I'm so excited to announce our new giveaway from Cartolina Cards... Fiona, the talented designer of Cartolina, has generously offered a complete set of her recycled notebooks, nine in all, to one lucky reader. You may remember my excitement when these little gems hit the streets in January. Fiona also writes an inspiring blog, Cafe Cartolina. If you're not already a reader, I highly suggest you take a peak.
|| Please leave a comment answering the following question:
Which summer ritual are you most looking forward to?
|| Anonymous comments will be disqualified.
|| Giveaway is open until midnight on Wednessay, May 20, 2009 .
Winner will be chosen by random.org and announced the following day.
|| One comment per person, unless... Hey, want an extra chance to win?
Blog and/or tweet about our giveaway and post an additional comment with the link.
Winner will be chosen by random.org and announced the following day.
|| One comment per person, unless... Hey, want an extra chance to win?
Blog and/or tweet about our giveaway and post an additional comment with the link.
P.S. If you can't wait to get your paws on one of these notebooks, they're available at GreetQ, as well as Cartolina's card collection.
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ooh, that one's easy - late night car rides with the windows rolled down and my hair flying in my face! those notebooks are too sweet for words. thanks for the chance to win them. ;)
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Kelly
Wine on Sunday afternoons at Arbor Crest in Spokane, WA.
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Margaret Croom aka Nosey Parker
Easy - beach days! Laying out all day and then having a cocktail at the dive bar on the pier.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway!
Outdoor concerts! Music was meant to be heard outdoors. Add Washington wine and a decadent picnic spread and it's bliss.
ReplyDeleteSwimming in my new pool... Oh, and friends coming to visit me and swimming with me in said pool!
ReplyDeletegoing camping on Hermit Island (in Maine). My sister & read on the rocks & search for hermit crabs. It's enchanting.
ReplyDeleteLovely designs!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer ritual would be waking up early to take walks outside when the dew drops are just on the grass. It's such a refreshing way to start the day.
Mine is gardening. I love to go out and tend the garden and then pick those wonderfully fresh veggies and cook them up.
ReplyDeleteI'm already reveling in my summer rituals! But then I'm in Texas, summer started last month.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite? Showering in my t-shirt, then laying out in the night air with a big tumbler of ice tea, and watching the lightning bugs frolic while I wait for dinner to finish cooking on the grill. Yes!
Ooh...or maybe it's tubing down the San Marcos river, falling asleep, waking up sunburned and starving just in time to clamber out of the river and eat a picnic lunch? Hard to decide...
Summer is the best!
Oooh, berry picking! I've been in the market for some new notebooks, these are darling.
ReplyDeleteWaking up early at my parents house and swimming before the heat of the day sets in.
ReplyDeleteThen spending my Saturdays outside sketching and writing.
i'm looking forward to eating corn on the cob and australian battered potatoes at the orange county fair with levi and my family. mmmmmmm fair fooooooood.
ReplyDeletelovely giveaway! I'm looking forward to read in the setting sun.
ReplyDeleteI'm really looking forward to spending time in my gardens... planting, weeding, picking flowers for friends and family.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite summer ritual is eating al fresco-eating outside makes everything taste better.
ReplyDeleteooooh! I am looking forward to reading books on the balcony with a pot of tea... or a pitcher of iced tea depending on the temperature!
ReplyDeletei am looking forward to going camping. and this summer we're going not only once, but twice! i can't wait!
ReplyDeletethese notebooks are lovely...
as a PDX local, i'm so excited to be introduced to your site & store - yay!
ReplyDeleteas for the summer ritual i'm excited about, i'm finally going to be able to convince my husband to go out to dinner and eat outside! if the weather's at all threatening, he won't consider it...and, well, in portland, the weather's often threatening. i'm looking forward to a few days of surefire sun!
I don't know if this is considered a ritual ... relaxing more. My BF is a teacher with summers off. With both of us home, I'm able to take more of a backseat and relax. He loves to cook and takes over in that area.
ReplyDeleteThe volleyball in the pool ritual. We canadians get about 4 minutes of summer (actually 2.5 months) and our favorite thing is for the family to jump in the pool and play volleyball. I have them all tricked, they think I am so bad that they give me mercy points. They haven't noticed that my team usually wins...lol
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Watching the fog roll in to cool things off after a nice long hike on Mount Tam. Fiona's blog is so inspiring–it's on my daily list.
ReplyDeleteVanilla Chai tea on my tongue, warm wind through my hair, biking down to the beach, making my sand lounge chair, the way the warm sand feels as it trickles over your toes. The sound of the ocean. That aqua teal color the ocean has on a clear day. The taste of cherry popsicle when it is really hot.
ReplyDeleteweekends on the lake with my honey!
ReplyDeleteLove the notebooks :)
Laura
eating outside on the patio!! nothing makes me happier than a good meal on a lovely breezy evening.
ReplyDeleteRooftop viewing of the Fourth of July fireworks in LA - I can see pretty far down the coast at the base of the Hollywood hills. I've done it every year since I move to LA. It is soo beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMorning coffee on the patio, warmth of the sun on my face, making plans for the day. Makes the whole day go much better. Love the notebooks!
ReplyDeletei am most looking forward to raspberry picking. these notebooks are absolutely wonderful!
ReplyDeleteFresh cut flowers, corn and tomatoes from the farmers market!
ReplyDeleteI love Fiona's work! The new notebooks are so wonderful.
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ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to summer weddings! I love going to summer weddings, because I love weddings and in the summer with cocktails and picnic weddings, I'm just in heaven!\
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I always love a good giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMaking my grandmother's ice tea (it's a sweet tea with lots of lemon, mixed with ginger ale - DEE-Licious, just don't drink too much or you'll be up all night!)
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to whoopie pies when we go up to Maine. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteOoooh - these are lovely!
ReplyDeleteOne of my summer rituals is inner-tubing down the river. One of my friends is crazy - he brought a grill, and tied planks of wood to the inner tubes and grilled burgers while floating down the Colorado river! We do it yearly. This will be our 4th year, I can't wait!
blogged at constant cravings - http://www.constant-cravings.com/2009/05/just-little-bit-of-link-love.html.
ReplyDeletecould have sworn i posted about a summer ritual, but don't see it in the comments.
I adore taking showers outside down the shore. Can't wait until July when some friends and I will be renting a beach house for a week. Plan to spend days reading, napping and swimming and in the evenings we'll be grilling, drinking wine + beer and playing cards. Is it July, yet?
ReplyDelete--have to have one of these books!!! They'll make me write better poetry, I just know it!
ReplyDeleteI took my first creative writing class last semester and fell in love with it. I have been so busy with my Etsy store lately that I haven't had time to write and I am super bummed. So I decided to write the whole time while on my month long beach vacation this summer. I can't wait--really and I hope it becomes more than a summer ritual.
I do have a LOT of rituals that take place every summer...however; I plan on starting a new one with my daughter. I am a new mom and this will be my first summer with my daughter Addison! My new summer ritual will be play dates to the zoo, pool or park with my daughter!!! I have already gone to the park with her, but can't wait for our first trip to the zoo and to watch her as she experiences her first time to stick her piggies into the pool!
ReplyDeleteGin and tonics, feet in the kiddie pool on the two summer birthday holidays: Siobhanukkah and Robynadan.
ReplyDeletelong coffees on the beach, smiling at the last days of summer
ReplyDeleteenjoying the late sunsets around here in France :)
ReplyDeletefamily and friends, to do "nothing", reading by a tree's shade. day dreaming....I guess these notebook's design go perfect with!
going to the pool, lying on a towel, being all warm and listening to kids playing and other people's conversations.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to swimming in the river - there's nothing nicer at the end of a hot day than floating from the beach to the bridge.
ReplyDeletePicking berries on Sauvie Island!
ReplyDeleteSummers here are boiling!! And there's nothing like the refreshing lick of Baskin Robbins' chocolate chip icecream.. yummmmy!! And a strawberry slushie too!!
ReplyDeletevery cuuute notebooks :D
my favorite summer ritual is certainly to climb on trees to eat fruits directly with the children as the cherry tree or the apricot tree for example!
ReplyDeletemy favorite ritual is heading to the beach!
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My very favorite part of summer that has become a ritual (many favorites don't qualify as rituals) has to be getting ice cream. I live two blocks from the local ice cream shop. I get ice cream with everyone. You can't visit me without eating ice cream! So good.
ReplyDeleteThanks for such an awesome oppurtunity!
brittanybroas@gmail.com
There is nothing I love more than blank book, and these are lovely.
ReplyDeleteThe summer ritual I most adore are marshmallow roasts with the kids at our outdoor fire pit. Think we'll do one tonight, actually!
I am looking forward to long walks along lake with my husband...and to add to our ritual, our baby boy will be coming along this summer!
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I am a twittering too
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http://twitter.com/worldsisterhood
We are in South Florida where everything melts as soon as you walk outside during summertime! I love that sweet, sticky feeling of a refreshing popsicle melting down the hands of little kids as they buy one from the ice cream truck and try to eat them before the sunshine takes them away!
ReplyDeletePicnics! Nothing better than heading to the lake for a relaxing evening (& some frizbee)
ReplyDeleteOur summer rituals are inherently connected to food. What can compare to the first berry of the season? Or turning those berries into delicious ice cream as the temperature rises, or jam to bring back the memories of summer once the cold returns? The tastes of sweet corn, just-picked tomatoes drizzled with balsamic vinegar and honey, the smell of the BBQ during a cookout, I'm salivating already. In our home, summer is about food and family.
ReplyDeleteThose notebooks would make a lovely place to record what we eat this year. :)
Being able to wear shorts and capris and be warm under the blue, blue sky. Loving how it stays light out until late in the evening, soaking up the warmth...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to win such adorable notebooks!
What a beautiful giveaway! I love Fiona and spend happy days perusing her beautiful inspiration (and creations) on her blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm really looking forward to driving around in the warm summer nights with the car top down...eating ice cream at the beach listening to the waves...ah, I can't wait!
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway :)
My favorite summer ritual is sitting on the screened porch in the turquoise chair watching the hummingbirds sip nectar from the feeders while I enjoy a glass of wine.
ReplyDeleteWell Carina - looks like you have some very creative entries - how on earth are you going to pick a winner?
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for entering!
Fiona
Packing a picnic and enjoying outdoor movies on warm evenings in NYC.
ReplyDeleteGreat giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity!
I'm most looking forward to the big family breakfasts we bbq every long weekend - so yummy!
ReplyDeleteI blogged about this giveaway here:
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Love the designs! Looking forward to bare feet in the sand!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! These are gorgeous, now THIS is a giveaway to die for!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to creating new rituals with my Grandson, he is almost finished with Kindergarten, so the thought of summertime has taken on an all new magical quality to him (and well, to me too)!
Sheila
sheshe at mtangel dot net