What’s Out Your Window ~ Hello Canvas Giveaway

I love to see what’s out your window! And I love Hello Canvas for two reasons. They have a wonderful product and free, fast shipping. And … they will give away a free 24×36 professional canvas to the winner of the What’s Out Your Window contest!

If you participated in the Hello Canvas photo contest last August you know how wonderful and generous the Hello Canvas folks are. Their canvases are so beautiful that I have purchased four already. It’s my own personal testimony to their product. I really like it, I do. And they are willing to give away another one. Wonderful!

If you left a link on What’s Out Your Window #1, you are entered! That link up will be available until September 27.

If you link up a different view out your window on What’s Out Your Window #2, you will get a second entry! This link up will be available until next Monday, September 27.

A third What’s Out Your Window link up will start on Tuesday September 28 and you will have a third chance to win if you leave me a link up then!

The interpretation of what’s out your window is up to you. The wonderful Shirley left a link last week about what’s IN her window and I love it. Above is a photo out the husband’s work window. If you have a photo of a window…well that will work too.

The great part about linking up is that you will get double entries. Three different link ups over three weeks will give you six chances to win!

How to get social networking to get more entries. Each is worth one entry.

1. Please be my friend:) on Facebook. Hit the like button on my the Facebook block in my sidebar. Then share the post about the Hello Canvas giveaway. It is where I’ll post about other giveaways.
2. Follow Hello Canvas on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway.

Please leave me separate comments about each social networking action below on any of the What’s Out Your Window posts…

Though the husband will NOT be eligible to win, his office window is quite cool.

Thanks for considering and good luck to you!

Hello Love Winners!

Thank you for submitting fantastic photos! First there was one winner, then there were two but now… I have some wonderful surprises below.

Danny Douglas chose Jenica as a  winner. Here’s what he said about her special family image.

“GRAND PRIZE WINNER – I love, love, love these images. I love the kiss in frame 2, and the mom face in frame 4. This one says family love to me!”

He ALSO chose Michelle of My Two Seasons as 1st runner up. As such, she is too a winner! Here’s what he said about her wonderful image of sisterly love.

“HONORABLE MENTION  – I have a soft spot for daughters!”

Hello Canvas chose Sarah of rowenleaf.blogspot.com as a winner of a free canvas. What a fun image!

So yes, there are THREE winners of the 16 x 20 canvas.

But don’t go away.

I know it’s August and it’s hot and you have many other things to do but so many of you took the time to enter this little giveaway and spread the word. I am so appreciative of that. So there is a 25% discount for all of you who entered a photo in this contest and choose to place an order with Hello Canvas. Please contact me directly for your discount code.

This is my kind of giveaway, everyone is a winner! Remember you can also get a 10% discount by using the offer code HelloLove. Perfect!

Danny also took the time to acknowledge these two images.

HONORABLE MENTION Kath of Seours du Jour – I can feel the caring in this image! Sister trying to comfort her brother.

HONORABLE MENTION Marcie Scudder – Although not human family love, animal love is awesome too.

I will have another soon. And it won’t be as much work for you.

Congratulations to all of you and thank you Hello Canvas!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Bloggy-versary Thoughts

I started blogging a year ago…a year ago. This is my 511th post. It’s a lot of posts I know. You should see how many scrapbooks I have.

Most of my blogs are about my family…sometimes to their chagrin. However, they all know that I respect their privacy and I don’t make fun of them – too much.

A few weeks ago Neighbor Sue said she didn’t like my new blog design. I went home last weekend and my Uncle Walt said, “Hey Puna, I can’t find anything on that new website of yours. Peck showed me how to get around.”

Then my brother said, “Hey sis, I don’t like your new site.”

And my husband had a hard time with it at first…

The whole point of changing my blog design was to control more of my own design and have the ability to post larger photos in order to showcase my photography. And I may have some control issues.

I saw this design by Michelle at My Two Season and I decided to copy her. I loved the whole lotta goin’ on at her place.

I have a point so stay with me.

The process of self-hosting was excruciating…excruciating! It all lead up to several very sincere apologies from my hosting company and a couple of extra free months of hosting. But I’m still slightly sore from the whole thing and therefore ungraciously holding a grudge. I’m not going to post details but if you want to know what not to do and who not to do it with, go ahead and contact me.

The point is…I’ve been through too much to change again. And I think Uncle Walt has figured out how to navigate through the site by now.

And this month is my anniversary month. I’m trying to figure out what to do in order to celebrate…and of course it’s some kind of giveaway. So stay tuned until I figure something out. I’ll give you a hint, it will have something to do with food so get your recipes ready.

And animals, it will have animals in it.

And photographs, lots of photographs. Oh dear, I better think of something.

But above all, I hope it will be fun for you. Because you mean so much to me. All five of you.

Love,
Puna