I’ve called Memphis home for more than seven years now, and have drawn so much creative inspiration from it that, in many ways, I really do hate to leave. But a sweet new job calls my name, and I can’t pass up the opportunity. So I’m packing up the family and we’re going east. But before I go, I want to share some of my favorite pieces of Memphis with you in what I am calling the “Don’t Forget About Me, Memphis!” giveaway. I’ve never done a giveaway before and I hope to do more in the future. So let’s see how this goes. I have several prints to give away, so when you enter, give me your preference (see below) and if I still have what you want, that’s what you’ll get. Otherwise I’ll send you the next best thing.
Here’s how it works, and because it’s a giveaway, it’s kind of necessarily cheesy:
1. Leave a comment telling me what little piece of Memphis you will always carry with you. Can be literal or not; that’s up to you. For me, I will always carry a little bit of Memphis’ eccentric, gritty spirit with me. And I will probably also always carry with me the 30 extra pounds I gained from eating Memphis’ delicious foods. Ahem.
This first comment is mandatory to enter.
For up to two additional entries, you can do the following. Leave a separate comment for each since every comment is an entry.
2. Follow @theogeoetsy on Twitter and tweet the following: “I entered the Don’t Forget About Me, Memphis Giveaway from @theogeoetsy! http://bit.ly/LnfxAa”
3. “Like” Theogeo Design & Photography on Facebook. If you already do, just leave a comment here saying that you do.
The contest is open from now until Friday, July 20, at 11:59 p.m. CDT, when I’ll choose four winners. I will inform the winners via email that night, so be sure to include a valid email address each time you comment. If I don’t receive a response from the winner within 48 hours, I will choose another winner. The contest is only open to those inside the U.S., since I’m ponying up for shipping.
Good luck!
Thanks to my friend Lesley for letting me more or less plagiarize her blog for the giveaway wording. She is a pro. Go enter her contests!
19 replies on “Theogeo Design & Photography is moving! But I’m having a giveaway!”
I guess I will always take with me the hearing loss I have acquired at all the shows here. Or having lost it, is that something that I leave behind?
I’d love that “Save Memphis” or the Powerhouse shot.
As much as I like the say I can’t wait to leave Memphis, I did meet the love of my life and have my awesome kid here. My piece of Memphis is incredibly mushy but there it is.
I tweeted the giveaway.
I like you on FB.
I don’t like you.. I “like you” Like You”
whuuuuuuuuuuuuut!
The River. I’ve always loved it. Sailed down in on a boat with my parents when I was 9 from Tulsa, OK to Long Beach, MS.
Also, the awesome talent and wonderful people I’ve met in my 5 years of being in our fair city. :)
Al Green’s church and social anxiety at Sun’s Record Shop
The homeless man who accosted Chuckleberry Hound outside Dodge’s Chicken
I will always remember the first time I visited Memphis when I moved to Nashville from Chicago. I felt like I had *finally* found a city in the south. :) I just like the whole vibe of the city.
And if I win, that @ sign photo is tits. (Well, it’s tits even if I don’t win, but you know what I mean.)
OK, I tweeted.
Aaaand I already liked your page on Facebook. Because I am awesome. ;)
Tweeted!
Already like you on Facebook. Now you should enter my giveaway, hag! And don’t forget to tweet it, yo.
For me, it’s the same as with Megan: that “real city” grit/vibe.
Also, while I adore you in person, I just “like” you on Facebook :)
The time The Husband and I had to stay the night for our marriage/green card interview and we were given a hotel with a hottub IN the room, 4 feet from the bed, and it still had candle wax around it.
I use the term “hotel” very loosely.
I’ll always keep the love from my two rescue fur dogs I got in Memphis. And at least a few pounds from the strawberry cake at Bogie’s and the Hurricane roll at Sekisui. And the sock-it-to-me cake from Neely’s.
I like “save memphis,” “38111,” “@” or that computer in the background. Definitely the MacBook.
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for entering. I have decided that I have enough Memphisy prints that I can give one to everyone who entered. So you’re all getting a print! I will be in touch with details, so I beg your patience. :D
I will always remember dancing with John Lee Hooker Jr. at BB King’s place on March 24, 2004, ‘BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.’
My husband and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary in Memphis. I think you may have already closed the contest, but I still wanted to add my two cents. Good luck on your move!