No, I am not applying for Oprah’s job, but she has inspired me to create a list of my favorite things and share them with others. Sorry, no cars or Black Berry’s 
Still wanna win??? Those who sign the blog by December 18th will be put into a drawing and could possibly win some of my favorite things.
The List:
#1) From Elizabeth Boutique: A Kiss My Face makeup collection (must be local)- You will get a GC good for 1 Sheer Organic Shimmer, 1 3 way color, and 1 Tinted Moisturizer. Your choice of colors. Swing into Elizabeth Boutique and Beth can help you make sure you make the proper color selection.
#2) From Waddle n Swaddle: One Gro Baby Cloth Diaper. My son wears cloth, and I recently purchased this brand for him. Love it.
#3) From my SIS designs: Two goodies!!! 2 sets of handmade wine glass charms and 1 necklace and earring set from her everyday wear collection. Beautiful stuff!
#4) From Starbucks: No need to express my love for Starbucks and my Venti non fat peppermint mocha, oh yum! Two goodies!!! 1 $25 Gift Card and 1 travel cup. I love this cup because it is the actually shape of the Starbucks cardboard cups. Don’t leave home without it!
#5) From Waddle n Swaddle: Dandelion, Natural Table Wear. Keep your kids “Green” with a set of these great plates made from corn. Yes, corn! I used forks in Kauai made out of potatoes.
#6) iTunes: Santa is bringing me an iPhone for Christmas, so I am giving away 3 $10 iTunes gift cards. Remember, don’t steal music
#7) I love Burt’s Bees products, especially for the boys. I am giving away a Burt’s goody bag.
#8) I admit, I am a pen snob. I love a good gel pen, no ball points here. Sharpie came out with a great new pen that doesn’t bleed through paper. My brides get these for their signature albums. I am giving away a pack of them for you to check out.
#9) From Bee-Eazy Bags: I gave away a bunch of these at my grand opening party and every tells me how much they love them, so I have one to share with one of you.
#10) From Nalgene: We have been using these product for years. We never buy water bottles and can’t stand wasting money on sippy cups with 5 parts to lose. Nalgene came out with a kid tough cup that is a mini version of the adult size. My kids have them and love them. They are super easy to clean and I look forward to sharing with one of your kids.
#11) Comfy socks. Yes, this may seem weird, but I live in an old house with cold floors. You need some super warm socks this time of year so I have 2 pair to give away.
#12) From Seventh Generation (local only) : We love their products and have used everything they have from their dish detergent to their diapers. I know a basket of Seventh Generation products may not sound fun, in its association with the idea of having to clean your house 
but I want to spread the love of “Green” products and how they can easily fit into your home.
#13) Cliff Bars. Both me and my kids love Cliff Bars. For me, they are an easy go to bar when I am either out shooting a wedding or have a long day ahead of me. The boys love the taste and as a mom, I love the fact they are all natural organic ingredients and full of vitamins and minerals. Wanna Box?
#14) Saving the best for last. “Make It Work!” Project Runway, season 2 was my favorite of all time. “Where’s Andre?” One lucky person will get the DVD set of Project Runway, Season 2. Isn’t that so “Fierce!”
Ok, so here is my list of some of my favorite things. Now I want to give them to you. What you need to do is:
-Sign your name in my comment box below
-Be sure to put your town and state initials after your first name
-Feel free to tell me your 2 favorite things from above in the comment section
-You have until December 18th
-Sorry, you can only enter once
-Blog entrants will be drawn at random
-Winners will be announced on my Facebook Fan Page around December 19th
-Local prizes will be available to pick up at my office, the rest will be shipped out
THANK YOU!!!!!!
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90 Comments
Yay! LOVE THIS!!!!
Great contest idea Melissa! Am I first? Yay for being a night owl! My favorite things from your list are the earring/necklace set from My Sis designs, and of course, the Project Runway DVD set! I only watched it the first time this past season, and am now hooked! Thanks for this cool contest!
From Mission, Texas. My two favorite things from above would be the comfy socks and the Starbucks gift card. What a great contest Melissa! Hope I win!!
Yay! One of the perks of being 3 hours behind you in time… I get to see this first!
What a fun thing for you to do! Okay, here you go:
Rachel Clare
Riverside, CA
My favorite things on your list?
1. The Nalgene bottles (we’re huge fans)
2. Hello- who doesn’t like Starbucks?! (And I don’t even drink coffee!)
Merry Christmas!!
Carla Bailey, Poughkeepsie, NY
Top two:
#14. PR without a doubt, also my favorite season! Santino and his insanity, Daniel V and “It’s a &*$%# walk off” (my favorite PR quote). Love it.
#12. Trying to go green with cleaning…would be a good jump start!
But all the prizes sound awesome, great list.
I’m up late placing orders and thought I’d stop by!
Hmmm, my 2 favs from your list would have to be the Nalgenes for kids and, well, who doesn’t love starbucks?!
MS – You know I think you rock – even without the giveaways!
My 2 faves? Tough choice – but I’ll go with Starbucks and iTunes (for my new iPhone).
Hi Melissa-
Here’s my favorite things entry
Christine A. Poughkeepsie, NY
I like everything on your list, but my favs are #4 and #6.
Happy Holidays!
How fun!!!
Two of my favorite things…. the Sound of Music…. which they always show this time of year and have the DVD on sale (which reminds me, I need to buy this) and a girl after my own heart… peppermint mochas from Starbucks. I was happy to discover last year that they can be ordered year round… oops!!
Oooooooh!!!! Love love love!
Jen Cortlandt Manor, NY (and I will def travel for goodies!!!)
Hey Melissa, great idea! Love my Sharpies as well!
Merry Christmas!
Allison
Starbucks, Burt’s Bees oh and Starbucks LOL
Cute idea!
Jessica- Hyde Park, NY
This is great Melissa. You know I love stalking your blog! These are all great products, but I would have to say I love me some Starbucks and my Sis designs are so pretty. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to play along! Happy Holidays!!
I like some of your favorite things & will check out a couple i’ve never seen!
Love the tiny Nalgene bottles but have lost the inner piece to keep the water from escaping so quickly…another one should be purchased I guess.
Those gro baby diapers look cool, do you like them better than the bumgenius?
I’ll also check out those Dandelion plates
Happy Holidays!!
Beacon, NY
Awesome idea, Melissa! What a great list. My favorites of your favorites are #4 and #7.
How fun, Melissa!
Thank you for sharing your Fav’s. I need to go out and try some of them. Merry Merry…
Cool giveaway! I’d love me some i Tunes and Seventh Generation products!
Poughkeepsie, NY — Great list, Melissa! I’m off to check out the water cup. My kids need new ones and those look perfect. Your new website looks great. Lots of cute kids over there! I’m sure you can guess my favorites over there!
Sarah D. Poughkeepsie, NY
I love Kiss My Face and Burt’s Beeeees!!
Thanks Melissa!
Great contest Melissa, even if a picture of Maren’s face is not one of the giveaways
. I dol like #10 and #1.
Thanks for offering this.
GREAT idea Melissa ! My 2 favs? Sorry….can’t pick…love them all !
CUTE idea Melissa !
Great things of course too !: )
I have to say SHARPIE is my FAV !
Starbucks of course too !
Jessie B Plvalley ny
Great idea! I love #4, #5 and #12.
Fun idea Melissa! I could go for a little Burt’s Bees myself, my lips are really chapped! haha
Bec, Hyde Park, NY
Nice idea Melissa you are always so creative..more then Oprah as she can not take Fab photos like you!Nice list of favs…….
Good choices!
Such a nice idea!
I will say my 2 favorites are #10 and #5 : )
I’m in! Thanks Melissa~Great favorites!
Sorry, my previous comment I forgot to write the city and state next to my name!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Two of my favorite things are chocolate and a good bottle of wine
Great promo! Gotta say my faves would be iTunes (hook me with some Cold Play!) and Burt’s Bees. You really can’t go wrong with any of their stuff. Happy holidays!
Giving away favorite things is fun! I love the jewelry and anything green!
Oh you are too fun! What a great thing you are doing here.
My two favorite things:
Project Runway and Starbucks!!
Happy Holidays! What a great list! I could go for the itunes, Nalgenes and the sharpies myself…:)
i tunes. itunes, itunes, itunes!!!!!!!
LOVING all of these – but my 2 favs are my Sis Designs & Starbucks (duh). Kiss my face at EB is a VERY close 3rd. Pick me, pick me!!
You are speaking my language with this list Melissa. Two tops: Kiss My Face and Starbucks – Creme Brulee Latte for me!
wonderful gifts, and wonderful thoughts, Melissa. Happy Holiday to everyone.
This is very generous, Melissa. What a nice way to ring in the holiday season, especially with items that show your concern for the environment. Our family is very fond of Nalgene bottles and Seventh Generation products. Seasons greetings from our family to yours!
OOOh weeeeee! So cool! Love them all. But if I am so lucky….I’d choose…Starbucks & 7th Gen.
Good Job Melissa!
1-Kiss My Face
Have used their products before and I love them and feel confident they are organic
2-Gro Baby Cloth Diaper.
Never tried them on my son but am looking forward to using them.
Happy Holidays to you and yours Melissa!!
Thanks, Melissa–what a great idea! If I had to pick two from all the fabbo choices, I’d have to go w/ #2 Gro Baby and #4 Starbucks. Fingers and toes crossed!
#3 & #10
Such a thoughtful idea!
Oooo I love prizes… this is very thoughtful of you!
#4 Starbucks
#1 Elizabeth Boutique
Thank you!
Rhinebeck, NY
You ROCK!!!
1. I LOVE Sharpie products
2. Seventh Generation Products-just moved I have lots of cleaning to do
Great choices!
we love Itunes and burt’s bee’s stuff around here…..henna lady hands and lips tend to get dry while working and a little almond and milk or burt’s chapsticks heal us up right quick
Amy in NY
You are really SO clever! Great idea
I would have to say my favs of your favs would be the elizabeth boutique- kiss my face and the itunes. Happy Holidays!
Leslie, Rifton, NY …you’re so fun! Can I forward this? Love it!
What a great idea! I love the Seventh Generation products, use them all the time. Happy Holidays!
What a fun thing to do! I love Starbucks, comfy socks, and Burts bees!!!
Happy Holidays! My picks are #4 (Starbucks) and #7 (Burt’s Bees):)
What fun! Burt’s Bees are definitely my favorite; I am absolutely addicted to their peppermint lip balm. My next favorite? Starbucks, baby! I don’t drink coffee anymore, but my Jeff is a huge fan.
Marnie (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Love this concept, Melissa! I love the entire list, and what tops it are the #4 and #10. Starbucks and Nalgene. Love, love, love.
Great gift choices, though my 2 are out of diapers;)
I’m loving a lot of your favorite things! But as a busy mom, the starbucks gift card is high on my list, and I love the gro baby cloth diapers from Waddle n Swaddle!
Melissa, you always have wonderful ideas and it’s so great of you to be so generous!
I love your taste, but I guess if I had to pick faves? The Seventh Generation stuff is great and who doesn’t love iTunes? It broke my heart when Caty’s iPod Touch was stolen along with my purse this summer, so she’s “surviving” with an old mini. Hoping to add the Touch to her Christmas stocking this year!
BTW, dying to know what tree farm that was – they give you wagons? We had to drag ours – never again!
liz
Only two? There’s so much fun stuff there. But, I’m actually legitimately curious about the Grobaby…we’re using contoured, sized diapers and Bummies covers which are great, but I’m thinking might be hard to put on when she starts to get wiggly. I’d love to hear what you think about it…and maybe try one too.
As for the second – I’m open…there’s lots of stuff that we also use and love in our household like Seventh Generation, Clif Bars, Burts Bees, iTunes, it’s hard to pick. I could be selfish, though, instead of practical and say that I’d love a new necklace and pair of earrings from my SIS…
I love reading your blog!! A mutual friend praises you & another mutual friend was a facebook fan!
P.S. I love Starbucks & am intrigued by the Bee-Eazy bags because I try to be eco-friendly!
So do I count???
If not disqualify me… BUT I would LOVE the SOCKS or the Nalgene Bottle 
POK, NY
My new favorite thing is Jack. He has made this the best year ever.
Since you aren’t giving Jacks away my next favorite things are Itunes and Starbucks
Hey Melissa! What an awesome idea. Love all your favorite things, it’s too hard to choose just one. It would be amazing to win any of them.
Where to begin, Melissa? Well, besides your pics being a favorite of mine, I adore all things Kiss My Face and cannot live without coffee, so Starbucks is a must for me too. Tracy’s designs ROCK. Can I please pick a third thing? Oh, and I need to check out the Sharpie product now. Always searching for the perfect pen. Hope Santa grants you all of your wishes. Heard you’ve been a good girl this year!
-F
Ally Shannon (NP)
Wow, what FANTASTIC gift ideas, Melissa! My favorites…the Kiss My Face collection and the Starbucks GC.
Melissa, you are genius. And fun. And always a surprise. What a fantastic giveaway! Here are my favorites – comfy socks, all the way. iTunes. iTunes. and iTunes.
A giveaway is a great idea! I am a fan of the Burt’s Bees (esp. the lip balm) and the Seventh Generation products.
The favorites show is one of my absolute favorites. Love that you’re doing something similar here! My name is Carolyn Bowles (OH) and I LOVE the Starbucks gift card. It’s my favorite place, but always feel guilty visiting. Ah, the Peppermint Mochas! Second would be iTunes since I just got an iPhone. Thanks!
You rock Melissa! My favorites – iTunes & I love pens too so definitely Sharpie!
Hi Melissa, what a fun idea!! Thanks for being so generous! My favorites are the Kiss My Face and the Nalgene cup!!
Hi Melissa! Once again, you have shared an awesome idea with us!!! I L-O-V-E anything from My Sis designs!! And of course,as you know, love my Starbucks as well!!
Love this idea melissa– I hope i win! I love the burt’s bee products and the kiss my face stuff. i am thinking that the natural table wear is awesome– need to get cameron some of those!
Hi Melissa! I have to say I am a huge fan of your photography and am glad I got to meet you at a few meet up!! My fave things are #1-Elizabeth Boutique and the Nalgene bottle!!! Happy Holidays!
Love this Melissa! You’re the best!
i’d have to pick the Nalgene bottle and the Bee Easy Bag.
#4 and #6 are my two favorites on the list! Can’t go wrong with Starbucks and iTunes!
(dreadfully sorry about the duplicate comments, forgot to add city & state in my first!!)
Carrie, Nicholasville KY
love them!
We have a lot of favorite things in common! If I have to only pick 2 then I’d say the GroBaby and Starbucks are top on my list.
What a great idea!
Love me some Starbucks and some Seventh Generation goods…they seem in complete opposition with one another, but still, good stuff
Joy Accord, NY
I’d love the Burt’s Bees products or the socks. Or anything else, really!
Jane from Urbana, IL
Hi Melissa! Love your list, what a great idea!
Candace Sheets, Bonsall (N San Diego), CA
I love just about everything on your list and it’s great that you chose so many green items
For my favorites I am going to choose 2 things I haven’t tried yet.
1) Project Runway — can you believe I’ve never seen it?!
2) Nalgene bottles — thoses look awesome! I have a 4 yo who refuses to give up sippy cups, I think I jeep to search for those right now
what an amazing giveaway!!! i participated in a gift exchange one time & we had to send our partner a package of our fave things!
my faves are:
1. Itunes
2. Burt’s Bees
3. Starbucks
4. Sharpies!
Kerri B. (Poughkeepsie, NY)
What a great idea! You can be my Oprah any day! My fave’s are #5 and #10!!!
Melissa,
I too love a peppermint mocha from Starbucks. I really like the Burt’s Bees lip balm and Itunes-so much fun to add to my Ipod (trying to remember to put MY music on it-not the kids LOL!)
Love the list,
starbucks and then it is a tie for second place between project runway dvd set and itunes thanks so much for the chance
Tina R. Vancouver WA
Hi Melissa! What a super sweet idea! Id love to participate
I would love to try the Nalgene sippy cup–the Avent ones I currently use are not cutting it–leaky, too many parts etc. The Seventh Generation basket would be great too–Ive forever been wanting to try that line.
THANKS A MILLION! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
You always have such great ideas ~ YOU ROCK!!
Thanks for doing this Mama, lots of wonderful gifts, I especially love itunes and Burts bees ; )
And your new photos are amazing!
My name is Lysa Thornton.
Oklahoma City, OK
I LOVE your favorite things! I guess my favorites of your favorites are
*Clif Bars
*Starbucks
*iTunes
Thanks!!!
I love you favs too! My choices would have to be the starbucks or the Gro baby diaper.
Thanks!
What a great idea! I love them all but I would have to go with #3 my Sis designs and #10 Nalgene cups! Happy Holidays!
I’d have to say Starbucks & Burts Bees!
Ginny
Chesterfield, MI