Not only did Mandi send all of her friends here to vote for her, but she has been entering numerous branding contests all over the internet to try and remedy her branding issues. I believe she even entered a contest called My Branding Sucks – so Mandi, since your branding does indeed suck ;) I’m excited to say that I’d love to work with you to create some killer branding and to help you get going with your business.

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who entered and tweeted for your business. I so wish I could have picked all of you, and you all put 100% effort into it.

In the end though, the main things I had to think about were if it would be something that would be fun and that I could pull off on a Sunday (our town shuts down on Sunday) and I wanted to do something that I could do with the kids and then when they went to bed we could still have fun.

Ultimately I had to make a choice and instead of picking my two favorites, I decided to pick one, and let the randomizer pick the other in all fairness to everyone who commented!

No. 11 by Britt really got my brain stewing. We “camped out” last summer in our living room when it was raining alot and the kids absolutely loved it. I think since it’s been in the negative degrees a lot this winter, that it would be fun to take a “vacation” somewhere tropic. Maybe I could start a new Valentine’s Day tradition and we could travel somewhere new each year! I’m thinking pina coladas, grass skirts for the kids, key lime pie, pulled pork on buns, deck out the front room in beach stuff and do a light show for the kids like a camp out on the beach. Can’t wait to get going on this!

The random number generated was #9, Congrats to Brenda!

I’ll contact you both letting you know you’ve won! Thanks again everyone, fabulous job!

So I thought I’d make a print out of this simple fact of love.

THE GOODS:
If you want one 8.5×10.5″ unframed print be sure to comment below about how you met your spouse/fiance/bf or why you really want one! Comments close Friday at midnight!

UPDATE: CONGRATS BRIT, I’LL BE IN CONTACT TO GET YOUR MAILING ADDRESS!

I’ve been printing a ton of these lately and wanted to offer a lovely set of 25 as a giveaway opportunity to all you great readers! Below are some that were recently shipped, you can see more photos on the flickr feed.

To enter, you need to comment on this post which dingbat you want (click here and check out the thumbs in the store listing to pick one) and for an extra entry, tweet with a tiny URL back to this post. Humor me – I like to see what people pick to go with their names!

The GOODS:
If you win you’ll get a lovely set of 25 personalized (one-line name/one-color ink) letterpress Traditional Dingbat A6 Notes with printed envelopes.

Size: 4.5×6″ FLAT card, printed on white 110# paper and paired with either matching envelopes or a colored envelope. Ships in 14-20 business days from winning notification.

Good luck entering, I look forward to seeing what sort of a dingbat you all are! COMMENTS CLOSE 6/19/09 at midnight! Winner notified the following Monday.

UPDATE: CONGRATS TO COLLEEN! I’ll email you with more info on your notes :) Thanks to everyone that tweeted and commented!

For details on the cupcake giveaway you may have missed click here. Something fun will be coming up next week so check back soon for more chances at awesome letterperss goodness! Winner randomly generated by a lovely cut and draw system due to the complexity of triple chaces. Picked out by a 4 year old as to make sure there were no bias selections.

The winner is comment #9 generated by Random.org and the goods she’ll get will be the 3 original cards and a six pack of the pack I’ll be listing in the shop.

Congrats Patty, I’ll be contacting you on where to send your goods!

Congrats to Elena (i didn’t count myself of course) , who also has an AWESOME Etsy shop you need to check out!

Amanda, who’ll be winning the butterfly pack! I’ll send you an email to get your shipping info and will get these babies off to you. Congrats!