In honor of Thanksgiving, I’d like to say THANK YOU to all who read my blog and leave sweet comments. When I started blogging back in 2009, I vowed to only blog because I loved it. Not because of sponsors, money, statistics, or self-promotion. I feel proud to say that I’ve kept that promise to myself. To me, blogging never feels like a chore or an obligation. As a big, fat THANK YOU…I’m giving away two of my prints!
My “Too Legit” and “For Any Fate” are sold in my shop for $25 each. You should probably enter the giveaway so that you can snag one for free. To enter:
Comment below with your favorite quote (could be from a song, poem, quote from someone special, etc) and then indicate which print you would like to win!
You have until Sunday, November 27th at midnight EST to enter! On Monday, November 28th, I’ll pick two winners via random.org and announce them here on my blog! Share with all and have a happy Tuesday.
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38 Comments
November 22, 2011
“The best way to figure out who you are, is to get to that place where you don’t have to be anything else”
I’d love to win the “Too Legit” print :)
November 22, 2011
“If they were laughing you don’t need them cause they’re not good friends”
The ever-wise Fresh Prince
November 22, 2011
I love the Too Legit print! Super cool! I have so many favourite quotes but at the moment my fave is ‘be so happy that when others see you they become happy too’.
November 22, 2011
“Everything was beautiful, nothing hurt.” -Kurt Vonnegut
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.” -T.S. Eliot
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” -Margaret Atwood
“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” -Sara Teasdale
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx
“You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.” “Why, what did she tell you?”
“I don’t know, I didn’t listen.” -Douglas Adams
I HAVE A FAVORITE QUOTE PROBLEM. also, i *am* too legit to quit.
November 22, 2011
Two of my favorites from a great book called I never Metaphor I didn’t like:
One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happy early Thanksgiving!
xo,
Margaret
November 22, 2011
“…she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.”
-Zelda Fitzgerald, from her essay “Eulogy on the Flapper”.
I would like to win “For Any Fate”
:D
November 22, 2011
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” – from William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus”. I like it as a reminder that I make the choices for myself, including whether or not to be happy.
November 22, 2011
Oh, and I don’t care which print. I love them both and would love having a piece of your work even more! I so wish I had stolen some of your sketches in Advanced Painting…
November 22, 2011
ooh, good one. Invictus is also on the list!
November 22, 2011
“Never complain, never explain.”
words i live by. :)
I love the too legit to quit print!
November 22, 2011
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
November 22, 2011
I would love to get the “For Any Fate” print! My favorite quote is from Gone with the Wind- “I’ll think about that tomorrow.”
November 22, 2011
“If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.”
-Shel Silverstein
I love the “To Legit to Quit” print :-)
November 22, 2011
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others. For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness. And for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”-Audrey Hepburn (LOVE her)
And I would choose the “For Any Fate” print. :)
November 22, 2011
My favorite quote is ‘He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose’ -Jim Elliott
I would love the ‘for any fate’ print!
November 22, 2011
I just love Poe – always have…
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
And I think both prints are wonderful and would be happy with either.
November 22, 2011
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. Coco Chanel
I’d love to win “let us then be up & doing…”
YAY! thank you….
November 22, 2011
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick with possibilities; Truth isn’t. Mark Twain
LOVE your prints Allie… I love you even more :)
And I would love the ‘with a heart for any fate’ print if I won!
Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!
November 22, 2011
From a play I saw a long time ago:
“Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright.”
Just sounds beautiful to me…
I’d love to win “Too Legit”! Thanks for the chance :)
November 22, 2011
“Be brief. Be brilliant. Be gone.”
– unknown
(For Any Fate, please)
November 22, 2011
“If you didn’t achieve what you wanted to, you quit one day too soon”
Proffesor at at Livong Arts College
I would love to win “with a heart for any fate” print!
November 23, 2011
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
I love your prints! It would be great to win one!
November 23, 2011
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
I would be honored to own “Too Legit to quit”
November 23, 2011
“..if you’re gonna’ get made,
Don’t be afraid of what you’ve learned,”
-Eric Earley, Blitzen Trapper
Awesome work on the prints by the way. I’d love to be able to hang To Legit To Quit over my desk as a daily reminder and pat on the back.
Cheers,
Nathaniel
November 23, 2011
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon
I love all of your work, but would be especially happy if I won the ‘for any fate’ print.
Thanks for the continued inspiration and chance to win! Happy Holidays!
November 23, 2011
“Happiness isn’t a town on a map,
or an early arrival, or a job well done, but good work
ongoing.”
– Mary Oliver, one of my favorite poets
I adore the “For Any Fate” print!
November 23, 2011
“When you do for one what you wish you could do for everyone, you often end up doing it for more than just one.”
–Andy Stanley
November 23, 2011
forgot to say I like the “For Any Fate” poster
November 23, 2011
Be willing to be hurt
Oh be willing to be bruised
‘Cos a heart that dosen’t love
Is a heart that isn’t used
– Noah and the Whale
Too legit to quit
November 23, 2011
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”
-John Barrymore
Either but I LOVE too legit
November 25, 2011
Barn’s burnt down —
now
I can see the moon.
–masahide
(i’d love the ‘for any fate’ print)
November 26, 2011
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November 27, 2011
“put away just a thimble full of fear today” – amy turn sharp
“I should have spent less time in my head and more time cooking brussels sprouts” – some guy on Chopped
“i like your beat” – Beck
(Too Legit.. no, wait… For any fate… no… Too legit.)
November 27, 2011
“Children are all foreigners.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would love to own “Too Legit To Quit.” =D
November 27, 2011
“If you judge someone, you give no time to love them.” -Mother Theresa
I love your “Too Legit to Quit” print! I love how the typography interacts so well. I just came across your site and I’ll forever be hooked! Thank you for being a creator of beautiful things.
November 27, 2011
I’m suspecting it’s for US residents but here’s one of my favorites quotes from Chilean Author Pablo Neruda:
“El amor nace del recuerdo,
vive de la inteligencia
y muere por olvido.”
Or what’d be the same in English:
“Love comes from memory,
lives from intelligence
and dies due to forgetfulness.”
I LOVE the dark one, “Too Legit”. :-)
November 27, 2011
“Have Faith in your ability and the confidence to carry through” Rosylynn Carter.
I can apply this to so many areas of my life..
November 27, 2011
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
-JC Penney
I love your A Psalm of Life design.