CSN Product Review & GIVEAWAY!!

Hey everyone! So a few months ago I discovered CSN Stores, which carry SO MANY wonderful and creative things for the luxuries and the quotidian needs of life. There are over 200 brands associated with CSN, so they have so many of the things you could need, from cookware and ironing & cleaning supplies (yay domesticity!) to LED lighting and tools & hardware for sprucing up the home. They also have shoes, accessories, jewelry and quirky things from Alessi to other high-end designers. I have been eyeing a few different things from Kikkerland, which is one of the many CSN brands, and was surprised and honored to get the opportunity to do a review and a giveaway for them!

here are some of the things that I would love to get, if i had the money to invest in stuff for my home. unfortunately, as a college student sometimes I just can't...

beautiful, beautiful iron...

i love to iron...

great shoes!!!

(i'll be doing a post on brogues sometime soon, i promise!)

and i saw this randomly after watching some old videos of me rolling a pram around my backyard... it made me want a pram so badly!!! of course, i have no baby for the pram, but I saw it and just about died of love for this. its gorgeous!

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I'm not going to tell you quite yet what I will be reviewing, but I will tell you that I am having a GIVEAWAY for a $20 CSN Gift Certificate,

that you can spend however you like in any of the 200 CSN stores!

To participate in the CSN Giveaway,

Here are the rules you must read to enter. Read carefully darlings!

~You must be (or become!) a follower to enter my giveaway. That is a requirement - this is a giveaway to thank my followers :)

1. To enter, simply write a comment saying "Enter me" (or anything along those lines :)) and your e-mail address below this post. The e-mail address is a must, as I will contact you that way if you win ;)

2. For a second entry (which doubles you chances of winning, so it is well worth it), post about my giveaway on your blog. You must include a link to your post about my giveaway. A second entry must be a separate comment!

3. For a third entry (or, of course second - in short, an extra entry), add me to your blogroll. Add a link to your blog, so that I can check you actually added me :)) Again, an extra entry must be a separate comment!

~I will choose a winner using random.org - so no matter when you enter, you all have an equal chance of winning!

The giveaway will end on June 26, at 11:59 PM, PST.

(Get your 3 entries in by then!!! :D)

:: For now, I am going to limit this first giveaway to readers within the 50 US States and Canada, but hopefully soon I can have an international giveaway. ::

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i leave for Pittsburgh in less than 14 hours! i am so very excited to return to my home away from home -- and make my dorm feel like home for me. in the process i've been looking for a lot of stuff to make it more personal.

it just occured to me that having a little blackboard might be a great idea. :)

here are some of the ones that i've found that i really like...

Chalk Thoughts

Chalkboard Vinyl Message Center

Round Speech Bubble Chalkboard Decal

i am absolutely in love with these -- i have a feeling that i might end up getting one or two of them eventually. ;)

i just love the ability to take something and recreate with it. i like the speech bubbles the most for something creative to play with -- but i like the message center for day-to-day planning.

hmm....

its your gradual descent into a life you never meant

i find that doing things deliberately and with purpose often leads to heartbreak and pain -- but going through life without trying anything, without attempting anything monumental, without loving with all you have can leave you empty. i would rather feel pain and heartbreak tenfold than to be numb.

I did all this deliberately --
i decided that i was going to find something that made me happy and made me smile.
something that could fill a little bit of my life without eating my life completely.
i decided to cut my hair and fall in love with style.

...we'll see how i come out of it.

i promised myself that i would never again lead a life unexamined.

... i also promised myself that i would never again lead a life based on what other people think.

this is me.

...this is the life i mean for me. starting now.

~*~*~

so i've been searching around, looking for things and trying to set up how my dorm will look when i get back, etc. here's are a few things i found...

The Wave Pillowcase Set

Complete Embellishing by Kayte Terry

Born-Again Vintage

...there was other stuff...
oh...yeah.
this chair that i'm trying to get! (I want a chair to be able to chill and play my bass in... i think this would also be good as a prop for taking pictures :))


it looks like a good chair -- the wood is absolutely beautiful and the color of the upholstery is good too -- just needs a little lovin. :)

and for the curtain between Kate's side and my side -- i'm looking at these -- help me decide!

and its the worst/best/hardest thing i have ever done

so i found this secret on PostSecret this morning...
i almost jumped out of my skin.
i feel like he could have written this about me after everything we've been through in the last 8 months -- and the last 5 weeks.


dang. i thought i was over this.
...well, i guess there will always be moments, eh?

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in better news!

i am shipping my amp and my sewing machine tomorrow, and I only have 3 days until i am gone from here.

i've also found these -- and i can't begin to tell you how much i love them. :)




these wonderful prints are all beautiful works by Johnny Taylor, an artist currently based in L.A.
check him out here.

i hope your weekends have gone wonderfully ~ i will now head downstairs to eat pancakes :)