Run for your Lives 5k Run!!

After running the Women's Classic 5k, this seems more appropriate...

1. It's a 5k run. Or possibly a 10k run, depending on which route you take.
2. It's also an obstacle course
3. You are chased by Zombies.

I am SO signing up.
Oh, and the girls I work with? Signing up to be Zombies.

Most excellent.

LINK!

PEEPS!!! Washington Post's Peep Contest Winner!

Awww... The winning entry to the Washington Posts Peeps Contest!
The Chilean CoPeepapo Mine Rescue!

Some other good ones!

TSA Agents Get a Peep Show (Should have won if you ask me...).

The MuPEEP Show

Personally, I'm a little disappointed no one used a microwave in their dioramas. Well, there's always next year!


Here's the Whole Gallery!

Look "UP" last year's Peeps!

More Peepy Goodness!

We have our Final Winner!!!

And it's SmileKisses!!! She said: 

I had your lost socks! After darning the holes in the toes, I sold them to some guy from Wilmerding on ebay for $9.99.

(AH! She had my lost socks all along!!! Little did she know the guy from Wilmerding was ME, buying my own socks back. Yeah, not so smart on my part).

I digress!

I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to enter our month-long giveaways here at Loopy. Who knew there were so many rabid squirrels out there? And white mutant ones? And crazed buzzards? And Shoe-Lizards!!!???  That's it. No more camping for me.

Next event: I'm using Rosannepm's idea for a Sock party!  (just kidding, but it's a great idea!). Happy end of the holidays everyone!

Ohhh man... LAST GIVEAWAY!!!!

And for our last and FINAL giveaway this month.....

A couple Scrapbook stickers to get your going...
annnnnddddd 1 Sweet Life Scrapbook!!!

The Deal:
You made it through the holiday season! Congrats! You need a quick pick me up. How about a giveaway?
Each week in January, we'll have a giveaway contest (winner picked by Random.org).
Each week the contest will start on the Monday, and end on the Friday (Jan 29). (at 5pm est)
The wiener, who I'll notify online and in email, has 48 hrs to get back to me, otherwise, someone else will be el'lucko winner'o.

How to enter:
Leave a comment with your email! (so I have someway to contact you).Maybe a comment on a rabid squirrel that attack you (please tell me it's not just me)? Or shiny bauble you found? Or really maybe where I can find my lost socks!

Extra Entry!
Follow me! Leave me an extra comment telling me you did so! Yippie!

Good Luck and  Happy Commenting!

Onto Giveaway Numero 3! Cappuccino for the Coffee Addict!

I think I just drooled... this weeks giveaway Caffine addiction! Instant Cappuccinos! (without the Starbucks price tag! Ha!). You know you need that break. Plus! I'm throwing in a creepy yet cute(?) Gus Fink SkullGnome and a Sugary Gummy Shish-Kabob!

The Deal:
You made it through the holiday season! Congrats! You need a quick pick me up. How about a giveaway?
Each week in January, we'll have a giveaway contest (winner picked by Random.org).
Each week the contest will start on the Monday, and end on the Friday (Jan 22).
The wiener, who I'll notify online and in email, has 48 hrs to get back to me, otherwise, someone else will be el'lucko winner'o.

How to enter:
Leave a comment with your email! (so I have someway to contact you).Maybe a comment on a crazy dance move you made popular? Or a hellish traffic story? Heck, just tell me what you had for lunch and I'd be happy!

Extra Entry!
Follow me! Leave me an extra comment telling me you did so! Yippie!

Good Luck and  Happy Commenting!


ANNNNND The RANDOM WIENER IS!!:::
Deb K!

Congrats! I'll be sending over an email shortly!
For everyone else, try your luck again on Giveaway Numero 4!

Giiiiiiveaway.... Numero 2! Brownies and Penguins!

Yum yum!
This weeks giveaway is more goody good tasties: Candy Cane Brownie Mix! Delish! (please send one when you make them...wha? Okay, maybe not)
But! I'm also throwing in one of those cute-ness Penguin plates from target! Adorable!

The Deal:
Each week in January, we'll have a giveaway contest (winner picked by Random.org).
Each week the contest will start on the Monday, and end on the Friday (Jan 15).
The wiener, who I'll notify online and in email, has 48 hrs to get back to me, otherwise, someone else will be el'lucko winner'o.

How to enter:
Leave a comment with your email! (so I have someway to contact you).
Maybe a comment on something sticky you last ate? Or a holiday story? Heck, just tell me what you had for lunch and I'd be happy!
Extra Entry if you're a follower! (RSS or Google Friend). Leave an additional comment!

Good Luck and  Happy Commenting!

P.S. Everyone is a Winner For Giveaway Numero Uno!!!

P.S.S. Congrats to RainMommy, the weiner!!! I loved all the comments! I had no idea so many sticky things were abound. Oy, totally going to start brushing my teeth 3 times a day now!(RainMommy, I'm emailing you now! Yippie!)

And now we're onto Giveaway Numero 3!

You've Made it thru the Holidays! You deserve something...

Something sweet!
Something FREEEEEEE!!!
You worked hard all December, what with all the family fake smiling, and buying of presents and eggnog. I believe you should get something in return. Something happy! 

So hurray for a "Surviving the Holidays" GIVEAWAY!!!!
In fact... this year has been a good one, you deserve MORE than one giveaway!
How about 4?

Each week in January, we'll have a giveaway contest (winner picked by Random.org).
We'll start small... and build up to the last giveaway on Jan 25!

Each week the contest will start on the Monday, and end on the Friday (Jan 8).
The wiener, who I'll notify online and in email, has 48 hrs to get back to me, otherwise, someone else will be el'lucko winner'o.

Hmm...so isn't TODAY MONDAY???
Why yes it is!
Which means....

Here's the first giveaway!!!

A super giant sugar bombed lollipop!
Your dentist will love you!!


How to enter:
None of that follow me, twitter with me, vote for me crap. Lame!
Just leave a comment with your email! (so I have someway to contact you). Could be about your day or when your last dentist visit was! I'm not picky!

Fun & Happy Commenting!

Online Poster Printing Weiner!!!

And we have a Weiner!!!!

Hurray to mom2anutball!

Thanks to everyone for playing! (I really had fun reading all the comments! You guys are so clever! I loved the ideas of blowing up your Paints & Andy Warhol Style Pics!! And a hello to Sweets & Jack!)

Giveaway! Online Poster Printing!!

I'm pretty much putting TONS of personal touches into my wedding (I'm thinking silhouette name cards!). And my next project? Getting Bubbie's Wedding Portrait Printed real nice!

As luck would have it, in my constant Internet search for ideas and inspiration on a tight budget, I found Online Poster Printing! They "specialize in printing high quality poster prints on premium photo glossy paper for lasting durability and excellent image color". With a money back guarantee! (How can you go wrong?).

To share the love, those same great people are giving away (1) 16x20 poster print for a lucky winner!!

Who doesn't love a great Photo Poster Prints!?

And it doesn't even have to be your photography! How about using your winnings for a
Vintage Poster Print from the Work of Ansel Adams?

Details!

- Prize will be (1) 16x20 photo poster print for a lucky winner.

- Contest runs until March 11, 9AM! (est).

- How can I win? Leave a comment how you would use your winnings! (And I'll use Random.org to pick a wiener!)

- Prize ships for free within the US or CAN. All others must pay shipping, but print is still free!

(P.S. Yes, that is Diego making a guest appearance! BABIES!).

Update: The Giveaway is now closed! Thanks everyone for playing & stay tuned for the weiner!

Giveaway is now Closed!

And our lucky winner was mom2anutball!

Thanks to everyone who played!

Sharky the Tea Infuser!

How...awesome...is THIS!

Designed for the Designboom Beyond Silver competion, it won 3rd place... but was obviously a horrid oversight!

A few other notables were:
Climber: the wallpaper that "grows" when it detects air pollution
Mushroom Spice Shakers: won 1st place!
The Knuckle Comb: Think brass knuckles, like you're punching yourself in the head.

link/ via

Horray for Bmore! Our Bldgs Win Awards!

Take that "Suburb of DC" Naysayers!
We won Architecture Honor Award from AIA!

Basilica of the Assumption
Baltimore, Maryland
John G. Waite Associates, Architects PLLC

AIA commentary: Restoration of the Basilica of the Assumption (also known as the Baltimore Cathedral), a major architectural landmark and masterpiece of the Federal style, removes a century and a half of obscuring alterations to bring back Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s original concept of luminosity and spatial configuration. The now fully functioning cathedral again serves the people of Baltimore while reclaiming one of America’s most brilliant architectural designs.

Who knew! link/via

Slideshow of other winners here.

Wiener #4!! Plus Super SecretI'm a Sneaky Bastard!

Weeee hooo!!! We've got a Final Wiener from Random.org!

And it's Heather!!!!
Heather was nice enough to share the pitfalls of a bad diet! (I've consider myself warned! Icky).

And because I'm a sucker, and because the comments were freaking HILARIOUS.... and well, it's the holiday season, I'm feeling extra generous!
So I'm giving 25 extra entries a surprise in the mail!
Yep! These will certainly NOT be random... because, well, I suck. And there were some good freakin comments:

Like: toohotforturtle who said... "If I win this contest, I'll be happy that I will sing "Sweet Gnome Alabama" amongst some strange Gnomish puns!

Or: Tanya Wilson who said... "Why does USA play the same shows over and over?" Good question Tanya, good question.

Or: Paige who said... "I'm a litigation paralegal, so I'm going to use the gnome to make important legal decisions worth tens of thousands of dollars."

So thanks to everyone who made the past 1,000 posts uproariously wonderful! And stay tuned for another 1,000 ADD riddled posts! Yippie!

Sources Say: Final Giveaway #4!!!

Here it is people...

The final Giveaway from our whirlwind "1,000, are you f'ing kidding me, POSTS!!"

Prize #4 is.... THE ANSWER ME GNOME!

You know you want it. Shake him up like a "magic 8 ball" for such joy as "Keep of the Grass!" Let it make your decisions! This classy thing is pretty big too like 8" or so? Plus it's sold out at Perpetual Kid!

So rules to get this masterpiece!:

1. Comment here! For the love of god.. No "I'm a subscriber" and No "enter me please"... I read all the comments and although I love the effort, I get bored easy. How about something like a good billboard you read? Or why I shouldn't eat cheese (it makes you gassy!) or even what the gnome will help you decide! I like random.

2. All Entries need to be in by Monday the 22nd by 10:00am est

3. I'll randomly pick a winner that day (using Random.org) and email them!

4. If you don't respond in three days a number two is drawn! (heh heh... #2).

That is all! Happy Gnoming everyone!

Arrrr Mateys! Everyone Loves a Wiener!

Shiver me timbers!
We've got some booty to disperse!

Our wiener #3 of the Pirateology: Guidebook & Model Kit IS....

K-team!

Man, we were CRACKIN up over the comments!
After reading them, I promptly changed my google language
to Pirate! (thanks Sarah!)
And the sky is blue, because it's colored that way... (Nice Valeta)

Thanks to everyone for entering...
and stick around for our Final Loopy Giveaway!!!

Yar! Thar be Giveaway Week 3!

Here's week 3 of our "1,000 POSTS!!!???
Holy Jesus in a handbasket!" Tour!

Our Week 3 Giveaway:

Pirateology: Guidebook & Model Kit!
Build the ship on the cover with pieces inside! Retails for $20! You know you want it... we're all pirates inside..matey.

Our Rules!

1. Same as week 1! Don't care about that digg, twitter, subscribing stuff... you want it? You comment here! Comment about anything! Why the sky is blue? Why tryptophan tastes so good? Why it burns when I pee? (just kidding). But write whatever you want!

2. This week has a different closing since I'm going away for a week... so we'll keep it open for a WHOLE 2 wks!!! Comments will close TUESDAY Dec. 16. All I'll pick a winner that day! (what a great way to start the week!).

3. If we don't hear from the winner by Thurs at noon, we'll find a number two (heh heh..poopdeck)!

So Let the Shipmate comments fly!

P.S. We have 1 more giveaway after this!
For our 4th and final giveaway!
(and Arrr pic via)

Contest Week Two!

The Winner of the Week two giveaway of the Rude Girl Store credit, the DSS Minimates and the Graphic Novel is JAYME! Congrats Jayme, we already talked this weekend but if you don't get a hold of Susan let me know and I will email her for you and your other goodies are on the way!

A Freaking Sweet Giveaway!!!

It's time for another awesome giveaway from your pals at Loopy Rocket! Up for grabs this week are some very special goodies. First we have a $10.00 Gift card to Rude Girl Productions, in case you have never seen or read about Susan's stuff here at Loopy you should know that $10.00 will get you a lot. She does some amazing things with needle work, recycled stuff and polymer! She has created so many personal gifts and things for me in the past, I can vouch for her craftiness, to name a few I have gotten some amazing taggy blankets from her, jewelery that looks amazingly like bacon and hamburgers, and even some recycled old t-shirts into new onesies for our new baby, she can pretty much do anything you ask her. Here are some pictures of Susan's creations that I love!

I sent Susan some of my old T-shirts to salvage as she saw fit and I end up with lots of new baby duds!

I bought this hamburger necklace a while back to proudly proclaim to all the world my meatatarianism.

She makes some really great taggy type blankets, this one is just my style!!!


So along with all the goodness you'll be able to purchase at Susan's Etsy Store, I am also including some Desperately seeking Susan Minimates (since this is a Susan theme) and a Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting graphic novel.



HOW TO WIN:

You'll need to do this:

1. Go to Susan's Etsy shop and tell me something you have your eye on in case you win, what's your favorite item or what do you just think is the coolest!

For an extra entry head on over to Classy Mommy and vote for me Jennifer Lleras and make sure to put your vote number in the comment so I know that you did it!

RULES:

So rules to get these puppies!:

1. Comment here & follow How To win instructions

2. All Entries need to be in by Friday the 28th at 4:30

3. I'll randomly pick a winner that day and notify them by Monday

4. If you don't respond in three days a number two is drawn!

We Have Weiner No. 1! SCREW BLOGGER

STOOOPID F"IN BLOGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOST ALL THINGS FROM LAST CONTEST!
'CEPT COMMENTS STILL THERE!!!!!!
Stoopid (can I cuss here?) F*CKING BLOGGER!!!
F*CK!

Um... Okay... so before the whole thing went to shit.
We actually DO have a winner.
It was Scheuduled to post on MONDAY... NOT TODAY!!!
And behold... there went my lovely posting.
SO ANGRY!!!!!!

Okay, I had to vent. Feel better...and onto better news.

we have 3 MORE giveaways!!!
Each Monday!

and and and... I miss those comments...they were hilarity.

Sugarloaf Festival Tix Giveaway, THIS WEEKEND!

Whoa! So you do one, teeny giveaway... AND BAM! The crafty universe opens up...and delivers

2 Free Tix to the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival in Gaithersburg!!!!
If you're not familiar with the festival, it's an all out brawl worth of really talented crafters! (Well, more like Craft-artists) There's gonna be a Food, Kid's Area & Crafty Demos! I'm thinking a full day of Crafter fun!

Some Artisans include:

Davide Jagger Shapiro:Jerry Wheeler:Brian Beckenheimer:Lisa Bouvet:

So rules to get these puppies!:

1. Comment here & lemme know you want the tix!

2. It's this weekend, so this is gonna be a quick one...I'll need entries by Friday at Noon! (11/21).

3. I'll randomly pick a winner that day, and get your name to the super guys in charge!

4. You go to the show for FREE!!! (It's usually $8 bucks each! $16 value!)

Is life awesome, or what!?

Dr. Pepper Eats It!

Free Dr. Pepper for everyone!

From Reuters:

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Many have tried, but so far nobody has been able to pry the decade-in-the-works Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" from the hands of lone remaining original member Axl Rose.

Now, Dr Pepper thinks it's up to the challenge. The soft drink company says it will give a free can of Dr Pepper to "everyone in America" (excluding ex-Guns members Slash and Buckethead) if "Chinese Democracy" arrives anytime during the calendar year 2008.

And surprise, surprise! Looks like 'Chinese Democracy' is set to release Nov. 23, 2008.

Details for your free Dr. Pepper!:

Dr Pepper is ready to give out free soda coupons to every American when the album releases on Nov. 23, 2008. If you're out to get a free Dr Pepper just follow these simple steps:

HOW TO GET YOUR FREE DR PEPPER

1. On the Nov. 23, 2008 release date, go to www.drpepper.com
2. Register your information to receive a coupon for one free 20-oz. Dr Pepper.
3. When your coupon arrives, redeem it wherever Dr Pepper is sold.
4. Drink your Dr Pepper slowly to experience all 23 flavors. Dr's orders.

Coupons will be available for 24 hours, starting at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 23, 2008. Allow 4-6 weeks for coupon to arrive. Coupons will expire on Feb. 28, 2009. Limit one coupon per person. Full terms and conditions available at www.drpepper.com