Christmas is over. But that doesn’t mean the giving is.
I did a little shopping yesterday… not to return anything, but to look around. It’s what I do after Christmas.
Shop. It’s much more fun to shop after Christmas than before. The stress is gone and the sales are still on.
And if something catches my eye like a towering stack of satin pink leopard print jewelry boxes…
… well, I’ll take a few extra minutes and look through all the designs.
And if there happens to be something like a super-cute cupcake necklace staring right back at me, then I guess you know what happens next.
Awwe…… How could I resist. It’s just the cutest little thing.
And it comes in the cutest little box.
And then there’s all this cute dangly stuff to boot. Did I mention how cute this thing is?
But I didn’t get it for me. I thought I would give it to one of you. So who wants it?
Enter for a chance to win this cutie patootie
Betsey Johnson Cupcake Necklace
Just leave a comment on this post and finish the following sentence…
This New Year’s Eve, I …
Deadline to enter is Tuesday, December 29th at 5:00 p.m. ET. Time’s Up. Winner announced below.
One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
Good luck!
I didn’t expect to be so moved by the entries for this giveaway. These might just be some of my favorite ones to read to date. I usually don’t do anything on New Year’s Eve, so thank you for sharing a glimpse into your plans. The simple ones. The silly ones. The serious ones. You guys fill my heart with happiness.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And now for the winner…
Congrats anna p! It’s you!
This new years eve I’ll be making an amazing dinner, and planning my 2010 diet! lol
This New Year’s Eve, I… will be spending it with my new hubby. We still don’t have plans but we are just so excited to start off a fresh year together as newlyweds!
And I ADORE Betsey Johnson! Where did you find those?!?
This New Year’s Eve my husband and I will be packing up the last of the boxes in our apartment to begin a new life away from the city that we have called home since we were kids.
This New Years Eve I will be laughing with my friends!
… will stay away from the Long Island Iced Teas! Happy New Year!
This New Years Eve, I will be home spending quality time with family before I’m back to college again. No better way to welcome the New Year than with the ones you love. :)
Very Cute
This New Years Eve I will spend more time with my family and I will bake more.
This New Year’s Eve, I … Will continue the long standing tradition my friends and I have of drinking girly drinks, completely ignoring the ball drop on tv and making videos for the friends who couldn’t make it.
This New Years Eve is the start of my “Learn how to bake things from scratch” resolution. No more boxed cake mixes for me!
This New Years Eve I… will be celebrating with my family and friends, and watching the amazing fireworks together. And of course, eating cupcakes! :)
This New Year’s Eve, I will be spending it with my mom in our cozy little apartment, enjoying hot chocolate and watching the Times Square ball drop.
will be ringing in the New Year with family & friends.
This New Year’s Eve I…will be wearing an amazing little cocktail dress for dinner with friends and then pj’s at home with the hubby for the good ole’ tv ball drop!
…am going to make some good resolutions — like to bake more!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be freaking out! It will mark the one-year countdown to my wedding, and I have A LOT of planning to do!
oh, I forgot! then I will go out with my best friends and maybe drink a little more…;)
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Love Claudie
xoxox
…..will be celebrating at my dear friends’ house. Kids party downstairs, adults’ party upstairs. First time in years we will be “Ringing in the New Year” since the kids are finally old enough!
This New Year’s Eve, I going to countdown with my boyfriend. It’s our 2nd year anniversary when the clock strike 12. :D
Happy New Year!!
Will be spending it with my family, playing games and eating yummy food. I wouldn’t trade if for anything!!!
This New Year’s Eve, I …
will spent most of the night with my family, eating drinking and chatting and after 12, I’ll say happy birthday! to my brother who turns 24 the 1st of january.
:)
This New Year’s Eve, I…am going to bake!!! And go to bed early. :)
This new year’s eve, I will be spending time with my lovely family.
This New Years Eve, I will be having a BLAST in New Orleans with my boyfriend! =)
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be slopin’ down ‘ono grinds, popping fireworks with my ‘ohana, reflecting on 2009 and thinking about all the new adventures for 2010…Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!
..will be spending my first major holiday with my boyfriend.
This New Year’s Eve I….will be spending it with my awesome hubby :)
This New Year’s Eve I…will be at our family cabin playing Wii with the adults after the kids have gone to bed! And then I will go to sleep well before midnight, because really, I’ve got a little one to chase around all day! : )
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be spending it with my family, since I had to work during Christmas this year.
will be making a wedding cake and watching my cousin say “I do” at midnight! :)
This New Year Eve, I will be playing with my kids while we wait for my husband to get home from work.
This New Years Eve…I hope to have a baby, otherwise I’ll be 2 days overdue and no bubbles!
I’ll be attending church service with my loved ones and church family :)
will be spending it in my new house with the love of my life!
This New Year’s Eve I will be spending time with friends from church playing board games and eating lots of goodies!!
This New Year’s Eve, I … Plan on making a ham and a tasty treat from this blog :)
This New Year’s Eve will be the first I get to spend with my sons since they are now old enough to stay up late and welcome the New Year with me!! :)
This New Year’s Eve I am starting a workout program called “From couch to 5K”….I am definitely on the couch end of that spectrum and hope to soon be running those 5K’s w/ ease!! (But we’ll see!)
This New Year’s Eve I’ll be watching the ball drop with my husband while the baby will hopefully stay asleep.
will be amazed that we have made it to 2010! Where has the time gone?
will be at home with the hubby and the twins…watching them run through the firework smoke and munching on all the delicious “pupus”!!!
This New Year’s Eve I…have no idea what I’m doing yet!
This New Years Eve I …. think we might go bowling.
This New Year’s Eve I…look forward to spending time with my little family playing games and watching movies and eating good food. For once I won’t be bummed that I won’t be going out cuz I can’t get a babysitter. :)
Such adorable boxes!
I will [hopefully] be going to bed early and sleeping peacefully while all those crazy people are partying!
This New Years Eve I……will spend the evening with my husband and our 2 dogs. Happy New Year.
This new year’s eve, I will be in Chicago, sharing deeeelicious cookies with my guildmates. I have not yet decided what kind of cookies they will be, but they will be delicious!
This New Year’s Eve I will happily celebrate 2010 with my best friends in Dallas. A new city to explore in a fabulous new outfit with 4 girls who just want to have fun :)
This New Year’s Eve, I … will enjoy spending it with my two wonderful children!
…am going to sleep. I’m too tired at the end of the day to stay up with an energetic 5 year old and a very curious 1 year old. Although, in an ideal situation, I’d probably party it up!
….reflect on 2009 and look forward to 2010…spend time with my family.
eating what I want… making sure I am ready to start Weight Watchers the next day. Drugging my Dog (poor thing hates fireworks). Thanking the Lord for all my many Blessing of 2009.
This New Year’s Eve I will be going to a masquerade ball with new friends to ring in 2010 but make it home early to celebrate a late Christmas with my dad the next day.
This New Year’s Eve, I will hopefully be awake
This New Year’s Eve, I plan to eat Chinese food and watch movies with the hubs :)
this new years eve, I will be recovering from wisdom teeth removal surgery from the day before, but I will be watching an all day three stooges marathon, so it’s all good :)
This New Year’s Eve I….will be ringing in the new year safe and snug at home watching the ball drop and choosing my “word” for 2010.
This New Year’s Eve… My husband and I will play every game and watch every movie our 2 and 4 year old boys choose!!!
I can’t wait to spend another year with my loves!
… will be spending it with my friends (old & new) in Washington DC. And, waiting for my boyfriend to visit me a few days later! :)
I will be eating dinner with my family and smooching my man at midnight.
…I will let the chocolate melt a little slower in my mouth, pour the red wine a more than half full, eat more steak and have it medium rare. Heck, I’ll have it all in one sitting!
This new years eve…I will spend time with my friends eating cupcakes and then go tobogganing on a snowy hill!
This New Years Eve I will be with my family and friends enjoying
This New Years Eve….I will be spending it with my fabulous friends and family, laughing, having fun and making memories!
This New Year’s Eve, I will wear the cutest necklace.. a cupcake necklace Bakerella gave me!
=D
I will spend with my beloved family and…… no this New Years Eve I shall not make a resolution.
… I will be ringing in the new year with my husband and children and loving every second of my simple and yet amazing life.
I hope I can stay awake long enough to see the ball drop!
This New Years Eve I will be cooking and baking for my family and having a few tequilas with my husband.
…will probably be asleep by 10:00.
This New Year’s eve, I will be utterly blissed out to see this year go away, at long long last!
This New Years Eve I….
Plan on spending with with my family, my husband, my son, my brother and sister in law and friends, aw hell, they are family too!
I plan on relaxing, having a braai (BBQ) and getting a tad ‘merry’
:)
This New Year’s Eve, I have invited myself and my family over to my godchildren’s home. That way we can see the new year in together, and we can have the twin 4 year olds in their own beds. The twin 7 year olds and the two singletons that are 9, will stay up with the 4 adults!
will be painting the town red in downtown Indianapolis! Getting dressed up and enjoying a swanky evening at the Conrad with friends. :)
This New Year’s Eve I am going to celebrate the fresh and unscheduled year ahead! Oh and get lots of kisses from my husband!
This New Years Eve I will be driving to the snow and celebrating with my husband, my son, and some friends.
I know I’m late BUT I couldn’t resist ;)
This New Years Eve I… will be experiencing it as a new mom!
Super cute. would love it!
This New Year’s I will be on a date with my husband!
This New Year’s Eve, I … will celebrate that the most challenging year of my life is coming to an end, and looking to 2010 with hopes and ambitions for a much-needed improvement!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be hosting game night with all my family. My uncle will cook dinner and I’ll bring the desserts! It is also my mom’s birthday so we’ll be celebrating her!
This New Year’s Eve I will try to stay awake to see in the New Year! by planning all the new recipes I hope to try this coming year! Owning such a cute necklace would help to remind me of my resolution, it really is super cute!
…will be spending it with friends and family eating and playing games!
…hope I can find a babysitter!!!
This New Years Eve I will be in the city celebrating with friends and my husband. It is something we did last year and had so much fun!
This New Year’s Eve I….will be working until 4 and then preparing a lovely dinner for the hubby and friends!
Hope you had a happy Christmas! :)
…will be heading to a party at my friend house with my daughter and husband.
This New Year’s Eve, I …will stay in and watch Absolutely Fabulous
This New Years Eve, I will be hoping someone is missing me as much as I’ll be missing him :)
will spend it in the company of good friends
This New Year’s I’ll be going out downtown in Austin, Texas.
This New Year’s Eve, I, along with my husband, am going to watch a movie with my 17-year old son, who will be off at college the next time New Year’s rolls around, and snuggle my little 1-year old until he drifts off to sleep. :-)
This new years eve I will Ben spending it with my husband and 2 year old son and heading to my sisters 80″s party. I’m maki f The new years cake :) wish me luck.
….am looking for a babysitter.
Will be sitting on the couch with the hubs watching all the countdowns on tv
This New Years Eve, I will be cuddled up at home with cat, watching movies, and my first kiss of the new year will be with my precious little boy that is growing in my uterus as we speak.
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be watching the ball drop with my brother and sister, and hoping that the new year will bring new hope for my family.
Since following your blog, I find “cupcake” sweetness everywhere. I have to admit this is the first cupcake necklace spotting! Adorable…Be mine!
will probably be at home with my husband and baby. And if I win this, I will continue the giving by giving it to my friend Sara of Sarandipity Sweets because she is much more worthy of this necklace than I am!
This New Year’s Eve, I plan on having a great time with friends!
This New Years Eve I will (hopefully) be wowing the crowd with cup cake pops! Cheers!
…will be sitting in my PJ’s with my parents drinking champagne watching “Better Off Dead”… I live an exciting life.
This New Years Eve I… have no plans… yet
This New Years eve, I hopefully will be engaged to my wonderful boyfriend of 7 years. We’ve been together since we were both 15 years old. He says “someday soon”..so who knows!! lol
this new year’s eve… i will be with my loved one :) <3
…will be happy to welcome a new year!
… will be packing to go to the Bay Area to see my fiance’s family! He’ll be working graveyard, but that means he gets an extra day off the next week :D Hopefully it’ll snow in the Sierras so we can snowshoe!
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be surrounded by family and friends. There is no where else that I’d rather be.
This NYE- I am spending it home with my wonderful little family and having my sister-in-law and her family over for a quiet evening, all here in Birmingham, AL. Then to bed early! I am using some of your recipes for dessert!!!! Thanks!!!
This New Years Eve I am Staying up to watch the BIG apple drop with my nieces just like last ayer. We had so much FUN eating a bunch of junk food, watching movies,dancing & listening to music. : )
we are throwing a Family New Year’s Eve party complete with bouncy house (we live in AZ so this is acceptible in Dec.!) for the kiddos, a Wii Guitar Hero Exhibition for the bigger, male kids, and a fire pit for hot dog roasting and marshmallow toasting (and gossip by the fire!). Can’t wait!!!
Happy New Year to everyone.
This New Year’s Eve, I have no plans… yet
This New Year’s my husband and I are going to dinner with good friends and celebrate a wonderful year and the recent birth of our son and the new year to come. We’ve been so blessed this last year!
So cute! I love it!
This New Years Eve I….am committing to making the changes I need to make in 2010 to achieve the goals we have set to improve our life. And staying home on the couch with hubby.
This New Years Eve I will luck up to the sky and say thank you for this great year.
This New Years Eve, I have to work until mid-day, but fully plan to come home, munch on beer-steamed shrimp with my family, and have fun seeing my aunt try out cocktails using the hibiscus flowers in syrup I got my aunt for Christmas. :)
This New Year’s Eve, I … will be staying home, despite having 1/2 day off work. how sad! D:
… will be spending with my other half, curled up on the couch with chinese food & watching movies! :)
This New Years Eve, I have no idea what I am doing! I know I will be spending it with my boyfriend, but we have no plans yet. Sounds depressing, huh? I’m sure we will have fun though!
This New Year’s Eve, I …don’t have any plans. Yet.
either spend it sitting on the couch at my very best-friend-in-the-whole-world’s house or get it together and go out to meet some friends at a bar in PB with my husband. We will see how motivated I am that day!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be celebrating my first anniversary with my loving boyfriend. (:
…will be driving my son back to UC Santa Cruz.
This New Years Eve I will be snuggled deep under the covers. Praying for great things in 2010!!
This New Years Eve, I will be spending it with family and friends…and cake pops, of course.
This years eve I will spend on my farm in Denmark being ready for driving the youngest son whenever he wants.
And dreaming of cupcakes of course – thats what I’ll be doing too.
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be getting in my pj’s and do some crafting for my online store, while watching Disney movies. Yes, I’m of age to drink but this seems way more fun. Oh and i’ll probably make chocolate chip cookies and Madeleines!
This New Year’s Eve I will be vegging with my fiance and thinking how sweet life is
plan to kiss He-man.
I will be spending the evening with good friends, good food, and good adult beverages! We’ll play games and eat, drink and welcome in the New Year surrounded by love and laughter!
This New Years Eve I will spend it with my family and enjoy our new addition to the family that 2009 brought us!! : )
This new year’s eve, I’ll spend it with my babies! (my new baby and my hubby)
This New Years Eve I will be going to dinner with my family and staying up to watch the ball drop in Times Square as we reflect on the past year.
…I will be spending it with my church family. Lots of food, fun, fellowship. Then praying the New Year in. And probably sneaking in a chocolate chip cookie at midnight. Because any year that starts and ends with a chocolate chip cookie has to be a good year!
This new years eve I am going to hang out with some great friends and make some great food!
I’m just going to be staying home with my hubby and baby girls.
I’ll enjoy a lovley diner with my husband and my brother and his wife. didn’t decide on the menu yet. (hope my twin’s will be sleeping by 20:00!)
thanks for your blog!!!
This New Year’s Eve, I’m going to a 20’s themed party and get to finally show off my flapper dress I bought 6 months ago and lost 20lbs to fit into! Yea!
this new years eve i… will be taking care of my diabetic dog
…will be watching my boyfriend’s band play at the pub, dancing with friends, and looking forward to our camping trip at the beach the next day!
This New Year Eve, I will be spending the majority of my time on an airplane traveling back home, but it doesn’t matter because I’ll be spending it with the person I love the most, my Andrew. <3 :]
…hope to be at best friend’s house, holding her baby girl who should be arriving Tuesday or Wednesday
I will be making a nice dinner at home for the hubs and me. And the doggie. Then a fancier dessert, and watch a movie. No need to risk our lives for an overpaid meal at a restaurant. Happy New Year!
This new year’s I’m probably going to be sitting at home!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be spending it cuddled up on the couch with my hubby and 1 year old girl! Who needs to go out, when you can start the new year off right at home with the ones you love most! :)
This New Years Eve I…will be making champagne cupcakes!
This New Year’s Eve, I am going to chill with my honey and my 3 beautiful girls and think about all the many blessings we have in our life; and enjoy some yummy treats as well!
This new years eve I…will be sleeping over a friends house celebrating together.
This New Years Eve I…will be looking forward to a brand new year filled with happiness!
This New Year’s Eve, I will celebrate the year of living that has passed and celebrate a new year to come :D
….I think I will be at a friend’s house, with both our families ringing in the New Year. And if that doesn’t work out, we’ll be snug at home with take out food and a good movie!
will be enjoying the evening with my little family.
…will be dancing and singing my heart out all night with my cousins
This new years eve I am going to stay at home and watch the fireworks on TV!
this new years eve i will celebrate with my hubby & his family & our 2 yr old son. hopefully drink a few glasses of my favorite wine :)
This New Year’s Eve I will be at home with hubby and 7 of my nine children playing board games and eating junk food, as usual!
will hopefully be at the midnight service at my church!
I will be home ringing in the new year stress free with two of my top three favorites in life…the boyfriend and wine.
will be hanging out with my loved ones.
This New Year’s Eve, I … am still not sure what I’m in the mood for. Something tells me it might become a (homemade) cookie dough-eating, Dick Clark-watching extravaganza.
This New Year’s Eve, I ….will be drinking (red) sparkling grape juice and ringing in the New Year with my husband for the first time. I had to work last year :(.
This New Years Eve I… will chill out~
This New Year’s Eve, I …
will be celebrating with friends, wine and yummy food! What could be better than good company to count down to the new year? :)
I will be working- I’m in software sales and it is the end of our quarter and end of our year- if this year is anything like last year, I’ll be ringing in the new year with my laptop open and my phone to my ear working.
This new year’s eve…I’m hoping that I’ll have something fun to do.
this new years eve i will (hopefully) be the owner of that cute betsey johnson necklace!!! :]
This New Year’s Eve, I will actually be off! no work and I’ll be off on New Year’s Day! So I’m definately planning on a great time! Bring it on! Oh and I’d love love love to have that necklace…cupcakes are my thing!
This New Years Eve I will be in church with the greatest family in the world….my church family!
This New Year’s Eve, I … will set all the clocks to eastern time celebrate the New Year with my 5 year old put her to bed and play games with my hubby and friends.
This New Year’s Eve we will be checking into a hotel and my kids can have some fun at the pool. Dinner will be at Mortons(our yearly finale dinner) and then count down will be either at hotel lobby with thousands of balloon drop, or fireworks outside the hotel.
I’m from Singapore so I don’t think I will get the prize :p but just want to share our plans for the day :)
This New Year’s Eve I…will be making music with my friends. Can’t think of a better way to spend the end of the year…(well, being on a beach in Fiji might be a little more fun.)
This New Years Eve, I plan on sitting at home with my gorgeous husband, watching movies and then toasting with apple cider when the clock strikes 12.
…. Will be spending the night with my husband and daughter. She won’t be able to stay awake til 12, so hubby and I will ring in the new year, together, than sneak in to give her a new years kiss.
This New Year’s Eve, I will be staying home spending time with my WONDERFUL family and making memories for us to remember in the future. I’m sure this will include some crafting and of course baking :)
This New Years Eve I….will be sharing our New Years Eve tradition of doing a fondue dinner….with our two-year-old. Yikes!
Will ring it in with my husband and children…party favors and pots and pans on the driveway….sparkling cider…..at midnight EST….even though I live in CA. My kids will be all tucked in by 9:15 :)
will be celebrating with my wonderful husband and beautiful daughter!
am going to pour some wine and toast the new year with great friends and family!!!
This New Year’s Eve I…will be spending it with dear friends at a Blackout Masquerade Ball!
…I’ll be wearing a sequined shirt and drinking whiskey!
This New Year’s eve I’m throwing a “backwards” party for my kids and making meatloaf ice cream sundaes for dinner and Bakerella’s hamburger cupcakes for dessert!
will be celebrating the coming year with friends.
will be secretly hoping that I will be in bed by 10 pm. With a toddler who gave his teething baby sister pink-eye, I haven’t been able to sleep for the last two weeks.
This New Year’s Eve I will be driving down to Jacksonville, Florida to be with my boyfriend (who is away from me because he’s in his second professional show [acting]…I’m all cheesy proud) to spend a few days with him: Gator Bowl on Jan. 1st and then I see his show on the 2nd. :D YAY!
This New Year’s Eve, I …
hope to actually do something! And not just go to sleep :)
This New Years Eve I… will be without anyone to kiss because my boyfriend will be in Texas for work :(
This New Year’s Eve, I … will kiss my hubby and my kids. Thank the Lord for a wonderful 2009 and hope & pray that 2010 will be even better.
This New Years Eve….I will be shooting fireworks off on the Salt Lake Flats! woo hoo!
This New Year’s eve, I plan to cook an all american dinner (steak, mashed potatoes and some veggies) and a chocolate cake for dessert. We’ll wait for 12 Midnight to come and watch a movie with my husband and son :) right after.
Happy New Year, everyone!!!
. . . really hope I can get a babysitter!
will eat as many cupcakes as I want and not feel the teensiest bit of guilt!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be eating yummy food and spending it with precious family and friends!
will be enjoying myself with family and introducing my 3 year old to new foods!
will party like a rock star!
…will spend the evening at home with my hubby, watching a movie on the couch until 11:55 pm, when we’ll break out the champagne and switch over to Dick Clark. :)
This New Year’s Eve, my husband & I will be leaving our three young children at home with my sister and celebrating with new friends. We won’t be doing anything radically exciting, but maybe bowling, dinner, and game night. It’s a far cry from our dating days when we’d dance all night at a party center but I’m looking forward to a double date night and ringing in the New Year with my one and only.
… be drinking a lot of champagne. A lot.
This New Year’s Eve I will try my best not to get too intoxicated in front of my co-workers. Again.