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woo-hoo! a beso.com giveaway!

by erin |

I typically don’t run giveaways anymore, but I’m feeling the post-Christmas consumerist rush and couldn’t help myself. Can you blame a gal for wanting to continue spoiling herself a wee bit longer? Certainly not.

Luckily, the kind folk at Beso.com were happy to lend a hand to Design For Mankind readers that didn’t get everything on their wish list (I know, I know). To the tune of $150. Yep, that’s right! A mini shopping spree!

Here’s how to win:
-Sign up for a free account at Beso.com (it will come in handy later; trust me — this is a killer shopping destination!).
-Leave a comment below with your new or existing Beso username (and maybe say hi to me, or tell a joke. Or a cute story. I love stories.)

I’ll choose the winner at random and will email you if you’re the lucky duck! You have 48 hours… ready, set, GO!

Update: This giveaway is now closed. Congrats, Laura!

  • Ooooh! I love a good shopping site!! Especially one that means “Kiss” in Spanish

    My username is emmaneezer.

  • HI :) my beso name is LiddoLady.

    And i have a joke for you- what kind of cheese is not yours?

    NA-CHO cheese!
    :) happy holidays!

  • YAY, here’s your Haiku:

    A New Year is Here.
    Make the Most of this Next Year.
    Resolutions Kept!

    Here’s my Beso name: memelodia

  • So, funny story about how my sister and I made a gingerbread house for the holidays (first time ever), and the icing didn’t harden fast enough, so our wreath over the door slid down the front and ended up looking like Salvador Dali made it. :) Happy New Year! –kristinapp

  • Oh! Beso! my beso name is art esprit. I never enter contests but who can resist YOU! :)
    happy new year miss!
    susan

  • Yay! Prizes! My username is Tartydiva.

    What did the Big Bucket say to the Little Bucket?

    You look a little pail!

  • Oh la la! Thanks a bunch..

    At christmas my 2 year old nephew was having a little sugar attack, at while he was singing loudly and spinning in circles, my 8 year old nephew (his brother) turned to me casually and whispered, “you know, he is cute on the outside, but a pterodactyl on the inside”.

    :-) username: kathleenrabe

  • oooooh! I love beso! My username is “Jewles917”. Funny story about that, when I was in sixth grade my older brother created a yahoo account for me, without realizing jewels was spelled incorrectly. It has been demoted to usernames only, but funny I still use it… even though I’m 25.

  • My username is ckhail.

    And funny story from this weekend: I wanted to surprise my husband with a fire on Christmas morning and forgot to open the damper. Didn’t burn anythign down (thank God) but I’m pretty sure waking up to a house full of smoke wasn’t what he was expecting :)

    (and for anyone wondering… I noticed after like 30 seconds and fixed it immediately, but even so there was TONS of smoke produced in those few seconds…)

  • Username is Bleez,my nickname in real life.

    Joke time!

    What did the hot dog say as he crossed the finish line?
    “I’m da wiener!”

  • i could use a post holiday pick me up in a big way! the best and only gift i got was a handmade card from my 7 year old wishing me the happiest christmas ever. you could make that happen…

  • I caught my oven on fire yesterday…flame flame, fire in the oven. I battled the flames with a wooden spoon…which was really dumb :) Cake turned out alright in the end though!

    <3
    hope you had a wonderful xmas Erin

    username: hellojackieb

  • I love a giveaway! My new beso username is dsbrennan.

    I will share my 4-year-old nephew’s favorite joke:
    What’s a Pirate’s favorite letter? ARRRRRRRR!

  • Yay thanks for the added Christmas bonus! My beso username is telethon. I hope you guys had a happy holiday!

    Thanks!
    Hilary

  • hi lovely – how nice of you! i’ve never done this before so i thought i’d check it out.
    my username is frillysparkly, of course.

    here’s a joke my son used to tell when he was four:
    why did the chicken cross the road?
    because he was stuck to the hamburger’s hand.

    i know. i don’t understand it either. but i loved how random it was. :)

  • this was in my christmas cracker:

    why are ghosts bad at telling lies?

    because you can see right through them! ha

    username : anntorian

  • Love Beso! Thanks for the contest. Story. ..my two year old nephew, if you ask him what’s on his hands, he flutters his fingers and says, “Mysteries!”. Apparently he watches scoobie-doo, and they always have a mystery on their hands. He’s such a cutie!

  • woo hoo is right! i am in serious need of warm stockings to get me through these awful northerly months.

    oh, and my user name is sweetiepiepress, naturally.

    and now i am blanking on anything remotely interesting to say. i apologize. the holidaze sucked out my brain.

  • Hello hello! I hope you had a splendid holiday! I don’t have any cute stories to tell you except that this was my puppy Harper’s first Christmas. And she is still wiped out from all the holiday festivities. She been sleeping all day. It’s kind of adorable.

    Oh, and my username on Beso.com is emilyabigail

  • Beso username: CapreeK

    Fun story: This one time, I went to Philadelphia and met some of the coolest people on the planet. And then, I was lucky enough to share a taxi to the airport with one of them and it was, like, the best day ever. ;)

  • Hey! I am a new-ish follower of your blog and i LOVE it. My new user name at beso is: kristinalillian

    the first story that comes to mind is about my grandmother- she came to the US from Greece and every year made the best baklava I’ve ever had. Each year since she has passed my mother and I try to make it like she did and although we never make it quite as good it always reminds us of her and we love the time together in the kitchen.

  • hi erin! my beso username is stephanie.tama

    this one time, at band camp…
    just kidding.

    the day before our first christmas eve party, our lovable dogs ripped open one side of the couch & dragged it about 3 feet across the living room. then i “fixed” it with duct tape, staples, needle & thread. then on christmas, they did it again. the end.

  • I just signed up for the first time! My username is thematryoshka. I hope I win! Looks like a great site. :)

  • my nickname is : bekahDrey

    I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I love your hair by the way. I am approaching a much needed hair cut and can’t decide to go short again, like yours, or try to keep growing it out. Oh, the thought and energy we put into the fibers on top of our heads.

  • OH! GOODIE! My husband and I didn’t do gifts for one another this Christmas to save $$ for our second child arriving this spring – lord knows I could use a bit of cute stuff in my life before my belly expands wider than the state of Texas!

    Username: Blogalacart

    Now time to assist that growing waistline with leftover sweets from the holidays. Nothing like a good snowstorm to force days spent in pajamas consuming brownies, and cookies, and chocolate. (As though I need a blizzard to induce that kind of behavior).

    Merry merry to you, Erin!

  • So cool, love Beso! My existing user name is FaithJ.

    Good luck to everyone!

  • BESO BESO BESO. Kisses Kisses Kisses. Love your blog. Seriously. such a pleasure to read. Would love to win from Beso also. Could add even more adoration! I’m stephinboston on Beso… I am also Steph in Boston – freezing under the blizzard’s snow!!!!

  • Sweet site! My nickname is “helenahandbag”.

    And now, a joke:

    How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    A fish!

  • username: eminelly (it’s easy to remember! :) )

    story: I was mooned. In a CVS parking lot. True story. My mom and I were picking up Nell’s prescription and witnessed a large, androgynous human climbing a snow pile. They fell. And so did their pants. Oh, the brilliant paleness that was revealed will be forever embedded in my memory. We promptly laughed, then Nell’s laughed, and then the pharmacist at the drive-thru window looked at us like aliens. Twas a good time. :)

    Miss you!

    em

  • LOVE! My username at Beso is terramcbride. Simple, yeah?

    I’m awful at jokes. It’s probably best I do not tell you one! Funny story… this one time, my husband and a couple of friends went to this sushi joint. It was on the top floor. There was a back exit with a steep stairwell. We had to exit single file and I was leading the group. You can see where this is going. It was like a slow-motion fall. Down I went sliding on my back. The best part was I could watch all of their faces. My gal pal ran to my aid. The two boys were stopped mid-stride, jaws dropped, just staring. I wasn’t at all hurt. And I even laughed hysterically. It’s a great story we regale with each other often. :)

  • Mine is clairehelene.

    I am currently wishing that a) I had more vacation hours and wasn’t at work right now or b) work would be okay with me curling up under my desk for a quick cat nap. :) It’s distinctly possible that no one would notice, but how embarrassing if someone did!

    Hope you’re well!

  • Wow, what a blast! Love this giveaway, and will make sure and spread the word:D
    Just signed up under: AnnaLiese

    Cool story: We had a white Christmas and early Christmas Eve morning my 3 year old nephew pointed out the window and exclaimed: “Look! Its Santa’s Reindeer!” Two deer were running across our yard. One of those magical Christmas moments lived through a child:)

  • Erin — what a treat this is to enter! My nickname on beso is “mmmmandy”– the story behind it is my dear friend Dave from elementary school has always exaggerated the “m” on my name just like the character on Sesame Street does in that skit about “m” foods for dinner…..there’s “mmmmilk” and “mmmmelons” and “mmmmarshmallows” and so on. That skit aired years ago when I was a little girl in the early 1970s. Hee hee. Cheers!

  • Kisses, beso! Username is MariaConsuelo. The name is charming, btw. Beso!

  • Are you kidding me? Sign me up! My username is melissapher.

    Funny story: I peed my pants in front of the entire second grade. YUP. We were having a poetry reading & I had to go really bad, but I didn’t want to get up during the middle of someone’s poem. When I finally got the courage to get up to go, the teacher called me to come up & recite my poem. Like a deer in the headlights I had NO CLUE what to do! I thought I could hold it just long enough to recite my 4 line poem, but no. It all came out. In front of EVERYONE. Best part about the whole thing? My mom wasn’t home to rescue me from my disaster so I spend the whole day in my neighbor’s underwear & clothes. My neighbor who was 4 years older than me & much bigger than me.

    It was one of those things that all the kids in my grade laughed about until about 7th grade and one of those things that I didn’t find funny until after the 7th grade.

  • user: mrs_smeltzie

    funny story? mattie-girl slept from 2:30 yesterday afternoon until 7 am this morning… have you been teaching her that? ;) miss you!

  • new username: ateam7

    and for jokes, i highly recommend the ones made up on the spot by 3rd graders in the recent holiday comedians episode of this american life.

  • I can’t really think of any stories or jokes to tell, but Hi Erin!!!

    My beso username is srdarling. :)

    Thanks.

  • Adrienneleigh! I pray for a promotion in January of this new year… I don’t have a good joke! But love the site & your taste! Happy New Year 2011!

  • My username is hyperbets, of course. ; )

    I could get lost for days on that site…definitely in the shoe dept. alone.

    Here’s a joke I made up:

    Have you seen the latest pug movie?

    It’s rate P-U-G

    Get it? P U G instead of PG? Yea, you are just slapping your knee over there aren’t you?

  • Beso nickname – PeriP
    reading all these comments is the best part of entering this late in the day.

  • my username is: katemakes. and i could sure use a new bag and black boots. couldn’t trust the family to get those items on my christmas list.

  • Here’s a joke:

    Q: Why did the scarecrow win the nobel prize?

    A: Because he was out standing in his field.

  • Weeee! Great giveaway, thanks for the heads up on Beso :) My username is relativelychic.

    A joke? I’m not very good at jokes.

    Why didn’t the melons get married?

    Because they cantaloupe!

  • Yippee! My username is sue.elbu.

    Funny story: We were having christmas dinner and my aunt was telling us when she was in the hospital she was about to be bathed by a male orderly, but informed the staff that she would prefer “a nice lady to bathe her instead”. To which her 13 year-old grandson responded “I’d like a nice lady to bathe me!”

    (tee-hee says me)

  • Thanks so much for this giveaway! My username is icharrus.

    How does a random comment sound? I played Bananagrams last night. Great game! I’m hooked. It’s like Scrabble without having to wait your turn. (Taboo is still my favorite.)

  • I love this site!!! My name: Gld2Bme

    And now, a story:
    Once upon a time there was a girl who did not like Christmas…except for the fact that she was able to give gifts to her loved ones because their eyes would light up and dance like the ballerinas in the Nutcracker. So she decided to like Christmas based on that alone. The end.

    Happy Holidays!

  • What a fun giveaway!
    Happy holidays! I love your blog so much, It makes me smile every morning with my coffee :)

    My username is chanina

  • shame, heres a sad story: I never win anything.

    But thats ok, Im still smiling :)

  • My favorite joke:

    So a grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says:”Hey I got a drink named after you.”

    and the grasshopper says: “You have a drink called Irving?”

    bahahah

    My username is Lensley.

  • WOW a give away… so many more of your DFM friends showing their love. Coincidence, hm?

    my Beso user name is buyit

    I hope when things wrap up on the renovations you’ll re-consider the 30-30-30 challenge. I really enjoyed the first go-round. And when you know better, you do better. Right?

  • Pick ME! Pick Me! MegR28I just signed up! I had no idea this website existed Love it already! Thank you soo much!!!

  • My username is alexbarse

    Finally got it to work :) this stuff looks awesome, thanks for introducing me to it!

  • username: iheartzero

    Man, this place looks so cool. I have to say, I am a huge fan of online shopping. So help me.

    Thanks for the giveaway! ;D

  • Midwestern girls have to stick together! ;) Happy Holidays, 2011 is gonna rock!

    Username: Kalcakes

  • I need to stop buying tights, but I appreciate you enabling my habit nonetheless :) username: cmcguire02

    Hope all is well with the floors in your house and that you guys have managed to relax a bit over the holidays!

  • This is awesome :)
    Beso Nickname: Mad5
    (like I need another outlet for retail therapy… haha!)

  • username: cerati84

    my 8 1/2 month old’s first word is “up”. she randomly screams it. not that funny… more like irresistably adorable!<3

  • Oh, wow. This site looks very dangerous. Especially because I’m easily distracted. And cute things, especially, distract me.

    Thanks for the giveaway! My nickname is “allthingsjane.”

  • This would make my Christmas so much better! My first holiday in California away from home and all my family in Florida!
    Nickname: rachadunn

  • I’m in love with your blog!!

    Kisses from an Spanish who lives in Italy, so besos and baci.
    Anna

    P.S: My nick name is disorganized creativity

  • My nickname is “kirstybleyl” and I have a little story… (not the best story, but it’s what first comes to my mind) My sister was pulled over for speeding the other day and her son (4 years old) who was in the car with her said “Mom! Are you going to go to jail?”

  • username Janii, oh man, that’s my actual name too, funny thing-I didn’t know it was supposed to be different! Our tree has all handmade ornaments on it, a friend brought us a new one for this year, he said he made it with his foot.

  • Hi Erin, I can’t resist this giveaway.

    Today I cooked 2 quiches, 1 pot of soup, stuffed peppers & veggie goulash. Wish you could join me for lunch.

    Faythe
    username: flevine

  • Hi, my username is RayRoo

    Q: What do you call an American Drawing? A: A yankie doodle

  • awesome!

    my username at beso is vintageholicfrog

    i’m not great at jokes- sorry! I’ll give you a quick recipe instead:

    candied pecans, romaine lettuce, fresh strawberries. add a little raspberry walnut dressing and you have the perfect salad. :)

  • My username is Monster Cakes (like my blog). And here’s your mini story…

    Once upon a time my husband starting calling me monster. Monster cakes when he’s cross. When I birthed my fashion blog, I decided to name it monster cakes. Monster Cakes and I love shopping and looking at pretty things, so we really need this give away. The end.

  • username: natowly

    i hope i win this because my car just broke down and all of my xmas money is going to fixing it (and then some). i need some good news. but it could be worse. oh wells. happy new years erin!

  • Oh SNAP. Why you gotta be dangerous to my pocketbook like this, Erin? Even if I don’t win I’ll be drooling over these goods CONSTANTLY.

    Thanks for the chance, though! My username is naturally madamvonsassypants.

  • Can I tell a dirty joke…?

    I’m gonna anywayz.

    A chicken and an egg were lying in bed. The chicken was smoking a cigarette and wearing a satisfied grin. The egg was frowning and looking frustrated. The egg turned to the chicken and said, “Well, I guess we answered THAT question.”

    You love it.

    (My Beso username is Westervin.)

  • User name jen64. Please! I spent all my $$ on the kids. Just something sparkly for 2011!!

  • Hi Erin! I’m having a little trouble with the site…it says it sent me an email to confirm but I haven’t received it yet…my username is/will be KatrinaR as soon as I get that email!

  • Thanks for introducing “Lady Jayne” to Beso… I hope my husband agrees with me when he see’s the bill :0). My joke? What do you call a fish with 3 eyes?…… Fiiish!

  • My username is archibam. The socks you picked and the sheep skin rug are #1’s on “things I would love but Santa didn’t deliver.”

  • Username – pleasedntsteponme
    Your blog makes me appreciate the lovely things in life. Keep it up. : )

  • My Beso name is MilaSue
    I’m sick and all the witty is draining out of me with the snot. So “hi”.

  • I would love to win this, with my 9 months old girl I think that it is turn to receive a little treat just for myself!! My name is camomo. Thanks for this great opportunity and happy new year to all!!

  • Beso name: Michele445

    Hi!!

    P.S. Your 2011 goals are fascinatingly similar to mine…except for walking Bernie and George…and vacationing with Ken…and the emoticon thing ;)

  • Beso name: yahNickel

    Why fancy seeing you here!

    I feel I should write you a limerick.

    There once was a lovely person named Erin,
    And she made an awesome blog to share in,
    With lots of photos,
    and juxtipoz,
    Me and you now have a place to inspire in.

    Didn’t make to much sense… But I tried! :)

  • What a lovely idea for a giveaway! Thanks so much for offering this!

    My username is rschlieman

    Love your blog by the way. I’ve been lurking for a while, and always enjoy your posts! (ps, i was going to put an emoticon here, but decided against it!)

  • hi erin!! my username is kelzuki. hope you had a great christmas! thanks for showing me this site and i love velvevodlveovleove your picks

  • hello,
    love your blog & thanks thanks for the giveaway chance!
    happy new year!
    my beso username is: mosey

  • wow…….post holiday treat!!! Erin, happy new year{!} and thank
    you so much for making my days meaningful with all the bloggets
    you ponder and post……your energy amazes me!!
    pick me to win!!!
    username: mindyh

  • Happy, Happy New Year!! Here’s a “hello” from the PNW. My user name is cicandham (The names of my two kitties whom are best friends, one is 8 pounds and the other 20… which goes to show that it doesn’t matter what you look like; true friendship is blind. And furry?)

  • My username is: montoyay6

    Here’s a joke for ya: So, a Dyslexic walks into a bra…

    :)

    Happy Wednesday!

  • username: tessamuggeridge

    joke: why did the chicken cross the playground?
    to get to the other slide!

  • username: lmarieleonard

    This is great…I’d never heard of Beso, but am now bookmarking to check back. Cute stuff!

  • I stumbled upon beso a month ago and it is awesome. For me Beso is the fashion Google. My username is Natty.

  • Wow! Such an awesome giveaway! :-) Fingers crossed!

    Username: jennymaymeyers

    You wanna hear a joke about pizza? Nevermind, it’s too cheesy.
    ;-)

  • Hi!
    This giveaway is amazing!

    Username: bella bimba

    mymindsvoice at hotmail dot com

  • Hello there! I really hope I win cuz I never win anything and your site is so cute:) my Sis told me to get on here and check you out! Hope you had good holidays!

    Beso: Hairvixen ;-)

  • I just made a beso account! my account name is ‘haberdash’ … beso is so awesome. just what I needed, another thing to look at on the internet! yay I hope I win

  • username cheka86

    will you start drying the dishes?
    it could happen!
    Dorris Dale said….

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