When I polled to see which Tartan Tale items intrigued you most, a LOT of you expressed interest in the loose pigments. So this week’s giveaway is black-brown-with-gold-sparkles The Family Crest and blue-black Later (swatches here).
Rules and how to enter:
- This giveaway starts today and ends Sunday, November 14, at midnight.
- This giveaway is open to readers anywhere in the world.
- A winner will be selected at random from the valid entries.
- To enter, leave a comment on this post. Tell me about your favorite holiday gift ever (one you received OR one you gave. What was it? Who was it from/who’d you give it to? Why was it perfect?). Yes, I will shamelessly recycle your ideas into gifts for my family/friends.
- Winner will be contacted by email, so please use an email address you check (addresses will be hidden, and will not be used for any purpose other than contacting the winner).
Good luck!
Last year I got a Hermann Miller Aeron chair for my office, because the company chair hurt my back so badly!
my boyfriend bought me a netbook to use for gradschool… and a smaller backpack to carry it in pink. It was the perfect carry-on wherever I went.
My electric piano! I finally could play properly, really the most giving gift:)
For my 18th birthday, my friend drew my portrait and gave it to me. It’s very special because my friend did it herself. <3
my parents got me my laptop and i still love it!
instead of using paper or card,my friend gave me shirt that has the most tearjerker message;she used i guess a textile rubberized paint.her handwritting,as she knows, is the ugliest but it is the cutest and loveliest text i ever had on my t-shirt.
Last year I got an amazingly lovely inlaid music box from my great uncle in blonde and dark wood. So lovely!
The best XMas “gift” was my fiancé proposing on Dec.12th two years ago!
My friend got me a cup shaped like a certain part of the male anatomy for my birthday (just the handle, of course.) I never used it and actually had to hide it away in my dorm room, but I thought it was hilarious and it fit in quite well with my sense of humor. I always laughed whenever I saw it. So, not very useful, but the thought counted!
My favorite gift were giftcards for all my favorite places for lunch so I basically had 2 months of free lunches at work.
While we were dating, my husband gave me a pair of diamond stud earrings. With him being broke most of the time, they were super small and tiny, but they were the best gift because he picked them out himself.
My favourite gift ever was an expensive bird necklace. My family knows that – if I wasn’t born as a human – I’d have been a bird instead and since I was four, I collected bird stuff and some expensive Japanese brand released an overwhelming bird necklace in 2008 and they really bought it for me.
My favorite gift ever was a refrigerator/oven/sink combo from my parents.
I was four & it was magically wonderful!
A friend of mine gave me a t-shirt with his picture on it, which is of course unusable, but it was hilarious!
I swear gifts are always much more exciting when I was little! Probably my first bike was the best present I ever recieved!
My sister gave me a black leather flat shoes. It’s perfect because it already last for about 5 years. I use it outdoors when shopping and at work.It is still usable until now. I consider it my treasure!
My first pair of heels a friend got for me
Most comfortable pair EVER. So sad it got too worn out 
for my sister’s grad i gave her a handmade leather journal. she wanted to be a journalist so i thought it would be a great way to start her writing/documenting
Last year, I was expecting my bf to get me Marc Jacobs Daisy, not only did he get me the perfume but also a huge flat screen tv! It was amazing and very shocking!
Clinique holiday sets are amazing
My dog Ulan, we picked him up from Denmark om december 22nd 5 years ago. It was an 8 hour drive. I just moved in with my soon to be husband and i really missed the dogs who stayed with my mom, so they surprides me with our boy ulan, he was 1 and a half years old when i got him and the next spring he gave me the greatest gift, a litter of puppies from Dolly (who stayed with my mom) and I had to keep one of them. A year later we also had a litter from ulan and lola, so now I have ulan, and a baby from dolly and a baby from Lola. Ulan is the gift that keeps giving
My favorite gift was some mariachis my husband gave me, was o beautiful he came with some roses y with that, I’m falling in love again
My favorite Christmas present was my leather jacket. I had been dying for it for months at that point and it was a great surprise!
My favorite holiday gift was the Anne Klein watch given to me by my sister. It looked so feminine and elegant. I loved it.
A holiday gift that was much-appreciated was the two books (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera) I gave to my friend. He loves all the books written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He told me that he even asked his students to read these books and submit critiques or reviews.
My best gift was a spa package to soothe my aching muscles and rejuvenate my face.
The best gift I’ve ever received was an iPod Nano! I was so surprised ‘coz I didn’t expect I could owe one. It was given by my most loved cousin.
my laptop!
my boyfriend gave me a two day holiday package in a spa in the mountains where you can swim in hot water and outside is like 0c°!!
I can’t think of a favorite xmas gift but my favorite thing is my mum turning everything into gifts around christmas.
There’s usually one or two “big” gifts, but all the other things that I needed and she would have bought me anyway become gifts as well.
Lipbalms, pajamas, socks, anything just ends up under the tree in a giftbox.
It makes me feel pampered. Plus it gives me the excitement of opening many little boxes instead of just one. It’s much more fun.
My favorite Christmas present was my leather boots. I had been dying for it for months at that point and it was a great surprise!
Right before I went off to college, I went on a shopping spree at TJ Maxx and my mom paid for it! I got a whole new wardrobe for about 200 dollars, and I wore it throughout college. I love shopping at discount stores so I’ve had more gifts like that afterward too.
a trip to vancouver!!
My favorite gift was my very first laptop from my husband !!
My favorite gift was on my first daughter’s first christmas I gave her my very first and most favorite teddy bear that I had kept. She loves it just as much as I did when I was her age.
I gave my special someone a watch 3 years ago. Until now he still uses it and from that day that I gave that watch to him until now is part of my history that I will cherish when i get old.
One of my fav holiday gifts was my first pair of heels a friend got for me.
Best gift I gave was last week ..to my bf..It was awesome..I hired a one horse open sleigh ride, where they pulled up to the house and had Christmas music and holiday lights. We drove through my small town ,waving and wishing Merry Christmas to all. Very romantic!!