Anne Franklin Designs Necklace Giveaway!

Anne of Anne Franklin Designs has got to be one of the most clever entrepreneurs around. She decided to take Scrabble tiles and to repurpose them into necklace charms and key chains. The colorful designs are sealed with a  shiny resin finish and offset by a colorful four-strand combination of ribbon and cord or a ball chain necklace. 

Anne has just started a new “Keep Calm” series. Here are just a few examples. You’ll have to check out her Facebook page or her website for the rest.

Keep Calm, Run On

Keep Calm, Drink Beer

Keep Calm, Ride On

You know which one I like best, right? It’s a toss up between the beer and the run, but I’ll take the RUN.

Anne keeps her prices reasonable. Part of her mission was to create personalized items that were affordable.  Her necklaces are only $15 ($20 for a special order). Shipping is $3.

Want one of the “keep calm” beauties she makes?

Here’s how to enter (comment for each):

1. Go to the Anne Franklin Design FB Page (this has more photos than the website), and let me know what you’d get from the “calm” line +1 entry
2. Write about this giveaway on your blog, FB, Twat, etc. +1 entry
3. “Like” Anne Franklin Designs on FB + 1 entry
4. Follow my blog or let me know if you do already + 1 entry

This giveaway will end on 9/26.

Good luck,

SUAR

The fine print:

• Per FTC guidelines: Anne Franklin Designs provided the giveaway item.
• Contest  open to both US and Canadian residents!
• The winner will be chosen at random by Random.org

Ultimate Stocking Stuffer Giveaway

I’m glad I’m not the only one who fell out of a car when I was little. Yet, clearly I am the only one who hit my head hard enough to make me want to grow up to be a blogger who writes about crapping in bushes and trees while running.

I will say, the comment that made me laugh out loud was this one from Julie:

“One of my favorite childhood memories is being about 5 years old, topless, in a convertible, on a road trip with NO seatbelts and doing the honk motion at every truck on the road. Good times.”

Best visual ever.

The Giveaway

I’m naughty. But, I’m nice too.

Outside PR, on behalf of their GU, Road ID and Ryder’s Eyewear clients, has generously offered up an Ultimate Stocking Stuffer Giveaway right in time for the holidays.

Are you ready? The winner will get all of the following:

• Vanilla Gingerbread, Mint and *your favorite flavor/product* from GU ($24.00 value)

• Road ID socks ($7.99 value), Road ID hat ($9.99 value), & Road ID gift card

• Ryders VTX sunglasses for racing, working out, and the like ($59.99 value) :

Ryder’s Grindhouse or Shreddie sunglasses ($39.99 value)  for naughty relaxing while eggnoging

That’s a lot of stuff. I personally like the sound of the Grindhouse. It just has that dirty ring to it.

Want the loot? Here’s how to enter (comment for each):

1. Follow my blog and let me know or if you already follow tell me + 1 entry
2. Write about this giveaway on your forehead, blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. + 1 entry
3. Sign up for the GU blog RSS feed +1 entry
4. Submit a photo of yourself doing whatever sport you love at the Ryders "Ride for Real" photo gallery +2 entry (please leave two comments)
5. Enter the Road ID Holiday Giveaway (extra entries granted for every $5 donated) + 1 entry (5 extra entries per $5 donated. Leave that number of comments)

That’s up to 6+ entries! So, get busy. This giveaway will end on 12/14.

Good luck,

SUAR

The fine print:

• Per FTC guidelines: Outside PR (by means of their clients: GU, Road ID and Ryders Eyewear) provided the giveaway items.
• Contest  open to both US and Canadian residents!
• The winner will be chosen at random by Random.org. Check back December 14 to see if you won!

Mother of the Year & Giveaway Winner!

The winner of a necklace of your choice from Anne Franklin Designs is #71 MCM Mama! Congrats. Shoot me an email at shutuprun@gmail.com and I’ll tell you how to claim your prize! Anne of AFD wanted me to pass on to you how much she has appreciated your views of her site and “likes” on Facebook. Keep her awesome products in mind for the holidays! She sent me a necklace and I love it.

 

In other news, for Sam’s birthday he wanted to go paint balling.

I seriously should get some sort of prize for this:

Feel free to comment on the elephant in the room – i.e., that lumpy muscle in my arm. Want a muscle like that? Use crutches. I may not be able to run for shit when this is all over, but I’ll have some crazy arm candy.

Believe me, I tried to not wear the mask, but if you even lifted it an inch off your face you had to do ten pushups. No joke. Those rednecks don’t mess around.

Hanging with the 13 year olds,

SUAR

PS: Don’t forget my $25 Subway Gift Card Giveaway.

Anne Franklin Designs Necklace Giveaway

I’ve been trying to limit giveaways just to stuff I really love and endorse, or items that I think send a positive message about fitness and wellness (like the Commit to Fit series). Today, I’ve got a giveaway of a product that is totally unique and is handcrafted by a local runner, mom of three, and artist.

Anne of Anne Franklin Designs must have really liked board games as a child. More specifically, Scrabble. In all of her creativity, Anne decided to take Scrabble tiles and to repurpose them into necklace charms and key chains. The colorful designs are sealed with a  shiny resin finish and offset by a colorful four-strand combination of ribbon and cord.  Necklaces measure approximately 18".

The above is a sample of her race-related tiles. These are just a few of the many types of necklaces she offers. There are charms specific to holidays, pets, flowers, sports and sport’s teams, monograms, you name it. She will even custom-make a tile for you if you send in a picture. I am going to have one made for my daughter for Christmas of her one-eyed, three-legged dog, Lucky (who is really not so Lucky if you think about it. Here it looks like he has only two legs).

Some selections:

 

Anne keeps her prices reasonable. Part of her mission was to create personalized items that were affordable.  Her necklaces are only $15 ($20 for a special order). Shipping is $3.

Want one of the beauties she makes?

Here’s how to enter (comment for each):

1. Go to either Anne Franklin Designs or the Anne Franklin Design FB Page (this has more photos than the website), and let me know what you’d get  +1 entry
2. Write about this giveaway on your blog, FB, Twitter, etc. +1 entry
3. “Like” Anne Franklin Designs on FB
4. Follow my blog or let me know if you do already + 1 entry

This giveaway will end on 10/30.

The fine print:

• Per FTC guidelines: Anne Franklin Designs provided the giveaway item. They also gave me a necklace of my choice. I did not pay anything for this.
• Contest  open to both US and Canadian residents!  (Yay Marlene!)
• The winner will be chosen at random by Random.org
• Check back October 30 to see if you won!
• If I don’t hear back from the winner within 2 days after posting that they’ve won, I’ll Random.org another name

Good luck,

SUAR