giveaway winner

hope everyone had a relaxing, safe and patriotic 4th of july. i definitely did and am a little sad to be returning to work tomorrow. oh well.


so i was supposed to announce the sephora giftcard winner yesterday, um, yeah, that was bad planning on my part, i didn't realize that blogging would be the last thing i'd want to do with my glorious 3 day weekend.


anyways, thanks to everyone that participated.

thanks to random.org

the winner is:




so email me at valentineletters at gmail dot com and give me your address and i'll send your $40 giftcard. Congrats!


to everyone else, i will be doing another giveaway in a week or so. i was contacted by CSN stores to do a giveway for a $40 giftcard to any of their stores. it's just like christmas in july around here.

also, demos and i are working on our eclipse review, should have that ready soon,
so keep an eye out for that!

summer beauty

dear sephora,



did you hear about our giftcard giveaway?


you have so many incredible products, it is so hard to narrow it down.



what about:



some bronzer?

to give your face that shimmery glow of summertime?

or lip gloss?



to make your lips all purdy and pouty

(i have this in sugar.)







what about nail polish?







in a hot summer color?

so hurry on over to the giveaway, and don't forget to tell your friends!

what would you spend your $40 on?




p.s. you have to scroll down to the bottom of that post to read up on the giveaway!

sharing time

dear LFV readers,


so i tend to not share much about myself, i guess i figure i am not that interesting, but i have started to realize that my favorite blogs are always the ones where they share and you feel like you actually know them.

so yeah, i am basically saying that i want you to like me

so, i'll share.


hi. i'm valentine.

i am 27

i was born in texas

i only lived there for 4 years before we moved

so, no, i am NOT a texas girl


from a large family

i am #7 out of 8

demosthenes is of course #8

i have 3 brothers and 4 sisters



i did pretty good in high school, got a couple of nursing scholarships

turned out i hated nursing.

lost the scholarship



dropped out of school

who needs it right?

turns out i do!


got a job as a front desk receptionist

turns out i don't like people


notice there is a job that does not involve talking to people

i take it.

i am good at it.

so good that this past february i sat for my certification exam

i passed.

i am now a certified medical coder

working towards becoming a medical auditor.



i am married.

have been for 7 years



i have lived in

Texas

Kentucky

Idaho

Alaska

Illinois

and now

Utah.



i love britney.


like probably more than i should.

i blame it on me being a freshman in high school when she came out

it was a very influential time in my life

i can't be held responsible.



i LOVE mexican food.

and ice.

i LOVE ice.

love british tv

dexter

and pysch




I also love musicals

war movies

and anything jane austen

or jane austen-esque


i love celebrity gossip

and totally RULE

at remembering obscure actors

in obscure shows.

for some reason,

the husband is less than impressed.


i don't like wearing flip flops.

they feel unnatural

my toes don't like being seperated, they are a set.


something interesting about me:

i am tongue tied.

i have tried to have it fixed

twice

but no luck.


so that is valentine. more or less.



it was more than you probably wanted to know



p.s. if you made it down this far, then you are truly awesome and deserve the prize that is hidden behind door #1.

we have been talking about this giveaway forever

just hemming and hawing over it.

but we are finally doing it.

we are giving away a $40 giftcard to


i know in the past we had less than traditional rules for winning a giveaway

but it is late, and i can't think of anything awesome for you guys to do to win

so, we'll go with traditional.

1 entry for just commenting that you want to be entered

1 entry if you blog about the giveaway

1 entry if you tweet about it

1 entry if you become our friend on facebook
(who says you can't buy friendship??)

1 entry if you tell a friend about letters from valentine

and of course, put each one in as a seperate comment.

this will be open until july 3

and i'll announce the winner

on monday, july 5

and the winner is......

dear lfv readers,

time to announce the giveaway winner!

for those who said they don't know anything about the two wizards…. well, i'd like to scream at you "whats wrong with you people, are you f*cking insane?!?!". but then i realized i should probably congratulate you because, ultimately, it is those of us with an intimate knowledge of both stories who are the losers and the rest of you are normal, well-adjusted human beings..… so congratulations on winning at life! but TOTALLY bombing on the giveaway contest.

i don't know who these people are, but uploading their pic seemed appropriate

first, the runners up. honorable mention goes to:

kimi - you totes managed to use the term "girl wood" in your entry, and that is just awesome!

jay ferris - i'm very impressed with the uber-nerdy ability to analyze both wizards, based purely on objective fact from the books. you make demos proud!


there were lots of amazing answers, it was hard to pick just one! thanks for playing along everyone, but unfortunately this is not 5th grade field day, and we don't hand out ribbons just for participating, or trying really hard. there can only be one winner. and that winner is........

SUPAH MOMMY!!!

congrats! email us the info and you will be receiving your amazing assortment of prizes!

giveaway!!! demosthenes style

dear LFV readers,

valentine said i got to do the next give away (what was she thinking?) so here it is. thats right, we made it to 100 posts, b*tch! i've got some fab demos style items that some lucky lady (or dude?) gets to take home for their very own.

the devil/ninja duck: (what? like he has to be just one or the other?)

don't you want to help a duck like me?

the boss toss: (you will be the envy of all your co-workers)

hate your boss? now you can vent your impotent rage at these mini plastic figures

does this one really need a title?

bacon is life. and a band aid too.

the most amazing buttons ever:

you know you are.

i know you're dying to give that ninja duck a home, so heres how you play:

dumbledore and gandalf are fighting to the death in an ultimate wizards duel (insider sources tell us that the fight started over who gets to take grindlewald on a date to the new moon premier in nov. the victorious wizard will be in prime obsessive-stalker seats, right next to rpattz). post in the comments who would win and why you think so. (no one-word responses please!) the most demosthenes-alicious answer will be the winner.

i'll start:

gandalf would kick dumbledore's flat, pancake a** all over the quidditch pitch! gandalf fought with a balrog, man, a BALROG!! you think an unholy demon of the underworld is an easy b*tch to slap? and then he f*cking came back from the dead!! i'd like to see dumbledore pull that out of his sorting hat. besides, gandalf wields glamdring, and they don't give out ancient, elven-made blades to just any body who wants one.

the fellowship would have been demolished in the mines of moria if dumbledore had been in charge

valentine next:

dumbledore really wants those seats next to rpattz, and he'd obliterate gandalf to get them. first, he'd distract him with gandalfs well known weakness: bertie bott's every flavor beans. then, while gandalf is foolishly eating an ear wax flavored one, dumbledore would get out his wand and start throwing a confundus charm, and then an erecto charm *ahem, who can fight when "that" is at attention* and then finish him off with the cruciatus curse. gandalf would be as defenseless as a hobbit before such devious tactics.

don't leave me hangin guys! or not only will valentine never let me do another give away, but a kitten dies every time someone visits but doesn't leave an answer :(

save the kittens, enter the giveaway

cadeau

dear fabulous LFV readers,

hot dang! i am so excited to finally being doing a giveaway. we reached 50 followers a short while back and i thought it would be fun to do one for it. so, this is my giveaway, demosthenes will be doing the next one, when we reach 100 posts, which is approaching fast!so, when i started this blog 4 months ago, i never imagined i would have so much fun and meet such wonderful blog friends. you all have been so awesome, so as a thank you for all the blog amour:

i am gonna do a giveaway for both of these beautiful frames, so 2 people will get 1 frame each. these are incredible frames, if i do say so myself, which i do because i totally made them!!

when my dear blog friend, debilyn had her 100th post, she did this awesome Q&A for her giveaway, i thought that sounded like fun. so, all you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post, which includes a question you'd like to ask to get to know me or demosthenes better (i guess just indicate V, D or B for both, in your question).

each comment that contains a question counts as one entry, and each commenter can submit up to 2 questions, which means you can have a couple of entries. the only rule is that you can only ask ONE question per comment. it starts today, mon, aug 17 and runs until fri, aug 21. i will announce the winners on aug. 24. oh and make sure that i have some way to contact you.

*sorry, this will only be open to those that live in the united states and canada*

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so slowly, but surely, one thing at a time, demos and myself have decided to reveal a little about ourselves. our newest reveal? photos! that's right, you can now see our darling mugs. it may not seem like a big deal, but it is for me and demos. we were initially planning to be completely anonymous, as you can see, we are slowly changing our minds. anyways, this is us.

a note from demosthenes as to why we posted pics: "mostly I thought we should post pics just so no one thinks we're THOSE girls. Ya know, the ones with cheeto crumbs on their shirts and unwashed hair". so true demos, so true.

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so, speaking of returning blog love, letters from valentine, has been nominated for a couple of Blogger Choice Awards, so this is my humble plea to click on our badges, that are oh so conveniently located in the top right corner, and vote for us. you will be eternally fetching awesome!

rollin' it giveaway style,