GIVEAWAY: G Wear by Carly Patterson tee!

As an ex-gymnast, I'm so excited about today's giveaway made possible because of my fellow Stella and Dot stylist Crystal!  Meet Crystal:

Crystal recently on the  WFAA Good Morning Texas set promoting the G Wear line!

Crystal and I are on the same Stella and Dot team, but she is also a sales rep for the Dallas/Ft. Worth based clothing line called G Wear and today we're giving away a "G Wear by Carly" USA shirt!

What's "G Wear"?
I'm so glad you asked!

The "G" stand for green because G Wear shirts are all-American, recycled couture! All G Wear shirts are 100% cotton and incorporate appliqués cut from recycled t-shirts purchased at local thrift stores. 

All G Wear shirts are cut, glued and sewn by hand making each shirt truly unique and one-of-a-kind.

What does former Olympic gymnast (and Texan) Carly Patterson have to with this?

Again, I'm so glad you asked!

This custom gymnastics fashion line has been inspired and created by Carly Patterson, World and Olympic champion. 

Carly, who serves as the National Director for the G Wear Gymnastics line, says it best:

“G Wear fashion shirts have become an enormous hit in the gymnastics community. Our shirts are being showcased in premier gymnastic events around the country and themed to support the U.S team.”

Speaking of premier gymnastic events, does it get any more premiere than the current Olympics?  Carly has been wearing G Wear tees (and Stella and Dot I might add) in London and on NBC's Today Show.  

Former Olympic gymnasts Shawn Johnson and Carly Patterson holding their G Wear Today Show shirts during 2012 Olympic press.  Do you spy the Stella and Dot Medina bib on Carly?  I do! 

Carly meeting fans at The Today Show

Carly in her G Wear hugging the current Olympic Gold Medal Women's Gymnastics Team!!

Carly and Dallas-based Kidd Kraddick in the Morning radio co-hosts wearing their USA G Wear tees!

Are you ready for your chance to win your own "G Wear by Carly" or G Wear tee of your choice?  There are tons to choose from, not just Olympic and gymnastics tees.  They have a fashion, sorority and sports line even!

To enter this giveaway, you MUST like G Wear on Facebook and the Bargain Blonde on Facebook.  

Once you've liked BOTH pages, leave only ONE comment with your Facebook user name below to enter to win the G Wear shirt!

Giveaway closes next Thursday, August 16 at midnight.  

TenList Giveaway Winner + Weekend Wrap-Up!

Last Wednesday, the $75 Visa Gift Card Giveaway that TenList hosted on The Bargain Blonde closed!  I went out of town Thursday, came back Friday and then went to Ft. Worth Sunday. Life has been so hectic lately, but today I'm finally able to blog again and announce the winner! Congratulations to #259, Katelyn ...

And TenList is so awesome that they upped the card to $100 just because.  Enjoy Katelyn!

Like I mentioned above, I went out of town twice this weekend and both times were for Stella and Dot parties!  

Thursday I went to visit my Aunt who lives about 2 hours west of Dallas in a small town and while there, I had a party with blogger Amy from Tales of Small Town Girl.  She was the tiniest, cutest, sweetest little thing ever! Here are a few pics from my time in the country.

Yummy! My Aunt made veggie omlette, turkey sausage and low carb toast for breakfast. Love me some home cookin!

Saw this sign while antiquing and I'm seriously regretting not buying it for my desk at work.

Downtown Decatur, Texas

The most delicious Club Cobb Salad ever!  Sorry, I'm not sorry but I did eat all that cheese.

I drove back to Dallas Friday evening and stayed in that night.  This Bargain Blonde was tired.  Saturday morning I took Reese to gymnastics, then Bear to the dog park, took a nap and then went over to my bestie Courtney's new house for grilling, pool time and a puppy play date.

Bear taking a dip in the pool

Red wine and fresh watermelon!  

Bear is OBSESSED with the water and he swims laps. It is the cutest thing ever. 

Sunday I headed out west to Ft. Worth for another Stella and Dot party blogger Mrs. Lia Joy from life is aMAYESing hosted for moi!  She had the cutest spread, baked a fabulous cake and even had homemade Sangria for us!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cake (not on the nutrition plan, but so worth the cals)

The bevys!

The food!

If you follow me on Instagram/Twitter, then you've most likely seen me posting pictures about the Tone It Up nutrition plan.  I started the Tone It Up fitness/nutrition program last week and many of you have asked me to share it with you and post recipes to some of the healthy foods I've cooked.  I will be blogging all about it tomorrow, so stay tuned!!  If you have any fitness/nutrition related questions about Tone It Up or want to know what Tone It Up even is, leave me your question in the comments of this post!

Happy Monday!  Make it a good one! XOXO


p.s. Huge thank you to both Amy and Lia Joy for hosting Stella & Dot parties for me!  We have a fabulous hostess rewards program if any of you readers are from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I'd love to throw a show with y'all and get you hundreds in free Stella and Dot.  Just e-mail me!

DIY Flat Iron Holder + $75 Visa Gift Card GIVEAWAY from TenList

Happy Hump Day!  I've got some exciting things for y'all today, but first i need to give you some background information.  Just stick with me because it's ALLLLL going to make sense in the end. I promise.

Tim own's TenList

Now, you might be wondering, "what is TenList and why do I care?" 

 Well friends, you know sites like apartmentlocators.com that help you locate an apartment?  Ten List is exactly like that but they put you in touch with contractors.  Maybe you're redoing your bathroom, or your kitchen, installing hardwood floors, etc and you need a reputable contractor .... bam, TenList to the rescue.  Or straight from the horse's mouth aka TenList's Web Site ....

"TenList was formed to provide one stop shopping for your local contractor needs. When you are looking for a fair and respected local contractor that you can trust, you can find it here. We spend a lot of time and energy (and money!) reviewing the advertisers that appear on the site so you don't have to."

.And now for the "why you should care part" ...

When I was working with TenList to come up with giveaway ideas, I explained that my readers LOVE a good DIY to help save money, so their DIY guru Daniel (homeboy in the video) put together this DIY Flat Iron Holder Tutorial just for you bargainistas!  

He's pretty hysterical and makes a lot of other DIY videos so I recommend checking them out.  He made me LOL IRL and that doesn't happen often. Here is Daniel's "DIY for the ladies" ....    

To thank you for watching and to spread the word about TenList, they are giving one of my readers a $75 Visa Gift Card to spend however you'd like!  

Perhaps you have a home improvement project you've wanted to get started but didn't have the funds or maybe now you want to make a wall hanger for your very own flat iron holder.  

Use the giveaway app below to enter!  You have until next Wednesday, June 20 at midnight EST to enter.

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TenList Social Media:

Facebook

Twitter

Pinterest

YouTube

DIY Blog

p.s.TenList is also giving away $500 in gift cards via their facebook page this week in honor of Father's Day. To be eligible, you must "like", share or comment on a TenList facebook post this week. 


Good Luck!

2 Giveaway Reminders

!. If you have not entered my BlogHer sponsored $100 Target Gift Card giveaway I posted yesterday, you better not miss out!  All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me what you think is TOO much to spend on lipstick.  It's that easy, peasy!


Moving right along ...


2. LAST CALL! You have until 7 p.m. CST TONIGHT to purchase from my Stella and Dot Trunk Show before my launch closes.  For every $25 you spend, I will put your name in a drawing to win these best-selling Serenity Small Stone Drop earrings in your color choice.

To shop my trunk show, go here:  Shop The Bargain Blonde's Trunk Show and select "Lindsey Riggs" at check-out. I'll announce the winner of my Stella and Dot giveaway tomorrow, June 6.

Do you live in the Charlotte area?! Boutique Grand Opening PARTY tonight!

Calling all of my Charlotte, North Carolina (& surrounding area) readers!!!!  Am I jealous of you!


The sassy and AFFORDABLE (all items under $100) women's boutique Vestique is having their grand opening party TONIGHT at their new Charlotte location and you, my rad readers, are cordially invited.


Be there or be lame.  Party starts at 5:30 p.m. and there will be cocktails to sip while you get to shop Vestique's fab selection of insanely affordable clothes - like we're talking $35 for pretty summer maxi's!


It will be an awesome night with a chance for all you fun, young women of Charlotte to mingle.


On hand will be the beautiful and stylish Bethany from the blog BSoup (Follow her if you don't already because she a fellow bargainista) to act as stylist/personal shopper and will be giving inspiration on how to style Vestique's amazing selection of clothes and accessories.  I mean, just look at some of the Vestique looks she's blogged this week. I die.

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To celebrate the grand opening, Bethany is giving away this gorgeous Vestique turquoise and gold necklace so be sure to check her giveaway out if you can't make the event.

 CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY

But wait, there's more.  Professional make-up artist Lauren of "Flawless by Lauren" will also be in attendance to give mini makeovers to all guests at the party!  Yes, please.  

If you check out Vestique's Facebook page, you can find pics of the new store location, pics of the cute sales girls, and their newest inventory.  

I hope all of you Charlotte ladies can make it and if you do, take pics and give hugs to all the girls from Bargain Blonde.  I so wish I could be there! 

Vestique Charlotte

1532 East Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28203
Phone: (704) 910-6426

e.l.f. Giveaway Winners!

A big thank you to all of the lovely elfettes and bargainistas that entered the giveaway I hosted yesterday and for all the sweet comments as well!

I had 38 entries for the "Lips & Lashes" giveaway, and used random.org to pick 5 numbers at random.  The numbers generated were 27 (Pamela), 32 (NHart), 8 (Emily), 17 (Candace) and 5 (Jess).  I had 25 entries for the "Grand Prize", a 12 piece professional brush set, and I generated 1 number at random, which was number 6, Shannon Page!  My highly scientific list below:

And these pretty ladies are the faces to the names above!

Lauren Conrad Look for Less + e.l.f. GIVEAWAY!

When I started this blog less than two years ago, I never imagined in a million years that I would be featured on e.l.f. cosmetic's Web site as their "Girl Crush".  The word flattered doesn't even begin to do justice.

For the feature, I used all e.l.f. products to recreate a Lauren Conrad "Look for Less"!  Be sure to check out e.l.f's Beauty Blog to see what products I used to recreate her look because I love every single one of them! (FYI: The first 25 people who comment on the e.l.f. blog post will receive a $5 coupon code, so you better hurry!)

e.l.f. cosmetics was also nice enough to send me some extra goodies to share with my amazing readers, so here is how you can win some free e.l.f.!!!!  

Five of you can win  this "Lips and Lashes" combo simply by liking The Bargain Blonde and e.l.f. cosmetics on Facebook!  Once you've liked us both, leave ONE comment telling me you have done so and you'll be entered! It's that easy!

allure best of beauty winner e.l.f. hypershine gloss and e.l.f. dramatic lash kit

One GRAND PRIZE winner will get this complete set of 12 e.l.f. professional brushes!
  

To be eligible for the Grand Prize, you must do the following 4 things:

1. Like The Bargain Blonde on Facebook

2. Like e.l.f. cosmetics on Facebook

3. Follow The Bargain Blonde via Google Friend Connect (GFC)

4. Tweet a link to the giveaway including my twitter handle (@thebargainblond)!

Once you have done all 4 things, leave ONE comment telling me you have done so.

You can enter to win the "Lips and Lashes" giveaway and the "Grand Prize", but leave a separate comment for each. This giveaway will be open until noon CST tomorrow, May 9, 2012.  Open to U.S. and Canadian residents only.  The winners will be announced tomorrow.  Good luck ladies!   

My BIG Announcement! (+ giveaway)

Remember in March when I hosted a Stella and Dot giveaway?  I loved the Stella and Dot line so much that today I'm hosting a Stella and Dot giveaway of my own because I'm excited to announce I am now an Independent Stylist for Stella and Dot!  

'Tis true.  I kept seeing Stella and Dot popping up in the media on some of my favorite celebs, and when I found out in April that I could launch my own business with Stella and Dot for only $199, I went all in.

My favorite thing about Stella and Dot is that half of the line is under $50. Can we say style for a steal?  After all, I am "The Bargain Blonde", so this partnership seemed like the perfect fit for me.

Now that the cat is out of the bag and I've officially announced that I'm now a Stella and Dot Stylist, I am having my launch party at my house for the premiere of my girl crush Emily Maynard as the next Bachelorette!  Here is a sneak peek of Emily as the next Bachelorette and you can see her in Stella & Dot (she's a huge fan)!

Emily in the beautiful statement Serenity Necklace

Obviously, I'd love to have all you bargainistas over to my house for wine, the premiere of the Bachelorette and to try on Stella and Dot jewels, but since everyone is all over the U.S., I have the perfect solution ...

 A virtual trunk show especially for my readers!!  

The best part is that you can shop my launch trunk show all this week and for every $25 you spend, I will put your name in a drawing to win these best-selling Serenity Small Stone Drop earrings in your color choice.

  

To shop my launch party, click the "shop my Trunk Show" text below and browse at your leisure.  When you check out, select "Lindsey Riggs" as your hostess. 

Click here for Stella and Dot favorites under $50!

You have until next Monday, May 14 at midnight CST to shop and be entered into my giveaway drawing!

If you want to stay up-to-date on Stella and Dot promos and specials, 

"like" my Stella and Dot facebook page.

p.s. I am having a completely different giveaway tomorrow, so be sure to check back.  I'll give you a hint: giveaway involves the letters e.l.f.  


and p.p.s. If you've ever thought about being Stella and Dot stylist yourself or want to know more about it, don't hesitate to e-mail me!  I'd love you have you on my team!

Etsy Giveaway Winner

The winner of Friday's Petals, Lace and Pearls $25 Etsy shop credit is #65, Amanda!

Congrats, I will put you in touch with Becky!