Friday, July 29, 2011

Want/Need/Wear/Read - Emily & Jen, dullDiamond (+ an Arm Party giveaway!)

Hola!! I'm checking out for the weekend but leaving you with a new Want/Need/Wear/Read from 2 of my favorite designers who just happen to live in my backyard, well Minneapolis that is, Emily & Jen of dull Diamond...I'm crazy about their bright, eclectic jewelry and happen to know firsthand that they have mad personal style as well (hmmm....maybe if I get ambitious we could have a closet/studio visit with these two...) AND they've generously offered up two dull Diamond bracelets to some lucky readers so keep on reading below to win!! Thanks girls!!



want! // clarinet (emily's husbands birthday is coming up and he wants to start playing!) // turkish bath kimono robe // erin considine necklace 
need! // amazing swimsuit // home brewing kombucha bottles (we drink so much, its time we make it ourselves) 
wear//  ikat jumpsuit   //  clare vivier tote // dullDiamond (hehe. what, we like what we make.) // handmade Tejido sandals by beatrice valenzuela 
read! // letting loose the hounds (short odd and entertaining stories which never end up where you think they should) 



Here are the goodies up for grabs...Aren't they beauts!! It makes me wish I could enter my own giveaway...
so To Win:
go visit dull Diamond and let us know in the comments below 1) your favorite piece and 2)
your favorite summer read...
okay I'm off to place a little personal order just for me...I'm dreaming of the necklace Emily was wearing when she came to visit yesterday...
I'll pick a winner Sunday at midnight...and announce it on Monday along with the winner of Wednesday's giveaway (did you enter yet??) I told you everything was coming up in two's lately!
xoxo, M


27 comments:

  1. 1-I love that four bracelet (205) set, particularly as I'm imagining it interspersed with a stack of gold and silver bracelets I already own!

    2-I don't have much in the way of summer reads of late since I've been doing a last hurrah of childbirth-related books, but I love and highly recommend the Tess Monaghan series by Laura Lippman. They are smart and funny mysteries that you cannot put down!

    (PS: Happy Turning Two! I think I may have forgotten to mention that in another comment!)

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  2. Oh my. I love necklace number 199. So pretty. Hmmm, summer reading...I'm reading Ann Patchett's Truth & Beauty at the moment.

    Another great giveaway - we are getting spoiled here.

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  3. Hi! Great post. I love number 221 and am laughing with Tina fey's bossy pants. I can't believe she totally snaked that office job from loyal. Stop. Donna!

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  4. Hi there! I really like bracelet #226 with the braided leather. It reminds me of a leather bracelet made in my teenage years at summer camp. As far as summer reading goes, I read a little book called Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. The book was a gift from a family who had lost their son suddenly, and the book was encouraging in so many ways.

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  5. AHHHH LOVE dull diamond! I'm digging bracelet 234- leather goodness. I just finished The Help in like 4 days- so good! Thanks for this lovely giveaway.

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  6. My favorite is the leather double wrap bracelet (#226). I'm really into leather bracelets these days and this one is a nice twist. As for favorite summer read, I'm really enjoying Run Like a Mother.

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  7. Hi! Great giveaway! I am loving bracelet #226.

    Books: I've just gotten around to reading The Hunger Games trilogy, and I love it! Total page-turning, can't-put-it down, perfect summer reads!

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  8. BRACELET (#234) - have already started wearing it in my mind. It's been a magazine summer for me, that's what happens when it's so hot I drip sweat while sitting still. The Gentlewoman issue 3, Spring/Summer 2011.

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  9. I'm pretty smitten with bracelet #236! Just enough neutral, just enough pop!

    Alas, it's been a busy summer for me! I haven't been able to dig into any big reads, but I am enjoying the latest copy of Dwell quite a bit!

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  10. love necklace #206 and my fave summer read is I was told there'd be cake. it's pretty funny so far. And short stories are easier than trying to chug through a full novel.

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  11. Love bracelet #234 and just starting to read Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan, which I've been saving for my summer vacation.

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  12. I just love bracelet #234 or maybe #209--it's just so hard to choose. Earlier this summer Bossypants was my read. When we were in Florida, my sister would read chapters aloud while we lounged on the beach. We're on the lookout for another group read since not all books benefit from the read aloud treatment.

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  13. What whimsical designs! I especially like #234. I love using the summer to indulge in plenty of Scandinavian mystery series (I highly recommend the 'Wallander' series by Henning Mankell) as well as the 'Adam Dagliesh' books by P.D. James. Thank you for this giveaway!

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  14. I am in love with #234, the natural leather with red is perfection! Just what I need to go with my summer skin! I have been a major bookworm this summer! My hands down favorite was Patti Smith's Just Kids. I know everyone is reading it, but it really touched me. It is an epic story about unconventional love, true commitment, soul mates, creativity, and being true to your authentic self. I borrowed this book from the library, but I will certainly purchase my own copy.

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  15. This is tough...but #234 stands out.
    Just Kids all the way!!

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  16. Great pieces--I love bracelet 234! I just finished The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson--excellent.....!

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  17. So hard to choose! 228? 229? 236? All of them worn together?
    I've just finished and loved Tina Fey's Bossy Pants and am about to start Dimanche and Other Stories by Irene Nemirovsky.
    Happy summer!
    samanthadeans@hotmail.com

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  18. Tough call but I like the two bracelets, number 238. My favorite read this summer totally puts me in geek land, but I re-read that last Harry Potter book before watching the movie and unabashedly loved it again.

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  19. I love #229. It totally fits my nautical craze at the moment!! As far as reading goes I have a 10 week old, so I am calling "skimming blogs" my current read

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  20. Am I too late to enter? Hope not! I love Emily & Jen's work. I have one of their bracelets and wear it all the time. My current favorites are necklace #214 and bracelet #213. Too hard to decide between them! As for my current read, I just started A Visit From the Goon Squad and I'm really enjoying it...

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  21. I love bracelet 226...and this summer I am reading the battle hymn of the tiger mom...so interesting.
    xoxo
    megan
    meganwilson@ymail.com

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  22. Bracelet #226 is my pick - and my fav summer book so far is Midnight Riot - super spooky!

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  23. Quite fond of #221! but if we get to choose between the bracelets in this blog post, I think the beady one is lovely. summer read, I'm finally reading Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

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  24. I'm liking #234. Am trying to finish "The Help", but projects are keeping me from it.

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  25. I too am a fan of bracelet 234! I'm about to have baby 2 so this summer has been me and Ina May Gaskin. Her new book, A Midwife's Manifesta, is great history for birth junkies like me.

    XO

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  26. My favorite is Necklace #206 ! so colorful and pretty and can also double up as a bracelet :)

    My summer read or I should say the book I'm currently reading is "the book theif" by Markus Zusak.

    Ashley
    Ashhlet@gmail.com

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  27. my favorites at dull diamond are #237 & #229 (but they are all awesome). right now i am reading the secret history by donna tartt. but today i just got 2 new summer books- the four fingers of death by rick moody & ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson

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