Sponsor Love + Giveaway - Oh, Sweet Joy!

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I’m so excited to kick off another GIVEAWAY WEEK (there’s FOUR giveaways this time) with my sponsor, Oh, Sweet Joy! I met Kim through blogging early last year and we became instant friends! She had an adorable etsy shop and one of my first etsy purchases was from her freaking adorable shop, and then I became addicted to etsy shopping, thanks Kim! 😉 Well much of the last few months, Kim was overseas so she couldn’t keep her shop open, but recently she opened back up a bigcartel shop that is bigger and better! Not to mention, I’ve already ordered a few things from it, hehe. Oh, Sweet Joy! is full of headbands, coffee cuffs, earrings, necklaces, and totes made from some of the prettiest designer fabrics out there! And she’s even added DIY owl kits and cute spool prints to her shop as well. Kim is constantly surprising us with new baller items… go check her shop out, would ya? Or sit back, grab a coffee (and then realize you need one of her coffee cuffs) and get to know Kim a little bit better!

{MEET KIM}

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m a Texan living in Colorful Colorado with my husband, who is a baller & one talented photographer. We live in Boulder, CO and feel most at home in the mountains. I love to sew, decorate, bake, cook, craft, & paint. Just your everyday Martha Stewart wannabe. 😉 My kitchen will prove it.

2) What inspired you to open up shop?
After graduating from Texas A&M in May 2009, I couldn’t find a job when we moved to Colorado besides retail. I needed a break from that after a few months of tourist season & had an need to create. My brain & my hands are constantly fiddling. I needed to be able to make stuff….all the time! I learned to sew a couple of years prior to that & it had become a major passion. I decided to give it a go & opened up my shop (Oh, Sweet Joy!) at the end of October 2009. It’s been such a blast!

3) What is the best thing about having a full-time handmade business?
Gosh. The networking, the marketing, the creating…I love it all!! I guess the coolest thing is having people WANT to buy my designs. It blows my mind. And the best thing? I’d say getting to work from home doing what I love…day in, day out. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

4) If you could see your fabric frame necklace on one celebrity, who would it be?
AHH! I’ve always wanted to be asked this question & now I’m stumped! I’m going to go with Tina Fey. She’s just a baller & someone who makes me laugh as hard as she does deserves a cute necklace. 🙂

a printable by kim, so fun!

5) What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Oh goodness gracious. Have you had Häagen-Dazs “Five” Mint? It’s heavenly. However, I’m a Texan & a Blue Bell girl through & through. I’d be disowned from my family if I didn’t say Blue Bell…It’s a tie between Butter Pecan & Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. YUM. Can I tell a funny Blue Bell Ice Cream story? Great. Thanks. We had a neopolitan half gallon in the freezer one time I went home to visit family. I looked in the freezer, opened it up and my dad had eaten all of the chocolate from the middle. It was like the grand canyon of vanilla & strawberry ice cream.

{GIVEAWAY}

Y’all are soo lucky! Kim is giving away a rosette headband and covered button earrings set! Are these adorable or what?

How to enter:

1. Visit Oh, Sweet Joy! and leave a comment with your favorite item!

For additional entries, leave a separate comment for each action.

2. Be a Google Friend Connect follower of Sandy a la Mode
3. Be a Google Friend Connect follower of Yellow Songbird
4. Follow @sandyalamode and @ohsweetjoy on twitter
5. Blog, facebook, or tweet about this giveaway (make sure to include @sandyalamode and @ohsweetjoy in your tweet) and let me know about it (one entry each)

Feel free to use this tweet:
Enter to win a rosette headband and covered button earrings from @ohsweetjoy on @sandyalamode’s blog! http://bit.ly/fr9oFG

This giveaway is open to U.S./Canada only and closes on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 12PM CST. Good luck!