Goddess of.. I'm Going to Portugal & France! + Giveaway Winner

It's a done deal, girlfriends. The boy (we'll call him Nick) booked our plane tickets to Portugal yesterday and this morning, I booked my flight to Paris. Such exciting (yet terrifiying) adventures, don't you think?


The Skeptic in me still doubts that this is happening but the Romantic in me is researching the best beaches, romantic hotels, fun bars & gourmet restaurants. I've only taken one vacation with a boy in my lifetime: my ex Miguel and I went to Florida in 2007. It was fun & exciting with a side of bickering. But this time, it's completely different.

Everything is new and exciting. I've spent very little time with this guy, yet we like each other a lot and want to get to know one another. Sure, this could be a disaster (says the Skeptic) but it could also be a vacation I'll never forget & the start of a great story, the kind you only see in the movies (says the Romantic).

It could also be somewhere half-way in the middle, neither mind-blowing nor totally disastrous (says the Realist). We'll see :) only time will tell. But either way, I'll get to visit Portugal & France!

Also, I CANNOT WAIT to meet Andrea of @FranceHappened, it feels like it's gonna be one of those love at first sight stories.. because let's face it, she's incredible!


I leave you with an excerpt of adorableness from the boy: 

Nick: Ummmm how light do you usually travel lol? I need to know if you'll need checked bags.
Me: I wanna travel light but I don't know if I can fit absolutely everything in a single carry-on. Maybe, if I put everything in my suitcase and just hold my passport/boarding pass in my hand? Could be doable.

Another e-mail later...

Nick: So we're booked for Portugal! I got us 1 checked bag each (I think I can manage without hehe, the second one is just in case you go a *little* overboard ! :P )

Oh wow, it's cute how he knows me (or all women). The extra luggage will be awesome and I'm glad I didn't have to ask. He's taken initiative with every step of this booking process and I love that!

And now, for the Eden Fantasys Giveaway Draw

*Drum roll*

The lucky winner is:

Send me an e-mail at aritza.goddess@gmail.com and we will contact you to give you your prize!

Goddess of .. The Mod Market Giveaway Winner !

I am preparing a long and detailed post about the celebrations that took place last saturday for my 25th birthday .. but before hittin' publish on that one, I want to announce the VERY LUCKY winner of the final (for this year) B'day Giveaway !

One reader will get this beautiful

Cream frayed rosette headband with pearl center

from my wonderfully generous sponsor : The Mod Market 

.. in the mail, very very soon !

And that The Mod Market winner is:

Congrats to the adorable

Siovhan @ The Siovhan Show !

Congrats girly ! This cream headband will look great in your gorgeous blond locks :o)
Send me an email with your home address and The Mod Market will send you your lovely prize very soon !

Thank you all for participating in My 25th Birthday giveaways !

I hope you liked the items that I featured here :o)

P.S. To my four lucky winners (Summer, Non Sequitur Chica, Sassy Chica & Siovhan) .. CONGRATS !

Oh ! And I just want to throw it out there, I am NOT receiving ANY kind of compensation for doing these giveaways. I support The Mod Market's etsy store simply and fully because I love every one of their items and I asked them to do a giveaway with me as a "Thank you" to my loyal followers.

Goddess of .. B'day Giveaway #4 - The Mod Market !

::: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED :::

Hey again bloggies ! The birthday weekend celebrations are about to begin but before I drop off the face of the blogosphere for a few days, I've got one last birthday giveaway for you :o) 

Yesterday, I revealed the winner of last week's NuvoNova gift. The winner will receive their choice of the seven necklaces offered , congrats !! Big thanks to Clara of NuvoNova for the wonderful giveaway :o)

**Click here to see who last week's lucky winner is !**

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And now on to this week's giveaway :

The Mod Market is a brand-new Oregon based Etsy store, operated by the lovely Becca since April 2010. The Mod Market specializes in making rosette headbands for girls and women. If you remember correctly, I recently wrote a post about "Rosette" fashion for spring 2010, so I thought The Mod Market would make for a very fitting sponsor ! This Etsy store also sells cute crochet hats, sassy necklaces, stylish hairclips & belts .. all Rosette inspired :o) which makes me really really happy !

Let me share some of my favorite items with you :

I'd like my rosettes with a side of pearls, please ..

A gorgeous and trendy way to dress up a simple outfit ..

Flower headbands & little girls go together like peanut butter & jelly ..

The lucky winner will receive this beautiful rosette headband :

I love this headband so so SO much. To the future winner, I say : I am jealous !!

This cream colored headband is very versatile because of its color

and also, it is on a detachable clip, so it can be worn without the headband.

Fits most adults and children :o)

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The Mod Market

Giveaway Rules

**Open to followers worldwide**

To enter this giveaway :

1. Follow my blog (through Google Friend Connect)
2. Visit The Mod Market's Etsy store and Tell me which item is your favorite !

For additional entries :

- Follow me on Twitter (1 extra entry)

- Be my friend on Facebook (1 extra entry)

- Blog / Twitter about the Mod Market giveaway (2 extra entries)

- Buy an item from The Mod Market's Etsy store (5 extra entries)

That's a total of 10 possible chances to win, so get on it.. Stat !

The giveaway is opened from Friday, May 7th 2010 to Thursday, May 13th 2010.

The winner will be announced next Friday, May 14th 2010.

Good luck, Bloggies !

P.S. Please note that I am not receiving ANY kind of compensation for doing this giveaway. I support The Mod Market's etsy store simply because I love their items and I asked for them to do a giveaway as a "Thank you" to my loyal followers.

Goddess of .. NuvoNova Giveaway Winner !

Once again, a little late because of trouble with my laptop  .. but I've got a NuvoNova giveaway winner for you :o) There's also another giveaway coming up, the last one of the birthday giveaways .. as my birthday is this sunday. I will return to posting my regular rants & raves sometime next week .. I miss posting about regular stuff. I hope you enjoyed the giveaways and I loved giving back to you .. as you've given so much to me with your constant support !

The lucky winner of the NuvoNova necklace is :

Congrats to the wonderful

Sassy Chica @ Sassy Chica - the blog !

Congrats girl ! The mini-key necklace & pouch you wanted are yours :o)
Send me an email with your home address and NuvoNova will send you your lovely prize very soon !

Thank you all for participating !

Oh ! And I just want to throw it out there, I am NOT receiving ANY kind of compensation for doing these giveaways. I support NuvoNova's etsy store simply and fully because I love every one of her items and I asked her to do a giveaway with me as a "Thank you" to my loyal followers.

Have a great week, bloggies !

I will be posting another wonderful giveaway later..

.. so come back and enter for your chance to win :)

Goddess of .. B'day Giveaway #3 - NuvoNova !

::: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED :::

Alrighty, so I'm a little late on posting this third giveaway.. but I will give you one more day to enter it ! Let's all continue to celebrate my upcoming 25th birthday (May 9th) by giving you some more presents, right ?!

Yesterday, I revealed the winner of last week's LouLouBell gift. The winner will receive the beautiful Classic Damask - Flat Bottom Zipper Pouch / Small Cosmetic Carry Along , congrats !! Big thanks to Lyndsay of LouLouBell for the wonderful giveaway :o)

**Click here to see who last week's lucky winner is !**

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And now on to this week's giveaway :

NuvoNova is a London, UK based Etsy store, operated by the lovely Clara (who works as a Junior Designer for a UK fashion brand) since May 2008. NuvoNova sells necklaces with a wonderful vintage feel (all of them come in an adorable matching pouch), photo albums, ribbon-bound notebooks, womanswear (all made from scratch and adorned with a cute bow) and a variety of other items (tote bags, labels, printed cotton pouches, original prints, framed prints, pocket mirrors, stationnary and note/postcards). I love everything in her Etsy store, we definitely have very similar taste !

Let me share some of my favorite items with you :

Bows, roses and a feminine touch ..

Be sexy, Stay classy..

The cat's out of the bag now ..

There's nothing neutral about this shade of grey ..

The lucky winner will get to pick one of these 7 necklaces:

Mini angel wing necklace with matching pouch

Mini bow necklace with matching pouch

Mini nova necklace with matching pouch

Mini skull necklace with matching pouch

Mini spider necklace with matching pouch

Mini pistol necklace with matching pouch

Mini key necklace with matching pouch

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NuvoNova

Giveaway Rules

**Open to followers worldwide**

To enter this giveaway :

1. Follow my blog (through Google Friend Connect)
2. Tell me which one of the 7 NuvoNova necklaces offered you would pick if you won ?

For additional entries :

- Follow me on Twitter (1 extra entry)

- Be my friend on Facebook (1 extra entry)
- Blog / Twitter about the NuvoNova giveaway (2 extra entries)
- Buy an item from NuvoNova's Etsy store (5 extra entries)

That's a total of 10 possible chances to win, so get on it.. Stat !

The giveaway is opened from Tuesday, April 27th 2010 to Monday, May 3rd 2010.

The winner will be announced next Tuesday, May 4th 2010.

Good luck, Bloggies !

P.S. Please note that I am not receiving ANY kind of compensation for doing this giveaway. I support NuvoNova's etsy store simply because I love their items and I asked for them to do a giveaway as a "Thank you" to my loyal followers.

Goddess of .. LouLouBell Giveaway Winner !

This week, I've decided to keep my little weekend re-cap for another post later, probably on wednesday, and just announce the LouLouBell giveaway winner right away !

The lucky winner of the Classic Damask

Flat Bottom Zipper Pouch / Small Cosmetic Carry Along 

from LouLouBell's Etsy store is :

And lucky numero UNO is :

The very endearing and honest, fellow law-school graduate :

Non Sequitur Chica @ Non Sequitur Chica - the blog !

Congrats girl ! You said you needed a new toiletries bag so here it comes :o)

I will send you an e-mail to get your home address and LouLouBell will send you your lovely prize very soon !

Thank you all for participating !

Oh ! And I just want to throw it out there, because someone questioned my blogger / lawyer sense of integrity this week (and I deleted their post because they did not want to be entered into the giveaway), that I am NOT receiving ANY kind of compensation for doing these giveaways. I support LouLouBell's etsy store simply and fully because I love every one of her items and I asked her to do a giveaway with me as a "Thank you" to my loyal followers.

Have a great week, bloggies !

I will be posting another wonderful giveaway later tonight..

.. so come back and enter for your chance to win :)

Goddess of .. Charming Rebecca Giveaway Winner !

 Good morning, Bloggies ! How was your weekend ?

I hope it was as fun as mine :o)

  

I spent my friday night with a bunch of my girlfriends (and two of their boyfriends)
at a Brasilian restaurant we'd been wanting to try for a while !  

The food was wonderful : All-you-can-eat 10 sorts of meat grilled on charcoal (pork sausages, chicken , turkey wrapped in bacon, roast pork, top sirloin, strip sirloin, flat sirloin, contre-filet, rib of beef, rib steak, filet mignon, lamb, etc.), served with all-you-can-eat mixed greens salad, sweet potatoes, rice and sauteed mushrooms ! Delicious !! One after the other, the waiters came to our table with a different type of meat and they would slice it fresh in our plates, it was so fun and the meat was juicy !

And dessert : Grilled pineapple with cinnamon or vanilla ice cream, + coffee or tea !

Oh and we can't forget the entertainment : Samba dancers !

Then, on saturday night, I was expecting to start entering the data / entries for the Charming Rebecca giveaway in an Excel spreadsheet .. yes, those were my totally exciting typical saturday plans. However, around 11pm, my friend Violet called me and we decided to go out for drinks ! We had such a blast, good conversation, good drinks and we met some cool people :o)

And on sunday afternoon, I met up with Violet again : We walked around town for about an hour, fed peanuts to some squirrels and pigeons (Yes, we're totally aware that we are strange pigeon ladies, à la Home Alone, lol.) and then, we stopped for lunch (warm vegetable soup & swiss cheese burger).

On the walk back home, we stopped at the park and enjoyed the sun a little. It was laid-back, relaxing and very fun ! Who said crazy pigeon ladies can't have fun ?!

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You've been very patient, listening to me yap-yap-yap away about my weekend and my pigeons ! Unless you just skipped to this part, either way, I love you and I thank you for visiting my blog. But if you read the whole thing, I love you more. Also, I wanted say thanks for entering the giveaway .. I had WAY more entries than I ever thought possible and hopefully, you enjoyed discovering Charming Rebecca's items !! After spending hours on Excel, entering all your comments / entries to the giveaway, I have the results of the Charming Rebecca giveaway for you.. drumroll, please !

The lucky winner of one item of your choice
from Charming Rebecca's Etsy store is :

The wonderfully sweet and inspiring

Summer @ "B" is for... Brown, Breathe & Believe !

Congrats girl ! Now the fun begins, picking your new piece of jewelry :o)

Thank you all for participating !
Don't forget to enter this week's giveaway, there's more stuff to win..