Moleskine Give Away Contest

About a month ago I was contacted by Chronicle Books about hosting a give away on my blog of products from the new Moleskine line of products. Unable to say NO to anything free, I accepted. I expected a small amount of products, one or 2 sets of books. Instead I received, via Fedex, a large box. In it were several colors and sets of the 5x8 Volants, a set of the pocket sized volants, a desk calendar and the hottest thing in there, several Color A Month Planners.

To enter: Comment on this post. I'll then use a random number generator to pick 3 winners. No one word comments. Say something relevant and interesting. One word and irrelevant comments will be disqualified. I want a lot of comments, tweet this post, facebook this post and help spread the word. Contest ends December 6th. Numbers pulled December 7th. Moleskine shipped December 8th. Please 1 comment per person.

The prizes:

3rd 1) 5x8 Lined Reporter Notebooks

    1) 3.5 X5.5 plain page Volant set in blue

2md 1)5x8 Plain Volant set in blue

        1) Color-A-Month Planner for 2010

1st 1) 5X8 Plain paper Volant set in red

     1) Color-a-Month Planner for 2010

     1) 2010 Desk Calendar

They said I'm under no obligation to review them, but I am.

Color-A-Month (referred to from here on out as CAM) I'm a fan of the volant so a boxed set of Volant notebooks, one for each month is awesome to me. Lots of creamy writing paper, perfect for planning out all the stuff going on in one's life, one month at a time. The box is more of a fixed back and a hinged top with an elastic. It looks like a super thick Moleskine from the back, turn it around and you see the spines of all 12 books. I like it and I can't wait to use them. Thumbs up.

Desk Calender. It's pretty cool. It's all black with an elastic, with pull off days. Lots of room for writing in appointments and other stuff. Same creamy moleskine paper as all the other notebooks, but in single sheet form. There is a pocket on the front "cover" for storing the old pages. I like it.

Large Sized volants. I didn't open a package of these but I love volants so I can't imagine I WOULDN'T like these. these come in all sorts of fun colors now. Does anyone remember when they only came in black and then they discontinued them? Yeah me too. I'm glad they are back. 

I'll get some more in depth reviewing and pics up here later, but for now, onto the good stuff.

Heads up for international folks- I want you to enter too, but I can only afford shipping stateside. If your interested in playing to and are willing to pay for shipping, possibly $12- $20 USD, depending on your location, for about $60 in goods depending on the prize, please play along.

Also I'm going to keep my replies to one mass reply each day so I'm not adding a lot of additional comments.

Comments

[Beverley]

Hehe, how about if I say one word over and over, can that get me disqualified, piddle, piddle, piddle,piddle..... Joking aside this is great that you are doing this. You have a wonderful blog, with an excellent personality and sense of humour (on your list yet LOL?) Actually I am only playing around as I live in the UK so too far away to realistically post things without applying for a mortgage. I do love Moleskines though, and am a recent convert to them. I just started a sketch one, and the paper is to die for. (don't get too excited about my blog I desperately need to update it,its been a month!)

[DrRuss]

I have never owned a moleskin so it would be exciting to receive a prize for reading your most informative blog. Your blog is important on so many different levels becuase it inspires people to art journal with abandon. Your guidelines for creating art journals and your product recommendations and reviews have same me a whole lot of money. Since you are so generous with your time, I have been able to wait to see a product reviewed before buying it. Thanks to you, I have gotten out of a bad habit of buying it first and then creating with it (maybe) later. I no longer have unopened product lying around waiting to be used. I now create with what I have.

[Poetic Dreams]

Would LOVE to enter this contest! Who couldn't use some new moleskine products? I know I can't resist! Plus the bonus would be getting it around Christmas time. Extra pressie under tree how cool. lol Please add me to the fun contest.I'm off to Twitter/OD/Blog/Ning this blog out to all I know. Big Hugs~

[metafrastria]

The CAM looks like an interesting addition, although I am a tad disappointed that Moleskine is moving away from its minimalistic design. But then it's just me being conservative. :)

I saw the desk calendar in stores. It looks good, although I probably wouldn't use it, as I live a very mobile lifestyle (thus, no permanent desk fixtures for me).

The volants, however... I can feel my mouth watering even now! :)

[Corrie Shandy]

POE sent me! I 've never had a moleskin journal. they sound awesome.

[rachel friedman]

Wow, what an amazing load of materials to be sent! I wish someone would decide to send me a bunch of goodies ;) wink wink ;) I need to get back into the world of bookarts and buckle down and start creating. There are so many branches down the tree of life, and I'm afraid I've gone to high up to come back down to my bookarts branch. Only time will tell, eh?

[Cheri (pinkcupcakearts)]

LOL I found your blog a couple of weeks ago by literally stumbling across it. And I think that it is BEYOND cool that they actually contacted you to do something like this. Having never even seen a Moleskin anything in real life (where the heck does everyone find them 'cuz I ask people and they look at me like I have grown a second head out the middle of my back or something) I have no idea whether I would like them or not. But I am willing to give it the Ol' College Try ;) Hopefully, people will FLOCK to your blog and leave TONS of profound (or at least funny) things for you to read :D

[Mandy]

How cool that they contacted you! I bought a Moleskine calendar for this year, and I really like it--it's a monthly one, and there are many extra pages in it, especially in the back. My only criticism is that I think they should put another 2 extra pages in between each month as I like to make notes near a month, and I don't like when the notes show through the page to the calendar page on the reverse side.

[Lorelei Campbell]

OOhhh! I've just discovered Moleskin journals on line but haven't treated myself yet. Pick me! Pick me!

[Rhomany]

As someone a) unable to say no to free stuff and b) unable to say no to anything Moleskine, this is me making a comment of more than one word. :)

[Susan]

WOOWOO! I want one! I would love a moleskine but I haven't popped for one yet. As I am currently unemployed, I am trying to reign in my Barnes and Noble and Michael's purchases! My current journal should run out by December so pick me! :-)

[newfry]

i usually make my own books, but i am really intrigued by the moleskines. they have such a following. the CAM sounds really intriguing. i can't wait for pictures!

[Nancy Gill]

What a great give away. I guess some people would give them away, but I want to start doing some art journaling. Your work is inspiring.
Nancy

[Kristyn S.]

Oh wow, don't you just love Chronicle Books? I order from there all the time... so generous!

Anyways, I know I've just started watching your vids on youtube (I love some of your techniques!), but I've been a long-time fan of moleskine. They're the only notebooks I would trust for my art journaling. The color a month one looks fantastic!

Best of luck everyone!

[ajt]

Moleskines are so nice. The paper is great and there are so many sizes.

[twitter.com/BigBags]

I currently use one of these books as my 'idea book.' I write down all of my goals and business ideas. Love it. What a great giveaway!

[Zom Osborne]

I have only used the sketchbook Moleskines (for art journals) but I would love to try more of their stuff. It is quite expensive in Australia. Thanks for the opportunity.

[apple]

That is awesome stuff to win!! Thanks for having a giveaway. I love Moleskine notebooks. I feel that they are too expensive for me to buy all the time, but every once and a while I will treat myself. :)

[Andrea]

I'd love to be a part of this! Moleskines have always been in my bag wherever I go, and I've just filled my last one :)

-carmadillotanzen (on youtube)

[Ruby Claire]

WOOAAHH that is so much stuff man!
I love moleskine!! That 2009 12 thingies just sound the dream man!!
What an opportunity! :) Thanks!!
P.S Do you take bribes? :P
x

[twitter.com/bradleyejones]

I've never even heard of these moleskine's, I found out about this site and the skins from a friends re-tweet, sounds very interesting!

[Judy]

Well I've never owned a real Moleskine but I've made plenty of knock offs. Might be fun to see what the real thing looks like.

[trish]

I'm so glad I decided to watch your videos (again) this evening!! This is a very generous giveaway, and I'd LOVE to win (along with everyone else;) Just wanted to say thank you for the giveaway, and thanks for all your work on the videos, love them!!!
have a great evening
Trish

[Shalene]

Wow thats pretty neat how they sent you all those products!! I love your youtube channel......your blog is awesome as well! thank you =)
Shalene from CA

[Sharon Bennett]

I would love to take a book binding class from you. I love to make journals, but have never really done too good of a job, and you are a natural when it comes to creating them. Thanx for posting Teesha's video's. Sharon