CLOSED – Win The PERFECT Personlized Gift This Holiday Season!
Talk about a perfect gift!
My mother recently came down for a visit and I just *happened* to have scheduled my tonsillectomy for the same week she was going to be here. I know she’s always happy to help but it really just worked out great and even though no thanks was necessary, I still wanted to show my gratitude. When I was approached by the owner of Dakota’s Personalized Gifts and The Anniversary Rose, the perfect place for Wedding Anniversary Gifts, for a review I was thrilled but also wondering how I was going to work this one out. The holiday season is here so I REALLY wanted to make my mom something but how could I possibly see how the gift would go over and get a great review (and giveaway!!!) up before the season ends?
This is how! YAY OPERATION!
Sort of.
I mean it HURT like crazy but my mom got to come and help (she LOVES helping out) and I got to show my gratitude by creating the perfect gift.
I have to tell you, getting my boys (five and two) to stand still for a picture was harder than creating the frame for it! I simply stated the names of my boys (clearly seen on the photo frame above – Jacob and Joshua) and then I requested that it be made out to “Babci & Dziadziu” which is Polish for Grandmother and Grandfather.
THAT right there made the difference. I mean a HUGE difference. I check out a lot of personalized gift making sites and everyone has generic things for grandparents. All of the typical things. You can put in the names of your children but you can’t really personalize it much further.
In the almost six years since my eldest has been born, this is the very first gift I’ve bought that I was able to completely personalize. Typically we have to buy items and I’ll have the boys sign them to make them special but this was truly spectacular.
I waited until three days before they left to present it. That’s a handy tip for those of you who are staying over or have someone staying to help you – give the gift about two or three days PRIOR to departure. Typically, half way through a trip people get antsy and may feel unappreciated, especially if it involves helping someone out. If I’m staying somewhere, I can tell they might be checking the calendar to see when my time is running out. By presenting the gift a few days in advance, you amp up the “THIS is why this is happening” mojo and you also get to hear about how awesome the gift is for a few days before departure. That’s an extra bonus!
I’ll give you a reenactment of how the gift presentation went -
ME: Hi Mom. I really want to thank you for all of your help so I got you this giftMOM: Oh, we love it here! We wanted to come anyway! There’s no need for a gift (…gift is being unwrapped and *GASP!*) OH, JULIE! Look at this! Wow! Would you look at this? It’s BEAUTIFUL! How did you do that?! It’s BEAUTIFUL! Oh, Al! Look at this! Isn’t it beautiful? (He agrees) It’s just great, I LOVE IT. Boys, look at this! Who is this? It’s Jacob and Joshua! That’s right! It’s you! Look how handsome my boys are! What a wonderful picture!
No joke. It pretty much went just like that and I couldn’t have been more proud of myself or impressed at the quality and detail put into the gift. So much so that we’ve decided to give one of my super totally super cool and awesomely rad readers a $50 gift certificate to apply at either Dakota’s Personalized Gifts or The Anniversary Rose!
Simple entry – head on over to either website and let me know what you’d LOVE to spend your $50 on and who you’d gift it to! You are seriously going to be so happy. For a few extra entries, here’s what you can do -
- If you’re on Twitter you can follow me, that’d be cool. I’m @Momspective
- Since you’re on Twitter, leave a tweet about this giveaway. Word it any way you want, just link to this and you can do it as much as you want, just leave one comment for every action.
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If you choose to subscribe via Email and/or your RSS feed to both this and my review site, tell me in one comment at a time (i.e. if you do all four, leave four comments – gives you more entries
If you would like a chances to win, you can do any or all of the ways to enter listed below and each comment left counts as one entry, so be sure to leave separate comments for each action taken. The winner will be chosen from a random comment left on this post using Random.org. This giveaway ends Tuesday, December 7, 2010 and is valid for EVERYONE ages 18 and up but you have to remember that shipping is within that $50 and the further away you are, the more it might cost! Winner will be notified on this site and by email within 48 hours. For a full complete of rules, read this!
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