The Clever Girls are delighted to work with See's Candy on an exciting Valentine's Day contest designed to get everyone's favorite candies into your hands in time for Valentine's Day! Many of your favorite bloggers are in on the fun which means that you have lots of chances to win a very sweet prize: two pounds of assorted chocolates in the See's Candy Red Signature Box to keep or to share. You decide!
The contest begins today, Monday, February 1, and ends Friday, February 5.
To kick off the contest,we've asked some of our favorite bloggers to share their Sweetest Love Stories. Get ready to say "Awwwwwwwww" as you read posts from:
Sarah of Sarah and the Goon Squad
Liz from This Full House
Casey from Moosh in Indy
Leticia from Tech Savvy Mama
Elita from Blacktating
"Bossy" from I am Bossy
Lindsay from Suburban Turmoil
Whit from Honea Express
Kelly from Mocha Momma
As you can see from their blogs, you have several ways win your own special prize. Pick one of them and enter to win!
But, wait! There's more!
In addition to leaving comments on any (or all!) of the blog posts above with your own Sweetest Love Story, we're giving you the same chances to win right here on the Clever Girls blog!
Leave a comment with your Sweetest Love Story below and get extra chances to win by:
- Visiting the See's homepage (link: http://www.sees.com/) and sign up for the newsletter
- Tweeting about this contest using the #seescandy tag (you can Tweet daily and post the link in the comments below!)
- Blogging about why you want to win the Share Your Sweetest Love Story with links back to your favorite blog post OR this post, as well as to the See's homepage (link: http://www.sees.com/) and post the link it in the comments below.
Enter Now!
Deadline for entries is midnight, PST, Friday, February 5, 2010, and we will notify you by email.
We look forward to reading all of your Sweetest Love Stories whether here or on our participating bloggers' sites.
Happy Valentine's Day!
-Sheila, Cat, and Stefania
Clever Girls Collective for See's Candies!
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My 8th grade boyfriend sent me a three foot tall Ziggy card. In the mail. I thought it was the most romantic thing, ever!
Posted by: Naomi | 02/01/2010 at 11:41 AM
I actually have two love stories to share because both are very dear to me.
When I was a first year senior (I had two senior years) in college there was a very cute transfer student who was in two of my art classes. I was really attracted to him and one day mid semester I decided to take a chance because I thought he was a very good person. I started to leave him anonymous notes in his art locker. They were one or two lines taken from different songs that referred to smiles because I thought he had the greatest smile. I left two a week for about a month. A few of us in the art department decided to go see The Addams Family movie. We had made arrangements and I was supposed to pick this cute guy up and go to the movies. At the last minute everyone in our group canceled so it was just the two of us. Since it was right before winter break I took a chance knowing that if he didn't reciprocate my feelings I'd have two weeks at home to ride out my embarrassment. I made a tape (yes, tape) with all the songs that I took the lines from. After the movie I dropped him back off and when he got out of the car I rolled down the window and told him he forgot something and threw the cassette tape at him and took off. The next time I saw him in class he said "So it was you." And so it began.
Four years later we got married.
The Huz is not very romantic, but he's pretty clever when he tries. I appreciate flowers but can think of better ways to spend money. I am a working artist and use many different materials. One day he came home from work and had one hand behind his back and said "I got something for you." I told him he shouldn't have wasted his money on flowers and he brought his hand forward and had a dozen glue sticks! It was awesome, just perfect.
Christina
Posted by: christina | 02/01/2010 at 12:29 PM
The day my husband and I got married, he presented me with two very tall (maybe 4 ft) cylinders with fake wicks that were covered to look like white candles. When I opened them, they were filled with my favorite (and uncommon) candy bar. I found out later he called one of the gals in our wedding party to find out where to get the candy bars and he went to every store he could to find enough to fit inside the containers. And, as if that wasn't good enough (and it so was), there was also a pair of diamond earrings inside one of the containers. I was totally overwhelmed!
Posted by: Erin | 02/01/2010 at 12:33 PM
When I couldn't deal with any wedding preparations for our (very spontaneous) wedding anymore, my almost-husband spent two days visiting rooms all over manhattan to find the perfect one with the perfect view for our 24h honeymoon. He did, and then we had the loveliest honeymoon ever.
Posted by: beyond | 02/01/2010 at 04:30 PM
My husband has done some wonderful things, but the best Valentine's gift he ever gave me happened during a walk on the beach. My puppy, Bailey, somehow got confused and started running in the wrong direction, trying to find us. My boyfriend took of after him and chased him for 15 miles(!) until someone finally caught Bailey by the collar.
He then took us both out to a Valentine's dinner at a nearby dog-friendly restaurant. That was where he proposed--to both of us!
Posted by: Ellen Jackson | 02/02/2010 at 11:12 AM
When we were dating long distance, my husband got me a disposable camera and mailed it to me- he told me to take a few pictures of things I wished we were seeing together, then mail it back and he would do the same. It went back and forth across the country several times, and he finished the roll by taking one last picture of him holding a sign saying California wasn't the same without me and asking me to move back. He developed all the pictures, mounted them in an album, and sent it to me. It was totally out of character, a ton of work, and pretty romantic. He's a keeper.
Posted by: pseudostoops | 02/02/2010 at 11:30 AM
@skindetective Shamelessly trying to win chocolates, which I promise aren't that bad for your skin. Really! #seescandy
Posted by: Kendra | 02/02/2010 at 03:56 PM
For our first Valentine's together, my (then boyfriend, now husband) and I didn't have a ton of money, so we decided we'd just get each other something little. When I got up that morning, there was a card and a small box of candy for me on the kitchen table. The card was in Spanish, of Dora the Explorer, and said, "Somos un gran equipo!" (We are a great team.) I speak Spanish, but he speaks very little, but he knew enough to figure it was a good card. I thought it was incredibley sweet, and the phrase has become our motto. When we got married a year and a half later, we had each written our own vows and kept them secret from each other, and had both worked the phrase into them! Now that we have a nine-month-old, we use the phrase even more often!
Posted by: Molly | 02/02/2010 at 08:10 PM
jason s******, 4th grade; behind the gym - gave me a small red box of russell stover's . . . first kiss for me and for him.
Posted by: Angie in Texas | 02/02/2010 at 08:27 PM
. . . on the other hand, this is my first EVER valentines with my husband. we met on st. patrick's day - married in october. so this will be our first valentines. =)
Posted by: Angie in Texas | 02/02/2010 at 08:29 PM
thus far, my sweetest love story is not the guy who nearly forced me into my first kiss by threatening to not get me home in time for curfew. or the **significantly** older guy who used me for other things, willing though i was, I was too young to realize what was going on. It was probably the guy who bought me a dozen miniature multi-colored roses on sweetest day because he was sweet and he liked me. The guy who walked me to my door and gave me what I, to this day, consider to be my *true* first kiss with me standing on the cement step and him on the ground and giving me a friend hug and pulling back into that Hollywood Theatrically perfect close-ness and kissing the most perfect kiss ever. Ever. Still gives me butterflies. That is my sweetest love story, for now. I’m signing up for Match this weekend, so hopefully I can top that soon!
Posted by: LaughingMouse | 02/02/2010 at 10:06 PM
oh, and I tweeted the super condensed version of that story too!
http://twitter.com/LaughingMouse
Posted by: LaughingMouse | 02/02/2010 at 10:06 PM
my ex-husband played in a band and one day while his band was rehearsing in an out of state club, he took a break and asked me to marry him and presented me with a ring( aka beer can tab- all he could afford on a muscians's pay) very sweet.
Posted by: Karen Melman | 02/03/2010 at 10:14 AM
My husband is not the romantic type but when we first began dating and I had strep throat he came over and brought me my favorite hot and sour soup.
Posted by: Mara | 02/03/2010 at 02:46 PM
Before we were married, one Valentine's Day my husband (then-boyfriend) made me a video card. It was hands down the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for me. The short iMovie features photos of us doing all our favorite things together, and has an interlude in the middle where he videotaped me one day being silly on the beach and writing our initials, D+K, equaling a heart in the sand. We eventually wed and the symbol at our wedding was a D and a K together, and the equation has totally stuck since then.
Posted by: Kendra | 02/03/2010 at 03:11 PM