First and foremost, I want to thank you times infinity for welcoming Closet Confidential with such enthusiasm. Thank you for coming to the launch party and hosting giveaways and sending emails and posting reviews and driving for three hours to track down a copy. You guys rock, and I want you to know that your kind words and heroic efforts have helped make my 2009 an unforgettable year. Thank you.
Now let's get down to business! I'm giving away five signed copies of my book, but there are a few other prizes up for grabs that might interest you as well.
The Grand Prize winner of the Mega Exciting Giveaway Bonanza will receive...
A Butter by Nadia Signature Wrap Dress!
My favorite Portland boutique, Mabel & Zora (seriously, P-towners, check them out if you haven't yet!), were kind enough to provide one of the famous Butter by Nadia signature wrap dresses for a lucky Daddy Likey reader! This comfy and flattering dress can be worn something like 4,000 different ways and retails for $246.
So yeah, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, this dress is a religious miracle. It can be worn as a short-sleeve dress, a regular wrap dress, or with a halter top, strapless, or backless. It can be a shirt or a skirt or a tree fort or whatever else you can dream up. The particular version we're giving away is a gorgeous orange color, soft jersey fabric, and fits sizes 2-16. I'm thinking of entering my own contest under a pseudonym (What do you think of "Minona"?) just for a chance to win this.
Not only will I sign it and dedicate it to whomever you like, I'm also happy to include a personalized haiku/limerick/piece of erotic fiction on request!
I've declared my love and affection for Objects Found before, and I think this necklace is especially striking: those trademark layered chains and perfectly detailed guppy pendant? Perfect!
So yeah, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, this dress is a religious miracle. It can be worn as a short-sleeve dress, a regular wrap dress, or with a halter top, strapless, or backless. It can be a shirt or a skirt or a tree fort or whatever else you can dream up. The particular version we're giving away is a gorgeous orange color, soft jersey fabric, and fits sizes 2-16. I'm thinking of entering my own contest under a pseudonym (What do you think of "Minona"?) just for a chance to win this.
And a signed copy of Closet Confidential:
And a gorgeous guppy necklace from Objects Found:
And a sassy watch from Normal Watches:
First Runner-Up will receive...
A signed copy of my book:
Listen, I can't make any guarantees, but I can say that this awesome unicorn necklace will magically improve your life, guaranteed.
And a sweet journal from Love You Big:
This handmade map journal from Love You Big is perfect for writing about your glamorous travels, your dream vacations, and/or international incidents you've caused (hey, it happens!).
Second Runner-Up will receive...
A signed copy of my book:
And a hydrangea headband from Bella Fiore:
And a sassy watch from Normal Watches:
And a cookie:
Third Runner-Up will receive...
A signed copy of my book:
And a cookie:
Fourth Runner-Up will receive...
A signed copy of my book:
And a personal consultation with the Five Men:
You get to email me a question. Any question. And I will record the Five Men's answers and send them to you. The photo above is my dad. He is ready to give you an answer, especially if your question concerns predatory seabirds.
And a cookie:
You get to email me a question. Any question. And I will record the Five Men's answers and send them to you. The photo above is my dad. He is ready to give you an answer, especially if your question concerns predatory seabirds.
And a cookie:
So, what do you have to do for your chance to win? It's simple: just leave a comment on this post.
If you'd like to earn extra entries, tweet about this contest, write a blog post about it, and/or link to it on Facebook--just leave separate comments here letting me know.
Another way to get a bonus entry? Email me a picture of you posing with your copy of Closet Confidential, like the beautiful Annie Spandex here:
This giveaway is open to everyone around the world. I will choose the winners at random on December 31st. Best of luck to you, my lovelies!
p.s. A huge thank you to the companies and artists who made this giveaway possible!
977 comments:
1 – 200 of 977 Newer› Newest»Amazing prizes - especially the cookies!!
argh this is the best giveaway ever! I shall tweet and blog and the magical dress will be mine... maybe.
OMFG I am almost hyperventilating at the awesomeness of your prizes! HFS!
I thought the I Want Candy watch wasn't available anymore! It has been on my wishlist forever and ever and wow. Just wow. I really hope I win.
(Also, Spice World Fuck Yeah http://www.flickr.com/photos/johubris/4121861660/)
what a great giveaway! hope I win!! the dress looks like a true wonder, got to try it on!
i love all of the prizes and all the chances to win stuff!
WOW!!! I just started reading your blog 2 days ago and already there's a super amazing giveaway! That dress is soooooooooooooooo gorgeous and the book looks pretty awesome too.
portia.goodman@purchase.edu
Ooooh YAY... awesome!!! I wonder if the postman will intercept the cookies if it's coming to Australia?! Love to be in this as I have not found a copy in ole Canberra yet (sob!) and would devour it completely (the book - well, and the cookies!).
Much love xxx
I've been reading your blog for about a year now and have never commented. But I can't really resist if there is a I WANT CANDY-WATCH AT STAKE! This might be the coolest watch ever created. Seriously.
This is awesome! Also, I loved your post on Irony Creepers. It made me smile last night when I was grading student exams while wearing my red and black polka dot socks and Ugg slippers (both gifts from my grandmother, but still totes irony creepers).
Ahhh! Amazing! Consider me entered!
Also, all of those watches are amazing! I don't wear a watch cos I can never find one I like, but I'd definitely wear any of those.
And that dress...lets just say its the dress that my obsessive-imaginative mind totally has not already picked as a potential bridesmaid dress. Nope. Nh-uh. Not me. ;)
thank you for making me laugh
lontano.da.ognicosa at gmail dot com
i love your bloggggggg
:)
what amazing prizes! i'm jellin' over those watches, they're amazing.
i honestly wish you could post like 5 times an hour so that i could have plenty of goood stuff to read :)
hope i win!
especially for a cookie!
Oh and I also tumbl'd this entry:
http://stupiditykills.tumblr.com/post/286035618/daddy-likey-mega-exciting-closet-confidential-giveaway
which I'm sure you'll see since we follow each other! :D
Oh and I also tweeted it; (I love that tumblr and twitter are so integrated! I'd never tweet otherwise.)
http://twitter.com/hannah_sage/status/6728212449
Wow, only yesterday I tweeted about how I'm having zero luck finding a wrap dress and here you are giving one away. I am crossing my fingers bigtime for this one.
Whoooa. WANT.
I'm going to go get me a cookie right this instant...
Greatgreatgreatgreat. Awesome! This is seriously the best giveaway any blog has ever had.
Tweeted the love! http://twitter.com/MsConstantine/status/6728410214
Lol, awesome!! <3 Thanks for including me :)
Aaaaand Facebooked. (yea I really want that watch...and your book...and a cookie)
oooh man the dress is amazing!! & orange is my favorite color! :D
And a cookie?!? Hell yeah! Twitting about this as we speak!!
Is it wrong that I have a GENIUS idea for a photo for this contest? Genius. Off to my twitter as well...And just for giggles and what not...
lisa-delaney@hotmail.com
www.twitter.com/lisamdelaney
Wow, that's one hell of a giveaway! I'm totally in (and not just for the cookies!)
Gorgeous dress! I would love to win my own Daddy Likey haiku.
oh my god! i want everything, please
Aack! Aack! Aack! I would love to win any one of those things, never mind some of those things together!
I keep meaning to take my picture with the book, but also forget all the time. I should've taken it to the guggenheim the other day! Do you think it wants to see Brooklyn?
What an amazing giveaway! I would love to win any of these prizes.
Everything's just so amazing! Love the unicorn necklace.
Absolutely, insanely amazing prizes! I have just got incredibly over-excited reading this post...
Count me in!!
x
http://sparklesmiledance.blogspot.com
My goodness what a giveaway!!!! I actually love that "rebellion is essential" watch and would wear that loads, even though I wear a men's Seiko which I got for my 18th (and have done most days... and I'm nearly 24 now). AMAZING. And getting your book would be fab too.
I'm another semi-long-term reader who's commenting for the first time, but how can I resist such an amazingly generous giveaway?!
Perhaps this will break my commenting ice too!
There is nothing on this list that I don't want, and yes, that includes Spice World. Those girls got up to some crazy hi jinks on that bus.
mememememe! puh-lease!
Wow, this is one amazing giveaway! Please count me in.
wow, books, cookies, accessories, the most wondermous dress ever--what a giveaway! you must be in the christmas spirit =)
i started reading your blog a few weeks ago, and its Awesome (and often hilarious).
i hope i win!
p.s. (pick me!)
Such fun prizes! And really, just staring at that unicorn necklace makes me feel more awesome.
Best giveaway ever! I will definitely try and grab as many bonus entries as I can! Thanks!
This is quite possibly the greatest blog giveaway I've ever seen. With cookies. Awesome.
I've also posted a link on Facebook!
HAHAHAHA, that's probably the funniest competition-declaration I've read in a while. Also, that Nadia dress is a creation by god and I'd love to win it. :)
I figure I'll share the love as well, I've posted it on my blog:
http://pixelperfect-erin.blogspot.com
Yay! Thank you for hosting this contest! I really hope I win!!!!
I like cookies - and your blog! Your hilarious features and witty commentary often leave me in a fit of giggles that I can't explain to co-workers. (1. Because I'm obviously not...working, and 2. Shop guys might enjoy the "Don't Show-cha your Chocha feature, a little too much)
Thanks for offering such a great giveaway.
marie stotz
mks355@nyu.edu
This is an AWESOME giveaway! Thank you so much! I'd be happy with any of the prizes as long as I get a copy of your book. And a cookie.
Posted on facebook!
Best. Giveaway. EVER!!!
Not just one awesome prize but SO MANY of them that it makes me a little dizzy. :)
AHHH I'm so excited! Is it wrong that I kind of want 4th place just to get the Spice World DVD? Amazing piece of my childhood. Especially the bit with the male dancers with the ass cutouts...
What an awesome giveaway. That dress does indeed look like the holy grail of clothing. It does everything!
I can't wait for my copies of your book to come in the mail (one for me, one for my sister).
That's the biggest giveaway I've seen. Amazing prices..and I'm in love with the wrap dress. Would love to try it out :-)
Post retweeted!
Ahh so exciting! A chance for cookies AND haikus?!
Whoa, your giving everything away but the kitchen sink and I want in.
Ka-pow! What a fantastic way to close out the year - showering your readers with treats!
Wow. So much good stuff. I want in.
You are so awesome! This is such a wonderful giveaway!
Wow, so many prizes!! Thank you, Winona!
This is so much! I want erotic fiction cookie watches!
OMG, yes, please.
Ooh, I want to enter this. And I already own and have read my copy of closet confidential. In fact, it is sitting right next to me on my nightstand to provide inspiration every morning when i get dressed.
I'm commenting!
And you should pick me because I grew up just across the river from you, in Longview, WA.
I tried to make one of those magical dresses once. I'm betting a real one would look a hell of a lot better than a homemade one!
Please say your Canadian neighbours can enter!! This is possibly the greatest give away.. I mean cookies? spice world?? What more could a girl ask for?? Your amazing book that's what! Canada <3 DaddyLikey!
I would give my right eye for a consultation with the Five Men!
Let's do this dance!!!
Pick me! I'd especially like to be second-runner up because I've been looking for something to unleash my inner Blair Waldorf and that headband goes above and beyond.
If I win, can I request that my copy of the book has a hand drawn Sally the Sexay Starfish inside it? :P
And consider yoself retweeted.
That's a gorgeous dress, and an awesome giveaway!
omg!
cookies!
I was going to enter just to win the book, but you're giving away COOKIES too? Amazing!
Also, my word verification is "conan." No joke.
I also just posted this on facebook. I hope one of my friends doesn't win instead of me. Yes, I'm selfish.
Wow, what awesome prizes! Pick me!
:D Count me in!
Hooray for an awesome book and hooray for a Portland hometown hero! I love your book and am actually gifting it this holiday. I would super love a signed copy for my own selfish self so I have all my fingers crossed!
I know.. like everyone else, I'm entering for the cookie :3
Pick me! Pick me!
huffychic@gmail.com
What a fabulous giveaway!! I hope I wiiiiin!
My sakes, Winona - you had me at the book giveaway... but that dress? In ORANGE? Sign this sucka up!
The things I would do for a cookie...
I would like to win stuff!
- faefae
OK, you got me! I want the dress....and the book...and the watch....and the necklace....and the cookie but hey, I am not greedy.
Awesome prize packages!
Clearly I need to go watch shopping- those are fantastic!
I love all the prizes!! This is such a fantastic give-away. Thanks for the chance to win!!
Woah, woah, woah... Are you serious?!? This is amazing & I'm holding out for the 4,000-way-to-wear dress. Seriously genius.
Can't wait to take a look at that book either1
Crossing my fingers,
a
Argggh coolest prizes! I've been lusting after the I want Candy watch for ages! I would love to read your book! x
I love those watches, and I really want to read your book! If I don't win, I guess I'll order it as an after-Christmas present for myself.
Oh my, so happy that this got re-tweeted and somehow made it on my wall.....
from: a new follower and lover of half eaten cookies.
This is absolutely fabulous! I SO want a copy of your book!!!! Thanks for doing this :)
danielleblchr11@gmail.com
Ooh I want!! All the things youre giving away are soo pretty! That dress is dreamy!!
xoxo
AAAGGGGHHHH why is everyone talking about cookies lately? NOW I WANT COOKIES!
i also want that book. and that amazing dress. hang on, i'll brb with some twitter, facebook, and blog-attack madness.
Twitter: done.
@ACM_Jedi
Raaa, so many adorable things!
AMAZING!!!
sign me up. xoxox
Those must be great cookies if they've all got a bite out of them. I want one. (And I'm really hoping for a copy of Closet Confidential.)
You just blew my mind with that giveaway. Seriously. Mind. Blown.
Oh and I will SO pose naughtily with the signed copy of your book and then e-mail you the photo.
This is all so awesome, congrats a million times over on the success of the book!
P.S. My great grandma was named "Minona"!
Oh gosh, that guppy necklace is worth it alone! The book's already on my "Do your parental duty and buy me these" list, but another copy wouldn't hurt.
Ooo, oo, pick me!
Of course, you put the dress and headband in different prize packages and those are the two I want the most!
I may actually get a twitter account to get an extra entry. I'm hoping to win the 5 men prize,
Have a super holiday!
Lain
Wow, great contest. I feel that unicorn could improve my life in an infinite number of ways :)
xxxx
grenneh_jenneh@fsmail.net
Cookies please
Ok Winona. I want you to know, I don't pimp out my blog for just anyone. And it's unclear at present whether my co-bloggers will kill me for it. BUT I DON'T CARE!
:: runs off crying ::
(click my name to get to my blog)
My professor lead me to your site and, obviously, it was right on time. I want those cookies!!!
1.) This IS a super-awesome giveaway.
2.) I am SO GLAD someone else appreciates Spice World the way I do. My sister keeps trying to hold it over my head that I took her and her friend to see it when they were little and I was in high school, but OHMAHGAH - why would I be embarassed??? That movie is teh awesome!
Dress! Cookies! Books! Aaaaah!
Ahhh such a good giveaway! I retweeted (@alanapower) ... I would love to win!
This is probably the most exciting giveaway everrrrr! :)
i want to win everything. i love this blog. and that dress. oh that dress i need it.
First, I would love for you to actually consume the cookie if I win. Second, all the prizes look awesome. I haven't had a chance to leave the house in awhile to grab your book. Kids with runny poop leave me tied down to the homestead. I am very excited to possibly win something that has grammar better "Hola Mama. Dora, Diego, and me want roni n cheese."
Ohpleaseohplease let Christmas come late this year!!
This is a truly amazing giveaway. I would gladly take any of these...even just the book!
Also, I tweeted about it @sarahrileyc...
Winona your blog is awesome! Happy holidays! Yayyyyyy!
Very exciting, I love give-aways.
haller.gp@sasktel.net
how funny AND amazing!
What a fantastic giveaway! Those are a lot of crazyneat gifts. I'm so glad you appreciate the wonderment that is Spice World as well...so few people do. It really is a treasure of a movie.
Great giveaway! Congrats on the success of your book.
Oh, AND I blogged about it here:
http://lebloguesecret.blogspot.com/2009/12/daddy-likey-contest.html
I love you.
I don't even care which place I get, I just want a copy of that book! The other prizes are secondary :)
moved away from Stumptown a few weeks ago and Mabel and Zora is one of many places I miss, the dress is oh so lovely
PICK MEEE!!
<3
*closes eyes, crosses fingers, prays, spins around three times, hops on one leg*
please let the giveaway gods shine down upon me!
Holy cats this is amazing!!
Great idea! Count me in, I'd love a copy of Closet Confidential!
oh wow! What a totally badass competition! If I don't win, I might buy half the stuff on this list anyway :D
Winona, I really truly love your blog. I wish I could be half as witty as you are!
(I plan on tweeting and blogging about this, and will post back when I'm done).
Agh, that dress is amazing!
emmileeracek(at)gmail(dot)com
Amazing dress... sign me in!
And I posted in on my FB too!
This is a fantastic giveaway - I'd love your book!
Best. Giveaway. Ever. EVER!
I love everything! I really hope I win at least the cookie. The cookie alone would make my month.
I'm totally in this for the cookie!!
Oh em gee. Eeep, eep, eep, awesome.
Loved the book! Pick me!
also, tweeted about it (@_katwin)
and blogged about it here: http://cupcakessometimes.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/giveaway-at-daddy-likey/
WINONA I LOVE YOU AND YOUR BLOG AND YOUR BOOK AND EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU!
Cookies! Nomnomnomnom.
What an amazing giveaway! I hope I win something. *fingers crossed*
Oh my god, that dress. I'm going to start squirreling away pennies so I can make it mine (if I don't win it :D).
loooove this giveaway, looove this book & loooove you winona!
and i'm totally going to do a photoshoot with my book haha
xoxo
Can I specifically enter for fourth place? I want to ask the Fab Five a question!
Several thoughts:
a) Awesome, awesome prizes, although I, like Ninaribena, am concerned that Aussie customs may use 'contamination' or something as an excuse to eat my cookie (that sounds sexual) should I win
b) For Nina and any other Aussies, Borders online has Closet Confidential - I know this because I was going to order it as a xmas pressie for myself from my bf (does sucking up earn an extra entry?)
c) I think you did this just to be difficult. As mentioned above, I was going to be buying this myself, for myself, from my bf (it's just easier, I love him, but anything remotely to do with fashion, his eyes glaze over and he ups the volume on the xbox). Now I am left with the conundrum, do I hold out hope that I, who never win anything, will win a copy of CC (hopefully with erotic haiku), and therefore postpone buying my copy until the new year? Or do I go ahead and buy a copy for xmas? And if I buy a copy for xmas, and don't win the comp, will you write a new erotic haiku that I can write in the front cover, and scan your signature so I can forge it and not feel gypped that I live thousands of miles away from being able to attend your book tour / stalk you and make you be my friend?
Holy moly this is exciting! I want that dress in that beautiful red color! Gorgeous :)
seriously? this is so amazing!!! I am so impressed by the prizes and even the fourth runner up prize is awesome.
So cool! thanks so much for the chance to win!
My birthday is Dec. 31. Just sayin'.
I also put this up as my facebook status/ facebook link!!!
Thanks again!
Basically the best giveaway ever...Congratulations on your awesome book!
The cookies make this too irresistible to not enter. Count me in!
Pick me!!! I love those watches!
Um, may I have a cookie even if I don't win? And a haiku, please.
OH. MY. GOD.
I am too excited for this. What do I love more than giveaways? YOUR BLOG, THAT'S WHAT.
And cookies. Hell, if I win this, I'll send YOU some cookies. Do you like shortbread?
SPICE WORLD!!! hope i win hope i win!!!
Holy crap, most awesome giveaway ever. Is it wrong not to even care about all the other awesome prizes and just be after the book?
You had me at "signed copy" honestly...
I love all these prizes... but really I just want the cookie. It looks delicious.
This is a pretty fantastic giveaway. I'm in. :)
Awesome prizes!! I love reading your blog and share the chocha posts with my husband.
awesome giveaway!
Um, best giveaway ever?! I tweeted about it here: http://twitter.com/marebel623
Awesome!
Well, the Spice World DVD won me over on this one. Plus, I've been searching high and low for your book, but apparently the bookstores in the boondocks of PA don't really call for fashion advice so much as five-thousand copies of the kama sutra and a bajillion books about deer...
emceemorgan-at-aol-dot-com
IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS GIVEAWAY =) Congratulations on being published and being hilarious and wonderful!
What a great contest - love the blog & because of your post about the hat you got, I finally ventured into Oak Street Vintage in Eugene. Yay for local vintage!
Also, noted on blog here: http://epicridic.tumblr.com/post/286264094/daddy-likey-giveaway
oh my goodness how exciting! i love all of it
Love your blog!
Winona. Seriously. This is the most excited I've ever been at 8:50 AM on a work day! The book! That dress! That headband! The consultation with the Five Men!! So much goodness!
SO.MANY.AWESOME.THINGS
Seriously...great givaway.
Hells yeah, this is an awesome contest!
What great prizes!! Count me in!
hi hi hello. <3
sexcellent prices.
That is such a gorgeous red dress! Loving red right now!
best.
giveaway.
ever.
wow- this IS an amazing giveaway!!
oh my, that dress is amazing! good luck everyone...
Amazing giveaway! Love the social media watch!!
HOT ACTION!
(email in profile)
Also did a retweet! See? I really do need that watch!
@andreajeanc
Holy crap when you said this giveaway was amazing you weren't kidding.
I went to THREE BOOKSTORES last night looking for Closet Confidential and no dice D: Am scouting some more this weekend out of town.
WOW, that guppy necklace is AMAZING! *covets*
I want!! That dress looks seriously amazing.
i'm drooling over all of it. especially the chance of having one of your haikus all to myself!
I'm a new reader and think you're hilarious!!!
I want candy.
No, really. Now.
Hope I win! Love your blog!
~Sharilyn
Love that dress!
ooh, I want the dress! pick me, pick me!
For a moment there, I thought I was trapped in an amazingly beautiful time warp in which the list of prizes would never end (no, seriously).
I would be happy with ANY of those prizes - so happy, I posted a link on my Tumblr in the hopes that someone I know would enter, win, & then I could steal their copy of the book!
Love your blog,
Sarah
(http://sierralimamike.tumblr.com)
Are these homemade cookies?
Also, I had never heard about this magical dress. I am intrigued!
I have been looking for a wrap dress and this one is just incredible! Wow!
I so appreciate your inspirational thoughts about living a kicky and fashionable life style. How can we frown when we have feathers in our hair??
Wow! Amazing giveaways :)
thank you for the giveaway- I adore the dress and hope I win!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: zoologists CAN by stylish. However, having a book like yours would definitely make the process easier. And I never say no to the possibility of a cookie...
I want to win books and cookies!
Oh ps: I tweeted and facebooked this.
:) xoxo
Um of course I want to win this!!! Holy crap :)
That dress would make my life! Consider this entry #1 for me. Thanks for linking to my blog again! :)
Love your blog! This is my first comment. I should make this a habit. :)
Wow, what an amazing giveaway - DEFINITELY count me in!
And I tweeted about it! http://twitter.com/Becky_Roden/status/6736440224
I feel rude commenting when I am so sporadic with commenting. RSS made me lazy but I want a cookie.
Also congrats on how great the books is doing I am so proud of you!
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