Christmas is over. But that doesn’t mean the giving is.
I did a little shopping yesterday… not to return anything, but to look around. It’s what I do after Christmas.
Shop. It’s much more fun to shop after Christmas than before. The stress is gone and the sales are still on.
And if something catches my eye like a towering stack of satin pink leopard print jewelry boxes…
… well, I’ll take a few extra minutes and look through all the designs.
And if there happens to be something like a super-cute cupcake necklace staring right back at me, then I guess you know what happens next.
Awwe…… How could I resist. It’s just the cutest little thing.
And it comes in the cutest little box.
And then there’s all this cute dangly stuff to boot. Did I mention how cute this thing is?
But I didn’t get it for me. I thought I would give it to one of you. So who wants it?
Enter for a chance to win this cutie patootie
Betsey Johnson Cupcake Necklace
Just leave a comment on this post and finish the following sentence…
This New Year’s Eve, I …
Deadline to enter is Tuesday, December 29th at 5:00 p.m. ET. Time’s Up. Winner announced below.
One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
Good luck!
I didn’t expect to be so moved by the entries for this giveaway. These might just be some of my favorite ones to read to date. I usually don’t do anything on New Year’s Eve, so thank you for sharing a glimpse into your plans. The simple ones. The silly ones. The serious ones. You guys fill my heart with happiness.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
And now for the winner…
Congrats anna p! It’s you!
This New Year’s Eve, I am going to cuddle up with my boo’s (aka My husband & 6yr old son) and probably watch movies all night & eat tons of unhealthy food lol! We always make a few different types of finger foods & desserts and get our last little fill of yummy holiday food before the new year!
This New Year’s Eve I will be sitting at home with my husband, probably sipping some sparkling grape juice, with a babe in his crib and a bun in the oven… :) Love my expanding family!! :)
…resolve to eat more cupcakes!
This New Years Eve, I will probably be hanging out with my Hubby at home since our 2 little ones will be sleeping.
This New Year’s Eve I will start the day working. Then I’ll spend the evening with friends and/or family.. I haven’t decided yet.
This New Years Eve I will have all intentions of staying up late and making a bunch of yummy stuff but will probably fall asleep around 10pm and my dear hubby will wake me up at 1159 to tell me happy new year. At least that’s what happened last year, who knows maybe I’ll make it this year!
This New Year’s Eve, I hope not to be stuck in traffic!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be house/dog-sitting and don’t want to leave the fur babies alone. I may do a little baking (!!) and grilling and have a few people over. =] And of course at midnight I’ll have a rather large glass of champagne!
This New Year’s Eve we will spend the evening at home with friends.
This New Year’s Eve, I will be babysitting for two of my favorite little girls in the world. My husband and puppies are coming over too, so it will be sort of like playing house! Sounds lame, but it will be a blast!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be watching the ball drop with my two beautiful sons, husband, dog and two cats (yeah, we have a pretty full house).
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be celebrating my sister’s 13th birthday.
will make some very logical New Year’s Resolutions, which I will promptly forget within 24 hours.
…plan on going to bed early too!
This New Year’s Eve, I … and my hubby will put on our jammies and play scrabble and enjoy takeout chinese to bring in the new year.
That necklace is just so cute and would look adorable on my sweet niece who will be with me this New Year’s Eve. Maybe baking pink cupcakes would be a great way to start the year.
This New Years Eve, I will be with my wonderful baking daughter and her lovely cupcakes!
This New Year’s Eve, I am looking forward to spending a quiet night with my husband.
This New Years Eve I will be starting the year off my Church Praise Party.
ringing in the new year with great people.
This New Years Eve, after I get home from work, we will do what has now become our family tradition……Order Chinese food, invite the grandparents over, and play board games until the kids, or grandparents, are tired ! I love being with the family and our tradition !!!
Happy 2010 everyone !!!!
…i will make sure to start it off better than last year:)
and offcourse spend it with family and eat eat eat:))
This New Year’s Eve, I will share my New Year’s resolutions with my husband and then strive to make them a reality in 2010.
will be drinking some bubbly :).
This New Year’s Eve, I …will spend with my whole family, something I haven’t done in years.
This New Year’s Eve I will be with friends and family celebrating a wonderful year!
This New Year’s Eve I will spend it with my family and toast with lots of champagne!!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be hanging out at home playing games with the hubs and kiddos, and my bil and his family. We stay home every year and avoid amateur night.
This New Year’s Eve, I will eat cookies made by my girlfriend until I drop! :)
This New years I’ll be partying with my DJ boyfriend!!!!
This New Years Eve…I will be wishing my husband wasn’t working like he does EVERY New Years Eve. Some year I would like to kiss him at midnight instead of getting a phone call! :(
This New Years Eve I am following our tradition by letting the kiddos stay up a little late then enjoying board games, appetizers, TV specials, and a special cocktail creation with my husband.
I am hoping to get out of the house! But only if my 8-month pregnant self can kick this flu’s butt.
This New Year’s Eve, I’m going to feed the homeless with family & friends and then chill at home with a few bottles of wine and champagne!
This New Years Eve..
i will be home watching new years in New york on tv
This New Year’s Eve I will be heading over to my girlfriend’s house for a Pajama Party. What a better way to bring in the New Year than in your cozy pj’s sipping a margarita and binging on lots of goodies! Hope you have a Happy New Year too!
will watch my eight year old play hockey on the “big ice” and cheer like crazy!
This new years eve i will be turning 25!!
This New Years Eve I….will be spending time with wonderful friends and family.
….I will eat. Like always. Because diets always start tomorrow. And the only treats I’ll be having are sweet cupcakes around my neck! (if I win….hoping hoping hoping!
This New Years Eve, I will enjoy an evening of baking for my hubster and friends, hopefully wearing my new Betsey Johnson cupcake necklace! :)
This New Years Eve I… will be with my grandpa who just had surgery.:)
I will be spending time with my enormous family! And making cake pops :) I tried for the first time this week, and after the trial run this week, they should be easy this coming new years!
Love your blog! :)
This New Year’s Eve, I will eat cookies made by my girlfriend until I
will be babysitting my grandkids in DE and loving every minute! But i would love to win this for my daughter she is crazy for CUPCAKES!!
This New Years Eve I invited over 100 people to a party at my house, and so far 6 are coming. Ha.
New Years Eve I will be spending the night with my husband watching our favorite movies on the couch.
This New Year’s Eve I will attend a friend’s party with my husband, then probably zonk out on the couch soon after midnight!
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This New Years Eve I will be going to a party at my church with my family.
I may have missed the dealine (i’m in the UK and can’t be bothered to work out the time diff) but that’s ok, i just like joining in! :P
This New Year’s Eve i will go and watch fireworks being launched from a boat in Exmouth estuary, and then at 1am i will go and spend a few hours at work (i volunteered because i don’t drink and all my colleagues want to get drunk!) changing over loads of online shop VAT rates back to 17.5% for 2010, for our customers.
…plan on celebrating low-key with my closest lovies.
This new years eve i will be celebrating my 3rd year anniversary with my boyfriend! :)
This New Year’s Eve, I will be totally vegging out after a long day of inventory at work and eating junk food and whatever I feel so that in the new year, it’ll be a whole 180° to become the fittest I’ve ever been!! Happy New Year everyone!
This New Years Eve, I will snuggling on the couch with my boyfriend who just had surgery. Not too exciting, but with the love of my life!
will be quietly spent with my husband, our pets and a nice cozy fire.
will be spending the evening with my husband and children.
This New Year’s Eve I will cook a good meal for my husband and myself (unless we decide to get pizza) and be thankful for all the good things that have come our way.
This New Years Eve I… will be spending a relaxing evening at home with my husband and daughter. I am really looking forward to it!!
This New Years Eve I …. will be spending it with wonderful friends and my family, cooking and laughing and drinking a bottle (or 3) of wine!
will let someone else help with the cooking……..
…will be hosting my friends for an Indian-inspired feast and trying to light fireworks without getting arrested!
will be with my family drinkin and eatin way too much and having a blast
this New Years Eve I will be spending time with my family before my husband leaves on a week long business trip.
…will be snuggling with my husband and our baby boy!
This New Year’s Eve, I have no plans so will be happy to just be w/ my hubby and my Weimies!!
This New Year’s Eve will be a quiet night with family. Praying 2010 will be the best year yet!
i am entertaining my family last minute. (four nephews, three sisters, two brother in laws, one boyfriend, and my mom in dad. add a black lab and mastiff to the mix, and it should be interesting.)
…will NOT be making in resolutions.
Since I do wedding cakes….I’ll be working on a very special
wedding cake and watching all the New’s Eve programs.
Two of my favorite things to do!
This New Years Eve, I will break out the fondu pot and cut up lots of steak and chicken. It is tradition with my kids that we fondu on New years Eve, they look forward to it every year and so do I.
This New Year’s Eve I….will spend time with my family, eat some delicious food, say goodbye to 2009 and say hello to 2010. I wish everyone here, a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
This New Year’s Eve I will…beat my husband with a stick if he falls asleep before midnight like last year! :-)
This new years eve i will be making memories with my amazing fiance making treats for the family and cooking a romantic dinner for two… its our first time.
This New Years Eve….I would like to spend with my husband. I’d like to sit snugly on the couch in his arms and watch the NY celebration on TV with a sleeping toddler upstairs in her bed!
This New Years Eve the kids will be in bed early and my husband and I will have a romantic dinner of stone crabs and proseco. Can’t wait!
This New Year’s Eve I plan to spend it with my boyfriend who is currently home from Iraq for 2 weeks!
This New Year’s Eve…will be a quiet night with family. Praying 2010 will be the best year yet!
This New Years Eve I will be spending it with my husband . We’ll be snowboarding. :)
this new years eve i will be thinking about the blessing of good health.
…want to go to bed early!
will be having a few friends over for “Make Your Own Pizzas”
This New Year’s Eve I am going to go to bed early. I want to start the new year by getting enough sleep!
This New Year’s Eve I will spend a quiet evening with my family.
On New Years Eve I will be spending it with my in-laws and planning a wonderful 2nd birthday for my baby girl.
I will be spending it with close friends and hope that 2010 is even better than 2009!
Sitting at home in front a fire with my hubby and two boys, watching movies, and of course, watching The Ball drop. :)
This new year’s eve I will be with my in-laws provided we don’t get snowed in!
This New Year’s Eve I… ..will be home with my two amazing kids (who will be sleeping) while my husband takes 30 teenagers GoKarting and Arcading! I’ll call him at midnight and wish that I could kiss him when the ball drops!
This New Years Eve I will spend the entire day cooking and baking. Oh, and eating!
This New Years Eve I…..will be with my husband, soaking up every second can before he starts his next semester of school.
This New Year’s Eve will be my last one as an unmarried woman… I will be spending it with my fiance with a variety of homemade appies piled in front of us and most likely be in bed by eleven o’clock haha :)
This New Year’s Eve I…I will be busy working in the ER taking care of people who have had too much fun. This is way too much fun. I love your cute ideas, my family loved your recipe for red velvet cake pops. YUM!
This New Years Eve I…. am hoping to be in bed by midnight, though I might have the TV on and watch a movie until then, just so I can say I was awake. I think my daughter will be at Grandma and Grandpa’s house, so it will be a quiet night for the hubby and me.
This New Years Eve, my husband and I will be in Nashville, TN!!! I can’t wait!!
This New Years Eve I am going to my sister’s house where there will be a mix of her in-laws, my family and our mutual friends. My daughter is crushing hard on one of our friend’s sons so I am going to watch her enjoy New Years Eve with her crush.
This New Years Eve I…will be working then come home, watch the ball drop with my kids and husband and have a glass of champagne.
This New Years Eve I will hopefully be over my congestion and ready to celebrate the new year!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be in Atlanta preparing to go to the Passion Conference!
This New Years Eve I will be celebrating in two time zones, mine first with my family and a few friends. Then again 3 hours later with someone who is very dear to me who can’t be with me right now.
This New Years Eve, I will probably be with my friends having a good time and remember all the fun things that we did together in 2009 and look forward to those things that we will do in 2010 :)
…will start my own blog and collect memories of my own life.
This New Year’s Eve, I …will be dreaming of the GREAT things that 2010 will bring my way!
This New Year’s Eve, I…will be at home getting snuggles from my son and a New Year’s kiss from my hubby. I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate!
This New Year’s Eve, I will be tearing it up in NYC with my cute husband and looking forward to New Year’s Day Brunch…nom nom nom….
This New Year’s Eve I wil spend time with my mother, who will be healing after surgery. I will likely stay up late, watch movies and knit.
going to the movies
This New Year’s Eve I hope to enjoy a relaxing night at home with my hubby and kids….looking forward to ’10.
… am not sure what I’ll be doing yet. My brother and cousin may be in town so maybe I’ll be showing them the sights!
This NYE, I am celebrating with my boy – a night filled with junk food, movies, board games, & Wii! I wouldn’t have it any other way.
This New Years Eve I …will be celebrating with friends and family at home.
I will make black eyed peas and eat them at 12:01 while celebrating with my family.
This new year’s eve I…just might be in labor (it’s only 5 days from my due date).
This New Year’s Eve I intend to attend two parties and then be in my warm bed with warm jammies and my warm hubby by midnight! (New Year’s Day is Pajama Day!!!)
Happy New Year to you!
This New Years Eve I…
will fashion a resolution of substance. In 2010 I will resolve to rearrange the baking world in such a way where we (those of us on the dirty side of the kitchen sink) will no longer need to begin baking at 4 am, instead the new trend will be for customers and clients to purchase their daily baked goods in the early afternoon as opposed to the early bird morning which is unfortunately the cause to all pastry chef’s insomnia issues.
Your blog is fantastic, I read it all the time. Very inspirational!
will NOT repeat past mistakes by picking up a crack addict at the gas station and offer to give him a ride home to his crack house and be pulled over by the cops, who watched the whole thing and thought I was buying! Oh Lord, that was frightening–I seriously thought I was gonna die.
This New Years Eve I am spending it with family that lives 10 hours away. We are having a late celebration for my daughter’s 3rd birthday, then after she goes to bed we are having games and snacks! I am very excited.
. . . spending part of the evening with my lil cutie and my mom, having a baking day, and another part with the hubby at a friend’s party.
hanging out with friends, eating lobster..(not too bad of a night!)
will be spending time with family and friends at a hotel party!
This New Years Eve I…
will be working. Just like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, aaaand the year before that….
(waitress)
This New Year’s Eve…I will go to work, and then come home to ring in the new year with my new baby daughter.
This New Years Eve I…..Have to work and most likely not get to spend it with the person I love (my hubby). We were both laid off a few months ago and it has been so hard finding anything. Sooo I will be working at a club or restaurant. Usually we stay home and have a glass of wine together, but this yr. who knows what will be.
2010 will hopefully be a better yr. for everyone!!!!
:)
This New Year’s Eve I… will be spending the night with my wonderful family!
News Years… one of two things. I’ll either be Laboring our first child into 2010, or out ot dinner with friends.
Let’s hope it’s the first, because 9+ months of being pregnant is exhausting.
PS- This necklace is so sticking cute! I hope you bought one for yourself too!!!
This New Years Eve. . . will be my first as a married woman to my wonderful hubby!
i will be doing the usual, watching the twilight zone marathon with my granddaughter!
This New Year’s Eve I hope to have a nice quiet night at home with my new husband!
…will be praying for a blessed 2010
…will celebrate with friends!
i will think back on 2009 and remember all the happy times, with my kids and husband.
Happy newyear
heidi form denmark.
This New Year’s Eve, I will be baking my first (marshmallow) fondant covered cake ever. It is a birthday present for my roommate, and hopefully will be deliciously devoured as we celebrate the new year with our boyfriends who are coming in from out of town.
am going to celebrate my best friends birthday, then ring in 2010!
This New Years Eve…I will be wishing I could have a glass of champagne- but will be the designated driver as I am 7 months pregnant :-)
…will be with my family at the in-laws watching my husband shoot off his pistols to blast in the new year (did I mention we live in the country?!).
This New Year’s Eve, I… would really like to disappear to Mexico with my boyfriend and relax on the beach while everyone back at home is stressing out over party plans.
If that doesn’t work, a movie/video games & popcorn at home will do. Maybe I’ll throw some champagne in there.
This New Year’s Eve, I will be spending it with my family and boyfriend! Should be a blast :)
This New Year’s Eve, I …am going to the Dodge Theatre to see Joel McHale live with my beau!!! Have a Happy New Year!
This New Years Eve I will celebrate with the rest of Austin, TX at First Night.
This New Years Eve I…will be watching movies and eating popcorn with my boys.
We will be having a quiet evening at home just reflecting on the past year and anticipate the New Year’s happenings.
This New Years Eve I will be at home enjoying time with my family.
Ok, Bakerella…. I already commented once, but I have to say…. youre close to 3000 blog comments. Do you see how many followers you have!!!??? That should make you feel sooo amazing! (Only because you ARE!!) YAY for popularity in the baking industry! You have done it! And you have a following of obsessed baking wanna be’s (like me!)
Congrats to you! Looking forward to 137633416751 more comments on your blog in 2010! =)
… hope to enjoy a lovely, stress-free evening with my boyfriend in San Francisco where we can relish the fact that ALL of our holiday house guests are gone, gone, gone.
This New Years Eve I will be participating in the 1st annual game night with my husband and kids! We did this when I was a child and am excited to do it with my children!
will not spend over $100 to go to a crowded bar instead i will spend the night with the people i truely want to be with!
Bunko party at our friends house with all the kids!
This New Year’s Eve, I … will spend the evening chilaxin’ at home with my three favorite people: The Man Beast, the Boy and Baby Gurl. Will we make it until midnight? Only time will tell!
…..will ring in the New Year with Mr. Schalk and Bonnie! The 2010 forecast is looking good!
Will be spending the evening with my favorite little people in the whole wide world, my grandkids. We will make popcorn and watch a movie till midnight and than go out in the yard and make a ruckus with pots and pans to welcome the New Year in. I will than go to bed and wake up 6 hrs later and drag myself in to work to celebrate with all my Rehab patients. Take care and have a Happy New Year yourself Miss Bakerella.
This New Year’s Eve, I will spend the evening at the best place in town……at home, in my husband’s arms :D
This New Years Eve I will be spending the evening in front of a roaring bonfire, watching my daughter enjoy her 1st taste of smores & looking forward to all the joy she is going to bring me & her daddy in 2010.
This New Year’s Eve I will be surrounded by complete strangers, but hopefully they won’t be strangers by the time the clock strikes midnight.
This New Years Eve I will hang out at home with my family and try to stay awake until midnight but I won’t. I never do. I will watch East Coast Happy New Years and be sound asleep in my bed when my clock strikes 12 on the West Coast :)
This New Years Eve I… will babysit my neices so my sister and her husband can enjoy their anniversary.
This New Year’s Eve, I … will let my baby stay up past her bedtime for extra snuggles with mommy and daddy.
This New Year’s Eve I will probably be going to bed early! I have a young daughter and am pregnant, both of which are not conducive to staying up until midnight. ;)
That is the cutest little thing! Someone is going to be very happy. :)
This New Year’s Eve I will be spending with my husband at home.
…..will put my feet up, hug my husband, kiss my kids, and try to be thankful for what I do have after the year we have had regarding health issues and finances.
Will go downtown and celebrate 2010 in the best New Year’s Eve street fair, snow and all, and watch my son’s band play.
This New Year’s Eve, I’ll be pretending that midnight comes at 8:00 p.m., put my three little kiddies (3 and under) to bed, and enjoy the evening with my sweet husband. Happy New Years!
(sorry, I accidentally made my last comment anonymous…)
This New Year’s Eve I will be at home with the family in Dallas Tx.
I will be having another family over for potato soup, Pioneer Woman meatballs, board games and countdown fun!
This New Year’s Eve, I’m going to bury myself in a huge pile of blankets and have a moviemaraton with my sister. :)
This new year’s eve… I am going to gamble it up at Empire City.
I got a betsey johnson necklace for Christmas and I am obsessed!
This New Year’s Eve, I … plan to head out of town with the family to visit some friends and do some shopping! Thanks for the give away!
This New Years Eve I..will spend it with my family…I get a kick out of watching my little one’s excitement as we watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV.
This New Years Eve I will be celebrating My Birthday. It is so wonderful to have a New Years Eve Birthday…..I feel like everybody is celebrating along with me. It will be spent at our Home in Beaver Creek Colorado. I wish you could join me.
xxoo Valarie
This New Year’s Eve I will be wearing an adorable cocktail dress and spending the evening with some of my favorite people!
This New Year’s Eve, I’ll be pretending that midnight comes at 8:00 p.m., put my three little kiddies (3 and under) to bed, and enjoy the evening with my sweet husband. Happy New Years!
This year I will cook some yummy food and spend the evening home with the doggies and then go celebrate at a friends house.
This New Year’s Eve, I am going to bake cookies with the number 2010. Then, at 12.00, I will drink champgane and eat 12 grapes, as we do in Spain.
Bakerella, I love your blog.
Thanks a lot.
Marta
munoz.marta ( a ) gmail.com
will probably be going to bed early. After spending a busy week with out-of-town family, throw in a wedding cake in the middle, it will be good to get back to some normalness.
will be home with my family watching the countdown on TV.
I will be playing board games and our new family Wii with my great family and extended members ringing in the New Year!
this new year’s eve, I will get a chance to wear my new hanbok! (korean traditional dress that I first got for my wedding earlier this yr!)
This New Year’s Eve I will reflect on the year that has past one last time and look to the not as a clean slate, but as a chance to improve the quality of my experiences.
Happy New Year!!!!!
will be hanging out with my hubby and kids. Hopefully enjoying some fresh snow, hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows and some chili (hubby’s favorite). An early night for all …
This New Year’s Eve, I…will be spending time with family and friends!
this new years eve I will enjoy the night with my lovely husband at a wedding reception.
This New Year’s Eve I will pop a cork and gladly say goodbye to 2009…please be good to us 2010!
This New Years Eve, I will be at home because my mom is visiting.
….. will be working until 11:30pm and hopefully will make it home by midnight but highly unlikely. So I’ll either be ringing in the new year in my car by myself or at work with mostly drunk patients.
This New Year’s Eve, I will be enjoying the company of my friends in a no-stress atmosphere!
This New Years Eve I..will be celebrating with my wonderful family…There will be great food, drink and sweets.
We ( my husband and I ) really don’t go out .
We usually stay home and recuperate from all the Christmas candy & baked goods we made and sent out to all our family & friends !!!
I hope everyone has a great 2010 !!!!
This New Year’s Eve, I will have a romantic dinner with my hubby at our favorite fancy Chinese restaurant, and we’ll then stand outside in our small town counting down for the “ball drop” and some midnight smooching :-)
This New Year’s Eve I…. will be bbqing with friends and enjoying a bonfire with smores!
I will be having a blast with my hubby and kids!!!
This New Years eve, I want to bake cupcakes and spend time with family.
This New Year’s Eve I….will spend the evening with my husband and kids. We’ll have a “slumber party”….everyone gets in their p.j.’s, and we snack and talk and laugh and then enjoy a movie before the little ones drift off to sleep! We love it! : )
I will be praying my daughter has a wonderful
wedding & marriage that will last a life time.
This New Year’s Eve, I will hopefully be going to a Detroit Red Wings game!
This New Year’s Eve I am having family over for a little get together to ring in the new year. Just a few people to celebrate and enjoy while the house is still decorated before it changes back in to a pumpkin.
I will be celebrating with my nearest and dearest!
I will be spending New Year’s Eve with my family and having snacks. Fun!
This New Years Eve I’ll be celebrating with my in-laws at church. I find that the best way to bring in the new year.
This New Years Eve I… will light a candle for every year of my life and meditate on the past year. The good, the bad, and the ugly because that’s what the year’s been like. Then I will prepare myself for all the freakin awesome (and not so) of the new. Can we say…closure? lol
This New Year’s Eve, I …am partying with my sister and her husband! They are coming up to visit!
This New Year’s Eve, I … want to reflect on the sweetness of life, the bittersweet moments, and have a little fun.