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LeSportsac x Disney – It’s a Small World Giveaway!!!

Nina Penalosa195 Comments

GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED. Thanks to all who entered! 

Like I mentioned in my last blog post, I’m throwing my very first GINORMOUS giveaway!!! A BIG thank you goes out to the lovely people over at LeSportsac for making this giveaway possible 😀 My awesomely fantastic readers have a chance to win THREE different purses from LeSportsac’s It’s a Small World line in their “Share Your Dreams” print.

The Third Place winner will be receiving the Small EveryGirl Tote! However, I’m sorry to say that this didn’t come with the face charm — I will find something to make up for it though! 🙂

The Second Place winner will be receiving the Deluxe Shoulder Satchel!

And finally, the Grand Prize winner will be receiving the Molly bag! Don’t let its small size fool you, this over-the-shoulder purse has room FOR DAYS! But that’s not all the Grand Prize winner will be getting! In honor of my blog’s 2 year anniversary, I decided to throw in some fun extra goodies!

Along with the Molly bag, the Grand Prize winner will be getting:

  • My favorite beauty staple – Dr. Pepper Lip Smackers
  • A cute little tissue pack featuring Woody and Buzz (Buzz is on the back) from Toy Story
  • Rose clip for your hair (just like the one I have in this post!)
  • A book by my favorite author, John Green!
  • A little Doctor Who toy (it’s a Dalek — no, I didn’t open. I just know!)
  • A pair of Princess Jasmine earrings from my Etsy store, Once Upon a Smorgasbord
  • Tiny Rapunzel pen
  • Princess Ariel notepad

Sounds good?

Here’s how to enter:

  • Leave a comment with your email address (so I know how to contact you if you win!)
  • Subscribe to the blog and leave a comment saying that you did. You can do so by either following me via WordPress or by entering your email address on the right side of the blog where it says “subscribe”
  • Follow me on Bloglovin’ and leave a comment letting me know you did.
  • “Like” the Le Fancy Geek page on Facebook and leave a comment with your name (on this post, not on the FB page).
  • “Like” the LeSportsac page on Facebook and leave a comment with your name (on this post, not on their FB page).
  • Follow me on Twitter and leave a comment with your Twitter name.
  • Tweet “I just entered @pink_apple’s It’s a Small World @lesportsac bag giveaway on LeFancyGeek!!!” <– must be that exact same wording.
  • Follow me on Instagram and leave a comment with your Instagram name.
  • Re-gram the “Le Fancy Geek Giveaway” pic above with “I entered @chezfancypant’s It’s a Small World @lesportsac giveaway! #lefancygeeklesportsacgiveaway”
  • Follow me on Tumblr and leave a comment with your username.
  • Follow me on Chictopia and leave a comment with your username.
  • Follow me on Pinterest and leave a comment letting me know you did with your username.
  • Pin one of my outfits on Pinterest and leave a comment letting me know you did (and your Pinterest username so I can see if you’re telling the truth!).
  • Follow me on Favery and leave a comment with your username.

And there you have it – FIFTEEN different ways to enter the contest!

Contest is only open to residents of the United States. Sorry, international folks 😦

Please leave ONE comment per each thing you do on the post, don’t clump them all together like, “I followed you on Twitter, Facebook, Chictopia, etc and these are my usernames: -insert usernames-” — otherwise that only counts as one entry! And please, please, please, none of this unfollowing after the contest is over bidness. That is hella rude!

For people who already follow me on any of the aforementioned sites, you can enter the contest too! Please be sure to follow the guidelines as well 🙂

Winners will be picked at random.

EDIT: You have until May 2 Saturday, May 4 @ midnight (PST) to enter. Good luck!!!

Cheers,
Nina

the biblio files

B i b l i o p h i l e

Nina Penalosa7 Comments

When I was in school I was soooo frustrated with the amount of reading I had to do for all of my classes. I studied Creative Writing, so of course I knew what I was getting into. And like all my professors say, you can’t write unless you read. ‘Tis very true. And I liked a lot of the short stories and a handful of books that were assigned to me — I was just frustrated by the fact that I never had time to read the books that I wanted to read. Actually, that’s a lie. All the time I spent on Tumblr, Facebook, and Netflix (and sometimes I did all three at once), I could’ve been reading a book that I wanted to read for funsies. But… um… I didn’t. :/

Now that I’ve graduated and have more free time than I’d actually like to have, I DON’T READ OFTEN. What the hell is up with that? Starting from this month on, I’m challenging myself to read at least one book each week and  write more. I finished reading The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin last week, and am starting The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger again. I started it a couple years ago and didn’t finish it, so I’m attempting it once more. I liked it, but for whatever reason I got distracted and never got around to finishing it. A lot of people have read this in high school; none of the English classes I took in high school had this book on the lesson plan, so I feel extremely deprived.

Other books I was deprived of in high school:

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxly
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • 1984 by George Orwell

Those are the only ones I can think of at the moment, but I know there’s more.

I’ve been told that The Catcher In The Rye is a book you either love or hate because the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a bit of a prick. One time on Facebook I took a quiz to see what literary character I am and my result was Holden. My sister said it fit because we’re both angsty. I’m glad she didn’t say because we’re both pricks. 🙂

Here are some other books I plan on starting/re-starting/re-reading this month:

I got 'An Abundance of Katherines' over the weekend with my 15% off coupon! Tim just picked a random book off the shelf to take a picture with.
  • Looking For Alaska by John Green
  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby (started this earlier this year and got distracted)
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman (was in the middle of this years ago and had to put it away because of school)
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Peep Show by Joshua Braff
  • Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (my favorite book of all evers)

Enough blogging about reading books. It’s SSR time!