Happy Birthday to Me! Birthday, Lies and A Winner!

Today Is My Birthday!

Why the hell am I blogging today? LOL Seriously though, I'm truly grateful and glad I can share it with all of you! :)

I came across this "Happy Birthday To Me" pictorial spread on TokyoFashion.com in January. It's a Birthday-for-One fashion editorial and I thought it was SO much fun!

I can't explain why I love it, because I'm truly a minimalist and this is wayyy over the top with stuff. However, it all just seems to come together.

I love the title of the pictorial, her happy birthday tiara, box of krispy creme doughnuts, confetti, cards, balloons, streamers, strawberry shortcake, makeup, party hats, colored hair..OH MYYY! HaHa

To me it's like Alice in Wonderland gone Haywire. LOL Everything I love is meshed together.

The pictorial features Japanese model Hirari Ikeda. The photographer is Kira. Hair and Makeup Artist is Mai Kiyota. Concept is Hirari Ikeda.

Enjoy!!!

 

See the Making of "Happy Birthday to Me"
in the video below:

To see the COMPLETE spread click HERE.

 

Soooo, what's a party without gifts?

I was going to do a giveaway today on my birthday, but a disturbing and serious situation in the last giveaway came up, that made me decide not to (and rather address the problem in this post). 

I'm very disappointed in a blogger that LIED about an entry in Rowena's giveaway. The blogger claimed to have followed Rowena's page on Facebook and her Etsy shop. She did neither! I despise a deceptive person and definitely a liar. 

I work too hard to supply nice products in giveaways for someone to falsify and try to CHEAT other honest bloggers out of a win/prize. For the most part (as do so many others) I use my own money to pay for prizes, that are presented in my giveaways. I supplement the cost of prizes by writing posts for companies (sometimes featured on Fridays) that I believe in and whom want a sponsored post to appear on A Very Sweet Blog. I could keep that money for myself! But instead, I turn that money into a prize for my readers. 

To show you how serious I am about this incident, I've deleted you from my blog roll and will no longer comment or patronize your blog. You may not care, because there are a million blogs out there that can replace me. However, you will remember this post and what I'm saying to you. You messed up! You made a bad decision! In life, I've messed up! I've made bad decisions! No one is perfect! But it's recognizing what you have done and learning from it. Don't hurt people that are nice to you. There are few of us out there. But trust me there are plenty of wolves.


Bad decisions like this affect your CHARACTER. Your character is everything. It's your word. It's how others perceive you. If you fudge on something like this, what else do you fudge on? Break this bad habit NOW!You will only lose in the end and make a bad name for yourself. I'm chewing you out and jumping in your ass publicly because I liked you, valued you as a reader and never want you to do this again. You hurt me and disappointed Rowena. We're not deserving of this. We both forgive you, but want YOU to be a better person than what you showed and thought of us last week. I'm nice, but don't ever try and get over on me. I will not stand for it. Instead of responding to my reader's post tonight, I had to take time out and write this. You have my email and Rowena's if you wish to apologize or talk about this situation.
 

 The winner of the 8x10 print from Rowena's Etsy Shop is... 

Samantha of Style of Sam

Congratulations Samantha! You picked the Mercer print!
I'll be contacting you by email to confirm everything! 

Rowena of Rolala Loves is offering ALL of my readers 

20% Off and Free Shipping

on any order from her shop through 2/27/12

Use the code: AVERYSWEETBLOG

Isn't she a doll? That's very generous! Thank You Rowena!

Ok, it's Mardi Gras time here in New Orleans and it's also my birthday so I'm off to celebrate!
I promise to read your blogs. I haven't forgotten about you, but I had to address the situation above and I've been celebrating my birthday/mardi gras all weekend 
(Mardi Gras ends Tuesday at midnight). 
Everything will be back to normal soon. ((HUG))