As I said earlier this week, my blog turns one year old today!
Because it’s my blog birthday, you lurkers should come out of hiding! Come say hi, introduce yourself, tell me your favorite color, whatever your little heart desires. We don’t bite!

In celebration, I’m giving away a ton of really awesome, retro inspired prints on my other blog from etsy seller, Kerry Beary. Seriousy, there are like $200 worth of prints and there will be 7 winners! You should go enter!
Lastly, I need your votes. I mentioned this before but Brandy nominated Oh How Lovely Shops for a style award and I’d LOVE to win. If I do win, I’d be donating about half of the $250 to charity so please vote, it will take all of a minute.
I only have 27 votes and the person in the lead has 73. I know I have more readers than that. If you are entering my giveaway and vote me, leave me a comment in the giveaway entry with what number vote you were and you’ll get an extra entry!
And don’t say it’s the signing up thing because you guys all signed up to vote for the Blogger’s Choice Awards in hopes for Crissy n00dz!
I was nominated for the Style award for Oh How Lovely Shops by my lovely friend, Brandy (vote for her too!).
Please take the time to vote for this site. I can win $250 and that means I’ll be able to support handmade even more. I can guarantee you part of that will end up back at Etsy. I will also donate part of the money to the Nie recovery fund and a local animal shelter.
I’ve been following NieNie’s story and would love to be able to contribute to this wonderful family in their time of need. Please take the time to visit their site to learn about their story and ways to help.
Everyone knows of my love for animals (especially dogs) so I think this is a great opportunity to give to them as well. Many of the animals at this shelter have been affected by the recent flooding in the North West Indiana area.
Really, it’s a win for everyone.
So please vote for Oh How Lovely Shops.
It takes 2 seconds to register and vote! If everyone who visits this blog votes, surely I’d have a great chance!
Add me on Facebook. One day I will figure out how to use it. Drop me a note when you add me so I know who you are. Blog pseudonyms, new people, lurkers - it can get confusing!
Join my blog networks on Facebook.
If for some ridiculous reason you are not on twitter and wasting your life away one tweet at a time like me, what are you waiting for? Get on that.
Oh wait, one more. Vote for me in the Blogger’s Choice Awards. Then vote for everyone I voted for because obviously they are effin’ awesome.
Leave your links in the comments and we will be BFF everywhere on the internetz.
I promise I will be back to regularly scheduled posting once this entry is done. I’ve been shoving new blogs at you left and right, asking you all to go take a look so you probably hate my by now.
But seriously, adorable shopping blogs with free stuff?! Blogs about making zombies and human hearts made of Starbursts?! How can you resist that kind of awesomeness?
You can’t.
(Hopefully you don’t remove me from your reader with all this shameless self (and sisterly) promotion.)
Anyway, next order of business: a 20 Something Blogger Meet Up. It will be open to others outside of the 20SB community but it’s just getting planned on the 20SB forums so don’t feel left out okay?
Jenn and I are trying to do this. So head on over to her blog and vote for the lucky city that will hold the first 20SB meet up!
Lastly, please go say congrats to Chris and Ari over at Surviving Myself who just got engaged!
You know how I post tons of adorable things I find? Well I finally made a seperate blog for all that stuff!
New items will be posted daily! More than likely, my contests and features will move over there eventually so go add it to your feed reader!
And if for some silly reason you don’t have this blog added to your feed reader, you should probably do that now too!
I figure it was time I did some deep cleaning here at Oh! How Lovely! If you are not on my Links page and would like to be or feel I made a mistake, email me or comment. It’s just hard keeping up.
Also if you haven’t yet:
or follow me on Twitter:
I think I covered everything today.
Blogroll. Check.
Links page. Check.
Reader. Check.
Feeds. Check.
Twitter. Check.
Alright, real entries tomorrow. I’m tired of looking at my blog today!