Thursday, December 11, 2008

Steamy Kitchen’s Big Holiday Giveaway

By SteamyKitchen / 802 comments »

This year, I want to make each holiday gift really count, as I’m being frugal AND thoughtful. I’ve got to be careful and really teach the bebes about the value of money and the art of selecting the perfect gift for each person.

I’m not doing a great job, as yesterday I gave Andrew $33 to shop for me, Scott, Nathan, Mimi and Papa. His elementary school had a fundraiser where they had an entire set-up of useless gifts that you’d never buy yourself but feel like a cheap-ass if you don’t buy something because the school that is responsible for teaching my child things that I can’t (like math, following directions and assembling !$(*&!% toys) is underfunded. Though honestly, I’d rather write a check for $300 and give that to the school than to spend $300 on useless crap (ugly wrapping paper? too-sweet chocolates? magazine subscriptions that I don’t need?) and only have 10% of that end up going to the school. But I digress.

So Andrew comes home with 6 little gift bags in his backpack and runs to me clutching his $2.80 in change in his other hand. He proudly says to me, “Mama, I picked out perfect presents for everyone!” And then he started stuffing our stockings with the presents.

Hmmm…I couldn’t resist the curiousity and copped a feel (no peeking of course, that’s against the rules…but FONDLING? totally appropriate). The object in my stocking felt suspiciously like a new set of round, bouncy boobs.

Now THAT’S the type of fundraiser I’d totally lay down for.

But then on second thought, $6 might only buy a coupla rubber super bounce balls.

A Few of My Favorite Things

I’ve tested, tasted and played with lots of toys this year, and here are my absolute favorites that would make fantabulous holiday gifts. I’m giving away a bunch of gifts to you – just for commenting – so make sure you enter the random drawing to win:

Contest is over! Here are the winners…

(I’m sure I’ll be adding more gifts to giveaway in the next few days too)

Himalayan Pink Salt Blocks and Plates

himalayan pink salt plates and blocks

As you know, I’m totally obsessed with all things salt – from making your own Asian finishing salts to salting your steaks and it’s even an accessory to cheating on my husband.

The Meadow has gorgeous Himalayan Pink Salt Plates and Blocks from Pakistan that are so unique. You can use the glowing pink plate to grill, saute, chill, bake, serve and cure. Instead of salt on food – this is food on salt, and the Himalayan Pink Salt Plate imparts its delicate saltiness onto and into the food. When you’re done, just rinse, dry and store for next time.

Steaks on Himalayan Salt Block
Flatiron steaks on a large salt block

I’ve chilled the salt block for a couple of hours in the refrigerator and then used it as a serving platter for carpaccio, cheeses and fresh fruits. Any food that has a bit of moisture will pick up some of the salty goodness!

I’ve also placed the block on the outdoor grill and sauteed wild mushrooms on it – the salt block seasoned my mushrooms perfectly. The plate heats up to 500F and sears the food beautifully. I’ve yet to try steaks, but will be playing with that this weekend.

The prices are very reasonable – I’m eyeing this salt slab for sushi Sushi Slab for $19.95 and this salt grater plus salt rockSalt Grater plus Himalayan Pink Salt Rock for $16.95

Plus, owner Mark Bitterman is awesome – he’s the first person I’ve ever met more passionate about salts than I am! Just a great small business based in Portland, Oregon that I hope you’ll support.

The Meadow is giving away a Himalayan Pink Salt Block (8x4x2 inch)

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The Snazziest Bread Knife in the World

Okay, time to get off the salt thing and move onto knives. I’ve raved about New West Knifeworks before and just can’t say enough great things about them. They’ve just announced their newest product, the Super Bread Knife – though personally I would have named it Kiss-Yer-Mama-Bread Knife because it’s so pretty you just wanna….eat bread.

If you’re giving a knife away as a present, my Mama told me to tell you that in many cultures, giving away a knife is bad luck. BUT hang on there – it’s not a “gift” if you make the recipient give you a penny back in return. So, just make sure that the recipient pays you a penny, quarter, whatever so that you’re not cursed with whatever knife god you’ll piss off, okay?

From New West Knifeworks, my choice for a gift would be either the above Kiss-Yer-Mama Bread Knife ($129 on sale now!) or the Phoenix Petty knife ($99). The Phoenix is the perfect size for most small kitchen tasks, from vegetables to fruit to cutting open packages (omg, just kidding! I worship my knife!)

I’m giving away a Super Bread Knife!

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Kobe Beef Burgers

Kobe Beef Burgers

Palm Beach Prime sent me a box of Kobe Beef Burgers ($27.95) to try and OH MY !(#%*&!(*%!% BURGERLICIOUS BUNS! They win. There is no other reason to buy any other burger than these. You will not have lived a fulfilling life unless you have sunk your drooling teeth into these Kobe Beef Burgers. Yes, my teeth do drool. They also are craving a Kobe Beef Burger right now too.

Palm Beach Prime is giving away a pack of 4 Kobe Beef Burgers (U.S. only)

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Sterling Silver Premium Meats

Sterling Silver Premium Meats

OOOHLAALAA! Sterling sent me their Ultimate Sampler which included Two 6 oz. Filet Mignons, Two 12 oz. New York Steaks, Two 12 oz. Ribeyes, Two 6 oz. Boneless Center Cut Pork Chops, and one 16 oz. Pork Tenderloin Roast. ($119.00) We’ve tried the Filets and the Ribeyes so far and loved them. The beef comes from the top 12% of all beef and is aged. Their pork is all natural.

Sterling Silver has generously given us an Ultimate Sampler package to give away! (yay beef!)

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Sacred Glo Lotion Candles

Sacred Glo Lotion Candles

I met lovely Ederle on Twitter a few weeks ago and was totally smitten with the idea of a candle made of lotion. As the candle burns, the soy bean oil, shea butter, and the fragrant essential oils melt together, and create a warm, inviting pool of body lotion or massage oil that is only 2° above body temperature.

Ederle is a full-time corporate mama – and her dream is to make her Sacred Glo Lotion Candles a thriving business.

I know you’ll just love these lotion candles! In my sexy-hot days B.C. (Before Children) I used to love pouring hot candle wax on my lover. Made a mess, though and then would have to spend the next day scraping the hardened wax off the floors. I know, you used to do that too, right?

Um. no?

okaymeneitherjustkidding.

Sacred Glo is giving away a Lotion Candle of your choice.

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Global Gardens Award Winning Olive Oil and Mango Champagne Vinegar

Global Gardens Olive OilGlobal Gardens Mango Champagne Vinegar

These two together make the best salad dressing. The Mango Champagne Vinegar ($16) comes in a curvy carafe and paired with their award winning Mission Extra Virgin Olive Oil – the combo makes any salad sexy. The olive oil is bright, buttery with a sagey finish.

Global Gardens also has other interesting fruit champagne vinegars – like Blood Orange, Pomegranate and Green Apple.

Global Gardens is giving away their Mission Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Mango Champagne Vinegar combo.

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Photo Canvas from Canvas R Us

I’ve saved my personal favorite for last – I took some pics of the rugrats in the backyard a few weeks ago and sent them into Canvas R Us. A week later, I got 4 individual wooden framed canvas prints back, and they are now hanging in my family room. It instantly brightened and warmed up the entire home – the smiles and love in these boys faces are priceless.

It’s super simple – all you have to do is upload your photo to their Canvas R Us’ website and choose the size that you want. You can get one single canvas or a collage, like me.

linear_to_canvas

And look at the quality that comes back!

This is my fav pic:

Don’t they look like they NEVER fight over toys or tease each other?

Canvas R Us is giving away a single photo canvas of your choice!

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How to enter the Steamy Kitchen’s Big Holiday Giveaway

Contest is over! The winners are announced here…

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802 Responses to “Steamy Kitchen’s Big Holiday Giveaway”

  1. 1

    Amy Cairns — 12/11/08 @ 3:03 pm

    It was a beautiful fall day and my kids and I went hiking at Washington Rock State Park in northern NJ. I took a photo of my son age 7 and daughter age 12 that truly captured the beauty of the day in their sweet faces.

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    Vicki — 12/11/08 @ 3:03 pm

    Wow, what a super giveaway! I’ve got a picture of “The Bean” in Chicago that I think would look great on canvas.

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    Debra McCloud — 12/11/08 @ 3:04 pm

    OK. I’m coming out of the shadows of this one! I would love to finally have one of the pictures taken of my two little babes (well, not so little anymore…they are 9 & 14, but they were little in the picture!). It’s a beautiful picture of them at the arboretum, and I’ve been a real slacker about getting something done with it!

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    Karen Murphy — 12/11/08 @ 3:07 pm

    Hard to choose…. I think the one I took the day of the ice storm last year. The sun was out and after searching for the right angle I finally captured the ice as it dripped, motionless, off the tree in front of my house.

    GORGEOUS knife, btw. Oh my…

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    Aaron Schalk — 12/11/08 @ 3:08 pm

    I’m totally in with this, and thank you. So often we only give gifts to those who we personally know and see everyday.

    If I were to print a canvas, I’d print one with one of my wife’s concert photos for my office. I love her stuff: http://www.redwallphotography.com

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    Amy Cairns — 12/11/08 @ 3:08 pm

    BONUS – posted info about your contest on Twitter. That canvas idea is great. Thank you for sharing!

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    Dana — 12/11/08 @ 3:09 pm

    Ohh what a wonderful gift!

    For the photo canvas, I’d probably a landscape or an aerial photo of the community where we live (New Town at St. Charles, Missouri).

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    Dana — 12/11/08 @ 3:11 pm

    Bonus entry! (Twitter)

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    Nick — 12/11/08 @ 3:12 pm

    I would print the picture of my family on our recent trip to Napa. Gorgeous background scenery.

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    Loweeel — 12/11/08 @ 3:13 pm

    For the canvas, I’d probably print a picture of me w/ some of my little cousins from this past summer. Or me and my bro at a winery in napa from the same trip.

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    Annalise — 12/11/08 @ 3:14 pm

    I would love to get a photo of my boyfriend and I from when we went to go visit my hometown. The pictures I got we’re really bright, vivid and something I’d love to see more often without having to search on my computer for them.

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    Annie — 12/11/08 @ 3:15 pm

    We had such a gorgeous fall this year in the northeastern US and I have piles of foliage fotos to look at and brighten up our dank wintry days. Would love to canvasify one of those. Or maybe that picture of my then-40-year-old grandfather where he looks like Cary Grant!

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    Andrea — 12/11/08 @ 3:15 pm

    How do you manage to do all these fantastic giveaways? For the photo canvas, I would do a pic of my three boys, though I don’t know how in the world I’ll ever get the three of them to all be still in the same moment. :-)

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    jamie — 12/11/08 @ 3:15 pm

    I’d print a photo of my sister that I took in Rome at night; she was buying roasted chestnuts at a vendor.

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    Loweeel — 12/11/08 @ 3:15 pm

    BONUS — posted an entry on twitter! http://twitter.com/Loweeel/status/1051839353

    I’d love the salt block.

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    Liiva — 12/11/08 @ 3:15 pm

    A picture of me and my boyfriend in front of an old factory in Cambridge.

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    Karen — 12/11/08 @ 3:16 pm

    I woud like to have a photo canvas of soldiers spending Christmas in Iraq. It would be a good reminder of those that sacrifice much so that we can enjoy the holidays with our family and friends.

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    Kristin — 12/11/08 @ 3:16 pm

    BONUS (Facebook post) – Definitely a recent picture of my precious godchild.

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    Chris — 12/11/08 @ 3:17 pm

    Beach pictures are always a good choice. Bonus too. :)

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    Annie — 12/11/08 @ 3:18 pm

    BONUS! Stumbled you on my blog!

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    Matt — 12/11/08 @ 3:18 pm

    I *would* like to immortalize a shot of me at the competitive eating table, mid-munch and glory-bound (or antacid-bound) but I’ll skip that dream for now and go with a really stunning photo of a Boston sky at dusk that I took while attending a conference there this past June.

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    Nicole — 12/11/08 @ 3:19 pm

    what a great giveaway. I want to print a photo of our house at night with the big dipper and the northern lights. I am still thinking about painting this scene as well.

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    blair — 12/11/08 @ 3:20 pm

    Oh, how exciting!
    I would get a canvas of my son, because what else would I want on my walls!

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    Matt — 12/11/08 @ 3:21 pm

    BONUS: http://twitter.com/mventre/status/1051849115

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    ck — 12/11/08 @ 3:23 pm

    Such a fabulous giveaway – Thanks so much for putting this together! My canvas photo would be a group shot from our April wedding. I’d love to have the photos of both sides of family on our wall!

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    jamie — 12/11/08 @ 3:23 pm

    **Bonus** Blogged about the contest…thanks for doing such a wonderful contest!

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    Fran — 12/11/08 @ 3:24 pm

    I took a picture of my kids walking home from my son’s first day of school. They were walking hand in hand (as if they never fight, just like yours!) and it was just so sweet. That’s what I would put on the canvas.

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    VP — 12/11/08 @ 3:24 pm

    Recently married, so another picture of that would be lovely.

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    courtney — 12/11/08 @ 3:24 pm

    I would love to have a nice photo of me and my partner CS spending Christmas in Germnay together .

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    Nick — 12/11/08 @ 3:25 pm

    BONUS – posted on twitter and you can check the # clicks of the link here: http://eaturl.info/?cpwb.

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    Ellie — 12/11/08 @ 3:25 pm

    Such awesome items! My husband and I are planning on trying to get pregnant this next year, it would be awesome to have a picture of the new baby on the canvas!

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    Tim Smith — 12/11/08 @ 3:25 pm

    My canvas photo would be a picture my kids took during the annual Christmas card photo shoot. They were both laying on the ground looking up at the camera. So sweet, and like your photo of the boys makes you think that they never fuss or fight.

    Thanks, Jaden!

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    Chris Perrin — 12/11/08 @ 3:26 pm

    Cool giveaway. I am so excited about getting the block of Himalyan salt. Not sure I want to cook on it or break it up and cook with it. Or both…

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    courtney — 12/11/08 @ 3:26 pm

    BONUS:Just Twittered about it. A picture of CS and I from our recent Bahamamas trip would be great too.

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    Deanna — 12/11/08 @ 3:26 pm

    It would have to be a beautiful beach sunset photo from Sanibel Island where my husband and I frequently visit.

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    Willa — 12/11/08 @ 3:27 pm

    A picture of my family and I

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    Psychgrad — 12/11/08 @ 3:27 pm

    I’m going to the Dominican Republic later this month. I would put a picture from that trip on canvas.

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    Deb on the Rocks — 12/11/08 @ 3:27 pm

    How cool are those prize? I have an awesome photo from this fall of my two boys, the older showing off the key to his first apartment while hug-wrestling his younger brother. They are on their way away from me. Sigh. But I love the photo because they are gorgeous, they are growing away, and they are tight friends. Gulp.

    Or, a photo from the boob fundraiser would be awesome. (My son’s school gives the donation option—one check= no guilt about fundraisers. Best check I write all year!)

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    Willa — 12/11/08 @ 3:27 pm

    BONUS

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    Elle — 12/11/08 @ 3:28 pm

    I think I’d choose a pic of my family on the beach. Thanks for the amazing giveaways!

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    Sandra — 12/11/08 @ 3:28 pm

    Ooh, a pic of me and my boyfriend standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. Love your blog!

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    Carole — 12/11/08 @ 3:28 pm

    Wow, thanks for organizing this and for offering such interesting gifts!
    My canvas photo would probably be a fun picture of my 2 nephews and my niece and I would offer it to my mom who lives far away from them but thinks about them just about any second of the day :)

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    Chris Perrin — 12/11/08 @ 3:29 pm

    BONUS… Still really excited about the salt or the knife

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    Psychgrad — 12/11/08 @ 3:29 pm

    Bonus – just posted about this on Twitter!

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    Elle — 12/11/08 @ 3:29 pm

    BONUS–Twittered!

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    Carrie Oliver — 12/11/08 @ 3:30 pm

    Jaden, I would probably choose a photo from my wedding this summer in Italy. But if the price were right, I’d buy a few myself and then choose photos of my girls. Too hard to choose just one of them!

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    Carrie Oliver — 12/11/08 @ 3:32 pm

    BONUS – Sent out Tweet! Salt Block, please, I like my company’s burgers better ;-)

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    Tabitha "Tabz" Smith — 12/11/08 @ 3:33 pm

    I’d get a pic of my nieces printed for my mom – she’s such a proud grandma!

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    Phoo-D — 12/11/08 @ 3:35 pm

    I’ve been eyeballing those himalayan salt blocks for a few months now, and wondering if they were really great or just a gimick. Thanks for confirming how great they are! I would print out a picture of our six month old puppy Oscar to preserve forever his mischevious puppy grin.
    Phoo-D
    http://www.phoo-d.com

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    ana — 12/11/08 @ 3:36 pm

    there’s this really cute picture i took with my brothers at a photo booth last year, i’d get that done and give it to my mom :]

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    lauren — 12/11/08 @ 3:36 pm

    I would think my favorite photo is one of my dog in a snowstorm. So innocent and so cute.

    or a skating photo. Or a scene from the outdoors…or maybe a whole brand new one :)

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    Maytal — 12/11/08 @ 3:36 pm

    I have a photo of my grandma, mom, me and my daughter, it is a beautiful picture of the generations of our family.

    Yum, burgers….

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    Katie — 12/11/08 @ 3:36 pm

    I would love to win any single one of those things. I would make my husband take a beautiful new picture of the kids.

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    Mike Wells — 12/11/08 @ 3:37 pm

    I’d choose the photo of me slipping the wedding band on my new husband’s finger. We were legally married in February this year. Every time I look at the photo, I get misty — and I never get misty.

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    RecipeGirl — 12/11/08 @ 3:37 pm

    Cute, cute cute! I have a cutie pie pic of me and my little guy kissin’. I’d like to canvas that one :)

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    ana — 12/11/08 @ 3:38 pm

    BONUS- just twittered it!

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    Chrysalis — 12/11/08 @ 3:38 pm

    I would love to have this picture of my little girl that I love done in on a canvas. Those are great gifts by the way.

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    Shaheen — 12/11/08 @ 3:39 pm

    My boyfriend will probably be moving to another town for 2 years. I’d like to put our photo and have him take it with him.

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    leanne — 12/11/08 @ 3:40 pm

    That would be pretty awesome if your kid’s school was selling boobs for Christmas. They WOULD make pretty nice stocking stuffers… or would they be considered sweater stuffers?

    When we went on our Alaskan cruise, we got to play with some sled dog puppies. I got a great picture of my boyfriend holding one (with gorgeous blue eyes) and they both just look so cute. I’d get that one put on canvas and hang it on my office wall.

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    EJ — 12/11/08 @ 3:41 pm

    I’d print a photo of my wife and I enjoying our honeymoon in Hawaii.

    Win or not, I’m planning on checking out that champagne vinegar. Thanks for the informative post!

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    Mike Wells — 12/11/08 @ 3:41 pm

    BONUS: posted your giveaway on my Facebook page.

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    ingrid — 12/11/08 @ 3:41 pm

    I have a great photo of the twins and their sister with her making a face! Very typical of her bugging her older brothers.
    ~ingrid

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    Eileen — 12/11/08 @ 3:41 pm

    I would print a black and white photo of my parents from 40 years ago and give it to them as a gift. My parents look so adorable when they were young and in love!

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    Chris — 12/11/08 @ 3:42 pm

    Oooo- I just printed my first photo on canvas last month. Like, GIANT 3 feet x 4 feet canvas of my 3 kids and I LOVE it. I am already searching for the next photo to print. I will probably get at least one good shot at the summit of the ski resort this summer with all 3 kids in it; maybe even with Hubs and I and that will be the next photo I print on canvas.

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    Fran — 12/11/08 @ 3:43 pm

    BONUS: I tweeted http://twitter.com/FranMagbual/status/1051883475

    I have other pictures of my kids hugging and playing together. I would love to have any one of those pics on a canvas.

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    Ashley — 12/11/08 @ 3:46 pm

    We are getting a professional photographer for Christmas and it will be the first real pictures taken since my daughter was born. One of those would definitely go on the canvas.

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    sylenc — 12/11/08 @ 3:46 pm

    I’d print a photo of the Delaware Water Gap from the New Jersey side. It’s such a lovely view, especially in the fall.

    I may have to order one of the salt blocks. They look nifty!

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    Amanda B. — 12/11/08 @ 3:46 pm

    Awesome contest! I think I’d probably print one of my many nature pictures. I’m not sure which one just yet!

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    leanne — 12/11/08 @ 3:47 pm

    BONUS! Blogged: http://threedogkitchen.com/2008/12/11/fun-stuff-not-herefun-stuff-not-here/

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    Winne — 12/11/08 @ 3:47 pm

    I’d print our pictures from our Maui trip from over a year? 2 years? ago. Lordy – it’s been long. It was an incredible trip and I looked skinnier then too. hahaha

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    Maple — 12/11/08 @ 3:47 pm

    What a great gift idea. I’d put on my canvas a picture of my grandparents (the only one I have, and precious because I never got to meet them).

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    Dickie — 12/11/08 @ 3:48 pm

    So many things to win! Here’s to hoping I snag one this time.

    I’m going to stop by The Meadow this weekend and snag a salt slab. Too interesting to pass up.

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    Dickie — 12/11/08 @ 3:49 pm

    BONUS!

    For my tweet. =)

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    Micha — 12/11/08 @ 3:49 pm

    I have so many photos I’d love to put on canvas! I think my front runner would be a fab shot of the clouds and sky near where we live. The walls in our bedroom are bare, and I would love to hang that image to greet us each day!

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    sylenc — 12/11/08 @ 3:49 pm

    Bonus! I tweeted because more people should read this terrific blog:)

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    Lilie — 12/11/08 @ 3:49 pm

    I would use it for after our 2010 trip to Disneyland!

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    Micha — 12/11/08 @ 3:50 pm

    BONUS
    Tweeted it:)

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    Micha — 12/11/08 @ 3:50 pm

    Is a double BONUS legal?
    I’ve posted it as my status on Facebook as well…

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    Carolyn — 12/11/08 @ 3:51 pm

    We have a picture of us in COsta Rica and I would like that on a canvas.

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    Janet — 12/11/08 @ 3:51 pm

    I would adore having our whole family photo on the canvas… getting all together for a shot like that is so few and far between, as well as costly! And let me tell ya, getting the kids in the picture to pretend they like each other and touch each other is another story =) Oh pick me, purdy please!

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    Lilie — 12/11/08 @ 3:51 pm

    BONUS I just twittered it!

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    Carolyn — 12/11/08 @ 3:51 pm

    I tweeted:

    http://twitter.com/carogonza/status/1051904590

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    Tracey — 12/11/08 @ 3:52 pm

    I would have a recent picture taken of my daughter. When the picture was taken, she was at swim practice and the pic was snapped just as she emerged from the water when practicing the breaststroke. The water droplets and splashes all around her are awesome. If not that picture, I would like the pic that I have of my 2 kids hugging each other at the entrance to Disneyland (thier faces beaming!!).

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    Lisa — 12/11/08 @ 3:54 pm

    Like most Moms I’d use it on a picture of my boys.

    Thanks for a great giveaway Jaden!

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    Janet — 12/11/08 @ 3:54 pm

    *BONUS* I just Twittered it too!

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    Charlynne — 12/11/08 @ 3:56 pm

    Your canvas photos look great! I would print a Chicago cityscape/architecture photo on the canvas.

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    Emily Lauren — 12/11/08 @ 3:57 pm

    I think I’d print an artsy picture of some naked skin. Something warm and a bit hot.

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    Emily Lauren — 12/11/08 @ 3:57 pm

    *bonus*

    I twittered!

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    Modnar (James) — 12/11/08 @ 3:58 pm

    It would have to be one of the many pictures that I have taken of our two boys. One of the ones where they are not making faces at each other, or the one where the 13 year old doesn’t have the 12 year old in a head lock. Or the one where they are not making peace signs behind each others heads. Hmmm, I think I need to take some new pictures of them…

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    bitchincamero — 12/11/08 @ 4:00 pm

    I’d love to print a picture of the lighthouse near my place. It just feels like vacation when I see it!

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    bitchincamero — 12/11/08 @ 4:02 pm

    BONUS! Tweeted!

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    Modnar (James) — 12/11/08 @ 4:02 pm

    *BONUS* Twittered and Facebooked

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    Thadd — 12/11/08 @ 4:05 pm

    I think a nice photo of my beautiful GF would do nicely… or that photo of the kobe burger!

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    SandraC — 12/11/08 @ 4:06 pm

    That Himalayan Pink Salt Plate is making me drool :-)
    And that knife is to die for, no pun intended LOL. I’ve also been taught not to give the knife with the blade to the receiver.
    I would love to have a picture of myself on canvas, totally artsy. I’m always behind the camera and never in front of it, so this would be an awesome chance!

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    Karen — 12/11/08 @ 4:06 pm

    It’s all about the knife!!! And I’m Chinese so I know technically it’s bad luck but I really, really, really want a large bread knife. Although all the other toys are just as fabulous.

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    Paula K — 12/11/08 @ 4:09 pm

    All that stuff looks amazing! As for the photo I’d get one of my engagement photos done. I really loved them but never got around to getting enlargements.

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    ingrid — 12/11/08 @ 4:11 pm

    Hello, BONUS, baby, I posted it on my blog! Hopefully my honey will take a look at my blog and take notice of what might be great Christmas gifts for me!

    Thanks for hosting such a fabulous giveaway!
    ~ingrid

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    Sowjanya Yinti — 12/11/08 @ 4:13 pm

    I probably would do one of my son’s latest pictures:)

    and your favorite pic of Andrew and Nathan is to die for:) and

    mango champagne vinegar come to mama…lol

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    veggiebelly — 12/11/08 @ 4:13 pm

    I have some gorgeous fall pictures of Washinton DC that I’d love to put on canvas. Thanks for a great giveaway!

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    sb — 12/11/08 @ 4:14 pm

    I took a picture of my daughter in Disney, dressed up as Snow White with the happiest, the most beautiful smile on her face! Am I supposed to wish for which one I would want to win? B/c then it would be knife! Can never have enough of really good and pretty knife!

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    scotte — 12/11/08 @ 4:14 pm

    Wow lovely contest. Thanks for the opportunity. I would love to have a photo of my partner and I after marching in the rain through the streets of DC for Marriage Equality. Fingers crossed!

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    Joy — 12/11/08 @ 4:15 pm

    A picture of my kids together.

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    Doreen — 12/11/08 @ 4:17 pm

    I’d love to have a photo of my friends’ 3 year old on canvas – I took the photos in October while he was staying with me for several days (his parents went on a cruise). I took him to an event to recognize the fire fighters who’d been busy in our area all summer figthing many many fires. Anyway – I took several really nice photos of him – one on the back of the fire truck that is adorable – he looks like he could be a model. I’d love to have that photo on a canvas!

    All of your giveaways look great – I’d be happy to win any of them!!
    Thanks for the chance to win!

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    Mom24.4evermom — 12/11/08 @ 4:17 pm

    I would print the picture of my four children on the canvas. It would be beautiful. Great contest. Thanks for the chance!

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    MissGreenTea — 12/11/08 @ 4:18 pm

    My boyfriend bought a beautiful bouquet of sunflowers for our Halloween party and I captured a snapshot of them. I would love to hang a canvas picture of them in my kitchen.

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    cleek — 12/11/08 @ 4:19 pm

    i’d use either this pic of my wife, or maybe this pic of one of our cats.

    and then i’d be the hero

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    Doreen — 12/11/08 @ 4:20 pm

    BONUS – I just twittered your giveaway (dafogle on twitter)

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    Kristin J. — 12/11/08 @ 4:21 pm

    Oooooooooo… excuse me, I have to go drool a few feet away from my poor keyboard. Sign me up! I’d really love the chance to have a picture of the friends I made during my internship in Beijing enlarged on canvas. We’re so far apart now- how wonderful would it be to have their smiling faces on my wall!

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    sb — 12/11/08 @ 4:22 pm

    BONUS: Posted on Facebook!

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    Haley — 12/11/08 @ 4:22 pm

    I would have a picture of my sister and me in a sculpture garden – would be beautiful!

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    Kristin J. — 12/11/08 @ 4:24 pm

    BONUS, Twittered! http://twitter.com/kricketkris

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    Rivka — 12/11/08 @ 4:25 pm

    Yay for giveaways! I’d totally use a pic of my partner and me from our recent trip to Alaska — can’t beat the view in the background.

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    Stephanie — 12/11/08 @ 4:26 pm

    I would get a picture of my old dog whose health is starting to fail.

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    CB — 12/11/08 @ 4:26 pm

    Definitely have to use one of our post-wedding Trash The Dress pictures for the canvas. Awesome giveaway! You totally rock!
    /Clara

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    Emily — 12/11/08 @ 4:26 pm

    Oh my what fabulous giveaways! And I think you’ve just helped me solve the problem of what to get my brother for Xmas- hello salt block!

    If I won the canvas I’d do a photo of my baby- just had my first child 3 weeks ago and would LOVE to have a canvas of him on my wall!

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    Jodie — 12/11/08 @ 4:31 pm

    I love those pics of your boys. My husband gave me canvas Warhol-style paintings of our daughters for our anniversary from allpopart.com. If I won, I’d chose the picture of my daughters (ages almost 3 and 15 months) hugging on the beach!

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    My First Kitchen — 12/11/08 @ 4:31 pm

    Those canvases are fabulous. I’d print a picture of my whole family taken at the park last year. We all look good in the picture, so it gets good circulation.

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    carol — 12/11/08 @ 4:32 pm

    what a totally awesome giveaway!! you are the best!! and your boys are so very cute and huggable….love ‘em and all their antics!!

    For the canvas picture, i would have a family picture on the beach at sunset…with the waves and sun behind us….cool breezes in our hair…..

    hope you son andrew got you a cool gift, i remember my daughters’ fundraisers @ holiday time too….the kids get such a kick out of it….

    carol

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    My First Kitchen — 12/11/08 @ 4:34 pm

    BONUS: I just Stumbled and reviewed. Come on, salt block! Come on, salt block!!

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    susan c — 12/11/08 @ 4:37 pm

    I have a set of photos of my daughter playing with autumn leaves when she was 8. They would make a beautiful grouping in canvas.

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    sandra mckenna — 12/11/08 @ 4:37 pm

    Call me sappy but I have a 16 year old dachshund named Oscar who has been with us through think and thin. He’s gone from a fiery red head to a distinguished gray gentleman.

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    Deb — 12/11/08 @ 4:37 pm

    I am not a photographer by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, BUT — I love to take a picture of the same, beautiful tree every fall when it turns from yellow to orange to red. The people who live at the closest house to that tree ask me every year what I’m doing, and I always say, “It’s just me — taking that picture of your tree again!” and they wave me on…

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    Dianna — 12/11/08 @ 4:37 pm

    I just got married this year, and we’ve a rather bare wall in front of the couch (where I’m typing this). I’d love a canvas collage of some of the pictures from our honeymoon to England!

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    Jodi — 12/11/08 @ 4:37 pm

    I have lots of baby pics of my daughter that I’d love to use for something like this. I love one of her that she’s peeking out from underneath a blanket.

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    Jennifer Chess — 12/11/08 @ 4:38 pm

    I would get a picture of my husband and I on our wedding. We were married over 6 months ago and I still haven’t had a chance to print out any of the pictures.

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    Deb — 12/11/08 @ 4:39 pm

    BONUS Tweet for a great contest!

    http://twitter.com/LLucyD/status/1051993119

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    rachel — 12/11/08 @ 4:40 pm

    How fun!!

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    Deborah — 12/11/08 @ 4:40 pm

    I would have a picture of my 6-year old grandson with our dogs, Phoebe – a black lab – and Lucy – a pug.

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    Esi — 12/11/08 @ 4:50 pm

    I would put up gorgeous landscape shots from Ghana and Greece. Happy holidays!

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    John Coleman — 12/11/08 @ 4:53 pm

    I would put my son and daughter on canvas.

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    Sarah — 12/11/08 @ 4:55 pm

    I would put up one of the cool new photos I have been taking using my lomo camera. Something fun and arty!

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    LIN — 12/11/08 @ 4:55 pm

    I would use pictures of me and my honey on our last vacation… Europe!

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    Sarah — 12/11/08 @ 4:56 pm

    BONUS: on my facebook page

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    LIN — 12/11/08 @ 4:56 pm

    BONUS – I twittered ya :)

    – photos from Europe!

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    Courtney — 12/11/08 @ 4:57 pm

    Jaden you always have the best giveaways!
    It’s a toss up between one of my fav food pics or a pic of my 17 yo cat.

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    Nate — 12/11/08 @ 4:59 pm

    I think our late kitty, who we miss dearly…

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    Courtney — 12/11/08 @ 5:00 pm

    BONUS!
    I blogged it: http://food-speak.blogspot.com/2008/12/contest-for-holidays.html

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    Jim D — 12/11/08 @ 5:01 pm

    Easy. My wife and I recently ran in a Thanksgiving Day race for a local food and shelter charity. We had a photo taken on race day.

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    Chris — 12/11/08 @ 5:02 pm

    The salt blocks look amazing!

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    tastyeatsathome — 12/11/08 @ 5:02 pm

    I could use a great pic of my husband and I, or this adorable pic of the three kids towards the end of sitting for photos, where one is fussing that the other is touching them, one is grinning mischeviously, and one has a grimace. It’s an awesome picture. Or since those are a bit old, we could take a slew of pictures this holiday season and choose from there! I couldn’t possibly decide now! But I definitely think your giveaway gifts are AWESOME!

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    Jen H — 12/11/08 @ 5:04 pm

    for the photo canvas I’d do a picture from last year’s vacation in Guanaja, iether the gorgeous sunset or one with me and my man.

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    Em — 12/11/08 @ 5:05 pm

    I would love to have the picture of the tree outside my parent’s house on canvas, to finally grace my new home.

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    Chris — 12/11/08 @ 5:06 pm

    A pic of my puppy would look great on the photo canvas!

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    Debbie Learman — 12/11/08 @ 5:08 pm

    I’d put a pic I took @ Thanksgiving of my 7 grandkids!! age 15 years old down to 2 months old! Sweet…darling good kids! w/the best parents!

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    Jen H — 12/11/08 @ 5:09 pm

    BONUS: I wrote about the contest on my facebook wall and messaged all my fans.

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=35541121844#/pages/Piccante-Dolce/35541121844

    I’d love the salt block. They look so great!

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    Debbie Learman — 12/11/08 @ 5:12 pm

    ok…I hafta write a second comment…I’ve gotta find a KOBE burger! just the way you described it made my mouth drool….my son and d-i-l raise Scottish Highland cattle…I remember him saying something about it being the healthy good kind of fat…..but, do they share? Nooooooo…LOL….

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    Debbie Learman — 12/11/08 @ 5:18 pm

    BONUS!! I wrote about the contest on my facebook wall.

    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1436705009&v=info&viewas=1436705009#/profile.php?id=1436705009&v=feed&viewas=1436705009

    I live 80ish miles from Portland and will be using my Garmin to find the salt guy!tyvm for the info!

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    Karen — 12/11/08 @ 5:24 pm

    I have lots of photos from the 30′s and 40′s of my family in different backgrounds, kids on tricycles, grandpa reading to his kids etc as well as my own adorable children together they would all look great on canvas.

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    Frank — 12/11/08 @ 5:25 pm

    Jaden, FONDLING is always appropriate, even at Christmas time. ;-)

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    Meg — 12/11/08 @ 5:26 pm

    Oooo, neat! Well, I just splurged on a Global santoku, so I’d choose either the burgers or the canvas. I haven’t had Kobe beef since I was a little girl and we were stationed in Japan at Kadena Air Force Base. Canvas… That is just too cool. I love doing photography as well, and I’d put up a print of one of our local lighthouses that I recently took. Mukilteo, WA if you want to look it up. I have a thing for lighthouses…

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    Meg — 12/11/08 @ 5:26 pm

    BONUS! Seattlemeg just twittered about the giveaway…

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    Loren — 12/11/08 @ 5:26 pm

    A photo of a REALLY, really big burger. (I’m being serious. It’d go well with the rest of my room…)

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    Julie — 12/11/08 @ 5:31 pm

    I’d love a photo of my boys sledding this winter.

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    Lars Kiilerich — 12/11/08 @ 5:31 pm

    Nice giveaway!

    I would like a picture of my 2 kids in a forrest on a moist day in colourfull raincoats.

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    Steve — 12/11/08 @ 5:35 pm

    I’ve always wanted to try Kobe beef to see what the fuss is all about. Those burgers look delicious.

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    Gina — 12/11/08 @ 5:37 pm

    WOW!!I love canvas, nice blog candy!!!

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    seamaiden — 12/11/08 @ 5:37 pm

    Gosh i covet that salt. or the knife. purty.

    i would print one of our wedding pictures on canvas…

    -Sea

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    theo — 12/11/08 @ 5:41 pm

    Me? i would print a picture of my two teenage daughters harvesting olives next week; our final olive harvest day is late this year…december 15! we press every one we get into luscious award-winning olive oil. this would look awesome in our retail food store @ Global Gardens in Los Olivos, CA. thanks for the great tip!

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    Peggasus — 12/11/08 @ 5:41 pm

    I would do one of the pictures we took when we went hiking in Colorado a few years ago.

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    Denny — 12/11/08 @ 5:44 pm

    I am still jonesn’ for a New West knife. The Petty knife. Oh yeah! They are gorgeous!

    Photos? That’s tough. Am a retired photographer instructor. But I would have to go for a photo of my wife and/or grandson. Or maybe wife, grandson and daughter. Or maybe wife, grandson, daughter and son-in-law. Or maybe wife, grandson, daughter, son-in-law and me. Wait. How big is this canvas?

    Also linked to you from my Facebook page.

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    Nicole — 12/11/08 @ 5:44 pm

    My picture would be a picture of my whole family at my dad’s birthday!

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    Katelin — 12/11/08 @ 5:46 pm

    my picture would be this picture of a sunset that i took just over the water! it had some amazing colours like firey reds and puples and yellows and oranges

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    melissa — 12/11/08 @ 5:47 pm

    My picture that i would choose is one of my bffs and me on the beach! We were all jumping in the air and we all managed to jump at the same time!

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    Michelle — 12/11/08 @ 5:47 pm

    I would have to choose to print one of our family portriats so that I can hang it on our wall!

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    shavedicesundays — 12/11/08 @ 5:48 pm

    Jaden, awesome giveaway gifts. You are more generous than me. I think my C had the same fundraiser as yours and I only gave him 10 bucks to spend on 7 people. I would put the most recent family photo of ours on the photo canvas.

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    Leslie — 12/11/08 @ 5:52 pm

    I would use a photo of my family that was taken this August, in front of the Birds Nest Stadium in Beijing! It was one of the most amazing experiences of our lives and I know we all love to relive the memories :)

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    Leslie — 12/11/08 @ 5:52 pm

    BONUS – have posted to my Facebook too.

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    Harley — 12/11/08 @ 5:54 pm

    I’d probably print a picture from my Germany trip… Probably this picture of Neuschwanstein castle… It was just so breathtaking.

    http://harleyjcooper.com/img/Neuschwanstein.jpg

    Great contest idea, Jaden! :)

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    ttfn300 — 12/11/08 @ 5:54 pm

    while i have alot of lovely photos from trips I’ve taken, we have plans to take a trip once mom is feeling better. I’d love to commemorate that trip (lots of special meaning) with a canvas photo

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    Chez US — 12/11/08 @ 5:55 pm

    Why, but a photo of US. My favorite one of us, when we were in Big Sur 4 years ago …. young, carefree & sexy!

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    Holly — 12/11/08 @ 5:56 pm

    I would put a picture of my beautiful daughter on it and give it to her great grandmother (who has Alzheimer’s and loves opening any presents and won’t care if it is late for Christmas – every day with a present to open is Christmas)!

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    Anna — 12/11/08 @ 5:58 pm

    ooo man i would love this set of stuff, what a Christmas present would be!!

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    Yolanda — 12/11/08 @ 5:59 pm

    Jaden,

    Good afternoon. I would put one of our wedding photos on canvas.

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    Christine — 12/11/08 @ 6:03 pm

    I just took a picture of my 7 months old twin girls. They are teething and one is taking a bite of the other’s cheek. It doesn’t look as bad as it sounds since neiher one has any teeth yet!

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    maria~ — 12/11/08 @ 6:08 pm

    What generous gifts! I would totally go to heaven if I got such wonderful gifts!

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    Nici — 12/11/08 @ 6:09 pm

    Way cool – thanks

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    Banzai — 12/11/08 @ 6:11 pm

    Dang. Your contests are usually easy to enter but to have to decide what photo I’d want printed. I thought it was going to be hard but I know which one now. It’s not really a happy cheery xmas kind of thing but I’ve got one of my sister, my mother and my grandmother at my youngest brother’s wedding that I think I’d use (provided I could find it). They’ve all passed so one picture of all three would be special. :)

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    michelle-f — 12/11/08 @ 6:12 pm

    I would like a print of a picture that I have yet to take but it’s staged in my mind – my husband’s hand holding mine – for our 25th anniversary coming in a few months.

    And, those are pretty fabulous gifts. You were saying what about being thrifty? :D

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    Stacy — 12/11/08 @ 6:13 pm

    I think that I would like to have a photo canvas of my mom, sis, daughter and myself…the most important gals! I’ll take the photo this Christmas!!

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    nestra — 12/11/08 @ 6:17 pm

    I have a picture of my nephew when he was a little guy that makes me laugh every time I see it – he looks so mischievous and innocent at the same time. Wish he could have stayed a little guy forever!

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    raj — 12/11/08 @ 6:18 pm

    ive never won anything, and im quite sure i wont this time either.
    here goes nothing!!!

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    Stacy — 12/11/08 @ 6:23 pm

    BONUS…I did Twitter!

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    Scott — 12/11/08 @ 6:25 pm

    I would get a canvass of a photoshopped picture of my mother and her mother’s wedding picture together…

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    Elaine — 12/11/08 @ 6:29 pm

    When I lived in Ireland, I took a series of photos involving large shrubs and, inexplicably, a blue plastic spoon. The colors turned out surprisingly well; I’d probably want a series of those photos.

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    Gastro888 — 12/11/08 @ 6:31 pm

    I would like to have a photo of myself and my parents on the canvas.

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    Nick — 12/11/08 @ 6:33 pm

    A picture of my father with all his brothers and his father. He only has one surviving brother these days, and his father died fairly young.

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    Ed — 12/11/08 @ 6:34 pm

    I would probably want to have a canvas of a festival scene in the village of Batuan, Bali (Indonesia), where there were a lot of colorful umbrellas, offerings, and other decorations.

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    Ed — 12/11/08 @ 6:35 pm

    BONUS – Announced the contest in my status update on Facebook.

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    natalie — 12/11/08 @ 6:36 pm

    woah, salt blocks and mango champagne vinegar?!! the things you learn on the internet!!
    IF i was pregnant, i’d love to have a maternity picture put on to the canvas…but, as it has not happened yet (sighhhhh), probably an old family picture that includes my grandmother, my mother, my two sisters, and myself!!

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    Stephanie Downie — 12/11/08 @ 6:40 pm

    Hi, Jaden.

    My mother-in-law, who is rather elderly and no longer willing to travel (she lives in a TINY Mississippi town nowhere near an airport), hasn’t seen my daughter Jackson in two years. I’d love to be able to give her a canvas portrait of her now-seven-year-old granddaughter!
    Best wishes,
    Stephanie

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    robert bell — 12/11/08 @ 6:42 pm

    I would print a photo of Sadie, our late Black Lab, for my wife.

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    Lauren — 12/11/08 @ 6:42 pm

    I’m salivating over all this! Amazing finds.

    For the photo.. tough call. The portraits look beautiful. Unless I could find the perfect landscape that captures memories (like of my grandparents’ house nestled in the hillside), I probably would go with a picture of my dad holding me as a baby with a huge beard and an even bigger grin on his face.

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    lisa — 12/11/08 @ 6:44 pm

    I would probably print a photo of my daughter and I at the Arctic Ocean.

    Thanks for the opportunity!

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    Arjun — 12/11/08 @ 6:45 pm

    Wow. This truly is the season of giving. I would canvas a photo of the family; either one taken in front of the Bean in Chicago, or on the beach in Mexico. Each photo is informal, shows a family just hanging, happy. And the backgrounds in both would look great on canvas.

    Bonus! I posted to Facebook.

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    robert bell — 12/11/08 @ 6:45 pm

    BONUS – Twittered it.

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    chiquita — 12/11/08 @ 6:47 pm

    Wow, great prizes. only no meat please.

    I would love a picture of my husband and daughter and I where we all look good (this photo doesn’t yet exist) or a picture of cuddling my newborn daughter on the canvas.

    we also have some lovely shots from our honeymoon 4 years ago in Greece. Ah, the islands.

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    Lauren — 12/11/08 @ 6:47 pm

    BONUS — posted link as myspace status

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    Stephanie Downie — 12/11/08 @ 6:48 pm

    *BONUS*
    Just posted this on my Facebook page!
    Thanks,
    Stephanie

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    Beth — 12/11/08 @ 6:49 pm

    I have a close-up picture of my son that would be wonderful.

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    Sofia — 12/11/08 @ 6:54 pm

    I’d like to see a canvas print of a picture of my brother, my mother and me at Maymont Park in Richmond on the most beautiful summer day ever.

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    Sare — 12/11/08 @ 6:57 pm

    I have a photo of me and my little sister when we were about five and eight years old hiding under a table. We were so cute.

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    Yahaira — 12/11/08 @ 6:58 pm

    It would have to be a photo I took of my husband and our puppy while hiking in Acadia. It was so cute, like something out of llbean lol

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    Sare — 12/11/08 @ 6:58 pm

    Bonus! Stumbled it.

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    Yahaira — 12/11/08 @ 7:00 pm

    BONUS – on my twitter @bitterpurl

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    pamm kesselring — 12/11/08 @ 7:00 pm

    I have no grand children, yet, but I do live in a neighborhood filled with little ones that I just adore. I would love to have a canvas of all of them. Thanks in advance.

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    livlaugheat — 12/11/08 @ 7:01 pm

    i would print a photo of a dandelion that my dad took while in europe – he managed to capture it perfectly. i loved it so much it’s my desktop picture at work so i can look at it all day between tasks on the computer. thanks for the opportunity!

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    ann — 12/11/08 @ 7:03 pm

    I would put a b/w pic from my beach wedding on the canvas. great contest!

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    Alison — 12/11/08 @ 7:04 pm

    Maybe a nature one my husband has taken, because I can’t imagine either one of us enjoying having huge copies of our faces hanging on the wall.

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    Michelle Machado — 12/11/08 @ 7:06 pm

    A picture of my kids together a couple of years ago.I just found it in my computer file, and boy do they look angelic. I can’t believe they were ever that tiny.

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    Jess — 12/11/08 @ 7:09 pm

    I would post a picture of my two brothers and I from the beach this summer and give it to my parents as a gift. Its a beautiful natural looking staged shot. Mom’s been drooling over blowing it up for months now!

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    Cody Proctor — 12/11/08 @ 7:11 pm

    My family has some strange affinity for jumping photos. When my wife and I were on our honeymoon in Eureka Springs, Arkansas a year and a half ago, I pulled out the tripod to attempt an automatic timer jump picture. I would set the timer and then scramble up the hill in front of the giant Jesus statue and we would commence jumping frantically until the photo was taken. This was the only one where we were both in the air.

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/3100627669_08f2e377e2_b.jpg

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    Adrienne — 12/11/08 @ 7:14 pm

    Great gifts!

    I think I’d do one of the many cute photos of my dog Lucy. She is terribly photogenic.

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    Chris — 12/11/08 @ 7:15 pm

    Would canvas work in the kitchen? I’d think so; and I’d probably pick a mouth-watering food photo!

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    Adrienne — 12/11/08 @ 7:16 pm

    BONUS! Twittered: http://twitter.com/mmmfiber/status/1052277742

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    Hana — 12/11/08 @ 7:29 pm

    I would print a picture of my new granddaughter.

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    Jess — 12/11/08 @ 7:32 pm

    BONUS: wrote a note on Facebook!

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    heatherfeather — 12/11/08 @ 7:32 pm

    Ooh, I’ll have to reactivate my flickr pro to show you, but there’s a really lovely one of some pies I took in the grocery store (Seriously.) and fake lomo’d and would love to have on my wall…

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    Richard Dechance — 12/11/08 @ 7:34 pm

    I would really love to have a picture printed on canvas of my late wife, taken in Idaho on the Snake River shortly before she died. The picture is not anything fancy; it just shows her in her usual mode of being friendly to everyone she meets, even if it’s just strangers who were riding with us on a jet boat for the day.

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    heatherfeather — 12/11/08 @ 7:35 pm

    Bonus! http://twitter.com/swandive00/status/1052310417

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    Allison — 12/11/08 @ 7:37 pm

    a pic i took of the lead singer of the BooHoo Ramblers, Clark Ashton. full of motion and primary colors…

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    Wendy W — 12/11/08 @ 7:37 pm

    Wonderful giveaway selection! I always want to experience with Himalayan Pink Salt!

    For the photo – I’d print my beloved Popeye (Chow Chow). We still miss him terribly.

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    Peter — 12/11/08 @ 7:38 pm

    something from the vegas trip i just took

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    Jaime — 12/11/08 @ 7:38 pm

    I’d print on canvas one of my father-in-laws’ paintings that he has a photo but not longer has the original for. It’s a beautiful painting of a Masai boy with his cattle. Thanks for the giveaway!

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    Cindy — 12/11/08 @ 7:40 pm

    I would print a photo my beautiful new granddaughter! She’s darling!

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    Wendy W — 12/11/08 @ 7:40 pm

    BONUS!

    Posted a link on my Facebook to this post.

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    Justopia — 12/11/08 @ 7:42 pm

    Thanks Jaden, another great SteamyKitchen giveaway! I’d like to have the shot I took of my boys during the youngest’s college graduation this spring. They look like real mensches and it would make me so happy to walk into the room and see them up on the wall in a high quality canvas reproduction. Wooooo!

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    Heidi — 12/11/08 @ 7:45 pm

    I would love a canvas print of the maple leaves in my mother’s backyard in autumn. They just say “home” to me.

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    Carriec c — 12/11/08 @ 7:46 pm

    ooh, what a fantastic contest!

    I would print an image of my nephew laughing – he is so animated and adorable.

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    Laura — 12/11/08 @ 7:47 pm

    How beautiful…

    I would put a picture of my new baby girl on canvas for her nursery.

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    Renee — 12/11/08 @ 7:49 pm

    You have the greatest contests, Jaden! (And the cutest kids!!) Okay; I’d have to choose either a picture of myself and my mom (who’s going in for cancer surgery tomorrow; she’s a tough lady!) on the slide when I was a little girl, OR my mom and my son taken this year…

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    Michelle — 12/11/08 @ 7:49 pm

    I have a great picture of my son and daughter that I’d love made into a canvas

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    Michelle — 12/11/08 @ 7:50 pm

    BONUS
    I tweeted
    http://twitter.com/auntiethesis/status/1052101424

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    Renee — 12/11/08 @ 7:55 pm

    BONUS!

    I tweeted: http://tinyurl.com/5z9kbb (and thanks again; this really is very, very kind of you!!)

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    valerie mtichell — 12/11/08 @ 7:58 pm

    I’d like to do a pic of my kids – close up of their silly happy faces :)

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    valerie mtichell — 12/11/08 @ 7:59 pm

    bonus – tweet tweet
    http://twitter.com/valerie2350/status/1052347285

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    caroline — 12/11/08 @ 8:06 pm

    I love the photo of the two kids. It is SO cute!

    I would put a photo of my kids on canvas, from the park back in November. The colors of fall behind the kids are great, but most important is the cute kids. :)

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    Chris Rudram — 12/11/08 @ 8:10 pm

    I’d probably get a canvas’d picture of one of my mum’s paintings… there’s a couple that would look awesome transferred onto a canvas frame.

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    Debbie — 12/11/08 @ 8:15 pm

    All three of my kids are now in college and we did the SAME fundraisers and I feel the same way about them as you do! Love the charming photos of your kids! We are going to Sugar Mountain to ski after Christmas and I will be taking pictures of my kiddos so that is what I would put on the canvas if I win!
    Thanks, Jaden!

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    Diane — 12/11/08 @ 8:19 pm

    My beautiful grandsons would look great on canvas! And I know just the wall in my house where I would put it.

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    Regina — 12/11/08 @ 8:20 pm

    WooHoo I love gifts from Santa! The pic with the boys is priceless, all I keep thinking is what great bribe material that will be in their teen years, almost as good at “nakid” baby pics!

    As for what pic I would put on the canvas, I have this string of 4 intimate BWs that I took of me and my fiance (get your head out of the gutter, nothing too dirty, think more feet/legs intertwined, holding hands, his backside!). I use them instead of a headboard. I would love to change them into canvas instead of the framed ones I have.

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    Jayne — 12/11/08 @ 8:28 pm

    What great giveaways! I’d print anything with my kids on it- maybe the one with my husband and kids on the beach walking towards the surf together.

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    mary — 12/11/08 @ 8:34 pm

    My niece eating chocolate cake.

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    Kate — 12/11/08 @ 8:43 pm

    I cant stop thinking of things to do with those salt blocks. Seriously – its distracting me from law school finals! Such a shame… here’s hoping!

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    Kate — 12/11/08 @ 8:44 pm

    BONUS

    Have tweeted! http://twitter.com/always040/status/1052421966

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    Hope — 12/11/08 @ 8:49 pm

    I’m a brand new photography student, and while on my first photography retreat (away from husband and home and laundry for 10 days!) I stumbled upon a labyrinth crafted of stones and gravel and native grass growing through the rocks.

    I wanted this trip to be sort of an awakening for me as well as fun and educational–and as I walked that labyrinth and took photos of it, the sun began to set and so much about my life just sort of began making sense. I felt so serene and at peace!

    I took a photo of the labyrinth just after I walked it, as the sun was setting over the mesas behind me. That photo will always be a reminder of the moment I found myself.

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    Hope — 12/11/08 @ 8:54 pm

    BONUS:

    Blogged! :D

    http://imagechild.livejournal.com/76712.html

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    Regina — 12/11/08 @ 8:54 pm

    I know I am back so soon, I just couldn’t stay away! That and I just love Christmas presents! Does that make me materialistic? oh well BONUS!!!!!!!!!

    http://www.selectivepalate.com/index.php/2008/12/christmas-foodies/

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    Kristina C. — 12/11/08 @ 8:55 pm

    My husband took a beautiful photo of my cat, Cleo. Cleo is pure white and has very blue eyes. The picture is a closeup of Cleo lying next to a planter with beautiful purple flowesr with green foliage. The striking contrast of her white fur/blue eyes/purple flowers blends into a stunning photo! Perfect for Canvas R Us!

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    Sarah Mareee — 12/11/08 @ 8:55 pm

    I’d print up an abstract photo I took of the floor of my favorite coffeeshop.

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    Deb — 12/11/08 @ 8:56 pm

    I would print my mom and dad’s wedding picture, from 1953. I’m sure they would love to see thier picture looking so great on the wall (and it’s a beautiful picture).

    In any case, you have great give-aways! I never saw these salt block things before, and I am fascinated. Thanls for the website and the fun of the give-away.

    Deb

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    Sarah Mareee — 12/11/08 @ 8:58 pm

    BONUS!

    https://twitter.com/sarasparagus/status/1052443109

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    ssommerville — 12/11/08 @ 9:18 pm

    What great giveaway gifts. I’d print a photo of my son

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    Dawn in CA — 12/11/08 @ 9:19 pm

    I’m hoping to get organized enough in the next few weeks to have a family photo taken, or at least a current photo of all three of my kids together. One of those pics will be the the one I print on canvas. Of course, being me, I’ll probably change my mind a dozen times, so don’t hold me to that decision!

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    Leah — 12/11/08 @ 9:25 pm

    I’d print one of the photos from our camping trips in Asheville NC. My husband & the sunset on the top of Sams Knob… it’s a favorite.

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    Pearl — 12/11/08 @ 9:26 pm

    Your boys have the longest eyelashes ever! How adorable!

    HAHAHAHA and you are so cute about the stockings thing…

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    Veronica — 12/11/08 @ 9:31 pm

    I’d definitely print pictures of my favorite places. Which one I would choose, I have no idea.

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    Leah — 12/11/08 @ 9:33 pm

    BONUS: Twittered: http://twitter.com/stupidclever

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    Marjy — 12/11/08 @ 9:39 pm

    I never did get enlargements of our wedding pics (we were stupid poor at the time), so I’d go for our wedding portrait.

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    Teresa — 12/11/08 @ 9:39 pm

    One November my boyfriend and I spend a week in Moab. We have a photo from a late afternoon of our shadows extending out onto the sandstone, holding on to one another.

    It always reminds me how much we depend on each other. :)

    Happy Holidays Jaden!

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    Carol — 12/11/08 @ 9:39 pm

    I would have to ‘canvas’ some really good pictures of my beautiful grandchildren – Alyssa 4, Katelyn and Johnathan 1 year old twins.
    I love the ones of your boys – isn’t it wonderful when you can get those Kodak moments frozen in time?

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    Jason — 12/11/08 @ 9:42 pm

    I would print a picture of my four daughters (6, 4, 3, 2) for my wife for a gift. She would absolutely cry with tears of joy.

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    Jeanne — 12/11/08 @ 9:43 pm

    How wonderful your pictures are! and what a wonderful giveaway! ( should I say wonderful again?? w.o.n.d.e.r.f.u.l. ;-)
    Hands down, not a second of hesitation, pictures of my two beautiful daughters

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    stephanie — 12/11/08 @ 9:44 pm

    I think I would put a picture of my son and the dogs! That would be so cool!

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    Jason — 12/11/08 @ 9:45 pm

    BONUS

    Tweeted and added as my Facebook status

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    Annie — 12/11/08 @ 9:50 pm

    I’d have to say pictures of my kids or the whole family would be the thing that goes on the canvas. Thanks for the giveaway Jaden!

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    Annie — 12/11/08 @ 9:53 pm

    BONUS! On facebook. I’d totally send you a penny or something for those gorgeous knives.

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    Sal — 12/11/08 @ 9:53 pm

    I would put the picture of my 4 kids and 2 stepkids that was taken at our wedding in October. We actually managed to get a picture where all six look good!

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    Dawn in CA — 12/11/08 @ 9:53 pm

    Woo Hoo – BONUS! Thanks, Jaden! xoxo, Dawn

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    Barb — 12/11/08 @ 9:55 pm

    There are so many! But there’s one in particular of my son on his 3rd birthday when I captured his surprised expression as his sister was coming in the room. I just love his little round open mouth and big eyes. :D

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    HoneyB — 12/11/08 @ 9:58 pm

    I have a photo of Grumpy and myself from my son’s wedding this last July. We were caught on camera smooching. I’d love to hang that in the living room to remind him he does have a soft spot sometimes! :) Thanks for the giveaway!

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    Barb — 12/11/08 @ 9:58 pm

    BONUS! I Tweeted about it.

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    Jessica — 12/11/08 @ 9:59 pm

    oh, wow! those are all AMAZING prizes. You are too cool, Jaden!

    I would use the photo canvas for pics of the cliffs of Mohr in Ireland. I keep saying I’m going to do something with these honeymoon pics (for two years now!)

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    Jessica — 12/11/08 @ 10:02 pm

    BONUS

    I tweeted this too (http://twitter.com/triadtraveler)

    thanks for the “bonus round” chance!

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    HoneyB — 12/11/08 @ 10:03 pm

    BONUS

    Twitted and Myspaced!

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    Carol — 12/11/08 @ 10:04 pm

    BONUS – and thanks for the idea…..hope I’ll get lots of new recipes from my friends (like I need more recipes!) lol MYSPACE…..truelovelives4ever

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    Holly Neilson — 12/11/08 @ 10:05 pm

    Ooooh,
    I’ve got some gorgeous photos of the cliffs and sea at Sagres in Portugal, it would be fantastic to put some of them up in my house….

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    Barbara — 12/11/08 @ 10:10 pm

    A picture I took of a redbud tree, I got from Va. I planted it in memory of my dad. It was in full bloom!!! The tree almost didn’t make it twice, because of wind storms knocking it over. I thought it was gone, but it came back !!!! :) :) :)

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    Mike — 12/11/08 @ 10:16 pm

    you have been so generous these days by continuously giving away things. Himalayan salt block looks interesting to me. I would like to see the entire family on the beach on canvas.

    Thank you and happy holidays.
    Mike

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    Nate — 12/11/08 @ 10:17 pm

    I want a picture of Steamy Kitchen on my wall!

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    Leah — 12/11/08 @ 10:17 pm

    I think I would like to print a black and white picture of my black and white dog, a Boston Terrier. Sometimes he has a little bit of an underbite and I have a really cute photo of him with his head tilted.

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    Mary — 12/11/08 @ 10:19 pm

    Ooh, that’s easy–one of our wedding pictures that we just got back from the photographer!

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    Debbie — 12/11/08 @ 10:19 pm

    I can’t imagine any better gifts!
    The first picture that came to mind to put on canvas is actually 2 photos- one of my son feeding the lorakeets at San Diego Zoo when we visited my mom, photoshopped with the similar pic my mom took of my Nana feeding them a few years earlier, so it looks like they’re there together. It would be a great magical memory for my son.

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    Sar — 12/11/08 @ 10:19 pm

    Me and my husband had wonderful vacation in Florida last week. We saw those Salt block in one of the old shops in West Palm Beach but didn’t buy it. Now I am thinking seeing your picture I should have bought one. Hope I will win this time.
    you on the canvas will be interesting to see.

    Thank you.

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    Nate — 12/11/08 @ 10:20 pm

    BONUS: I shared on FaceBook

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    Haley W. — 12/11/08 @ 10:26 pm

    Wedding pictures! I just got engaged!

    Jaden – you rock.

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    Haley W. — 12/11/08 @ 10:28 pm

    Bonus: I just twittered your giveaway.

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    GCS — 12/11/08 @ 10:32 pm

    Those knives are so handsome, the Kobe beef burgers look good too. For the canvas I’d chose a picture of our family from our last trip to Hungary.

    I’ll see if I can add something to myspace. I’ll be back to add Bonus if so.

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    Debbie — 12/11/08 @ 10:41 pm

    Bonus! Just blogged about you on my LiveJournal!
    Happy Holidays!

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    ~M — 12/11/08 @ 10:41 pm

    My husband and I just got married. I would put one of our wedding photos on canvas. That way, our future kiddos will know that we were once cute, if not anymore :)

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    GCS — 12/11/08 @ 10:44 pm

    BONUS-okay it is posted on myspace too.

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    martingale — 12/11/08 @ 10:44 pm

    Blame it on the advent of inexpensive cameras, but during our wedding last summer, guests brought their own cameras and took pictures of us. Our pictures, taken by official wedding photographers, had the heads and arms of various guests with their faces covered by their digital cameras, taking their own pictures. I would like to print that one single perfect shot, no clutter, just us two.

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    ~M — 12/11/08 @ 10:45 pm

    bonus, bonus! I facebooked about you!

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    Reeni — 12/11/08 @ 10:48 pm

    What a lovely giveaway! I would love to have a picture of my son, who recently passed away on a canvas. Your children are precious and the canvas themselves are amazing, so vivid!

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    Corey — 12/11/08 @ 10:48 pm

    I would put up a picture of myself with my beautiful bride from our wedding two months ago. Thanks!

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    Nags — 12/11/08 @ 10:53 pm

    There is this one pic of me and my husband on our wedding reception day. It was the only one where we didn’t pose for the camera and that of course turned out the best pic. Been meaning to frame that for a while :)

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    Chris — 12/11/08 @ 10:53 pm

    I have an awesome picture of the sunset of Lake Michigan with a pier in the background that I’d print.

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    Nags — 12/11/08 @ 10:54 pm

    BONUS – Twittered you :)

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    Barry — 12/11/08 @ 10:58 pm

    Would definitely have my two Pugs, Roxy and Zu Zu output on canvas!

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    Karen B. — 12/11/08 @ 10:59 pm

    You know, I really need some updated pictures of the kids… besides the passport photos they just had. This would be the perfect time! Anything where they’re both smiling AT THE SAME TIME!

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    Lauriel — 12/11/08 @ 11:01 pm

    Would do a print of the Chihuly exhibit that was at the DeYoung museum in SF… such beautiful lit glass!

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    Asianmommy — 12/11/08 @ 11:05 pm

    Your boys are so cute in the pictures–I would love to do something like that with my girls.

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    Tom — 12/11/08 @ 11:05 pm

    It would be a picture of my son. Or one with him and I together.

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    Wendy — 12/11/08 @ 11:08 pm

    Our wedding photo on a canvas print would be great!

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    Tom — 12/11/08 @ 11:08 pm

    Bonus: Just stumbled your giveaway.

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    Meera — 12/11/08 @ 11:10 pm

    I’d print a photo of the cookies I made the other day, to put up in the kitchen. :-)

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    Meera — 12/11/08 @ 11:12 pm

    BONUS: Facebook!

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    Blair — 12/11/08 @ 11:18 pm

    An extreme closeup of a thistle that I took while on vacation, just outside of Stonehaven, Scotland.

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    Juliette — 12/11/08 @ 11:19 pm

    I’d use a photo of my guy and I in Hawaii!

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    Abigail — 12/11/08 @ 11:28 pm

    I live in Japan so I’d love to canvas-ize (is that a word? ha!) a photo I took of some pink cherry blossoms with a string of red paper lamps through the middle of the trees. It’s getting colder now so that photo would definitely bring some warmth to our apartment. Fun fun fun!

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    Abigail — 12/11/08 @ 11:32 pm

    BONUS RED ALERT! I Facebooked!

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    Laura — 12/11/08 @ 11:41 pm

    Hmm I would love a canvas print of this one photograph of my boyfriend and I from the summer….all you can see are our arms, holding hands, and the setting sun in the background is making a beautiful flare.

    Hope we win!

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    mysimplefood — 12/11/08 @ 11:41 pm

    OMG…I so love the bread knife. I never owned one and since I stating making No knead Bread based on your recipe, I have been dying to get one…….Thanks much for all the giveaways…will let u know which photo for the canvas.

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    Rachel H — 12/11/08 @ 11:42 pm

    Probably a photo of my husband, the kids, and I at our wedding earlier this year.

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    ChefRunner — 12/11/08 @ 11:42 pm

    My brother-in-law took a beautiful picture of my husband and me up in Northern Idaho on a camping trip. It looks almost candid; we’re sitting on a rock in front of a lake leaning in toward each other and I’m wearing his old plaid shirt.

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    Amy — 12/11/08 @ 11:54 pm

    I have a cool picture of a drink that I think would look good on the wall.

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    Lily — 12/11/08 @ 11:54 pm

    I think I’d have to go with a photo of my maternal grandmother. She was such a beautiful woman, and taken from us far too early. I am amazed at how she managed to keep her family healthy and alive during the war long enough to flee Germany to safety in the US. Learned english via listening to the radio no less!

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    Robin — 12/11/08 @ 11:58 pm

    My Shih Tzus. They’re at an age where it would be great to have a permanent record of them together, happy, and relatively healthy.

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    Lily — 12/11/08 @ 11:59 pm

    BONUS! twitter: http://twitter.com/ethermaiden

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    Corey — 12/12/08 @ 12:05 am

    Tough question; now that I know that such a product exists, I kind of want to order 100 of them! I would probably pick a landscape shot taken on a camping trip, quite probably involving my two favorite terriers.

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    Emily — 12/12/08 @ 12:27 am

    My photo would be the one my mom and I took when we went to the Bahamas for my graduation cruise. It was just me and her on the trip, and it was 100 times more fun than any college Spring Break trip.

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    Emily — 12/12/08 @ 12:29 am

    BONUS – TWITTERED http://www.twitter.com/emielli

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    Allison Day — 12/12/08 @ 12:33 am

    I’d print one of the beautiful food pictures that Son took while we were in Hawaii… he’s actually been wanting to do that with those pictures, and this would be a great surprise for him. :)

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    Laura — 12/12/08 @ 12:39 am

    BONUS Left a comment on my website :)

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    Jessica — 12/12/08 @ 12:46 am

    I want a picture of me surfing for the first time in hawaii!

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    Paula — 12/12/08 @ 12:47 am

    I would certainly get a canvas of my 4 grandchildren – they are growing up so fast I try to capture as much of their childhood as I can. I love the shots of your boys! Children are hope and love and so much more!

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    amber — 12/12/08 @ 1:05 am

    My goodness! What an amazing prize pack! This is very generous of you and your sponsors. I would love a print of a picture that I took at the lake, the sun was setting and it was a great photo with birds in the sky. Thanks so much!!

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    Alanna — 12/12/08 @ 1:09 am

    What great giveaways! If I won the canvas print, I would put a picture of my godchild on it and give it to my cousin as a gift. She would love it!

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    Alanna — 12/12/08 @ 1:13 am

    BONUS!!

    http://twitter.com/lannaly

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    Lynne — 12/12/08 @ 1:15 am

    I have a picture of my daughter at the beach that I’d want on canvas. We were joking around posing for “dramatic” myspace photos. Hers turned out gorgeous!

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    Debbie — 12/12/08 @ 1:29 am

    Wow! I’ve never heard of a salt block for cooking before. Sounds great! I would print a special photo of my favorite pet — my dog Tennyson. He died in 2002 and I still miss him.

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    Paula in Colorado — 12/12/08 @ 1:35 am

    I would have my favorite picture ever of my daughter put onto the canvas.

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    Suganya — 12/12/08 @ 1:44 am

    I will print one of my husband’s amazing landscape pictures.

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    Veronica — 12/12/08 @ 1:50 am

    Bonus: Twittered it. http://twitter.com/Nila_Rosa

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    Yvonne — 12/12/08 @ 1:57 am

    My picture is of my 3 yr old at Bellows beach in Waimanalo, on Oahu. It is early morning, the water is turquoise the sand is white and not another soul is in sight – just my son, with his curly locks and “nudie bum,” facing the water, back to camera, sitting on top of the grand sand castle we had just built. If I won, I would give it to my husband as a return home from Iraq gift – it’s hard to send him anything now, for Christmas, because of where he is and lack of space to keep anything, but he would love this for when he gets back.

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    Rycrafty — 12/12/08 @ 2:04 am

    I saw some great wildlife this summer, and would either do the great picture I got of an elk, or a big horn sheep.

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    soopling — 12/12/08 @ 2:06 am

    I’d do a print of some of the places I visited in Asia or Europe, I think. Easier than printing one of my family, where everyone would have to agree they looked good in it ;)

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    soopling — 12/12/08 @ 2:06 am

    Bonus twittering: http://twitter.com/soopling/status/1052888521

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    Cakebrain — 12/12/08 @ 2:07 am

    A photo I would love to print on canvas is of my two girls surrounded by cherry blossoms at Queen Elizabeth Park last spring. Bebe is lying on the grass and Bib is lying on top of her, totem-pole fashion; Bib’s head rests on Bebe’s.

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    jeremy. — 12/12/08 @ 2:09 am

    go to flickr and find a great image of a subject you love to print. for your kitchen you can even pick a favorite food. or a favorite color scheme and design it around that. for example, i loved your photo work of pomegranates. that would look great large scale.

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    Lexi — 12/12/08 @ 2:12 am

    I would put a great picture of my Mom and Dad together on a cruise they took the family on last year.

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    Allison Day — 12/12/08 @ 2:13 am

    BONUS – Twittered! http://twitter.com/sushiday/status/1052898526

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    Corynne Escalante — 12/12/08 @ 2:18 am

    i would probably do a photo of my kiddos…

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    Corynne Escalante — 12/12/08 @ 2:22 am

    Bonus! twittered ya! http://twitter.com/crynfiction/status/1052905899

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    Penny Phoon — 12/12/08 @ 2:24 am

    Definitely a picture of my friends and I when we all dressed up as Waldo. It was the day for our senior class picture (1,000 seniors), so a group of 20 friends decided to wear red and white strip shirts. We had to make our own glasses out of paper and bought balloons. Let’s just say we stick out like sore thumbs. One of the best senior highlight moments.

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    Matt — 12/12/08 @ 2:35 am

    For me, it would be the picture of my family from Lefse Day.

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    RogerD — 12/12/08 @ 2:41 am

    I would like a canvas print of my grandchildren play in the snow last year.

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    aleta meadowlark — 12/12/08 @ 2:42 am

    Oh! There’s a photo of me and my boyfriend that I just love . . . I’m not a very publicly affectionate person, but someone snapped a pic of us looking at one another adoringly. Mmmm.

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    Bill Weiss — 12/12/08 @ 2:50 am

    Oddly, like Vicki said up there, I’ve got a picture of The Bean. My girlfriend adores it, and I think it would be a nice gift for her.

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    archana, mama of twins — 12/12/08 @ 3:02 am

    I have a pic of the four of us a friend took at our local park that made the family christmas card. its not a frontal of the four of us but a very nice intimate family photo.

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    archana, mama of twins — 12/12/08 @ 3:05 am

    BONUS: I posted it on my facebook link page. :)

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    Julie — 12/12/08 @ 3:11 am

    Our wedding photos from this summer. We have some gorgeous pictures from Asbury Park, NJ, that are just sitting on CD’s!

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    Rupa — 12/12/08 @ 3:27 am

    It will be our wedding picture……we got married last year after a huge struggle…in convincing parents….and I love the happiness on both our faces after we made it…. I would love it on canvas…..

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    Jasmine — 12/12/08 @ 3:42 am

    My husband! Or my darling dog! Its a toss-up allright :P

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    Kitt — 12/12/08 @ 3:51 am

    Holy cow, Jaden. That’s some giveaway! I’ve never even heard of salt slabs (and of course now I want one). I would print one of my dragonfly photos or my bee-swarm closeup.

    Thanks for pointing out that company. I may get some canvases from them after I don’t win here. (I mean, really, Powerball probably will have better odds, Miss Popular!)

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    Anne Marie — 12/12/08 @ 4:28 am

    I would love to have a canvas of my favorite photo… my best friend/amazing photographer took a pic of my dad hugging me when i graduated from college. beautiful moment.

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    Kim — 12/12/08 @ 4:45 am

    Hmmm. Probably the wedding picture we took outside in Japan. With the fur muff and long gloves. We need to hang a wedding picture SOMEWHERE!!!

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    Courtney — 12/12/08 @ 5:31 am

    The canvas art would look lovely in our new home. I know exactly the photo I would get printed – it’s a picture of our golden retriever, Tucker, sleeping outside on our front doorstep. It always makes my heart go all fuzzy.

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    Jill — 12/12/08 @ 6:56 am

    Definitely the black and white shot I recently took of my husband holding our newborn- the baby is sleeping and has his hand over his dad’s heart. Would be fabulous to hang in the nursery.

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    Jill — 12/12/08 @ 6:58 am

    BONUS! Facebook: link posted and mentioned in my status

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    davin — 12/12/08 @ 7:56 am

    The picture of my boyfriend in front of this amazing graffiti wall in Quebec!

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    davin — 12/12/08 @ 7:58 am

    Bonus! I just stumbled this post.

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    Tatiana — 12/12/08 @ 8:48 am

    I would choose a picture of myself with my best dog friend Ayla.

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    Nan — 12/12/08 @ 9:19 am

    That’s easy, my favorite picture of my 4 year old grandson.

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    jamie anne — 12/12/08 @ 9:20 am

    GAWD your kids are adoooorable…
    the cheeks on those two!

    ah… i’d print out a street picture i took in Manilla three years ago… smiles amidst the dirt.

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    Michael Schoonmaker — 12/12/08 @ 9:23 am

    I think I’d choose a picture of my fiancee, Becca. After college she moved to Indiana and I took a job in Boston. I would love to be able to see her face any time I wanted. : )

    BONUS

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    Denise — 12/12/08 @ 9:31 am

    My little man, Evan. Thanks!

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    Danielle — 12/12/08 @ 9:34 am

    My favorite photo of me and my fiance together, definitely.

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    Laura — 12/12/08 @ 9:35 am

    I think I’d print this one particular picture of me from when I was a kid, for my Dad :)

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    Laura — 12/12/08 @ 9:35 am

    And bonus on my livejournal :)

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    Nicole (SAHM Ramblings) — 12/12/08 @ 9:36 am

    I would love to have a family photo done, but since we never have family photos taken, that’s just not feasible. Instead, I would select from one of the three-jillion photos of just my two girls together. Maybe even one with them and their dad. (Yup, I’m always holding the camera.)

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    Montageman — 12/12/08 @ 9:45 am

    What a nice thing to do! Lots of cool stuff as well! For me, I’d love to have one of the many photos of my daughter or one of my family off my flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/montage_man.

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    Montageman — 12/12/08 @ 9:48 am

    BONUS: http://twitter.com/montageman

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    Thomas (GFCF Experience) — 12/12/08 @ 9:50 am

    Wow Jaden, you are wonderful to be giving these away! I think my photo would be a nature shot – perhaps the one I took of the Selway River last year, or one of the wildfowers shots I took this past summer.

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    Ryan Anderson — 12/12/08 @ 9:53 am

    My kitchen-geekiness cup would runneth over if I had that bread knife or block of Himalayan salt.

    I’ve got a lot of photos from my trip to Singapore that I’d love to print, but in all honesty, I’d probably print a picture of my dog, just because this one is so cute: http://www.flickr.com/photos/senoranderpants/2472026691/

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    Thomas (GFCF Experience) — 12/12/08 @ 9:53 am

    BONUS: I just linked to this post on Twitter, Freindfeed, Facebook, and Plurk.

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    Ryan Anderson — 12/12/08 @ 9:55 am

    BONUS: Twittered. http://twitter.com/ryananderson/status/1053373617

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    Karen Putz — 12/12/08 @ 9:55 am

    I’d love to do a collage just like you did. Every year, I take a picture of my three kids in the water on Christie Lake. I’d love to hang that up on my office wall.

    What a great giveaway you have going here!

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    Karen Putz — 12/12/08 @ 9:57 am

    And here’s the bonus: DeafMom on Twitter

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    monika mrozkova — 12/12/08 @ 9:57 am

    Wow this is great, I love the salt block and because is Christmas time and I love cooking and photography I think my photo would be a my Christmas wreath with cheese truffles http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingzoo/3030199455/in/set-72157607164916886/
    best Monika

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    J.R. — 12/12/08 @ 9:58 am

    I’d probably print out a picture from my trip to France.

    Jaden, you know that second picture is going to /haunt/ those boys when they start bringing home girls.

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    Rob — 12/12/08 @ 10:08 am

    A New Orleans Man Hole Cover of the Sewerage and Motor Board Crescent Box Water Meter http://www.flickr.com/photos/gainesvillegumbo/1341754980/

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    Rob — 12/12/08 @ 10:14 am

    BONUS! Twittered http://twitter.com/dublwrap

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    Sonya — 12/12/08 @ 10:17 am

    A picture of the s/o and I pretending to gnaw on a huge giant plastic pretzel in front of a pretzel factory.

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    megan — 12/12/08 @ 10:24 am

    You have the best giveaways!!! I would love to win any of these gteat prizes.
    If I won the photo, it would be of my daughter for sure.

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    Missy Hurley — 12/12/08 @ 10:24 am

    Thanks for the giveaway and AWESOME gift ideas!!! Love the canvas – I have 8x10s in clear acrylic boxes like faux canvas, but canvas would be much better! I’d love a larger print of my sister and I on the beach at Megan’s Bay, St. Thomas, USVI. We took a weeklong cruise to celebrate her birthday and my recent unemployment (yes, I was celebrating!) before she moved halfway across the country.

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    Missy Hurley — 12/12/08 @ 10:27 am

    BONUS Twittered it @missyhurley

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    Lee — 12/12/08 @ 10:29 am

    I would print the picture in the middle of this collage: http://www.mrgandthegirls.com/wp/wpg2-2?g2_itemId=1293

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    Lynn — 12/12/08 @ 10:30 am

    What a fun giveaway! I would love to get a canvas print of a gorgeous photo of my daughter and me at her wedding.

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    Lynn — 12/12/08 @ 10:33 am

    Me again. Just Facebooked your contest for a BONUS entry.

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    Lee — 12/12/08 @ 10:39 am

    Bonus: Just Twittered it: http://twitter.com/elpipetuanis/status/1053445910

    By the way those are my kids in the pics. :)

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    Naimul — 12/12/08 @ 10:40 am

    I have this fantastic photo of my brother and I when were just babies. I’m really squirmy and laughy so I’m trying to get away from him and the photographer at olan mills captured it perfectly. It belongs on canvas.

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    Naimul — 12/12/08 @ 10:41 am

    BONUS – Just tweeted it

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    Susan — 12/12/08 @ 10:50 am

    I would love the canvas. I would print one of my husband and i wedding picture.

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    Margie — 12/12/08 @ 10:50 am

    I have a beautiful picture I took of my husband where the shadows from the restaurant blinds are hitting his face. It looks very film noir but with color. I love it and it reminds me of just how much he is perfect for me.

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    finsbigfan — 12/12/08 @ 10:54 am

    It would be of our family, husband, kids, me and dog grilling out in our backyard. We always have so much fun and one of the few times we are all in the same place at the same time.

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    Matt — 12/12/08 @ 10:55 am

    My wife and I tied the knot just over half a year ago. There’s this shot of us from above of me holding her in my arms and spinning. It’s the background on my laptop and I think it would be a pretty good background in our living room!

    Happy Holidays!

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    Kristen M. — 12/12/08 @ 10:59 am

    My favorite picture is of my kids and I in a pile of beautiful fall leaves. It’s my favorite because I love autumn and I love being reminded that it’s ok to be playful.

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    Scott Moonen — 12/12/08 @ 11:04 am

    Tough choice. Here’s probably my top pick, probably after a little more cropping: http://moonen.smugmug.com/gallery/2359327_K9APd#404629180_Yx9rr-L-LB

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    Starre — 12/12/08 @ 11:05 am

    a picture of my hubby’s son who lives soo far away from us

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    jake — 12/12/08 @ 11:05 am

    A picture of my grandmother, hands clasped and smiling. I miss her greatly.

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    jake — 12/12/08 @ 11:08 am

    BONUS – twittered it

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    Jessica — 12/12/08 @ 11:08 am

    I would like a print picture of Lake Louise Alberta – it’s so serene and beautiful, I can’t get enough of it. And I think my house needs a little peace.

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    Amy Lee — 12/12/08 @ 11:09 am

    I have a fun picture I took on the Casco Bay ferry off the coast of Portland, ME. It’s my desktop wallpaper – I feel like I’m in the boat everytime I look at it :)

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    Rick — 12/12/08 @ 11:12 am

    We don’t take enough photos; when we do, I’m often the photographer. I do have a picture of my fiancée and me at the Japanese tea gardens. Really, the motivation of getting a large print would be to remember to take more pictures!

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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    Amy Lee — 12/12/08 @ 11:13 am

    BONUS – drawing tweeted!

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    Farina — 12/12/08 @ 11:13 am

    Holy cow! You already have 401 comments! It almost feels like trying to win the mega millions. lol.

    I cant even start to choose which one Id like the most. I mean, the salt block, it’s just so intriguing. That sexy looking knife, well, very sexy. Kobe burgers? Who wouldn’t want THAT? EVOO and mango champagne vinegar sound very interesting and that photo canvas is something that I could use to print our wedding pictures on. Choosing to win just 1 is a tough job. ;)

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    Scott Moonen — 12/12/08 @ 11:14 am

    BONUS

    Twittered: https://twitter.com/smoonen/status/1053512877

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    Jessica — 12/12/08 @ 11:15 am

    BONUS! Facebooked. My second choice of pictures is one of my mother and I taken the day I left for college.

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    Carmen — 12/12/08 @ 11:16 am

    a picture from our wedding :) (we’re newlyweds, kind of!)

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    Carmen — 12/12/08 @ 11:16 am

    BONUS – I facebooked about your holiday giveaway :)

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    Justopia — 12/12/08 @ 11:22 am

    Oh teacher … I’ve done the extra credit assignment! :) The Twitter status is here: http://tinyurl.com/6rt2hu

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    Margie — 12/12/08 @ 11:31 am

    BONUS!
    I shared the link on my facebook though I am having trouble with my computer. :(

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    amanda — 12/12/08 @ 11:38 am

    it’s like you’ve got a whole treasure chest of goodies to give away! I think I would have to print a photo of my mom and sister, as i’m a horrible family memeber and have nothing family oriented around my house…and i see my punka$$ boyfriend everyday. ;-)

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    Megan — 12/12/08 @ 11:39 am

    I’d print a wedding picture of my husband and I–it was such a great day and our pictures look so happy!

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    Jenn — 12/12/08 @ 11:44 am

    I would print a pic of the beautiful streets of Amsterdam, where I holidayed with my boyfriend last summer.

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    JudyH — 12/12/08 @ 11:45 am

    I would print a picture of my kids enjoying the sunset at Fort Jeff in Key West.

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    Jo — 12/12/08 @ 11:50 am

    I’d do a photo of my 3 kids :) And thanks for an awesome contest! Happy holidays to you and yours! (your boys are adorable, by the way)

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    elizabeth — 12/12/08 @ 11:54 am

    2008 was the most difficult year of my life! i had a lot of family drama and struggles with my marriage but as the year comes to a close, we are on the up-and-up and are rebuilding and restrengthening our little home. what relief! one of my favorite decorating tools is stretching vintage fabrics over frames, exactly like those canvas photos, so this would be perfect for our home. i would use high-contrast black and white photos of my husband and i. :)

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    Jo — 12/12/08 @ 11:55 am

    http://twitter.com/KitchenGirlJo/status/1053588910

    BONUS… Twittered :)

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    Casey — 12/12/08 @ 11:57 am

    I would print my favorite photo of my sister and me in Ireland.

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    amanda — 12/12/08 @ 11:57 am

    okay. i did it! i tweeted for a bonus. i’m too technically challenged to know how to link to the direct tweet but here i am – http://twitter.com/whatwereeating

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    brilynn — 12/12/08 @ 11:58 am

    The photo I’d use is one I took on Heron Island in Australia. I had gotten up early to watch the sunrise but because Heron Island is so small, (you can easily walk all the way around it) if I turned one direction I could watch the moon set and if I turned the other way I could watch the sun rise. It was beautiful.

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    elizabeth — 12/12/08 @ 11:58 am

    [bonus] blogged it on my tumblr!

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    brilynn — 12/12/08 @ 12:01 pm

    BONUS- I shared the link on facebook… which I’d do anyways, just cause I like you so much… and you’re pretty… (do compliments get me extra entries???)

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    Elisa — 12/12/08 @ 12:10 pm

    wow, what a fabulous giveaway! I would definitely pick a photo of my two daughters together to put on canvas. Wanna see them? I think I’d either pick this one: http://flickr.com/photos/14210492@N05/2901859963/in/set-72157607469165229/

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    Cyndi — 12/12/08 @ 12:12 pm

    Haven’t taken the picture yet but will….Husband and me at sunset on a tropical island :)

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    Elisa — 12/12/08 @ 12:13 pm

    BONUS

    Tweet: http://twitter.com/HipMom/status/1053629080

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    Sarah — 12/12/08 @ 12:22 pm

    a whole collage of very fast sailboats! I have a friend who takes great pictures.

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    Ben — 12/12/08 @ 12:24 pm

    I think my first choice would be some beautiful Colorado scenery – especially the Flatirons here in Boulder gently draped in snow.

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    Ben — 12/12/08 @ 12:29 pm

    BONUS

    Blogged it over at my Livejournal: http://hotforeignsheep.livejournal.com/114653.html

    And if I had another choice on my photo, it’d be one of the pictures from Japan. (can’t decide which, so many good ones!)

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    Melissa — 12/12/08 @ 12:30 pm

    What a fabulous post! Heard about it from a friend. I would love to use a photo of my children. I always say I’m going to blow up a few of them and display them in my house but never get around to it. That’s the danger of digital photos. :)

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    Melissa — 12/12/08 @ 12:33 pm

    BONUS–On Facebook AND my blog Who Are You Calling Little? (http://www.whoareyoucallinglittle.blogspot.com)

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    Ubah — 12/12/08 @ 12:35 pm

    For me, its a no-brainer. The picture I would choose would be of my daughter Osob. The hard part is now exactly which picture of her I would choose. I know it would be one of her smiling. (She doesn’t like to smile when I take pics of her.)

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    Ubah — 12/12/08 @ 12:42 pm

    BONUS!!!! Your giveaway is entered on my blog – http://happy-flower-family.blogspot.com/. Thank you!!!

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    megan — 12/12/08 @ 12:45 pm

    Bonus!!! I facebooked it. :)

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    Erin — 12/12/08 @ 12:50 pm

    I would love to have some of the images from our Florida vacation placed on canvas!

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    PsychMamma — 12/12/08 @ 1:02 pm

    I have a beautiful picture of our 2 y/o daughter on a farm walking around the pasture with her arm around a miniature horse foal named Phoebe that I would love to have printed on canvas. Thanks for the chance to enter!!

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    PsychMamma — 12/12/08 @ 1:03 pm

    BONUS**

    Tweeted! http://twitter.com/PsychMamma/status/1053728464

    Thanks for the extra chance!

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    Meryl K. Evans — 12/12/08 @ 1:14 pm

    Would love my children on canvas, of course. So cliche. Actually, I have a family photo including my parents before my dad had his stroke that would be lovely.

    BONUS
    http://twitter.com/merylkevans/status/1053750004

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    Suzie — 12/12/08 @ 1:21 pm

    It would have to be a wedding photo with confetti flying everywhere

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    Suzie — 12/12/08 @ 1:22 pm

    Bonus

    For my facebook post, fingers crossed

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    samantha jo campen — 12/12/08 @ 1:23 pm

    I’ve wanted a photo on canvas forever so I’ve been thinking about it a lot. I’d love my son’s ultrasound photo of him at 12 weeks and then I’d hang it in his nursery. It’s amazing to me that that was HIM all the way back then. Life is such an amazing thing.

    Thanks for the amazing opportunity!

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    linda — 12/12/08 @ 1:23 pm

    I would love a photo of my 3 beautiful daughters (taken on Christmas morning) printed on canvas. Thanks for the giveaway.

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    samantha jo campen — 12/12/08 @ 1:24 pm

    BONUS

    I tweeted it! I’m @samanthajcampen but I’m protected so if you ask to follow me I’ll of course add you :-)

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    samantha jo campen — 12/12/08 @ 1:26 pm

    BONUS

    aaaaaaaand it’s up on facebook too :-)

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    leena! — 12/12/08 @ 1:39 pm

    I would love to get a picture of my husband and I on a beach in Australia (we just moved back to Chicago from Australia and are missing it and the weather terribly!) printed up on canvas. It is my single most favorite memory from my life!

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    leena! — 12/12/08 @ 1:41 pm

    BONUS~ just posted it on my Twitter, which is LeenaEats. Thanks!

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    a2naphish — 12/12/08 @ 1:44 pm

    A photo of petite early girl tomatoes halved, sprinkled w. basil and sliced garlic ready to make their way into the oven. They were delicious when they came out too.

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    Kristen — 12/12/08 @ 1:47 pm

    I have the perfect picture of my boys playing in the Indian Ocean, would look so great!

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    Amanda F — 12/12/08 @ 1:50 pm

    It would be a picture of a sunset from a recent hiking trip in Glacier National Park.

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    Kristen — 12/12/08 @ 1:55 pm

    BONUS twittered it! @passion4eating :)

    & stumbled too

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    Denise — 12/12/08 @ 1:55 pm

    BONUS!!!! Twittering about you babe! I just saw those salt blocks and the grater at our local cooking store – LOVE THEM! Was thinking it would be great presentation for sushi, too, or at least great conversation!!

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    a2naphish — 12/12/08 @ 2:00 pm

    BONUS: it’s on facebook :)

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    April — 12/12/08 @ 2:10 pm

    Wow these are great give aways. I have never heard of salt blocks before I have to admit. Now I am going to go study about them.
    The picture I would love to put on canvas is one where the whole family is together (very rare) my oldest lives out of state/ All six kids, son-in-laws and new Grandson with Dad and I. We took a family picture at the beach.

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    Aline — 12/12/08 @ 2:22 pm

    I’d print the photo of the first time my son was placed in my arms. We adopted him from Guatemala and he was 4 1/2 months old the first time I held him. He was so sweet and cuddly and my eyebrows look fabulous in the picture.

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    Judy — 12/12/08 @ 2:25 pm

    Oh Jaden, what a great bunch of give aways!

    We were just at Myakka State Park a couple of weekends ago and I took an amazing picture of my girls. I would love to have that done up on canvas!!!

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    Angel — 12/12/08 @ 2:30 pm

    I’d use my favorite photo of my husband and I from our wedding. :)

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    Judy — 12/12/08 @ 2:38 pm

    BONUS-Just twittered it! I would still frame a picture that I took at Myakka State Park!

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    Matthew — 12/12/08 @ 2:42 pm

    This one:

    http://flickr.com/photos/boxthor/2145504513/

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    Matthew — 12/12/08 @ 2:46 pm

    Bonus-
    http://twitter.com/boxthor

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    s — 12/12/08 @ 2:46 pm

    A picture of spectacular Bali!
    BONUS – just posted on facebook.

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    jfolkmann — 12/12/08 @ 2:48 pm

    I would like to have a print from my trip to Laos. I have big empty walls that it would be perfect for! Perhaps this crazy guy in luang prabang?

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    jfolkmann — 12/12/08 @ 2:51 pm

    Bonus! – twitter

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    Justin — 12/12/08 @ 2:56 pm

    My fam and I took our first prof picture together in probably 10 years over the summer…and we had my two dogs in the pic with us. HOLY COW I love that picture.

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    Suzanne — 12/12/08 @ 2:59 pm

    Hmmmmm… I would have to go with a honeymoon picture taken on the streets of Rome one evening with two scoops of delicious gelato in hand!!!!!!

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    Tracy — 12/12/08 @ 3:04 pm

    I have a picture of my oldest dressed like a Medieval knight brandishing a sword that I’d love to have on canvas. His expression in that picture totally sums up his personality.

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    Jeremy — 12/12/08 @ 3:05 pm

    Maybe a photo of the beach I am heading off to in Ecuador for christmas would look sweet, a bowl of ceviche and some whales off the coast in the Pacific??

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    Tracy — 12/12/08 @ 3:05 pm

    Bonus – posted on Twitter @TracyOConnor

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    Stephanie S — 12/12/08 @ 3:07 pm

    I took a beautiful shot of the new zealand countryside a few years ago, it would look great on canvas.

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    pseudostoops — 12/12/08 @ 3:10 pm

    I would want to take my favorite wedding candid and put it on canvas- our wedding album was a real disappointment, and I think this would be even cooler!

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    Shawn — 12/12/08 @ 3:14 pm

    I would put a photo of myself and the boy on one from our first date. Sappy yes, but it’s nice to remember where we started.

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    Shawn — 12/12/08 @ 3:15 pm

    BONUS tweet. (tucker29)

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    Aaron — 12/12/08 @ 3:17 pm

    I’ve seen the quality, first hand, from Canvas R Us a year or so ago with a family photo canvas for my parents. :)

    As for what I’d canvas, we have so many photos of my two girls (ages 3 and 2) already up in the house, but I’d like a macro-type shot of their hands and feet. ;)

    Merry Christmas!

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    Aaron — 12/12/08 @ 3:20 pm

    BONUS!

    Facebooked it:

    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=657209812&hiq=aaron%2Ckipfer

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    Justin — 12/12/08 @ 3:31 pm

    BONUS! I had to tell <a href="http://amanandhiskitchen.blogspot.com/2008/12/jadens-steamy-kitchen-and-why-you.html" title="Link to my blog">My Blog</a&gt readers about you! And then I <a href="http://www.twitter.com/justinclupper" title="twitter/justinclupper">twittered</a>…bonus? (x2?) ;)

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    Krista — 12/12/08 @ 3:39 pm

    I would love to have a photo of my son and daughter on the beach at Marco Island on canvas. It is the photo we used for our Christmas card last year, but I have never gotten around to framing it.

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    ashley — 12/12/08 @ 3:41 pm

    i’ve been dying to try out a photo on canvas! i’ve got several really great scenery shots from our trip to Colorado back in August that’d be great to have. Or maybe a great airplane shot to put in the aviation themed office we’re putting together for hubby. Tough call!

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    Blair — 12/12/08 @ 3:43 pm

    Realistically, I would almost certainly do a photo of my cat, as I am obsessed with him.

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    Holly — 12/12/08 @ 3:59 pm

    Great giveaway! Thanks for putting it together. I actually would have to print one of our two boys mugging for the camera together. Those canvases are awesome. I am heading to their site to check things out now. Thanks again for the info!

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    JustNancy — 12/12/08 @ 4:03 pm

    A close-up picture of my dog’s front paws “gripping” into sludgey sand at Jacob Riis Park here in New York. The individual “digits” of her paws are splayed awkwardly and every time I need a mid-day pick-me-up, I look at that picture and everything feels right again.

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    David — 12/12/08 @ 4:10 pm

    I think I’d put my favorite picture of my wife on it..

    Thanks for the cool stuff!

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    David — 12/12/08 @ 4:12 pm

    BONUS yay, twitter!

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    Theresa Spittal — 12/12/08 @ 4:51 pm

    I have a pic of my 5 year old daughter playing in the sand at the beach in Pacific City, OR that would be fantastic on canvas!

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    Misty — 12/12/08 @ 4:58 pm

    I’d love to have one of my husband’s scenic shots of our hometown done!

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    Kat — 12/12/08 @ 5:01 pm

    I have a great candid picture of my husband and I on our wedding day. it didn’t make the cut for our ‘official’ pictures, but it’s my personal favorite :)

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    Kat — 12/12/08 @ 5:03 pm

    plus a facebook BONUS!

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    Helen C — 12/12/08 @ 5:22 pm

    It will have to be a canvas of my friends and I rocking out in Singstar. Perfect as his housewarming gift now that he’s moved interstate.

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    Kristin — 12/12/08 @ 5:25 pm

    I would put my pets on the canvas… I happen to have a really good picture of my chihuahua, Buster, so he would probably end up on the first canvas. And then so as not to look like I was playing favorites, I would have to buy two more canvases. One for Tiger (poodle) and Stewie (cat). I don’t think I could get them to sit still together for one picture.

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    syl — 12/12/08 @ 5:35 pm

    I have a perfect picture of my dog! I can already imagine how good it would look ;)

    BTW Jaden, do you have a good holiday candy recipe to share? (peppermint chocolate bark or something)

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    Luna Pier Cook — 12/12/08 @ 5:41 pm

    The pic would be from last year, when my teen daughter fell asleep on my lap and Mary shot the photo,

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    madalyn — 12/12/08 @ 5:42 pm

    It’s so hard to pick just one photo! But I do have a fantastic close-up I took of some black-eyed susans in our yard that would look fabulous on canvas. Maybe that’s the photo I’d choose…

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    Luna Pier Cook — 12/12/08 @ 5:42 pm

    BONUS: Or a picture of Mary & I!

    You know, dearie, before you got yer now-famous self famous, it used to ne easy to win these things … ;-)

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    madalyn — 12/12/08 @ 5:46 pm

    **BONUS** I just blogged about this giveaway!

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    Geriann — 12/12/08 @ 6:27 pm

    We are expecting our first child soon… and what a better way to display a picture. I love the canvas…

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    Anita — 12/12/08 @ 6:30 pm

    I love your site!! I have been an avid follower for almost a year but never commented! I’ve tried two of your recipes and will be attempting to make those sticky pecan buns for my future FIL heheh:) We’re going to my boyfriend’s house xmas eve and I’ll be bringing him your yummy buns.

    Keep up the great work, don’t stop blogging. I’m in the process of starting my own blog to trek my journey to lose the excess weight I put on this past year, it was a rough on.

    I hope I win just one thing! They all look yummy, I don’t know what to pick!
    Anita

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    Elisabeth — 12/12/08 @ 6:32 pm

    OMG those salt blocks look unbelievable!

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    Elisabeth — 12/12/08 @ 6:33 pm

    BONUS haha i even just mentioned it on facebook! So excited!

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    Curt — 12/12/08 @ 6:44 pm

    Great giveaways!

    I’d do a canvas of a sunrise I took on my fifth wedding anniversary, on Goose Rocks Beach, ME.

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    Curt — 12/12/08 @ 6:44 pm

    Bonus… I stumbled this page, too :)

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    Curt — 12/12/08 @ 6:46 pm

    Bonus…
    Do I get multiples, since I twittered, too? :)

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    zmama — 12/12/08 @ 6:54 pm

    A cute pic of my tot and her dad!

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    Jenn — 12/12/08 @ 7:01 pm

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluefrogj/2243853323/in/set-72157603854214048/

    This is the picture I’d print of my canvas. I took it of my Rhodesian Ridgeback on Mardi Gras day. It was a windy day and I felt very lucky to get this print. I was playing around my new digital SLR I’d just purchased the month before and trying to learn how to use the sucker.

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    Hélène — 12/12/08 @ 7:10 pm

    You are so generous. I would love a picture of my family on a ski hill in Vancouver Island.

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    Karen — 12/12/08 @ 7:12 pm

    **BONUS**

    Facebook posting!!!

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    Jenn — 12/12/08 @ 7:12 pm

    BONUS! I so blogged about it at http://notexactlybento.com/?p=1031 (in case you need the link!)

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    Deb — 12/12/08 @ 7:24 pm

    I’d have them print my favorite photo of my kids, natch. They are all grown up now and STILL gorgeous.

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    Christina — 12/12/08 @ 7:46 pm

    We got family pictures taken in September, but I haven’t quite had the money to get us a picture enlarged… I’d pick on of them and put it on canvas! Oh, and I also put you on Facebook. **BONUS**

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    Shannon — 12/12/08 @ 7:56 pm

    When I was in school, I took a Black and White Photography class. I have many pieces that would be great on canvas! I could then hang them in my barren bedroom :)

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    Jen — 12/12/08 @ 7:57 pm

    I would canvas a picture of Camp Ondessonk, my childhood summer camp. Good times on the wall!

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    Jen — 12/12/08 @ 7:58 pm

    *BONUS* Just Facebooked you!

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    Sasha — 12/12/08 @ 8:04 pm

    I love the idea of putting pictures on canvas. I would love to have a beautiful landscape of where “home” is. Being a military wife, I move a lot and I love reminders of past and present homes. No kids yet, otherwise I would of course have pictures of my children!

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    violarulz — 12/12/08 @ 8:10 pm

    I would print an awesome picture I have of me and the dude outside of the Climax moly mine from Thanksgiving 2 (crap 3!) years ago. It even looks better cropped square!

    PS- if I win meat, spin agian, I keep kosher so I’d end up re-gifting it anyway.

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    masha — 12/12/08 @ 8:25 pm

    The picture of a Mayan temple in Guatemala I took a few years ago. It’s breathtaking and I really would like to display it in my house.

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    Steve Bowen — 12/12/08 @ 8:25 pm

    I would like to have my wife and her two triplet sisters photo shot of the three laughing and smoking cigars under an umbrella during a hurricane on canvas. What a hoot! a wonderful fun memory and a great night.

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    Erica — 12/12/08 @ 8:31 pm

    i have this photo (one of many) that i took in Hawai’i on Kauai, where my mom’s family is from. it is a break in some mountains and this single curved piece of land going into the prettiest blue water.

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    alagwc — 12/12/08 @ 8:35 pm

    gracious! Is your other name Santa? The salt blocks look like they would be fun to play with.

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    Helen — 12/12/08 @ 8:50 pm

    I’d canvas a pic of my daughter blowing bubbles.

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    Helen — 12/12/08 @ 8:50 pm

    Bonus on facebook!

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    Audrey — 12/12/08 @ 8:53 pm

    I’d canvas a picture that my dad took on our family trip to Las Vegas; it won a newspaper contest & I’d love for him to know how proud I am of him and his prize-winning picture :)

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    Audrey — 12/12/08 @ 8:57 pm

    BONUS: posted on LiveJournal!

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    Nicole — 12/12/08 @ 8:59 pm

    I have a picture of my daughter w/ her potty on her head like a hat and she’s so proud. I’d blow that up.

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    Nicole — 12/12/08 @ 9:00 pm

    BONUS:
    http://twitter.com/triggrickswife

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    Dani — 12/12/08 @ 9:50 pm

    I’d get a picture of my parents’ 50th anniversary and give it to them!

    Happy hols. Now to go tweet about you.

    @blogbooktours

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    Dani — 12/12/08 @ 10:01 pm

    Oh, phooey, sorry about the double post. Here’s my Bonus post at Twitter:

    http://twitter.com/blogbooktours/status/1054615902

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    Elizabeth M. — 12/12/08 @ 10:02 pm

    I would love to have a picture of my two kids together! I would LOVE that!

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    MomNmore — 12/12/08 @ 10:03 pm

    It would have to be my 8 yr old daughter and 6 yr old boy/girl twins. Kids….isn’t that what life is all about when we have them?

    =)

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    Elizabeth M. — 12/12/08 @ 10:09 pm

    BONUS:I stumbled the post (bluevioletof2)

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    Hannah — 12/12/08 @ 10:14 pm

    I would print a picture of my two kitties laying on my bed with their paws in what only can be described as a “Celtic knot.”

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    Jess — 12/12/08 @ 10:32 pm

    My grandmother passed away back in September. We have a picture that was taken just two weeks before she died – I’d love to print that out and give it to my mother.

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    Maggie — 12/12/08 @ 10:34 pm

    I would have this photo printed on canvas:
    http://tinyurl.com/5kynhd

    …because there is absolutely nothing in the world I love more than than buttery, salty, caramelly toffee.

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    Maggie — 12/12/08 @ 10:34 pm

    BONUS: Tweet!
    http://twitter.com/geopillow

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    Jo — 12/12/08 @ 11:04 pm

    Me & the more-than-better-half at Niagra :-) . Love the cool giveaways !!

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    Rachel — 12/12/08 @ 11:06 pm

    I’d have to print my daughter Joslyn flipping the bird to show me her nose. Too stinkin cute!

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    Jasmine — 12/12/08 @ 11:15 pm

    Seriously, you have the best giveaways.

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    Rachel — 12/12/08 @ 11:25 pm

    BONUS: I stumbled this

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    Bonnie — 12/12/08 @ 11:29 pm

    I have to go with the naked babies in the bubblebath.

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    Bonnie — 12/12/08 @ 11:29 pm

    BONUS: I stumbled the entry

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    rachel — 12/12/08 @ 11:30 pm

    A photo of my parents, for their anniversary gift

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    Frank — 12/12/08 @ 11:33 pm

    I’d love to have a canvased photo of my family in the forest!

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    Frank — 12/12/08 @ 11:38 pm

    BONUS

    I Twittered about this:
    http://twitter.com/fhg88

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    Siyi — 12/13/08 @ 12:14 am

    I would love to have a canvased photo of my family from our trip to China last summer.

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    Siyi — 12/13/08 @ 12:18 am

    I Twittered this, thanks! And happy holidays~

    http://twitter.com/Cseasides

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    Siyi — 12/13/08 @ 12:20 am

    Sorry, I forgot to say: BONUS! ^^”

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    Tammy — 12/13/08 @ 12:22 am

    Hi-

    The photo I really would like to print is not available yet. We are in the process of adopting our first child. When we actually get a child nothing would be sweeter than a photo of him or her! :-)

    -Tammy

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    Kristina — 12/13/08 @ 1:22 am

    We’re still 5 months from the birth of our baby, so I’d have to say our wedding photo of our current family- me, my husband, and our 4-legged husky mix who thinks she’s our child. :)

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    Claire — 12/13/08 @ 2:08 am

    I went camping last year in the desert, and I would have to pick one of the sunsets. I have this dusty tent set up, and in the background is the most amazing pink and blue skyline.

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    rebecca ball — 12/13/08 @ 3:55 am

    My own two “rugrats”, Lily and Isabella.

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    Lisa — 12/13/08 @ 4:01 am

    I recently did a “photo shoot” of my own with my almost 5 month old baby boy, and the pictures actually came out pretty good! I would put the picture of him doing tummy time in the nude with a completely white background, it’s cute because he has a huge smile!

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    Lisa — 12/13/08 @ 4:03 am

    BONUS

    just added to facebook!

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    Dani — 12/13/08 @ 5:14 am

    My husband took the most incredibly stunning photo of my daughter this week. I would love it printed on canvas to give my Dad for his 65th birthday in January.

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    Dani — 12/13/08 @ 5:16 am

    BONUS I just stumbled you : )

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    Carolsue — 12/13/08 @ 5:37 am

    I’d love to get a gift for my husband with a picture of our Chocolate Lab, Jasper. He is getting really old and this would be a great memory of him when he’s no longer with us.

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    Thien-Kim — 12/13/08 @ 5:41 am

    I have this fabulous picture of my daughter in her princess dress (that I made) bending over the ground, studying a frog statue in a garden.

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    Carolsue — 12/13/08 @ 5:43 am

    ****************** BONUS *******************

    I posted this contest on my Blog
    http://carolsbloggys.blogspot.com/2008/10/contests-from-our-bloggy-friends.html

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    Dirtykitchensecrets — 12/13/08 @ 8:22 am

    Hey i like fondling presents too!!! It would have to be one of me and my 2 sisters on the beach in Maui…

    Happy Holidays x

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    Nan — 12/13/08 @ 9:03 am

    I’d have to pick a picture of my husband and son together wearing matching sweatshirts. It’s so cute. :)

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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    Sarah — 12/13/08 @ 9:59 am

    I’d love to get a canvas of my wedding picture or honeymoon picture.

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    ronit — 12/13/08 @ 10:03 am

    i’d probably print out a picture i took two years ago of fresh figs at the open market in jerusalem, and maybe alongside it one of the vender yelling out the peak of season price and giving browsers samples

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    Karen — 12/13/08 @ 10:04 am

    I would like to print a copy of our wedding picture–we don’t have a big formal one and that would cool. Or–a picture of my dog and two cats–or a picture of my dog that died last year that was 19 yrs old!
    Thanks

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    grace — 12/13/08 @ 10:27 am

    there’s a picture from my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party of our entire family, and pretty much every person in it has something hilarious going on with his or her face, hair, or posture–deer in headlights, rooster tail, etc. it’s a keeper. :)

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    Jenny — 12/13/08 @ 10:31 am

    I think I would beg jen from ‘use real butter’ for one of her incredible photos, maybe some aspen in the fall, or that one of the flower opening overnight, or really anything she does.
    Failing that, it would be this one of my cat, it makes me laugh every time I look at it:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennywenny/3090622228/

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    daphne — 12/13/08 @ 11:18 am

    Gosh, I might take up that offer on that bribe! For us-I would probably like to have an engagement photo of us running after seagulls, sunset on beautiful Scarbrough beach in Perth with Indiana (place where we had our first date) at the background!!

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    joey — 12/13/08 @ 11:21 am

    Oooh! What great Christmas giveaways!!! Me wants! :) I would like to have the photo of my hubby chasing me down the beach after our wedding :)

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    Texas Deb — 12/13/08 @ 11:26 am

    Bonus – just twittered but don’t know how to get url for that yet. New to Tweeting… : ) – working on blog post – can taste those burgers, seriously….

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    Kelly — 12/13/08 @ 11:59 am

    I would put this picture on a canvas: my hot hubby cooking in my hot kitchen, using a hot knife… What is not to love?!

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    Mary — 12/13/08 @ 12:38 pm

    Oh my, oh my–I’m giddy after just looking at the giveaway items.

    I thinking I would canvas a family photo taken at our last family reunion–it was so fabulous to see aunts, uncles an cousins I hadn’t seen in 10 years.

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    Barbara — 12/13/08 @ 12:57 pm

    The picture I would have is one of my first grandbaby dressed up in a lion costume that I hand-made for his this past Halloween.

    Just signed up with Twitter although I have no clue how to use it. Here’s Bonus too but don’t know what that means either. Maybe this Nana is too old for this sort of stuff????????

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    Ali — 12/13/08 @ 1:14 pm

    So I am graduating from college in about a week, and am looking for things to stock my new kitchen with. All of these things look great! I’m hoping to leave graduation with my diploma and some great pictures. I would love to put some graduation or some of my college rowing photos on a canvas.

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    Ali — 12/13/08 @ 1:18 pm

    BONUS: I just posted your link on my facebook page. I also started looking to my facebook photos to find a great one to put to canvas!

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    Kelly Petersen — 12/13/08 @ 1:33 pm

    I would send a photo of my two puppies playing in the yard. We have no photos of our most recent pup up yet. He was a stray we picked up last month.

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    Kristine Kreidler — 12/13/08 @ 2:13 pm

    Great contest!

    I would send in a colorful picture of the cutest little Fijian girls playing in the doorway of a white church. It was a shot from our honeymoon.

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    Wendy — 12/13/08 @ 2:20 pm

    I would send in a photo of my 5 year old wearing underwear, my high heels, a black mask, and nothing else. She inherited my sense of style!

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    Kristine Kreidler — 12/13/08 @ 2:27 pm

    **Bonus**
    I blogged about the giveaway!
    http://nigella-bites.livejournal.com/

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    dianna — 12/13/08 @ 2:32 pm

    I love all the prizes you are offering – how generous. Never heard of the salt but thought it was amazing. my picture would be of my family.

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    Jessica — 12/13/08 @ 2:49 pm

    My picture would be of my boyfriend and me at graduation.

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    Jessica — 12/13/08 @ 2:51 pm

    BONUS (StumbleUpon)

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    Natalie — 12/13/08 @ 3:09 pm

    I would love to win!! My husband and I have been pretty strapped for cash since our wedding and haven’t been able to print a lot of pictures. I would love to have a nice wedding picture on canvas!

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    Chris Huck — 12/13/08 @ 3:16 pm

    My wife retires from the USN in April. I’d do a canvas of her in her dress blues with all the gold braid.

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    Javier Cabral — 12/13/08 @ 3:28 pm

    How can you continually do this sort of stuff!? :)

    Oh, and as cheesy as it may sound, I would portrait all the Fall/Winter fruits and vegetables that are in season right now.

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    gaga — 12/13/08 @ 3:34 pm

    A pic of our family (me, my hubz and our two cats, lol)

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    Barbara — 12/13/08 @ 3:55 pm

    I’d love a canvas of a picture of our entire family taken in the beautiful Idaho mountains.

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    Mike — 12/13/08 @ 3:59 pm

    I like salt

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    tbc — 12/13/08 @ 4:26 pm

    I’d love to see one of my fav pics of my lil sis on her wedding day, on that canvas.

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    My — 12/13/08 @ 4:30 pm

    Oh wow! I love the pictures of your sons, they are adorable! I would love to give my boyfriend a picture of us when we were at this adorable garden.

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    Susan — 12/13/08 @ 4:31 pm

    I’m moving to the states so I can win the meats…j/k. The picture canvas is great! I’d chose pictures of my parents with their grandchildren.

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    Frodnesor — 12/13/08 @ 4:57 pm

    Some good stuff there (and great pictures). Mine would probably be of the 2 dogs – I think our kids would prefer that to their own smiling mugs up on the wall. (Hope you enjoyed your visit w/ Chefs Chad and Kurtis when you were in Miami – they’ve done some great dinners for us).

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    Frodnesor — 12/13/08 @ 5:02 pm

    As Dr. Evil would say, “throw me a frickin’ bonus” here for facebook post.

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    Mike — 12/13/08 @ 5:14 pm

    Looks like it’ll be a very merry xmas! A very fun and generous giveaway and I’ve always wondered about the salt “plates”–I’ve seen it but never really knew what it was all about. As for canvas photos, I’d like to say my wife and baby, but well, she’s not due for ~4 months ;-)

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    Karen N — 12/13/08 @ 5:31 pm

    My four cats that adopted me!

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    Stacy — 12/13/08 @ 5:32 pm

    I would definitely print one of my photos from Italy on that sucker…. I’ve been thinking about doing that anywho! Happy Holidays!

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    Kristin T — 12/13/08 @ 5:32 pm

    It would definitely be … the family photo from fourth of july.

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    Kristi — 12/13/08 @ 5:58 pm

    Surface shots I took on a trip in 2007: a picture of a ninja graffitied on a wall in Russia and a picture of messages etched into the wall of what’s supposed to be (Dostoevsky’s) Raskolnikov’s stairwell.

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    RB — 12/13/08 @ 6:02 pm

    I would print a lovely photo of my dear kitty who passed over 2 years ago.

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    Annabel — 12/13/08 @ 6:15 pm

    So much to choose from! I have a salt grinder of Pink Himalayan Salts but… What would I do with a slab of salt? Ohhh the things I could do with some lotion candles… mmm! If only I could afford more knives I’d have a kitchen full of them! Oh deary me! Haha! Anyway, what would I print on canvas? I think I’d print a photo of Hubby and I at Piazza San Marco… our trip to Venice was WONDERFUL! I think it’s very generous of you to be giving away these prizes! Such wonderful things! How do you do it?!

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    Cler — 12/13/08 @ 6:44 pm

    I’ll print a picture of my Father, my children and my brothers in a beautiful medieval town, it was a great trip. Those Himalayan salt plates sound really amazing, really different.

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    amy dubois — 12/13/08 @ 7:48 pm

    i would print a pic of my kids hugging each other. they’re 5 & a half yrs apart, my my son loves his little sister so much… it’s great!

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    amy dubois — 12/13/08 @ 7:52 pm

    BONUS-i would love to print a pic of my husband and his dad-(he died when my husband was 8yrs old)

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    Peter — 12/13/08 @ 8:00 pm

    A photo of my wife and I getting married this past summer.

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    clara — 12/13/08 @ 8:06 pm

    i would love to print a picture of my bf’s 2 cats when they are sleeping on the foot of the bed instead of being on top of me.

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    giabella designs — 12/13/08 @ 8:22 pm

    Any day that we are together at Disney! Everyone is always so happy on vacation! They just grow up way too fast.

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    Kevin — 12/13/08 @ 8:35 pm

    Holy Cow!!!
    Thank you Jadan for maintaining your site, it is a must read every time you post something.

    As for Canvas photos I would say my puppy – Peppercorn.

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    Kathy — 12/13/08 @ 9:08 pm

    I would put a picture of my twin grandsons, the most beautiful little boys in the world!!

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    Annastasia — 12/13/08 @ 9:16 pm

    I would love to have a picture of my little sister dressed up as a princess wearing the outfit I made her when she was 4. She lives 1000+ miles away and is now 6 and I miss her everyday so much! I wuold love to have one in my house to remind me of her!

    Ive never seen the pink salt blocks before- I really must try one, as WOW! they seem awesome. My roommate and I cook and are both completely infatuated with salt! The knives are beautiful as always and oh look at the meat!

    Glad to know you guys had a blast at Club Med and Merry Christmas! <3

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    Marie — 12/13/08 @ 9:29 pm

    I would put a picture of me and my fiance on the day he proposed :-)

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    Marie — 12/13/08 @ 9:30 pm

    BONUS – I do Facebook! Lol

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    doreen — 12/13/08 @ 9:46 pm

    pics of me, my sis & mom. We rely so much on each other!
    Thanks for having this contest Jaden. You are truly one-of-a kind!

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    Chez Us - Denise — 12/13/08 @ 10:09 pm

    BONUS – Twittering & Facebooking ya! ;)

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    Martha — 12/13/08 @ 10:18 pm

    A picture of my family would be great.

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    Rebel — 12/13/08 @ 10:30 pm

    I would love to canvas a picture of my kids. My daughter, son and granddaughter.
    Thanks for the great contest.

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    Megan — 12/13/08 @ 10:39 pm

    What a fabulous giveaway! I would love to win any of these prizes! I would put a picture of my nephew on canvas for my sister.

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    thesweetestlove — 12/13/08 @ 10:39 pm

    It would be tough to choose, but I have some great family photos from long ago that would great! This is an amazing giveaway :)
    Happy Holidays!!

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    thesweetestlove — 12/13/08 @ 10:42 pm

    BONUS!! Facebooked your contest!!

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    Philip Baldwin — 12/13/08 @ 10:49 pm

    Hi, your two kids kissing should be the one you have painted tooo cute!! and yes pink salt mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Cheers and keep up the interesting blog
    Philip

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    Ann M. — 12/13/08 @ 11:08 pm

    I would choose my favorite photo of my brother, sister, and I when we were kids. It’s one of the rare photos with all 3 of us in it.

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    Ann M. — 12/13/08 @ 11:14 pm

    **BONUS** I blogged the giveaway on Facebook. Thanks!

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    Inna — 12/13/08 @ 11:46 pm

    I would choose our family photo.

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    JP — 12/14/08 @ 12:17 am

    Thanks for another amazing Steamy giveaway! I would a print a rare picture of my triplets actually together and all smiling!

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    Sherry C — 12/14/08 @ 12:20 am

    I would pick a photo of my husband and daughter hugging one another.

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    Ron Merlin — 12/14/08 @ 12:41 am

    I would print a picture of my three wonderful grown up children looking at me and smiling…. Which they do often, thank the lord.

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    Suganya — 12/14/08 @ 2:27 am

    I’d probably print a picture we took on my one and only snowboarding trip..

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    suzanne — 12/14/08 @ 2:52 am

    Thanks for a great blog!

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    jojoma — 12/14/08 @ 3:25 am

    My 92 year old mother had a professional photo of her taken at age 21 to send to her future in-laws in Japan so they could see who their son was marrying. I treasure this black and white photo of her looking like a movie star.

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    Mary — 12/14/08 @ 3:40 am

    I would get a picture of a a closeup I did of a strawberry margarita and hang it in my bathroom.

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    The Healthy Hostes — 12/14/08 @ 9:23 am

    What a great giveaways! I would love a picture of our wedding on the canvas. We got married at a lake in NY, Chautauqua Lake, and we have some great pictures on the water. Our colors were navy and ivory!
    :)

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    Lyndsey — 12/14/08 @ 9:37 am

    Family was the first thing to come to mind as well. Second would be exotic or tropical flowers, the colors can be so intense. You have a great list of favorites here. I can’t wait to try the Himalayan Pink Salt Plates and Blocks, I think you made me a salt snob! lol!

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    Krista — 12/14/08 @ 10:10 am

    Those Himalayan Pink Salt Plates look like a fun new way to cook. For the photo, my fiancee with his best buddy — wearing a kilt!

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    Lauren Harrison — 12/14/08 @ 10:14 am

    Great giveaways! I would use a photo of my sister, grandmother and I that my parents took this past Thanksgiving.

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    Tina Syphers — 12/14/08 @ 10:43 am

    BONUS, Those salt plates really look interesting for cooking.
    Would love to have a old picture of our family, myself, husband and son before he became a teenager. He is now 31.
    Thanks…

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    Dawn K — 12/14/08 @ 12:26 pm

    Thanks for sharing these wonderful gifts. I would love to win anything from the 6. My personal favourite will be a pic of my son with his dad :)

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    Barbara — 12/14/08 @ 12:31 pm

    I’ve got a beautiful night shot of the Brooklyn Bridge in the rain, taken as we were passing by it in a boat.

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    Anita — 12/14/08 @ 2:41 pm

    Wow! The pictures of your lovely boys are just AMAZINGLY beautiful. I checked out the website – very tempting, these canvasses. Well, I would have a picture of my two children framed and am now keeping my fingers crossed… till the 25th!

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    bobbi — 12/14/08 @ 4:26 pm

    wow there are alot of wonderful things here, I need a good bread knive and those pics are soooo cool!!!!

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    Joanna — 12/14/08 @ 4:45 pm

    I took a trip up to the Canadian Arctic over the summer, and my friend and I got to ride an ATV around. While I drove, she sat behind me and took pictures, and there’s this one with the back of my helmet bottom center. Above the helmet, there’s a barely-noticable road; to the right is the shoreline, with chunks of ice floating in the water, and there is not a single other person or building or ANYTHING in sight. Plus the sky is bluer than I ever thought possible. It’s the best picture from the best trip I’ve ever taken, and even if I don’t win I might get it on canvas anyway!

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    Aster — 12/14/08 @ 4:48 pm

    All great prizes. I love that bread knife and those canvas photos are great.

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    sofie — 12/14/08 @ 6:28 pm

    my brothers and sisters during childhood

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    Stephanie — 12/14/08 @ 6:39 pm

    I would probably print my favorite shot I’ve ever taken with a camera of my youngest son (gorgeous natural light that captured his blue eyes perfectly) or the family picture we had taken 2 years ago.

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    NJJ — 12/14/08 @ 6:57 pm

    Enter me, please! :)

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    NJJ — 12/14/08 @ 6:58 pm

    BONUS (Stumble): One more entry, please! Thanks!

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    Rebel — 12/14/08 @ 9:18 pm

    BONUS! I wrote about this great contest on my blog. Thanks for the extra chance to win.

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    Michelle — 12/14/08 @ 9:18 pm

    I found this picture of me and my siblings taken at Christmas time many, many, many years ago that I would love to put on canvas and hang in my apartment. Of course, I’d have to scan it first since it’s an actual photograph!

    Thanks for this amazing giveaway, Jaden!!

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    Michelle — 12/14/08 @ 9:23 pm

    Bonus – Facebook!

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    Michelle — 12/14/08 @ 9:27 pm

    Bonus – Stumbled!

    Okay, I’m done now, I promise. ;-)

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    Lori — 12/14/08 @ 10:03 pm

    It would definitely be a pciture of my daughters. For me they are just so beautiful to look at. Of course, like you say, not when they are fighting.

    I loved the little blurb about pomegranates on the tv show. You could be an anchor woman yourself!

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    Carol — 12/14/08 @ 10:06 pm

    A picture of our granddaughter in her Christmas dress would be lovely.

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    Pictomo — 12/15/08 @ 2:57 am

    I have this great picture of my kids playing Ultimate Frisbee on the Beach in Seaside Oregon at sunset with the cliffs and ocean in the background…it would be spectacular
    or the one in Bandon on the huge dune when they were little…..so sweet!

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    Pictomo — 12/15/08 @ 3:17 am

    It’s “bonus” time BABY! Oh I forgot about the awesome bird pics I’d love on canvas…….so hard to choose!

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    Chiara Ko — 12/15/08 @ 3:58 am

    Holy Smokes… so many people entered already! Thanks for the detail on the salt slab, I think my sister-in-law (a foodie) would totally love that! And… I would too!!!! (Either that… or the hubby will make me choose the awesome steaks… He’s easily amused by them!)

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    Sutee — 12/15/08 @ 7:29 am

    Pictures of family members eating their favorite dishes and enjoying themselves!

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    Sutee — 12/15/08 @ 7:29 am

    Pictures of family members eating their favorite dishes and enjoying themselves!

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    Lizzie Longenecker — 12/15/08 @ 8:53 am

    Hello!

    Sorry I haven’t written in a while! Stan graduated from law school and we moved back home to Florida, and it’s been hectic.

    I would frame a picture of my husband and me with our new baby bunny, Remy!

    :)

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    Argentee — 12/15/08 @ 9:55 am

    I think I’d put one of my mom’s wildflower photos on Canvas… they are gorgeous!

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    Allison — 12/15/08 @ 10:45 am

    I have a really beautiful picture that I took in Japan of green tea and a tea sweet. It would look great on canvas. Although a picture of my family would look pretty good on canvas too.
    Oh yes, BONUS. I posted this on facebook.

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    waisze — 12/15/08 @ 11:00 am

    How fabulous and gorgeous you boys are! We take tons of photos. It would be so hard to decide on which but possibility a photo from our trip to Japan to remind us of our fun travels.

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    waisze — 12/15/08 @ 11:03 am

    BONUS!

    Twittered & Blogged.

    http://twitter.com/waisze
    http://waiszedesigns.blogspot.com/2008/12/steamy-kitchens-holiday-giveaways.html

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    Shirley Motes — 12/15/08 @ 11:45 am

    I would love to have my great-grandparents wedding picture on canvas. They were Married in 1887 . . .

    Shirley in OKC

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    Kristen J — 12/15/08 @ 11:50 am

    I never knew you could do that with salt! I just want to lick it! As far as the canvas, I have the perfect picture from our honeymoon to put in it!

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    Diana — 12/15/08 @ 12:31 pm

    It would have to be one of Eric and I with children in Senegal, Africa. We went there to teach some camps and fell in love with Africa and want to live there one day.

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    kaszeta — 12/15/08 @ 12:35 pm

    Those Himalayan salt blocks are one of those odd items that I previously was unaware, yet have now seen several mentions of, and now am thinking I seriously need them.

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    Rana — 12/15/08 @ 12:35 pm

    I’d choose a picture of my two sisters and me so that I can be reminded of the fun we have together!! :)

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    Sarah C — 12/15/08 @ 12:36 pm

    My Grampa passed away this year, and I would love to have a picture of him in my daughter’s nursery. She’s due ina few weeks, and was actually conceived just a couple of weeks after he passed. He would have been so thrilled about her.

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    Diana — 12/15/08 @ 12:38 pm

    *BONUS!* I posted the link on facebook, and my status is craving some Kobe beef burgers :)

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    sprite — 12/15/08 @ 12:43 pm

    Wow! What a generous gift.

    My partner and I took a trip to France in November and spent a rainy day in Aix-en-Provence. As we were walking through the winding streets, the sun came out for a brief moment, brightening the honey-hued buildings in front of us. A girl with a yellow umbrella ambled past, and I snapped the shot. That’s what I’d have printed.

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    Diana — 12/15/08 @ 12:53 pm

    *BONUS* I posted it on my blog too!
    http://dianasaur.blogspot.com/2008/12/win-some-amazing-culinary-prizes.html

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    Ann — 12/15/08 @ 1:36 pm

    I love your blog! If I win I would like to print on canvas the only family picture we have taken three years ago.

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    kim — 12/15/08 @ 2:48 pm

    great giveaway!! i have a macro shot of a baby fern that would look gorgeous on that canvas:)

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    ERMA — 12/15/08 @ 2:54 pm

    I would love to have my daughters newborn picture on canvas. That image of her will always be with me.

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    mkubee — 12/15/08 @ 3:00 pm

    I think I would go for the picture of my parents trying to stuff two stubborn grand kids into their Halloween costumes two years ago — only because Halloween is soooo NOT my parents, so it’s grand parent antithesis activity — and none of us is getting any younger… it’s a neat memory to hang on the wall…

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    mkubee — 12/15/08 @ 3:18 pm

    BONUS – I Plurked (wow, I never thought I would type or say that stupid word aloud)

    I’m offsideher

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    ModernHulaGirl — 12/15/08 @ 3:28 pm

    I would go for a black & white of my great uncle doing a handstand on the beach in the 30′s or 40′s. It’s unique, personal and would look great over our couch in a mish mosh of pictures ala Domino Magazine.

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    Sharlynn — 12/15/08 @ 3:39 pm

    wondeful giveaway! thanks for the chance to get some wonderful items…

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    KristinaYellow — 12/15/08 @ 3:43 pm

    This is going to sound cheesy but I would probably print the first photo that is taken when my hubby and I see our child for the first time–even though I’m sure I’ll look like crap after giving birth, it’s such a huge life-changing moment and it’d be so great to have that reminder in the house (esp later when it’s 3 am and the baby can’t sleep again and we’re ready to pull our hair out!)

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    KristinaYellow — 12/15/08 @ 3:44 pm

    Bonus–linked to facebook :)

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    Melissa — 12/15/08 @ 3:45 pm

    I would get one of my favorite photos of my fiance and me with our dogs to put on the “guestbook table” at the wedding and also to hang in our new home.

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    Nicole — 12/15/08 @ 4:01 pm

    It’s hard to say, I have many favorites, but it would probably be a picture of me and my boyfriend when we went hiking at Sugar Creek Glen Falls.

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    Stephanie — 12/15/08 @ 4:27 pm

    Oh, one of me on the lovely beach in Destin, Florida! Of Course ! For my room….

    On to my Facebook so I can say something great and get another entry! woohoo

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    Stephanie — 12/15/08 @ 4:38 pm

    BONUS! (linked on my Facebook) – So exciting! Hope I win!

    I would still like to have a pic of me on the beach in Destin, that was a GREAT beach, great vacation.

    I have the greatest silhouette of me with the ocean in the background, with the sunset filtering behind me. Very pretty….

    Woohoo! I hope I win!

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    K — 12/15/08 @ 4:42 pm

    I think I’d like to have some various vacation/scenery photos that I’ve taken over the years- great gifts by the way!

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    Wynn — 12/15/08 @ 5:18 pm

    A favorite picture of my son 3 years ago on a wonderful beach trip to Fripp Island, SC.

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    Christine — 12/15/08 @ 5:41 pm

    Phenominal Giveaway! We just had our family picture taken in Jamaica this year, that would go perfect on canvas!

    I tweeted
    http://twitter.com/bluerosecafe

    and blogged
    http://bluerose-cafe.blogspot.com/2008/12/12-days-of-christmas-cookies-2008-day-2.html

    Thank you for the chance to win one of the fabulous prizes!!

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    pw — 12/15/08 @ 8:12 pm

    i’d print an engagement picture of me and my fiance since now we have awesome professional shots that are perfect to enlarge and hang around the house!

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    Jeff — 12/15/08 @ 9:39 pm

    i love the one of the two of them kissing; i’m going to have try that one on my kids. what lens did you use for that pic?

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    Jeff — 12/15/08 @ 9:42 pm

    BONUS: StumbledUpon

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    Jenn — 12/15/08 @ 10:11 pm

    I would print the picture of me and my family on a boat with the lake in the background. We look so genuinely happy and the sky was such a beautiful blue.

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    ktpupp — 12/15/08 @ 11:04 pm

    Oh… What would I print on canvas? That’s a tough one… But since I just took some pretty cool photos at my favorite Korean restaurant I think a few prints of my shots of Bibimbap, Kimchee and Kunmandoo (sp?) would be pretty cool in my kitchen!

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    ktpupp — 12/15/08 @ 11:16 pm

    BONUS! Twittered and Facebook statused! :)

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    Josie — 12/16/08 @ 12:03 am

    I’d canvas a photo that was taken of hubby and I back when we were still engaged. We were on a beach in Florida, the sun was setting and we just looked so happy. It would be a reminder of all the wonderful things that have happened as well as a reminder of the things that are yet to come.

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    tamiami — 12/16/08 @ 12:30 am

    I can’t believe the wonderful prizes! I’ve learned so much from you just reading your blogs and your very funny too (flattery will get me everywhere??). I’m sincere about the things I’ve learned from you, especially how to sharpen my knives and how to peel a pomegranite correctly. I first started following your articles in the Tampa Tribune and I love your sarcasm and humor.

    Mrs. Claus, since you are doing the random drawing on Christmas morning my wishlist would be to win the very cool New West Knifeworks knife or the canvas. I have a toddler who keeps me young and young at heart. I’d have his cute little mug on the canvas. Thanks for the opportunities.

    Merry Christmas!!

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    birdseyechili — 12/16/08 @ 12:45 am

    I’d love to print our wedding picture. We have an amazing black and white one with the veil all spread out – it’s gorgeous and I’d love to have it in our bedroom.

    Thanks for all your amazing giveaways!

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    April Jacques — 12/16/08 @ 1:06 am

    For a canvas I would definitely have an up close
    picture of kids.

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    Lika — 12/16/08 @ 1:09 am

    I would love to have our pictures from Hawaii on canvas. They are unreal :-)
    Thanks for being so generous!

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    Jean — 12/16/08 @ 1:42 am

    my 4 younger sisters and i when we were little and now

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    Zack — 12/16/08 @ 11:31 am

    I love your contests I always read about something new before posting! The salt blocks sound…strange but really neat I had never heard of them before. I’m in it for the knife, again I would love to get my hand on one of those! As for the picture it would be of one or both of the boys we would have to go through all the pictures we have but I have a few ideas of some good ones. Be ready for a bonus entry from 365Motorwerks on twitter!

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    Zack — 12/16/08 @ 11:37 am

    Twitter bonus me up please! The tweet has been sent to the world! ;)

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    Sheri — 12/16/08 @ 12:47 pm

    Jaden, the canvases of your boys turned out BEAUTIFULLY! Love them.

    We just got a Cannon XS SLR camera. My husband has been playing with it and captured some detailed close up pictures that are really cool! It would make a great canvas- very artsy.

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    Sara S — 12/16/08 @ 12:49 pm

    Oooohhh… this contest looks great.
    The picture I would get would be one of my boyfriend and I vacationing in Door County, Wisconsin.

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    jan — 12/16/08 @ 12:58 pm

    I’ve got a terific black & white that my best friend took of the two kids 7 years ago that I love. She was taking photography classes & really really captured some neat stuff on that one photo.

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    Jessica O — 12/16/08 @ 1:41 pm

    I got married in June 2007, and still have not found the ‘perfect’ way to display my favorite pictures. I have never seen anything like this before – it’s a beautiful way to cherish your memories! I love it, this is it!!

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    Diana — 12/16/08 @ 2:06 pm

    It would be wonderful if I can have a canvas picture of my little niece who’s already 2 months old and I’ve not gotten to see in person and probably won’t get to see in a long long time.

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    Kim — 12/16/08 @ 2:11 pm

    Aww… those pictures of your boys are so cute! I think that if I got a picture printed, I might have to go with the picture of one of my roommates dressed as a deer with my brother in the background posing as a hunter. It is a really hilarious picture.

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    Cess — 12/16/08 @ 2:37 pm

    My canvas would totally be a wedding picture as I am getting married this Saturday 5 days before christmas!!!!

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    Cess — 12/16/08 @ 2:45 pm

    My BONUS post
    http://twitter.com/CessC

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    Marie — 12/16/08 @ 5:53 pm

    I think if I got a picture printed, I would want a picture of my sister and I from a picnic that we had when I visited her last summer. We decided to have “nap time” and there’s a great one of us sleeping on a Mexican blanket at the park.

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    Nicole — 12/16/08 @ 6:25 pm

    I have a picture from when I was 4 of myself with my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother that I would love to have printed on canvas. Great contest!

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    Miranda — 12/16/08 @ 7:00 pm

    The photo my husband I took outside on the perfect day…the day we found out we had twins!

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    Rebecca — 12/16/08 @ 8:35 pm

    I just finished a photobook of my 2 girls (ages 8 and 4). It’s a collection of pictures taken of them throughout this year with just the 2 of them in it. It’s wonderful! It was the first time I ordered a photobook online. I would like to put the cover shot on canvas. It’s a close-up headshot of the two of them lying on top of eachother on our living room sofa. They both have this perfectly natural smile on their faces … sisters and BFF!

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    Pearl Maxey — 12/16/08 @ 9:01 pm

    Wow, if you chose me I don’t know what I would pick. Anyway, I would put a pic of my two daughters with my grandmother who just passed on canvas to put in our livingroom so that they have a constant reminder of where they come from and that the people in your family and their love are always with you.

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    Michael G — 12/16/08 @ 9:02 pm

    I would put up a travel picture from a romantic part of Italy my wife and I went to for our honeymoon

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    Pearl Maxey — 12/16/08 @ 9:11 pm

    BONUS! Facebooked this…

    If I could print another pic it would be of both my girls again, from this summer at Great America with their faces painted (not really worth the $20 each, but the pics are beautiful). I would then take the credit for the canvas as I gave it to my husband for our anniversary.

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    Ron Merlin — 12/16/08 @ 9:56 pm

    I have a picture of my youngest when he was 5 years old, and asleep. It’s my favorite photo ever. That is the photo I would choose.

    http://themerlinmenu.blogspot.com

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    Jaime — 12/16/08 @ 11:20 pm

    great giveaway. thanks for the holiday gift ideas too. i would love to have one of the photos from our trips to tahiti or fiji printed on canvas!

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    Ann — 12/16/08 @ 11:34 pm

    BONUS: I just blogged your GREAT giveaways!!!

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    Laura — 12/17/08 @ 1:30 am

    I would love to have a picture of my dad and sister. None of us really takes pictures, which leaves us with only our memories. But this Christmas, I’m making sure to get a picture of all three of us!

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    Merav — 12/17/08 @ 1:41 am

    I would love the knife! It’s so cool!!!

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    Victoria — 12/17/08 @ 4:52 am

    I would print a nice picture of my late maternal grandfather and grandmother and present it to my mom, who’s been missing them ever since they recently passed away within a year of each other.

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    Victoria — 12/17/08 @ 5:06 am

    BONUS (http://bijoux.livejournal.com/478962.html)

    :)

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    kat — 12/17/08 @ 10:07 am

    great giveaway, I would print a photo of the ocean in saipan.

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    Grifola frondosa — 12/17/08 @ 10:23 am

    I’d print a picture of me cutting one of those Sterling steaks, cooked on a block of pink salt with a nice shiny New West Knife, with a salad on the side with a simple salad topped with Global Gardens buttery olive oil and mango champagne vinegar.

    That’s a picture of a happy camper worth framing !

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    tien lie — 12/17/08 @ 10:36 am

    Great giveaways! I would print my family picture because we rarely get together anymore.

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    Sam F — 12/17/08 @ 10:41 am

    Neat! I’d print a picture of me and my girlfriend, though it would take a while to choose the best one!

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    lauren — 12/17/08 @ 10:47 am

    BONUS!

    Facebook’d it :)

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    Carla — 12/17/08 @ 11:05 am

    I’m not sure exactly which picture I would print but, it would probably be a picture I have taken of my kids.

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    Tiffany — 12/17/08 @ 11:28 am

    My beautiful, loving family of course! :)

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    Cathlyn — 12/17/08 @ 11:29 am

    I’d like to win any of them. *s*

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    Sandra — 12/17/08 @ 11:34 am

    Ohhhh, definately a pic of my 3 boys! Thanks for the giveaways!

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    Amanda — 12/17/08 @ 11:47 am

    I would love to print a picture of snow because it Never! snows were I live and I miss it so…

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    Emily — 12/17/08 @ 12:07 pm

    I would print a photo of my husband, myself and our dog Murray from our fall trip to Walla Walla. We’re in the vineyard of one of our favorite wineries, wine in hand and everyone (including the dog) is smiling!

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    floreksa — 12/17/08 @ 12:08 pm

    Definitely my DD in DC smelling a rose.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/floreksa/2589252225/

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    Trisha — 12/17/08 @ 12:37 pm

    What great giveaways! I would print a picture of my kids giving each other a sweet kiss.

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    Claire PIper — 12/17/08 @ 12:57 pm

    As always, I love the stuff you write about and your giveaways are the best. I keep trying….
    I would probably get a picture of the ocean near where I live, on a foggy or stormy day. Waves crashing. It’s my favorite thing in the world, and with my kids grown and gone… well, it would be wisest.

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    Claire PIper — 12/17/08 @ 12:58 pm

    Bonus!
    I posted on my Facebook page too.

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    Megan — 12/17/08 @ 1:00 pm

    I think I would print a picture from our honeymoon. We have a bunch from the wedding, but none from the gorgeous honeymoon in Colorado. I’m totally drooling over the prospects of this giveaway…

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    Rory — 12/17/08 @ 1:41 pm

    I just came back from a trip to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico with 6 women friends (ranging from ages in the 40s to 89), and *everything* we saw looked like art. So either something I took because it looked so beautiful (displays of vegetables at the outdoor market took a lot of my camera space) or one of all of us, or one of the 89-year-old, who instigated the whole trip.

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    Haiku — 12/17/08 @ 1:45 pm

    I’d like to either get a photo of me and my husband (i am pregnant with our first child) or a picture of our parents together (as one set lives in Florida, we’re in Connecticut and other in Estonia). Happy holidays!

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    Kate — 12/17/08 @ 1:58 pm

    I would def. print a picture of Florence from my study abroad adventures…

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    Kellette — 12/17/08 @ 2:03 pm

    I have some great vacation photos from this summer’s trip to Israel – i would LOVE to have them put on canvas!

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    Allison — 12/17/08 @ 2:12 pm

    I’d print a photo of Leia, the darling dog I grew up with (she passed away). And yes, she was a princess.

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    Allison — 12/17/08 @ 2:17 pm

    BONUS!

    Just Twitter’d it. :) Happy holidays!

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    Paloo — 12/17/08 @ 2:31 pm

    It would be the absolutely amazing picture of a tree that my husband took!

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    Jescel — 12/17/08 @ 3:13 pm

    This is a hard question.. but I’d have my hubby and I’s wedding photo printed on canvass.

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    Jescel — 12/17/08 @ 3:15 pm

    BONUS.. entered on Facebook.

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    Lynneth — 12/17/08 @ 3:23 pm

    I would print a picture of my family from my brother’s wedding to give either to my bro & wife or to my parents. OR I would photoshop a graduation photo of the siblings to give to the parents. Probably the latter.

    Also, *BONUS* on myspace, facebook, and xanga. not that i’m expecting 3 separate entries for the bonus drawings. Btw, your photos are amazing.

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    Rhonda — 12/17/08 @ 4:01 pm

    It would have to be a picture of my kids being nice to each other!

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    Veronica — 12/17/08 @ 5:51 pm

    Bonus: Stumbled!

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    brenda hubbard — 12/17/08 @ 6:20 pm

    A picture of my son. I love your pictures!

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    KP — 12/17/08 @ 8:53 pm

    Probably a new pic of my elderly parents since they have an upcoming 68th Wedding Anniversary!

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    Jen — 12/17/08 @ 8:58 pm

    OH! HIMALAYAN salt block! sheesh! I was just in japan and saw that for the first time. My cousin tried to tell me where it was from but I just didn’t get the Japanglish-cised word for “himalayan”.

    thank you. I understand now. *SIGH*

    As for the photo on canvas, I’m just itching to put to canvas my favorite photo that I took while i was strolling around (struggling through the crowds) in Notre Dame…I was just trying to chop the heads out of the photo and was lucky enough to get my perfect shot!

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    Jen — 12/17/08 @ 9:01 pm

    BONUS! facebooked it.

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    _ts of [eatingclub] vancouver — 12/17/08 @ 9:28 pm

    To make it more displayable in the house, probably a photo of the kids (nieces + nephew). If not them, then one of the travel photos I took about 2 years ago or so in Italy/Amsterdam/Paris. =)

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    _ts of [eatingclub] vancouver — 12/17/08 @ 9:29 pm

    BONUS!!!
    (StumbleUpon)

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    Carrie — 12/17/08 @ 10:11 pm

    I would canvas a photo I took of the left bank in Paris this summer….

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    Carolyn Jung — 12/17/08 @ 10:37 pm

    I ate sashimi once that was served on a pink slab of salt just like this. It was so cool! And what a great taste revelation. You didn’t need soy sauce; all you needed was to slide the piece of fish over the salt slab and it was enough to impart just the necessary saltiness. Moreover, unlike with soy sauce, the salt slab did not mask the fresh, sweet, briny flavor of the fish one iota.

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    Carrie — 12/17/08 @ 10:49 pm

    BONUS! It’s on my Facebook wall…

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    Roberta — 12/17/08 @ 11:02 pm

    I’ve been restoring some old family photos. My uncle was a pretty good photographer and there are some lovely shots of my grandparent’s cottage that I have ready to print. Any of those would make a great canvas.

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    gabi — 12/17/08 @ 11:27 pm

    A photo with family. Because of college and grad school, I seen mine at most a week every year for the last 5 years. Happy Holidays and I hope you’ll be the Marx Foods recipe winner.

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    Zaw — 12/18/08 @ 1:18 am

    Haha, I’d get a photo canvas of my cat. Looks like you’re way ahead of everyone else on the Marxfoods contest. An early congratulations on your new truffles!

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    Beachcomber — 12/18/08 @ 1:54 am

    A photo of my hubby, son and I at the Grand Canyon, a photo of Half Dome that has a sliver of the moon in the photo or a family portrait taken this last Thanksgiving. Thanks!

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    White On Rice Couple — 12/18/08 @ 2:37 am

    OH.My.God. This is better than “Oprah’s favorite things” & Ellen’s “12 days of x-mas giveaways” shows. Why is it better? Cause I don’t have to sell an organ to get a chance to win something! At your giveaway, everyone gets a chance!

    Please, Oh great Buddha, I am rubbing your happy round belly now…..*rub belly*, *massage shoulders*….give me luck….

    BTW- Those canvas pics of the boys are so FUCKING CUTE!!! oops… I meant, they’re so *bleeeeeep* cute!!!!!

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    Nicole (ikkinlala) — 12/18/08 @ 3:02 am

    I’d probably pick a family photo from when my brother and I were kids, but I’d have to wait and see how the photos from my brother’s wedding turn out.

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    spring — 12/18/08 @ 12:50 pm

    I would probably do some that I took on mt.katahdin. What wonderful gifts…and for someone who loves her salty foods, the salt site is absolutely wonderful.

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    Ruth — 12/18/08 @ 1:31 pm

    BONUS in Facebook. Lovely photos of our vacation to the beaches and serene surroundings on canvas would be a great addition. Btw your kids are so adorable, awesome photo!

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    Romana — 12/18/08 @ 4:38 pm

    My grandparents

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    Margaret — 12/18/08 @ 7:00 pm

    My favorite picture is of my three girls, age 12, 5, and 3, sitting on a rock in the middle of the river coming out of Mt Baldy, Ca. They were scared to death, but clung on that rock and smiled a big one for me.

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    tina — 12/18/08 @ 7:40 pm

    Probably a pic with my two beautiful girls doing anything but in a very casual setting :)

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    John Jo — 12/18/08 @ 8:26 pm

    LOL, I have to say, I’m not fond of using oil in bed, it stains the sheets and won’t come out unless I pull out my Martha Stewart references. Personally, I don’t think my boyfriend is salty enough. ;) He thinks it’s so weird, but I love following a trail of salt. As for the canvas, I was going to say him salted, but I have a feeling my mother wouldn’t approve. There is this American flag at a car dealership about 6 blocks away from where I live, and the flag is so tattered it’s a bit shameful. People have asked him to replace it, but his answer is that, the flag represents the tattered conditions of America. He says he won’t replace the flag until Bush leaves office. I think I might have that canvased, it’s sad, but still a politcal statement, even though it is illegal.

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    Cecile — 12/18/08 @ 9:24 pm

    One of the photos during our trip to Mackinac Island last summer or maybe the one in Dominican Republic.

    Your Firecracker Shrimp recipe looks really good. I will try it one of these days.

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    Natalie — 12/18/08 @ 9:27 pm

    A pic of my three little boys!!

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    Marilyn — 12/18/08 @ 10:04 pm

    I would probably use some lovely nature/floral prints. This is a great idea.

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    Dorice — 12/19/08 @ 12:41 am

    Thanks for the opportunity to win these wonderful items! The canvas would be of the moment when I first got to see our son after a long delivery process!

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    Lynne — 12/19/08 @ 12:58 am

    When my parents visited a few years ago we went to some ruins east of Santa Fe. I have a picture of my father starting down a ladder into a kiva with my mother next to him. Just a few short years later neither of them are moving as well as they did then and this remains one of my favorite pictures

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    jasmine — 12/19/08 @ 4:39 am

    one of my friends and i in poland, trekking in the forest with her lovely alsatian.

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    aggy — 12/19/08 @ 10:28 am

    a picture of my husband, my 16 yr old daughter(who lives abroad and we only see once a year)and myself at the beach last august when we visited her

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    Betty — 12/19/08 @ 10:53 am

    I take numerous pics of my kids (10 & 11) but my favorite is one of them standig in the tall sea grass on Hatteras Island, NC and my son has his arm around his sister – they both have big smiles on their faces and it’s a beautiful spring day.

    Thanks for sharing your pics – they’re adorable.
    Happy Holidays!

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    Aya — 12/19/08 @ 11:10 am

    a candid photo of my family on the beach!!

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    Chelsea R — 12/19/08 @ 12:42 pm

    What lovely gifts! Thanks for the great giveaways! I think I would pick this wonderful photo I have of my husband and I on our honeymoon last year, we just look so relaxed and happy! It would be great to have the emotions of that photo hanging over us every day.

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    Monica — 12/19/08 @ 1:37 pm

    Great Giveaway Presents! I’d love to have a photo of my boyfriend and I on the quad on our campus in the fall, which is where we met. It’d be perfect since we have no real pictures framed of us. Have a wonderful holiday!

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    Chez Us — 12/19/08 @ 1:53 pm

    * BONUS * Just twittered you!

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    Joy — 12/19/08 @ 2:00 pm

    OOh, this is too good to pass up. :)

    With regards to your question, I’d have our favorite engagement photo printed on canvas. That would be swell.

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    Joy — 12/19/08 @ 2:03 pm

    BONUS!

    Twitter-ed :)

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    jennsquared — 12/19/08 @ 5:10 pm

    The picture I want to print on canvas is a photo of my wedding. There is a really cool silhouette shot of us by the St. Lawrence River.

    I hope I win! Thanks for the cool give away contest!

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    Julianne — 12/19/08 @ 5:11 pm

    I would print pictures from my vacation in Europe.

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    jennsquared — 12/19/08 @ 5:16 pm

    BONUS! I facebook linked you!

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    betty q. — 12/19/08 @ 8:38 pm

    To this day, I have this old, trustworthy bread knife given to me at work when I was a pastry cook apprentice…couldn’t afford to buy one back then. I still use it and is sharp ever ever but after a lot of mileage in it …about 23 years, I can sure use another one and give my trust worthy “friend” the rest it so deserves!

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    betty q. — 12/19/08 @ 8:40 pm

    I forgot to tell you…photo of my 2 kids plus hubby …California holiday!

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    heidi leon — 12/20/08 @ 2:14 am

    hi Jaden,

    First time on your blog, but certainly will not be the last. I love everything about it, the recipes, the pictures and your writing.

    If I were one of your winners of your Santa letter (btw, what a sweet idea to share this gifts with your readers!) I will love to win the Himalayan Pink Salt Plate and Block, it’s amazingly beautiful, and I’m already thinking of the many ways I can use it at my tiny kitchen!. You know what’s funny? We live in Shanghai, China, quite closer to Himalaya’s than Florida, but never seen it here!).

    My bf (french pastry chef) and me, we also have a thing for salts. I personally love the Fleur de sel de Guerande vanille (available @ Fauchon)specially with lobster, risottos and soups.

    Wish you merry christmas!

    Heidi

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    April Wells — 12/20/08 @ 3:24 am

    What a wonderful set of giveaways. Merry Christmas!!

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    kimbly — 12/20/08 @ 9:22 am

    I have a photo of my mom that I’d have printed. She is laughing and the wind is blowing her hair back slightly. She looks like she is having such a great time and that pictures shows the true essence of my mom’s personality.

    Thanks so much for the giveaway!

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    Judy in SATX — 12/20/08 @ 1:24 pm

    The photos of your boys is so precious! I would love to have a canvas of my two boys! The baby is getting old enough to want to maul his big brother with affection.

    Thanks for the great links! I’ve been intrigued by the pink Himalayan salt ever since I saw it on Iron Chef America. I never thought it would be so affordable!

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    Cynthia K-R — 12/20/08 @ 5:36 pm

    Photos of my two boys: 18 and 23. They are now handsome young men, ready for the big, bad world. Sad for me that they will be leaving here. Wonderful gifts for giveaways. Happy Holidays!!!

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    katswan — 12/20/08 @ 8:44 pm

    my son, my sun, my son! I LOVE my son, it would have to be my son!

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    Shaheen — 12/21/08 @ 7:34 am

    BONUS! Pink himalayan salt please! Dang I live right next door, but we don’t get this kind of stuff here. View twitter status: http://twitter.com/PurpleFoodie/status/1070411550

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    Chez US - Denise — 12/21/08 @ 8:02 pm

    BONUS – Twittering & Facebooking it!!

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    Lisa — 12/21/08 @ 8:22 pm

    A recent photo of me & my boyfriend in the aspens near Winnemucca, NV. Thanks to Chez Us for letting me know about your great website.

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    kim c — 12/22/08 @ 12:42 am

    I’d love to have a pic w/my boys. One is olive skin with dark hair and dark eyes. The other is blonde and blue eyed. Their like salty-sweet!

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    yvonne — 12/22/08 @ 3:08 am

    I’d like a nice moon shot but since I haven’t taken any, I guess I’ll go with an underwater macro, either mine of porcelain crab or my husband’s clown anemone fish.

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    Steve — 12/22/08 @ 8:01 am

    I’d love to do a photo of my wife and I on our vacation in Tuscany. The scenery is absolutely awesome. We both love your blog and your recipes.

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    Heidi / Savory Tv — 12/22/08 @ 7:50 pm

    I would print a photo of my mom on her Vespa with her dress flying in the wind! Merry Christmas!

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    Heidi / Savory Tv — 12/22/08 @ 7:54 pm

    BONUS: Just stumbled and reviewed!

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    Elizabeth — 12/23/08 @ 4:41 pm

    I would love to see the photo I took of Charles Bridge in Prague on canvas. It reminds me of my time living in Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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    Elizabeth — 12/23/08 @ 4:47 pm

    BONUS: I posted the link to this post on my facebook account. http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?ref=sb#/posted.php?id=509732257

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    Judy in SATX — 12/23/08 @ 11:07 pm

    BONUS : I posted the link to you on Facebook. Yay sharing!

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    Candie L — 12/24/08 @ 6:03 pm

    We just had a family picture of EVERYONE. Granny and Papa, all of the kids and grandkids (-1). First time we have had all. I would definately get this put up

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    jean-benoit — 12/25/08 @ 2:19 am

    On the canvas I’d put some of my father’s gorgeous pictures of flowers and other macros.
    I’d really like the knife :D

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