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My Attempt at Fashion: Jewelmint!

You guys, I’m going to preface this by saying I never win anything. Like, I never win stuff. Not even lame things. I just don’t win things. But I still enter contests for the heck of it.

Well, a couple weeks ago on one of my fave wedding blogs, Green Wedding Shoes, Jen (the editor) was holding a JEWELMINT contest.

Now, I’d drooled over Jewelmint for a while, but through wedding planning and saving money, I couldn’t justify $29.99 to join – even though I REAAAAAAAAAALLY wanted to.

Well, I entered the GWS Jewelmint contest and low and behold… I WON. I was SO EXCITED. I won $150 credit (which is basically the equivalent of five pieces of jewelry) – PLUS there was a promo for a BOGO piece of jewelry if it was your first time. So, BOOM. SIX pieces of jewelry. FREE. No shipping. NOTHING.

I was pumped.

I mean, the MOST money I spend on accessories is like $3 in the Target or Wal-mart clearance section. Seriously.

In short, Jewelmint is a “subscription” service where you join and pay $29.99 a month – and each month you get a new piece of jewelry (of your choice) – free shipping. You can like, skip a month, and whatnot… so it’s not like you’re locked in to a contract or anything. I think you can also buy credits too… OH and you can refer people and get free credits, too.

Now, I’m not being sponsored by Jewelmint or anything – I just figured I’d explain what it is for those who are curious! Cause I had no idea what it was when I first heard about it.

You may have also heard of Stylemint (clothes) or Shoemint (shoes, duh) – and OH MAN, they’re coming out with HOMEMINT. Yeah. HOME GOODS. Designed by JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. WOOP.

Anyway, my Jewelmint prize / order came in yesterday and I was SO SO SO excited! I felt like it was my birthday, or something. I thought I’d share with you guys what I got. Honestly, even though I got all the pieces for free cause of the GWS contest, I would totally subscribe to this. I don’t think I’d do it EVERY month (cause that’s just not practical) – but for $29.99 and no shipping and REALLY good quality, unique jewelry, I’d do it again.

Just saying.

Sorry I ramble so much.

On to the jewelry:

I love the packaging!

Plume Paradise Earrings

The Shanghai Eclipse Pendant

The Atlantis Pendant

Natural Beauty Bracelets

Maasai Tribal Bangle

Garden Patch Trio Bangles

My Polyvore Board of my Jewelmint Items

Molly’s April 2012 Jewelmint Items by mollystillman featuring clear jewelry

Only thing that kinda stinks is one of the Natural Beauty Bracelets was seriously broken when I opened it… so sadly, I can’t wear it. So I contacted Jewelmint and BOOM, they’re paying the shipping for the return and giving me a credit for a new piece.

That’s a WIN, if you ask me!

I can’t wait to sport some of these!

Oh, and in the spirit of #WINNING, our CANVAS came in yesterday, too! We got 2nd place in the Katelyn James love shots contest (thank you SO much to everyone who voted!) and we got our GORGEOUS canvas. I am obsessed with it. It’s amazing. Isn’t it?!

Have you ever tried Jewelmint? Or any of the “mints” for that matter? Would you ever? Do you win contests or are you typically a contest “loser” like I am?

xoxo, all for now.

The Stillman Wedding: VOTE FOR US + DIY Wedding Signs

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Happy Thursday!

First, a shameless plug and humble request: Vote For Us? Our SERIOUSLY amazing wedding photographer, Katelyn James, is holding her annual LOVE SHOTS contest! She has a photo representing every couple’s wedding that she photographed in the last year and the WINNING COUPLE gets a 20×30 canvas of a photo of their choice! AHHH. Seriously.

I love this for two reasons:

It just shows the generosity (and sheer marketing prowess) that Katelyn has for her clients
Canvases are ESSPENSIVE, y’all. Seriously. Those things cost a lot of American dollars… and seeing as how we got married a little over a month ago, we’re still recovering from spending a lot of American dollars on our wedding. Granted, it was worth EVERY penny (and we saved a ton of money doing 97% of it ourselves, but that’s neither here nor there).

So, would you be AWESOME and visit Katelyn’s site and go to the bottom and click “JOHN + MOLLY” and vote for us! You can vote every day until Monday, April 2nd at noon!

Moving on.

Now that I have my very unattractive shameless-self-promoting-plug out of the way, we can get to the good stuff.

SIGNS. At a wedding.

John + I knew that we really wanted personal touches all over the wedding and I knew I wanted to get as creative as possible. However, I was working with a VERY small budget and not a lot of time. When you’re working a lot, trying to pack an apartment, move, and get married, and all the whatnot, time is limited.

Well, on one of my many trips to Michael’s, I saw blank white canvases were on SALE. Yes! Score! And acrylic paints were on sale, TOO!

So BOOM. I had an idea for signs!

So, I took a Tuesday night, had a cold beverage, a good friend, and painted away!

I glued fabric rosettes on some to spice them up! And tried to come up with creative ideas all over the place!

“Biscuit Snatcher” is a term of endearment our Pastor loves to use when referring to children. I thought it was perfect.

Photo by Katelyn James Photography

Sweet tea… and that other tea. You know. Unsweet tea.

Photo by Katelyn James Photography

Now, I had quatrefoils ALL over our wedding. I’m a Phi Mu. I love quats. Sue me.

So I knew I wasn’t going to do a traditional Mr. and Mrs. chairback signs. So I made those puppies. QUATREFOIL CHAIRBACK MR. AND MRS. STILLMAN signs. Oh yeah. How awesome are they?

Photo by Katelyn James Photography

This one I loved instead of a “Thank You” sign – however, sadly, the day of the wedding we were so busy running around that we never took a picture with it. Oh well. Anyone want a “much obliged, y’all” sign?

Anyway – all in all – for the canvases, paints, and time – I spent about $17 TOTAL and about three TOTAL hours making the signs and all the things that went with it. Not too shabby.

What creative projects have YOU done recently? Ideas? Thoughts? How have you saved money? Post pictures! Link your blog! Do it up!

xoxo, All for now.

oh, and vote for us.

ANNOUNCED: Awkward-Social-Networking-Pickup-Line-Pun-Contest WINNER

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Some of you may remember the awesome “Awkward-Social-Networking-Pickup-Line-Pun-Contest” I held last week in a Thuper Therious Thursday post. If you don’t remember, then you can check it out here: THIS IS A LINK TO READ THE POST.

I have to say, I got some HILARIOUS entries. Hilarious. A couple pickup lines almost made me cry… from laughing so hard.

Congratulations to Jim Williams (@digitaldrivel) for his HILARIOUSLY awkward-social-networking-pickup-line-pun-contest-entry.

Jim has won a grab bag of comedy and social awesomeness from the Dirty South. Thanks for your hilarious line, Jim. Couldn’t have done it without you.

BUT, due to the fact that some of the pickup lines were borderline inappropriate, I didn’t want to necessarily post them HERE on my “professional” blog… so I actually posted some of them and wrote about the contest in a guest post for the MISTER DIPLOMAT blog (a comedy blog from the Dirty South). You can read the hilarity and see the winning line here.

Now, aren’t you sad you missed out? Don’t fret. More fun contests to come. I promise.

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