GIVEAWAY: Custom Toy Portrait and Matching Stationary Set from First Friends Portraits
A custom toy portrait sounds genius, right? That's what we thought when we first heard of First Friends Custom Toy Portraits by Erin. As you can see Clare was absolutely thrilled when her portrait of "Mermaid" arrived. Here are a few words from Erin on how this ingenious idea came to be...
First Friends celebrates children’s love for their favorite toys. As a Yale-trained artist and mother of 3-year-old twins, I was inspired to create First Friends after painting portraits of my twins’ lovies. When they saw their toy portraits for the first time, they jumped around and screamed with joy….and thus the idea for First Friends was born.
In addition to custom toy portraits, First Friends now offers personalized stationary items featuring your toy portrait, custom portraits of children and pets, as well as gift certificates (Last minute gift crisis? Gift Certificates are a super fast and easy way to give a toy portrait as a gift - I can email you a gift certificate to print at home immediately after receiving your order).
Now that you know exactly who you would want to give a First Friends Custom Toy Portrait to, keep reading to find out how to enter for the chance to win a custom toy portrait and complete matching stationary set after the jump.
To enter for the chance to win a framed 6x9 custom toy portrait and a complete matching stationary set featuring the toy portrait (the set includes 10 notecards, 30 gift labels, 90 address labels and 100 calling cards) tell us what favorite toy you had as a child. Mine would have to be a stuffed manatee, named Manny (of course), that I still have to this day! For extra entries follow Erin on twitter and/or "like" the First Friends Facebook Page and leave another comment for each. For additional entries, tweet, stumble, or share the giveaway on facebook and leave a comment each time letting us now. Come back and leave a comment every day from now until November 21st at midnight. We will announce the winner here on Prudent Baby.
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I never played with dolls or stuffed animals as a child, but my favorite toy was a set of 4 boxes that I would build things out of, or sit in (the biggest) and pretend I could fly! Damn, I miss those boxes...
My favourite stuffed toy was definitely my teddy bear. I still sleep with it in the bed almost every night.
My favorite toy was a stuffed duck named Gaga. My son has a duck lovey (also named Gaga) and I want to have their portraits painted together so badly!
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I rotated favorite toys.. I did have a dog for a while that I really liked. Then I switched to American Girl dolls and that was about a 7 year obsession - long for a kid!
My favorite was a bear that my dad named Walter Hickey.
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Legos were and still are my favorite.
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My little lamb named....Baby Dog!
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My favorite was a teddy named Rupert who had many, many surgeries. Unfortunately he had so many he couldn't be used for our own children, but I can still remember just what he looks like!
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I had a little bear that went everywhere with me!
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One of my favorite childhood toys was Milky the Moo Cow. You could put milk tablets in her udder, make her drink water, and when she was ready to be milked, she would Moooo. :o) I actually found another one at a rummage sale this past summer! Love it! :o)
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My cabbage patch kid!
I had a little bear that I LOVED soooo much I ate all of the fuzzy hair on the top of his head (what?!) yeah I don't get it, but I sure did love that bear!
When I was really young I had a favorite stuffed frog that I called "My Son the Frog". The funny thing is, he wasn't even my toy - he was my brother's! Didn't stop me from adopting him, I guess...
I have a bear, I still have it, called Roly Poly.
I'm already a fan on facebook, I'm now following on twitter. And I had a doll named Mandy that was my most favorite doll ever. I know I had stuffed animals too, but the doll that stands out the most is Mandy. Thanks for the chance to win! I LOVE her work!
I love this!!
I had a "Pound Purry" that I loved!
Mine is Bosley. I still have that bear in my cedar chest to keep him safe from the pets and kids.
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Mine would be my "feelie" aka my blankie. I still have it. But my favorite actual toy was my cabbage patch Jill and her horse Giddy.
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and I retweeted. I am in love with this idea by the way,Such an awesome keepsake!
I had a stuffed monkey named chimpy (turns out it was an orangutan, how was I supposed to know that?!) and my sister and I could play with pet shops for HOURS (the old kind that actually looked like animals, not the new goofy kind), but I think my favorite was probably the sets of horses I "collected" from birthdays & Christmas. They were so cool. Each set was a different breed with a mare and a pony. They are the one toy I wish I still had for my kids to play with.
AHHH I LOVE THIS GIVEAWAY. MY FAVORITE TOY WAS A TV SET FROM FISHER PRICE.
I had a Paddington Bear that I renamed Snuggles. He was very well loved. Now my daughter gets to cuddle with him when she spend the night a her grandparents house! I love it!
I never really had a "favorite" but I do have some well-loved cabbage patch dolls I've passed along to my daughter
i had two of the sweetest cuddly animals that i slept with every night and talked to all day long - henrietta "hattie" hippo and pollyanna "chester" pig. now my kids have them and love them - but secretly not as much as me :)
My favorite toy as a child was my cabbage patch doll. Her name was Priscilla Paige and she had bright red ponytails and green eyes. My daughter now plays with her. :)
my favorite was a pound puppy. i named him 'oof' which i think was my 18 month old way of saying what a dog says...'woof' i guess it stuck and i'm passing him along to my little boy now.
My favorite toy was a stuffed dog my dad got me. I had it as a baby, and my parents have lots of pictures of me just smiling away at that dog.
My favorite toy was a cabbage patch kid. Her name was April.
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I never had one specific favorite toy that went everywhere with me. I loved my dolls, books and care bears, though! My kids all have their own special toys and I know this would capture them well!
I had a little stuffed duck that I carried around until it was too ragged, and then I got a replacement!
My favorite toy was a doll named Julie that looked like me (my name is Julie). I'll always remember how excited my dad was for me to open it on Christmas morning.
Wonderful--love her work!! My favorite (who I still have) was a doll named Sweetie Pie. Loved her even after one of arms fell off. :)
my favorite was my "mary" doll. (I named her Mary) my mom sewed her for me and she had hair the same color as mine and my mom embroidered her face so she had the same eye color as me aswell and she also made her a whole wardrobe of fancy dresses, shoes, a hat, jammies and even her own toy bear!
I had a little mouse toy. I'm not sure if it was a mouse or bunny. Maybe a combination. It was thin and soft. It's name was Floppy It had a tiny rattle in it and boy did I love that thing to peices (literally). My parents got another one because I thought they threw away my first one and I was so angry. I found it in the hope chest a few years later and realized they just wanted to save it before it fell apart completely!
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My stuffed dog, wrinkles! And I just googled it- and found him! I miss that guy :)
Mine was whinnie the pooh - I had 2, until I lost one and was heartbroken. Of course, my Mom went out and got another so the world was right again!
my favorite was my pink puffalump! slept with him every night!!
I had a pink mouse! I still have him now...
My favorite was my purple blanket that I lost when I was 8. Saddest day of my life. I just followed on twitter!
Oh goodness I had so many toys as a child I'm not sure what my favorite would be. lol I loved my ninja turtle figures but I also had a hand sized mini popple that I liked a lot as well. =)
I had a big white stuffed reindeer that I named Plushy. Slept with him every night until he got left in Florida one year :(
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my favorite toy was this TY cat my grandmother gave me for christmas when i was little. lol that cat stayed on my bed til i got married.
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I did not have too many toys, but the one I did have was this cute doll with its blinking eyes and beautiful dress.
My niece and nephew in their later years decided to dismember her :(
Mine was "Brownie" the bear...she was brown, natch. I dressed her up in Cabbage Patch doll clothes and brought her own tiny suitcase whenever we went traveling.
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I had this doll when I was little that I loved. I'd put it in my old baby clothes, paint its nails, and just carry it around everywhere. haha I believe i have it still too!!
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My favorite toys were my cabbage patch kids.
My favorite toys as a kid were my water babies. I would take them everywhere with me and treat them like real babies. Until one day we went to change the water in them and it was moldy after that they didn't seem too great.
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I had a grey bear named Fluffy. Who wasn't even that fluffy, but I think I wanted his name to be similar to the Snuggle (All detergent) bear.
Teddy! I got Teddy for Christmas when I was 6 and a half. He is 2 and a half feet high, and was my constant companion for years. He now has a new little girl to love (and to love him) since my daughter was born in July.
My favorite toy was my Samantha American Girl Doll. I saved her and her wardrobe to give to my girls someday. I LOVE this idea of painting a favorite toy!
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I LIKED First Friends Toy Portraits on FB!
I had a bunny that my grandmother made me named Alice.
What an amazing giveaway.. perfect time of year for it!
My favorite toy was a doll named "Gus." This was my first word as well!
ottie my stuffed otter.
My favorite stuffed animal was a classic brown teddy bear...and when my husband and I were engaged we found out he had the same one as a kid too!
Froggy and Puppy and I were inseparable! They came on all my vacations and to summer camp too. Froggy is now one of my daughters little buddies!
I had a teddy bear named Theodora that I got for Christmas when I was 4. I still have her but she is a little worse for wear. I think she has the mange.
Mine was a teddy bear that I cleverly named "Teddy" I took him to college with me and he is back in my childhood room at my moms :)
I had a Gund Polar Bear that I loved and a Pound Puppy named Toasty that I took everywhere!
As a kid I loved my bear named Bear. :-)
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I loved my collection of unicorns! Thanks for the great giveaway!
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My favorite toy as a child was a stuffed white bear and I still have him!
I like First Friends on Facebook.
I shared this giveaway on Facebook.
I am following Erin on Twitter (I am @willowwhimsy)
My favorite toy as a child was my American Girl doll Samantha -- of course I still have her :)
My favorite toy was a lamb and her name was Lambie Pie, I still have her to this day!
I didn't have a specific favorite toy growing up. However, my favorite baby blanket was always nearby. I still take it out and wrap it around my head every time I have a migraine. That is better than any prescription in my book! :)
MOne would be a stuffed kitten that I carried everywhere! Still have it, though it's a little rough looking now!
My duck Gaga
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I had a few dolls that went everywhere with me!
I didnt have a favorite toy but my blankey was with me everywhere I went.
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I liked on facebook.
I had a pink FischerPrice bunny (okay I STILL have it) that I named "Mr. Bunny". Creative, right?
I am now a follower of Erin on Twitter. Holla!
Aannnd I liked Erin on Facebook too.
This is such a great idea. Even if I don't win..it might be something I eventually do for my little. :)
I had a pink and white walrus named "Wally". He was definitely my main squeeze and will befriend my first baby in February!
I've got this purple elephant that was my favorite as a child. I even knitted it a sweater!!! I still have it and now my daughter loves it!
Great prize by the way, which I would like to give to my daughter Pixie as she totally LOVES her bunnystuffed animal
my son loves Mr. Frog, a raggedy frog blanket that is falling to pieces. would love a portrait of this very important family member. :)
My brown Pound Puppy! Which I also still have.
I had a knock-off cabbage patch doll named Sally as a child. She had a red checked dress and brown yarn hair. I still have the doll, but I'm afraid of showing her to my daughter... I can only imagine the nightmares she might have. haha. I kid.
My favorite toy was my koala bear that the parametic gave me in the ambulance when I was 4 years old. I fell out of a moving car and splintered, crushed, and cracked my arm. I still have the bear to this day and my 19 month old has it in her room :}
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When I was a toddler an elderly lady from our church made me a pink and cream teddy bear. It is not soft and cuddly unfortunately, so it has always been on a shelf, dresser, or in a closet for safe keeping. I may not have carried it all over when I was young but it is still a memory from my childhood. Most importantly it still reminds me of Mrs. Pearl and how friendly she was.
My favorite toy as a child was my stuffed monkey named Jeremy. He was so soft and he fit perfectly in my arms for me to snuggle up with every night when I went to sleep.
I also loved Barbies. A lot.
My favourite toy was my Princess Leia doll. (It was '79! I'm oldish.) but I loved my record player too - I had a wonderful classical Bambi record, it took me far away from where I was and deep into the forest.
I've liked First Friends on Facebook. :)
Aaaand I've also shared the giveaway on Facebook. :)
An orange (fisher-price, I think) teddy bear appropriately named Teddy. Still have him. My girl thinks he's pretty great, too.
thank you so much for this giveaway! growing up I had a teddy bear with an orange conical hat with white polka dots that my dad gave me for christmas when I was only 2.
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I had a favourite walking and talking doll called "Hen Hen dane" with an actual record in her back...my dad brought her from a trip abroad but she spoke dutch and I couldn't understand her...so weird :-)
my favorite animal was a dog named Ruff. By the time I was older his nose had been wore down, the fabric on his ears was all rubbed off (i liked to rub the ears while trying to go to sleep)
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I remember a doll named Kimberly (very similar to American Girl, but for 80s kids) with her roller skates and pink shorts; I loved her! I remember my mom cleaned her up , did her hair, and gave her a new outifit one year as a gift when we didn't have much money. I will always remember that! I wish I still had her to give to my girls.
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I was absolutely obsessed with my very first Cabbage Patch Kid. She had bright red yarn hair, and her name was Sophie!
I liked First Friends on facebook. What a brilliant and crazy adorable (seriously, I can't handle the cuteness!) idea!
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My aunt made me a pillow with arms and a head and I called her Sleepy Doll. She is still around, but very delicate.
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I had a band aid colored bunny that had brown x's stitched for the eyes. I ripped the ears off as well which made it look like a genderless baby. Ugliest child's companion ever :)
I liked First Friends on FB, too!
Coming back for my daily entry. I SO want to win. :D
I got a Grover doll for Christmas when I was three and took it everywhere with me, including graduate school. Now Grover sits in a new nursery waiting for his new owner to claim him in December.
I had multiple chests full of stuffed toys so my favorite always rotated. I did love my Paddington Bear and my Figment dinosaur from Epcot the most from the stuffed toys, but my Lego sets were my ultimate favorite toys. I think a portrait of Lego toys would be really awesome! I'm sure my future kid(s) will also appreciate it.
When I was little, I desperately wanted a cat. We couldn't have one where we lived nor did my mom want one. So she bought me this Siamese cat stuffed animal and I treated it like my pet cat. I loved it and played with it. One day our basement flooded and my toy cat got ruined. My mom tried to replace it with another cat and it just wasn't the same.
My littlest would probably flip over an illustration of one of his toys. He's a dino fanatic. Hard core.
I had a koala bar with movable arms that I played with and made the world's tiniest pillow for! No name, though.
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I had a pink elephant with a bell in the middle of it. But what I really loved that I still have is a blue blanket.
I had a stuffed alligator named Samson. He's in my six-year-old daughter's toy chest now. :)
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I had a stuffed lamb as a child. Her name was Lamby Pie, and I recently found her at my mother's house in the DOG toy basket! Oh the horror!
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I had a gray bear and big yellow pacifier with a red peice of yarn tied around it- I called them bear on fire.
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I had a stuffed dog that was so well loved he lost his nose and looked pretty worn. He finally had to go when our first real puppy sent his stuffing all over the living room.
My favorite toy was a stuffed elephant, not-so-creatively named Ellie. I still have her, complete with falling off head barely hanging on by a pink ribbon.
Mine was a stuffed Panda Bear. I loved that thing so much - I took him everywhere. Once I got sick and vomited on everything in my bed, including Panda. My poor mom cleaned him up brilliantly.
My favourite was hunny bear. He is now 33.6 years old, his birthday is Christmas, I got him for my first Christmas.
He now sleeps in my little girls bed and looks after her. I am not allowed to take him away or she gets really grumpy. Thank goodness he is a good quality or he would have fallen apart by now.
Ted was my favourite. Lovely teddy bear I was given by my uncle when I was only a few months old. I used to make my Dad make him shirts and trousers from his old clothes! I've still got Ted! He's 34 years old :)
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My daughter has the perfect lovey for this :)
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leaving another comment to enter again today. :)
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I loved my Barbie dolls!
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