Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

Ahh... the moment several of you have been waiting for...
Who is the winner of the 4TheLoveOfVintage give-away we ran this past week? Well I am glad you asked! Random.org says that out winner is number 27.
But who exactly is number 27? Well it looks as though that privilege belongs to Missy! So Missy please email me at its.twila.jean@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Thank you everyone who played, we will see you next time! And remember if you or your shop is interested in sponsoring a giveaway on this blog, just email me and we can work it out!

Winner!

I know you have been waiting since Friday to hear who the winner of the Revolving Styles Vintage giveaway winner is... So I thought I would go ahead and announce it already! I hope everyone who entered got a chance to look around this awesome shop while throwing their name in the hat for a $30 Gift Certificate to use towards anything you want at Revolving Styles!

With the help of random.org we have discovered who our winner is! JOYCE! Joyce if you can please email me at its.twila.jean (@) gmail (dot) com I will get you in touch with your lovely gift certificate asap!

Thanks to everyone who participated! I have another giveaway lined up with another great etsy shop next week, so be ready for more chances to win!

Sponsor GIVEAWAY Time

As we get closer to the holiday season, I am so excited to share with you that we are going to be hosting a few giveaways! That means you will have some chances to get yourself some great presents! This week we are featuring Revolving Styles Vintage as our giveaway hostest, who is offering a great $30.00 Gift Voucher for her online shop!

Anna of Revolving Styles Vintage also does Facebook and a lovely little blog over here. She has been so gracious to offer this gift voucher, so I thought I would return the favor by showing you *my* picks from her shop right now. I also love the blouse in the top image, because I think it would go awesome with my bright read hair! Anyway, onto my picks...



Ok, enough oogling! Let's move on to the fine print and how to win.

***To enter in this contest you must be a follower of this blog (twilajean.com) and you must be a follower of Revolving Styles on Facebook. ***

GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED... RESULTS TO BE POSTED SOON!

THE GIVEAWAY

That's right my friends, the giveaway is finally ready to roll off the shelf. I have collaborated with some amazing women to bring you a great opportunity to win some great prizes. I now have over 1000 followers on this little blog, and I am so thankful for each and every one of them. This blog has been the most fun outlet. I am happy I am able to ramble on and share my story with everyone!

On to the goods, I know you just want to know what you could win! I have teamed up with Lolita Girl Clothing, Lucky Cupcake Hairclips, and The Witchery Vintage to offer you some amazing frocks and accessories.
First up is your choice of Dress or Romper from Lolita Girl Clothing. I personally like the Sailor Jane Dress, but if you win you can pick which you like more. LGC is a small California based company, with amazingly huge style. You should also look into their amazing repro style swimsuits, as they are to die for!


Next up are two fantastic nautical themed hair bows from Joy of Lucky Cupcake Hairclips!
I have the one on the right (obviously... ha, that is me in the picture...) and I can attest to its high quality and reliability. I have had mine for over 2 years, and it just keeps on trucking!


And finally, Sandra over at The Witchery Vintage would like to offer you a $40.00 gift voucher to use on anything in her vintage clothing shop. Who doesn't love free money? and if you want to stick with the nautical theme you can pick up the 70s Polka Dot Sundress.


The Rules and Fine Print-ish-ness:
You must be a Follower of this blog to enter.
The giveaway begins today and will end Monday March 14th, at Midnight PST.
Giveaway is open to anyone, Stateside or abroad.

How to play:
We are going to have a small scavenger hunt, to enter EMAIL me at its.twila.jean@gmail.com with the answers to these three questions: (all answers can be found by viewing their websites.)

1. Who is the woman who created and designs for Lolita Girl Clothing?
2. What is the Top Selling Item on Lucky Cupcakes website?
3. What country is The Witchery Vintage based out of?

After you submit these answers you can share on Facebook or Twitter and comment here with a link.

Winner will be chosen by random the day after the contest closes.
Good luck and Godspeed.

A Shabby Giveaway!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.
THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

I was recently contacted by the reps from Shabby Apple, and let me explain my excitement when the discussion was giveaway oriented. If you don't already know Shabby Apple, you should be introduced! They have stunning clothing lines, many of which are highly vintage inspired. I am in love with several collections, especially the classic 1943, and of course the Berkshires.

They have a new line on the way out, and my readers are being offered a chance to claim one of the dresses as their own! The new line is donned The Silk Road, and is made of luxurious crepe de chine silk.
The Dress you could possibly own is called Shanghai, and comes in several colors like Plum, and Smoke. Winner can pick color, as well as their size choice from xxs-xl. This is an amazing giveaway, I am so excited to be a part of!
Ok for the fine print and how to enter...

This Contest is open to anyone to enter. You must be a follower of this blog to enter, even if you are new today! You must provide a valid email so I can contact you if you are the winner.
Giveaway ends DECEMBER 8th @ 6:00pm PST.

The ways to enter are as follows:
1. Comment here with your favorite item from Shabby Apple.
2. Retweet this contest using: Shabby Apple GIVEAWAY @ The Mysterious Life of the Metropolitan Housewife! http://living-vintage.blogspot.com/2010/12/shabby-giveaway.html
(please comment again here when you have done so.)
3. Add either Shabby Apple or The Mysterious Life of the Metropolitan Housewife on Facebook. (comment again when you have done so.)

That's it! There are three simple ways to enter this amazing giveaway prize worth $133.00!
What are you waiting for? Go enter... now!

Want to win a free dress?

I had the pleasure of modeling a dress for Shristi Studios recently and she is now holding a contest! Go vote for you favorite photoset and you are automatically entered in a drawing to win one of her dresses in your size!

Vote for me if you love me! I took these in a vacant lot near my house. I thought they turned out rather neat.. although I was chased off by the rain during the shooting.

So go vote if you like... I am number 2 *hint hint* Haha. Have a great weekend guys and good luck!

Anniversary Give Away!!!

I am so excited to announce this moment has finally arrived, my 1st blogging anniversary! To celebrate this wonderful milestone I thought I would present to you all a give-away. I really feel this is a good one, I hope you too will agree.

I have teamed up with Shristi Studio, to offer my readers the chance to win this Aqua 1950s style dress, in the winners size choice.
This is a beautiful soft cotton vintage style dress. Dress has overlapping front so will slightly adjust to a fuller bust. Dress has a back tie to give a pretty shape for the waist. Puffed sleeve makes it so Vintage looking!

Shristi Studio has many fine 50s style dresses in her shop, all exceptionally reasonable in price. At $29.99 you almost cant beat it! Here are a few styles offered at Shristi Studio:

During the extent of the give-away Shristi Studio is offering a discount of 30% on dresses left on www.shrististudio.com by using check-out code "BLOG2009"
There are also a good number of dresses available for regular price at shrististudio.etsy.com

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So now that you are excited, I suppose you want to know how to enter this give-away?
You may enter by doing one or all of the tasks below, a winner will be drawn at random on Jan. 15th at 5 pm (pacific standard).

1. Go to ShristiStudio.Etsy.Com and leave a comment here with your favorite dress.

2. Join my Facebook Fanpage and Share the giveaway with your friends, comment here that you have done so.

3. Re-tweet this give-away and comment that you have done so.
"RT: 1950s style dress Give Away from @exquisitebones 's Blog http://tiny.cc/pw2zj "

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I wish you all luck, now enter and go tell your friends. The more the merrier on this wonderful anniversary. Thank you all so very much for being readers of my little slice of the interwebs.

Exciting Metropolitan News!

350? What? That is the number of google followers this Blog had as of last night! How exciting, and right about the time that this same blog turns ONE! I can hardly believe I have been sharing my vintage life for a year now.
To say thanks, we have two very exciting giveaways coming! One is scheduled for the end of this month, and the other I will fit in next month, so stay tuned and enter to win some really cool goodies.


I want to take a second to formally ask that if you have ever purchased an item from my Etsy Shop, and you would like to share it with my readers, please send me a photo! I would love to post it here so people can see where my traveling dresses end up. Don't be shy.

That's right, I am now available for facebook fan page stalkery! So become a fan and join right in, share links, pictures, chat, or just read silently, but do it... Become a Fan of the Mysterious Life of the Metropolitan Housewife.

I entered the give-away over at Fab Gab's Vintage, and I won! Today, just in time for Christmas I received a package filled with lovely goodies, like a bakelite bangle, a purse, stockings, earrings, and lovely scarves! It really brightened my morning when the post man dropped it off. Thank you Julie for having such a cool give-away!

And last, but not least, Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Happy Holiday Season to the rest of you, have a merry holiday no matter what you celebrate! I will be back after Christmas, with fresh posts and give-aways! Thank you all for being such awesome readers! I am so happy to share my life with all of you. Thank you so much for being, you.

Spotted!

Solanah and I tend to frequent a few local haunts, and one of them took our picture and featured us on their website! How dandy of them. I seem to be missing some make-up or something? anyway, you can see the website here: Redlight Clothing Exchange.

In other exciting news, I won the give-away over at Dandelion Vintage's Blog, so now I have some great vintage goodies on their way to me. I am quite excited!

WINNER WINNER! The winner is...

The winner of our lovely Give-Away is Audrey.
Thank you to all who participated, and I will see you at the next 100 followers, and might have another fun give-away.

Audrey! I need you to contact me with your address so I can send your goodies off!

Work, work, work

Today is my "monday" and so I am back at work at the baby boutique I own here in Vancouver.
Boomba Toomba, which is a silly nickname for my son, is what consumes my work week.
Sadly, this is a rough economy and I don't really make any money owning a brick and mortar shop, so I sell on ETSY to make spending money, a.k.a. money that goes to bills.

I should actually get some work done today, so I am off. I will however, leave you with an image of my hair du jour, whilst sitting at my desk at work. I am queen of the working slackers.
Sorry for the cruddy webcam quality, and the wonderful flourecent lighting we have in the shop.
I hope you all are enjoying your work week, or week off, how ever it may be.
And do remember the clock is ticking on my Give Away for the Vintage Hairstyling book, so enter soon if you have not already!

And! If my give away is not enough, check out Dismantled Fashions awesome $20.00 Gift Certificate giveaway... It must be give away season! CLICK HERE to go to her giveaway.