12.20
2010

A BIG DEAR LILLIE GIVEAWAY and Some Downloadable Gift Tags!

Whew! What a week! I am so glad it is over and am so excited about this week!!!! Today Lillie and I head off to Chapel Hill where we are hoping to meet up with some childhood friends for dinner and then off to my aunt and uncle’s house where we will spend the night and the day tomorrow before heading over to UNC for the William and Mary vs. Carolina game. Jon and I both went to college there and Jon played basketball there so it will be a little weird rooting against the Tarheels but I think we will manage. We are so excited to bring Lillie to the Smith Center for the first time and show her around and let her see her Daddy’s old locker and stuff. The game is on ESPNU at 7PM Eastern Time (Tuesday night) for any of you that are basketball fans that get ESPNU. If Lillie makes it on TV again this year I hope she will be clapping or cheering and not be busy sulking because I have cut off her supply of M&M’s and soda for the night! Then after the game we head back here to crawl in bed for a few hours before heading up to NH! And then yay – our Christmas begins! I am so excited! 

Now, onto some decorating (and then after that the giveaway!) I finally got all of our presents wrapped early Sunday morning and then when Lillie went down for her nap after church I started working on tagging them all. I had ordered some really adorable tags from a great little Etsy shop about a month ago but they never arrived. I contacted the seller and she resent them but they still haven’t gotten here so I was left scrambling. Once I put Lillie down I was kicking myself because I realized that I was out of almost all of my ribbon and out of most of my colored cardstock! Argggh! And of course because she was napping I couldn’t head out to pick anything more up and Jon wasn’t going to be home from practice for several more hours. So, I ended up just using what I had which certainly saved a lot of money, however, they didn’t end up how I had envisioned them in my head. =(  Normally, I like to use little ornaments or other things to decorate my gifts with but this year because we were going to be shipping almost all of our gifts for our families I just did things REALLY simple. And because I only had an hour  I just used designs I had already done this year (instead of some new ones I had in my head) and printed them out four to a page on some ivory cardstock and then cut them into circles or rectangles and then cut slightly larger circles and rectangles and used double stick tape to stick them together. Then I just punched a tiny hole in the top and that was it! It took just over an hour to do about 30 or so of them so it was a really quick and easy project and the best part – it was FREE! They are definitely NOT my favorite wrapping jobs ever but at least they are done now and all on their way!

Here are just few of them!  I took pictures of the first handful that I finished and then Lillie woke up and helped me with the rest of them. 

Once I ran out of all of my ivory scrap ribbon I had to pull out some of this cheetah print – yikes! Haha – I like it for some other things but it was not exactly the look I was going for as far as wrapping Christmas gifts went, but it was all I had left! Time to stock back up on some ribbon!!!!
I printed mine straight from Illustrator but I still haven’t figured out how to upload PDF Files so I had to save these as JPG’s to upload into blogger. I saved them quite large though so they shouldn’t be too blurry. Just click on any of the images and they will open larger in another window. I would recommend saving them and then printing them from Preview or whatever program you have that will open JPG’s. I just tried doing it that way and they actually printed pretty crisply. 

To save on packing and avoiding having to bring things up to NH and then back again, we did our Christmas with Lillie last night. She was so excited to open Curious George and some toys and books but still not so keen on opening clothes!

Okay, and now onto our GIVEAWAY!!!!!
We will draw a winner for a $75 gift certificate to our shop!
So, how can you win?
All you have to do is leave a comment on this post!
You don’t have to have a blog to enter, either. If you aren’t a blogger, just enter a comment and then where it says “comment as” scroll down near the bottom and click on anonymous. However, if you do that, make sure to leave your e-mail address in the comment so that we can contact you if you win! If you have a blog or a profile where we can get your e-mail address then you don’t need to worry about that part. If we draw the name of someone who we have no way of contacting we will simply draw a new name.
You can comment each day if you would like to up your chances!
For an extra entry become a follower of our blog!
Just write “follower” as your comment so it counts as an entry.

We will draw the winner on January 1st and the winner can use their gift certificate once we reopen our shop after the holidays.
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!



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454 thoughts on “A BIG DEAR LILLIE GIVEAWAY and Some Downloadable Gift Tags!”

  1. Those gift tags are gorgeous! That cheetah print ribbon is funny after seeing all the other earthtones and such-gotta be a little wild sometimes, right?! Count me in for the giveaway! I love everything in your shop!

  3. Love the gift tags! Thanks so much. They just might be the thing I was needing to finish off a few last minute cards.
    I'd love to win something from your shop. I love it all!

  6. Jenni- you are always inspiring me, thank you 🙂
    I plan to print these fabulous labels this week they are gorgeous.

    I also LOVE the drummer boy you came up with! I think you definitely need to use it for a drummer boy tee next year! You can put me on the waiting list for it today. lol

  24. Your gift tags are adorable! Love all your gift wrapping ideas, including the cheetah ribbon! I would love to win the giveaway, what a great after-Christmas gift! Oh, I'm also a follower.

    Judy

  29. Love the gift tags and your gifts look beautiful Jenni! Cracking up at Miss Lillie- you open, I cry. She is so cute! Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family!! What an awesome giveaway too. xoxo

  30. beautiful gift tags! thanks for welcoming non-bloogers – hope i win! thanks, maureen (mb99999@yahoo.com)

  32. My sister got me hooked on your website this weekend. I became a follower this morning. You have some really adorable things! I love the gift tags!

  34. awe poor thing! I know she will love opening clothes someday! Merry Christmas to you and yours Jenni and safe travels through the holidays!

    -Natalie

  39. LOVE the tags! Love those little drummer boys… so cute! Wonderful photos, by the way… as always!
    helen_ono at hotmail.com

  46. thank you for sharing the gift tags! they are beautiful!!! and i know the cheetah print ribbon was used just because you ran out, but I love it!

    i would love to win a gift certificate to your shop! seems like anything i get from them leaves me inspired to photography lola in it (and funny how those pictures always turn out the best)?!

  58. Who needs Etsy tags…yours are CUTE!
    I love Lillie's response to a package with clothes…hopefully my 7 year old will like a few outfits this year 🙂

    I would love to win your giveaway!

    Merry Christmas!

  59. that is so funny with lillie & her presents.. the same thing happens with my oldest nephew. so this year, i put a toy in the same bag with his clothes.. so hopefully he won't be so bummed about the clothes! heehee!

  78. thank you for your sweet comment on my blog lovely lady! by the way, you're ridiculous! (*wink), those gift tags and ribbons look amazing. AND, i'm not an overly obsessed fan of cheetah/leopard print, BUT i love it used on that Christmas gift. 🙂

    what your little Lillie said about getting clothes is wonderful and funny. too cute.

    ENJOY your holiday week! you'll be missed in blogland.

  98. Wow, that's some adorable tags and wrapping! I don't celebrate Christmas, but I couldn't resist those! 😉 Count me in the giveaway! 🙂
    ~Erika

  107. Your wrapping is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing the gift tags! I would SO love to win a gift certificate to your store – love your items!!

  110. Your packages are beautiful! If thats the"simple" version I can't imagine what the fancy one would be! LOL! They look great! Have a fabulous visit w/ your friends and family!! oh, and enter me in your giveaway please!! You know I love it all! Merry Christmas!

  117. Hahaha! My brother used to do that same thing. He'd shake the present and say "oh it's just clothes." He'd set it to the side and not even open it! Lol!

  128. Everything you touch turns out beautifully! Have a very Merry Christmas… and yes, I am a follower! 🙂

  131. I love the tags and how you made them! I tried to be a little creative this year in making tags, but they never turn out perfect :/ I guess I need more practice.

  136. I still don't know how you do it all! lol! I love reading about Lillians reactions! Paris and Lillie are SO SIMILAR!:) It's so cute!:)I hope to download these to use for my families gifts!! Thank you for sharing!!!:) Hugs!

  141. You are so creative and your little angel is so cute. I have two boys, so little girly stuff is so fun for me to look at! Merry Christmas!

  161. I love your blog and etsy shop! You are so inspiring and Lillian ia so beautiful. Also, I love the way that you take so much time with everything that you do. You are so inspiring:)

  162. Hey! I love your blog and etsy shop! I know Catherine from my highschool in Ohio! You are so inspiring and Lillian ia so beautiful. Also, I love the way that you take so much time with everything that you do. You are so inspiring:)

    kaitlynwolfe@live.com

  197. Oh that "no thank you" to clothes will soon pass!! LOL! That was too funny! Hope you and your family have a very blessed Christmas!

  248. My daily comment to up my chances of winning.

    I can't wait till your little girl is born I'm curious to see if she's going to look like Lillie. My 2 kids, Madilyn 7 and Tristan 2 look like twins, just one's a girl and the other a boy, it's always funny to hear peoples comments on how much they look alike.

    Well hope you are resting on your time off and hope I win!

  253. I am loving that it's christmas! The girls are home and my husband will be off on Friday! Your gifts and tags are fabulous! THank you for sharing. Merry Christmas!

  255. You create the most beautiful items, and I'm delighted when I open my Google reader and there's a post from Dear Lillie! Thanks so much for the wonderful inspiration {and this great giveaway}!

    jessdepew at yahoo dot com

  257. I just became a follower! I'm your Aunt Patty's friend. We've met before at her house and at FW I think. I love love love these gift tags! And everything you make! Have a Merry Christmas!

  259. Love the cheetah print ribbon – I use the one you sent with our package in my hair!
    lisa_pt2003 at yahoo dot com

  274. again, crying in laughter over our similarities! As i sit here just before 1a.m., having just finished wrapping gifts and feeling dejected b/c they didn't turn out how I had envisioned back in November when I had so much time on my hands! Your packages are far more beautiful than mine with the store bought tags…although, I did color coordinate my paper to match my tree and have re-wrapped any gifts sent from relatives that did not match my color scheme! OCD'ers unite! Happy Holidays!

  292. I love your tags! I just stumbled over here from Sweet Paper Treats where Brenda so graciously shared a link to your blog and showed what she had made with your tags. You are a very talented artist! I can't wait to look around and am now a follower so I won't lose track of you.

  293. I just love the tags and I am using them on so many things!! I had to mention you on my latest post. Thanks so much for sharing the beautiful tags. I just love your site!

    ~Julia

  299. I'm so excited about the tags and the opportunity to win!! I love my Dear Lillie shirt from a previous contest! Thanks for the opportunity.
    Ang

  322. I also wrapped my gifts in paper this year. It's so fun I think! Thank you for my newest order the navy hat is super cute:)

  323. Love how you've wrapped your gifts! I think the leopard print ribbon is awesome…I used that last year!!

    Thanks for the chance to win!

    Merry Christmas!

    Polly

  334. Love your etsy shop, love your blog and love how you decorated your house and Lillies bedroom. I am currently working on my daughters room who is now 7 yrs old so have to make it not so babysh, it that even a word? You know what I mean though, right?

    Love my hat by the way that I bought not so long ago can't wait to wear it when we take the kids to the mountains to the snow since we don't get any in southern Cali.

  392. I don't know how I am just now finding out about this giveaway but I L*O*V*E it!!! I love your blog! Your family and your home are so beautiuful. It's inspirational! Love your shop too! Thank you fo rthe chance to win. I will definitely try to remeber to commment daily! YAY! Thanks for the great giveaway!

    Hanna
    http://www.bouffeebambini.blogspot.com

  395. Yeah!! A giveaway!! I wanted to say that I was so excited to open up the Dear Lillie package I ordered this past month. I gave my (almost 2 y.o.) daughter her Fairlyland silhouette shirt for Christmas and then she wore it that day. It was so precious! 🙂 Love your blog, too!

  410. Just found your blog and I am in love! Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent! I am now a "follower" and can't wait until your shop opens back up. Please enter me in your drawing. Bless you!

  413. I found your blog through my sister Leslie Davis and I love it. I think we actually met once at The Final Four in Atlanta. Love your Etsy shop!

    Happy New Year!
    paige

  420. I'm back again leaving you another comment hoping to win. My little girl is due in 2 weeks and I am DYING to dress her up in all kinds of gorgeous little outfits:)
    Oh, and I sent you an email in response to your question about how to put numbers on your comments:)
    Hanna

  421. Love the printables! Thanks for sharing & they turned out great even with a limited supply of items!
    Thanks for the opportunity!

  436. I love your style. I've had your blog on my favorite list for awhile now and have especially enjoyed your Christmas decor this season. Happy New Year!!!

  449. OMG ! I am sooooo excited that I ran across your blog! I am loving it, and also loving the fact that your hubby is the W&M B'ball coach! I follow JMU – so don't be alarmed if I happen to "bump" into you at a game and gush all over you !
    Keep up the blog and I will check each day for new and neat stuff.
    ~Ellen (WaynesboroVA)

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