shop to my etsy faves (I am Traz66). My favorite print is the Kermit the frog quote!
I follow you on my blogger.com reading list! I want to buy the cow print for our kitchen – I bought the Kermit the Frog print for our first anniversary this month!
Also, I follow her on Etsy 🙂
AND I like them on Facebook! I pretty much to own all of her work haha
I subscribe! Not really an award persay but special honors letter and certificate from the Dean for graduating with a 4.0 master’s degree this past August sure felt like an award!
Of course I’m subscribed to this lovely blog:)
I ❤ Chris loves Julia on Etsy and I like them on FB!
I made them an Etsy favorite and I LOVE the Kermit quote!
I liked Chris loves Julia on facebook
I’m a subscriber via Google Reader and the last award I won was in high school!
I favorited chris loves julie in etsy! Love the beef print because I grew up on a cattle farm.
I subscribed! One of my favorite awards was winning “Miss Spirit” my senior year of high school. It was voted on by the whole school based on character and school spirit 🙂
Ooooh I liked them on facebook too 🙂
Added the shop to my favorites, I can’t wait to see more of her work! I think the Kermit quote is my favorite. Though, I know some people who would love the cow one.
I also follow this blog via WordPress. I won the People’s Choice award as a sophomore in high school. It was for always showing a good attitude and being willing to help out in whatever way I could.
Just liked them on Facebook too!