Happy Children’s Day!!

For those of you who don’t know, today is Children’s Day in Mexico, so happy children’s day to all! I know it’s not a holiday celebrated in the U.S. (not sure about the rest of the world), but it is definitely a holiday in Mexico and celebrated as much as Mother’s Day.
Since I still owe you some pictures from my trip to California, it seems apropos to share with you today the ones from my day at Disneyland. As I probably mentioned before, the main purpose of the trip was to celebrate my birthday…ahem…my 29th birthday.
Despite being aware that I am still very young and the fact that I had never before been bothered at the thought of getting older (empashis on the er!), I have recently found myself freaking out a bit at the idea of turning 30. It’s not so much the acute realization of the inevitable aging process that has been causing my anxiety, although I must confess that witnessing the birth of a slight wrinkle under my eyes has gotten to me more than I ever thought it would back when wrinkles were exactly just a thought and not the imminent fact they now are, but the idea of running out of time to keep postponing some of life’s most important decisions, i.e. whether or not to have kids, is what has me twisted. I am also not entirely thrilled to be turning 30 with so many questions about what I really want to do with my life still unanswered, but I suspect 30 is not gonna sit around and wait for me to figure it out and it’s just going to come slap me in the face in exactly 340 days. I also suspect that if 29 years haven’t been enough time for me to figure it out, it is unlikely that less than a year will do the trick, thus I’ll probably be carrying my 20s motto way into my 30s: go with the flow.
Anyway, I apologize for raving about the latest trigger of my everlasting existential crisis. This post was originally meant to be just about sharing the photos of one of my happiest birthdays, which I spent in Disneyland indulging my Peter Pan syndrome. I would highly recommend you try it some time. Without further ado, here are the pictures:

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And the winner is…

After a hectic and wonderful couple of days, I was finally able to sit down and do the random draw to pick the winner of the Holiday Giveaway 2012. Not to add more to the suspense of the announcement, but first let me clarify what method I used to guarantee that the draw was in fact random. I assigned the participants a number based on their place in the giveaway entry line, meaning the first person to enter the giveaway was assigned the number one, the second person to enter the giveaway was number two, and so on and so forth. Then I used a random number generator I found on Google, and the number it generated is now the official winner of the Holiday Giveaway 2012.

Now the winner of the lovely necklace and bracelet is… drum-roll please… Dalia Bahena!!!

She happens to be a good friend of mine, and also the tenth person to enter the giveaway, and number 10 was her lucky number, so congratulations!!!

I will personally be contacting her to let her know about her win (although I’m pretty sure she’s reading this)  and arrange the delivery method of her grand prize.

Thank you all who participated, and to those who didn’t win, don’t worry, there will be more giveaways to come in the future, so stay tuned.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and wishing a fabulous rest of your week my darlings.

Después de un par de días muy atareados pero muy disfrutados, por fin tuve la oportunidad de sentarme y hacer el sorteo al azar para escoger al ganador del Holiday Giveaway 2012. Sin afán de crear más suspenso, déjenme primero aclarar que método usé para garantizar que el sorteo fuera realmente aleatorio. A cada participante le asigné un número basado en su posición en la línea de entrada al sorteo, es decir a la primera persona que entró al giveaway se le asignó el número uno, a la segunda persona el número dos, y asi sucesivamente. Después utilizé un generador de números aleatorios que encontré en Google, y el número que generó es ahora el ganador oficial del Holiday Giveaway 2012.

Ahora, el ganador del lindo collar y pulsera es… tambores por favor… Dalia Bahena!!

Ella resulta que es una buena amiga mía, y también fue la décima persona en entrar al sorteo, y el 10 fue su número de la suerte, asi que muchas felicidades!!

Yo personalmente la estaré contactando para informarle que ganó (aunque estoy bastante segura que está leyendo esto), y para acordar el método de entrega del gran premio.

Muchísimas gracias a todos los que participaron, y a los que no ganaron, no se preocupen, habrá mas giveaways por venir en el futuro, asi que estén pendientes.

Espero que hayan pasado una maravillosa Navidad, y les deseo una fabulosa semana mis adorad@s.

 

How to Enter the Holiday Giveaway 2012

Ok, so as I promised yesterday, here are the requirements and instructions you need to follow to be able to enter the giveaway where one and only lucky winner will receive one lovely statement necklace and one bracelet.

To enter the Holiday Giveaway 2012 you will need to follow these steps:

1. Subscribe to my blog via email.  Enter your e-mail address at the bottom of abrilscorner.com, where it says “Subscribe to Blog via Email” and then click the confirmation link you will receive in your email address (if you can’t find the confirmation email in your inbox, don’t forget to check your junk mail folder).

2. Like my blog’s Facebook page. Go to abril’s corner Facebook page (here) and click the Like button that appears below the cover photo.

3. Send me an email to abril@abrilscorner.com with your name and email address letting me know that you have completed the two previous steps. If you had completed the first two steps a while ago, still send me an email letting me know that you have.

For additional entries refer your friends to enter the giveaway as well, and for each friend that does you will receive 1 extra entry to the giveaway. Make sure that your friends, after completing the first two steps, send me an email confirming they have done so AND stating YOUR name and your email address as the referrer.

You only have until December 23rd 2012 at midnight, Arizona time, to submit your entries for the giveaway. Best of luck to everyone!

Para instrucciones en español, continúa leyendo después de las fotos.

Como se los prometí ayer, aquí están los requerimientos e instrucciones que necesitan seguir para poder entrar al sorteo donde un solo y único ganador recibirá este lindo collar y pulsera.

Para entrar al Sorteo Navideno 2012 necesitaras seguir estos pasos:

1. Suscribirte a mi blog via email. Pon tu dirección de correo electrónico en la parte inferior de abrilscorner.com, donde dice “”Subscribe to Blog via Email”, y después da click en un link de confirmación que te será enviado a tu cuenta de correo electrónico (si no recibes el correo de confirmación en tu bandeja de entrada/inbox, no olvides checar tu folder de correos basura/junk mail).

2. Dale Like/Me Gusta a la página de Facebook de mi blog. Entra a la página de Facebook de abril’s corner (aquí) y da click en el botón de Like/Me Gusta que aparece abajo de mi foto de portada.

3. Envíame un correo electrónico a la dirección abril@abrilscorner.com con tu nombre y tu dirección de correo electrónico avisándome que ya completaste los primeros dos pasos. Si ya desde hace tiempo te habías suscrito via email y le habías dado Like a la página de Facebook de abril’s corner, igual mandáme el correo avisándome que ya lo habías hecho.

Para entradas adicionales al sorteo sugiérele a tus amigos que  también entren al sorteo, y por cada amigo tuyo que lo haga recibirás 1 entrada extra al sorteo. Asegúrate que tus amigos, después de completar los dos primeros pasos, me envíen el correo electrónico confirmando que así lo han hecho Y dándome TU nombre y tu correo electrónico como prueba de que fuiste tú quien los refirió al blog y al sorteo.

Tienen sólo hasta el 23 de diciembre del 2012 a medianoche, hora de Arizona, para entrar al concurso. Mucha suerte a tod@s!!

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