C&L Giveaway
I was recently contacted by Josh and Kleah of Charlie & Lee, an online Canadian-based fashion boutique located in Victoria, BC (hey, that rhymed). They carry some of my most favorite brands including Pleasure Doing Business, Kova & T and Factory by Erik Hart, just to name a few. As if that wasn't cool enough, Charlie & Lee also sells select apothecary products and candles.
Aside from running their store, the couple enjoy making films (check out their latest above), hosting art shows and listening to good music. They're also offering one of my readers a chance to receive a promotion code worth $75. Open worldwide, to enter follow Charlie & Lee and myself on Twitter and leave a comment below with your email address and the craziest thing you've ever done for love (just because I'm curious). I'll choose a winner next Friday, September 3rd.
XOXO,
49 comments:
alexa
amhupper@gmail.com
craziest thing...i don't know. i'm sure i've done plenty of things.
Sounds perfect!
melavond@aim.com
Quit my job, and moved three hours away. I definitely don't have the same caliber job as i had before, in the least. But I'm with my love, and nothing is better than that.
I'm @Shandartprod on twitter, and I am following you both.
The craziest thing I've done for love was stay in a very unhealthy relationship for far too long. I was blinded by love, head over heels in love!
The craziest thing I did in that relationship was...I gave him a pedicure...and his feet were horrendous!! Like, seriously! lol After I was done, they look ok...which is why I did it often. Hey he slept in the bed with me and I'm the type that likes to play footsie...and there was no playing footsie with his rough feet. lol
graciously@gmail.com
Craziest thing I did for love... was marry the guy. 7 years later, and it's still my gutsiest move.
Great video! Sure, why not:
amyluhrich@gmail.com
I've done a lot of crazy things, but the craziest still has to be when I was 16 living in Canada and in love with a U.S. boy, and when I went to visit him for two weeks I skipped my plane home with the intention of never leaving. Everyone was furious, and I didn't even consider immigration. Two years later I moved to the U.S. to be with him and I've been here ever since. But that relationship is long over ;)
xx Amy
hey! great giveaway!
The Craziest thing I've done for love is put of with my boyfriends selfishness. Even though I get the bad end of the stick most of the time, I still believe he loves me and is trying to change that quality in him. I just love him to much to let it go.
Thanks for the opportunity
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oh wow cool idea!
will get bk 2 u on my crazy bit
I hadn't seen my boyfriend for a while and so I texted him telling him to get to my flat at 6pm and let himself in. Before he arrived had laid a trail of giant arrows made out of dolly mixture (his favourite sweets) to my bedroom where I was waiting with a glass of pinot grigio (my 3rd, dutch courage) wearing nothing but my favourite pair of heels.
This might be a little too much info, but hey, you did ask X
ella_catliff_xox@hotmail.co.uk
craziest thing ive done for love happened quite recently...its all such a whirlwind! the guy of my dreams and i met while i was deployed to iraq, (facebook is the new match.com!) we skyped, talked on the phone, and wrote romantic letters to each other every single day for 3 months straight and i decided to move with him before we even met in person! my friends thought i was so crazy and a part of me thought i was too, but i just went with my gut instinct. this guy was THE ONE. i came home from iraq on february 1st, my parents met him the next day, and we are now engaged and own a house together! all in a matter of 6 months of living together and 9 months of knowing each other! what story to pass along to our grandkids =)
miyoko_01@hotmail.com
lauren
I stayed too long and gave too much. Then I left and still gave too much because I never wanted him to feel alone. HA. Lesson learned.
jairmadison@gmail.com
Ashley
itsgreeds@yahoo.com
I don't usually consider things crazy when it comes to doing things for love, especially when that person loves you back and would do the same.
BUT back in 2007, I met a guy, we became a couple - I live in NYC and he lives in Philadelphia. I went to visit him EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND, without fail or delay, on MY dime. So every single weekend, I spent 50$ to get on a bus for 2 hours going and 2 hours coming, just to spend the weekend with him. He didn't treat me well at all, he was disrespectful and he'd always talk to other girls, but I was blinded. I went every single weekend for more than two years. Eventually I found out he cheated on me, like a jerk, I still stayed... Then just recently it held me that not only do I deserve better, but I'm allowing him to hold me back in the worst way (I'm only 22, he's 28). I have a whole life ahead of me, so I broke up with him the first week of this August and it's the best decision I've ever made! I feel pretty stupid for going there every weekend, buying him things, crying over him, calling him a million times when he'd hang up on me and curse me out... I even used to buy his groceries! (Yeah, I don't know what was wrong with me, lol.) But I guess it's good that I learned from it. I'll never let that happen again! The guy who would be worth going through that for, would never make me go through that. Glad I left the situation when I did.
Sorry for this essay, lol.
http://www.itsgreeds.blogspot.com
AHHH!!! Incredible giveaway..mostly because the tank that she is wearing with the sheer/tie at the bottom is one that I've been searching for for months! I even blogged about it a few weeks ago, hoping that someone would know where I could get it!...Definitely getting it!
email: ejkolberg@gmail.com
blog: http://www.informalthing.blogspot.com
Love?...haven't yet been there with a boy..sooooo...craziest thing I WOULD DO for love? (i would totally benefit from this)..i would travel the world in search of him, visiting all of the places that we dreamed of going together ;)
booked a flight to England (I live in Chicago) after two weeks of dating and six weeks of knowing each other...
it didn't work out but I spent the best year of my life with him...traveling around the US and England and France...
we don't really keep in touch but he is very special to me and I still love him very much...
leizlbasilio@gmail.com
Sabine
I liked a guy for a really long time and although I had no chance, I wanted to be shure. So I wrote with crayons on the pavement before his doorway in the middle of the night in the winter (it was so darn cold!): Joost, would you go to the prom with me? xxx S
The day after I called his house (his father answered the phone first, which was pretty embarrasing) and I told him it was me. He rejected me tough
sabine_animegirl@hotmail.com
miracleboxblog@gmail.com
purpleeerose@gmail.com
The craziest thing I've done for love ...
I was head over heels for this boy but he lived pretty far away and neither of us had jobs so it was really difficult for us to see each other and it didn't happen as much as we'd like - So when one of my friends parents went away on holiday. Me, this guy, his mate and my friend all lived in her parents house for a week whilst they were away just to spend time together - Didn't go down to well with her parents when they found out, nor with my parents when they found out boys were there... I told them me and my friend were house sitting for her parents....
But I'm now with the guy :) And have been for nearly 7 months ♥.. So it was SO worth it :D
Love does crazy things to us :)
Emma
♥
The craziest thing I have done for love is to allow myself to really fall in love. Love makes you feel vulnerable, yet strong; Happy and curious. It's a whirlwind experience and, if you're lucky, you will find the right person to share memories with.
ecem_dmrksn@hotmail.com
i followed him about a month just to make him see me all the time.
i love that website!
and this video is crazy.i like it!
ciao,
E.
www.neovecchiostile.it
adenike_odujirin@live.ca
Honestly, I'm sort of the shy quiet type when it comes to love, so I haven't really done anything you could call "crazy", in the name of love.
Does quitting my job, arguing with the family, spending $700 on airplane tickets, flying 14000km to the uk, just to be with him for 4 days & 3 nights and flying another 14000km back home, sounds crazy?
catcindy85@hotmail.com
im in long distance now.. so i think that's crazy enough. hahahaha! the craziest would probably be to fly to see him for his bday at the last minute :)
libys11(at)yahoo(dot)com
the craziest thing? just out of pure boredom I decided to go skydiving haha.
strawberri.fish@gmail.com
haha, I'm 14, I've never been in love.
that was a rubbish answer, I guess I once really liked a guy, and chased after him, putting all my pride aside (which is my number one rule NOT to do) ..yeah, that ended badly, so I'm sticking to my rule next time. haha :)
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jton030@yahoo.com
The craziest thing I did for love.... Im orginally from australia. My husband and I met when i was in Korea teaching for a year...a few months later his tour was up, and had to transfer back to the states (U.S Army). I was devastated. My plan was to pursue graduate school in California... never having stepped foot into the United States, I went through hell to get a Student Visa to move my life over to the United States. Somewhere I was not familiar with and had no friends or family situated in. On top of that, I had family who were not in complete support of my out of this world decision but in my heart i had faith...Instead of moving to California to pursue Grad school, I took the chance of moving to Kansas (where my husband was stationed). A little town that had pretty much nothing. I had to resort to one available college in this town, taking courses that cost ALOT ... and in the end resulted into no use for me. That would be the craziest thing I have done for Love. Postponing my dreams... and moving to the unknown to be with a man who I didnt know whether he was going to break up with me or let alone know him in and out.... Thank Goodness that it worked out for the better. We ended up getting married and in a few months his time will be up in the Army and we are going to move to California where I will be able to pick up where I left off from. We have been married for almost 2 years now :)
- J
well when i was really little, i had this huge crush on this boy in my class and we were in the playground (lol it as recess) talking about something. i was just sitting there listening to him talk and staring into his eyes,then all of a sudden i just ran away, like literally in mid conversation. LMAO i dont know why but it was so freakin random! i guess i just got really nervous.
linday19@gmail.com
Craziest thing I've done for love?
Hmmmm... I used to date this guy back in Philippines when I still lived there. I left for Canada and we tried out long distance relationship. He's the kind of guy who can't live without a girl by his side. So while we're together (not really together but we had a commitment but we weren't in a relationship. Weird hey?), he dates girls and fucks them. I knew everything because he tells me everything. And I was dumb for putting up with that shit so I let it go.
Crazy hey?
I'm dating a new guy now here in Canada and I'm happier than I could ever be.
I just realized that I say "hey" a lot. I guess living in Canada really does influence you with their words.
pamzafra@hotmail.com
maruciic@live.com
So the craziest thing..I don't really know how crazy it was but it worked :)
We had known each other for a long time,always showed attention to each other but none of us ever started anything, so I decided that it was the time to do sth about it.
He was participating in a musical show on TV at the time.I went to one of the concerts with a huge poster full of incoherent words that no one else would understand(those were our special jokes :D) so everyone who read the poster looked at me like I was such a freak, during his performance he of course noticed it and after the concert we had our first date :)
We've been together ever since.
yvonneywong@gmail.com
I'd say the craziest thing to do for love isn't just an action but a reaction. I mean, opening up like that for another person is crazy enough, everything after doesn't compare to the initial crack in the heart.
t.maccorquodale@gmail.com
One of the crazier things I did for love was carve a heart and initials in a large oak down my road at a lake. That probably doesn't sound crazy, but I don`t have much upper body strength and it took me about 7 hours to finish it and I used a very large awkward blade.
In that time frame several dogs and a man peed on the other side of the tree while I was carving (the tree was so large the man didn't notice me). 6 years later the heart is still there, but other people have put their initials in it, which I am fine with because my first love and I have long since broken up!
Tracey
Probably the craziest thing I've done for love is marry my husband- he's 17 years older than I am. And we're so compatible, it's ridiculous, even years later.
butterflyrouge(at)yahoo(dot)com
@butterflyrouge
rachelle.m@hotmail.com
@chellemorgan
Craziest thing I ever did for love? Probably just letting him in and trusting him with my heart. Through high school, which is brutal enough as it is - and we're still together, four years later. I think that's the craziest part of love, just letting your heart be exposed and vulnerable. It's scary, but where would we be if we didn't take chances?
Xo Chelle
discoveringelegance.com
The craziest thing I've done for love... I reckon I was 7 and it was a school festival where I had to play the princess in St. George and the Dragon. I was totally in love with this kid who had to play the dragon, so at the end of the play -when I was supposed to kiss the prince- I run to save the dragon and I kissed him. Every single parent saw this and I was called by everyone throughout the primary school "the dragon's girl". The good part was that I started dating him. The bad part is that he was an asshole.
OMG - I hadn't thought about it for years... Thank you!
xx
i got engaged (even though i'm afraid of marriage) ;)
csimard AT shaw DOT ca
thx for the contest!
Stayed in a long distance relationship with my high school boyfriend for first year university. I'm now transferring schools to be in the program I want and the school is even farther from his (500+ km.) We both really want to be together still :)
jsundelacruz @ hotmail.com
When I was 17 I woke up at five
O clock every morning to call my boyfriend so he wouldn't be late for work. He never heard his alarm clock and I wanted to show him that I was a devoted girlfriend. STUPID! But, I was soooo in love. Yuck.
Sorry. I forgotm Email is
soulqueenariyal@yahoo.com
email: orangeginger@gmail.com
followed both twitters
craziest I've ever done: Marrying my husband who used to live in Chicago while I lived in Indonesia. Traveled back and forth for four times (spent all my savings for airplane ticket).
A month before the wedding day he broke me up and I had to cancel all the wedding vendors. A week before the wedding day he came to see and surprised me at work. We ended up getting married not in a fancy hotel but in small church.
Following you both (@LiveLoveLA)!
Craziest thing? I considered quitting my job and moving across the country just to give the relationship a shot. He didn't let me, so instead I visited him and shortly thereafter, he came back. He's been my boyfriend for a year and a half so far and I'd go to any length to be with him :) Sappy enough for you?
XXo,
Neekoh
Neekoh: That's sweet... I wasn't looking for anything "sappy" fyi.
I'm probably going to blog this comment like I have a few in the past, but that's because you elicit really, really provocative answers with your provocative questions.
The craziest thing I ever did for love?
I moved across the country five months after meeting a man on MySpace.
I gave up a perfect locale for a destroyed, economically ravaged one (San Diego to Detroit). I gave up a stable home, steady income from a semi good paying job, living near all my best friends and associates, a thriving social life, for a place where the only friends I'd have were my new boyfriend and his one or two friends, and his mum, a sister, aunt and grandmother who hated me, and virtually no prospects for a job or a comforting place to live.
That was a huge deal. For someone like me, to whom best friends rival for my love and loyalty more than members of my own bloodline, moving away from everyone I loved, cherished and felt comfortable around was really, really difficult.
On top of that, being the social creature that I was back then, moving from a beautiful, warm, inviting, teeming city with a great social culture, to a city where I knew no one was a cultural shock to the system.
But I didn't care. This man exceeded my List of Qualifications to be The One. And for him, losing everything dear to me was just a drop in the bucket compared to all the beauty I knew I had just embraced by moving 3000 miles away from everything I ever knew just to be with him.
We got married last year. Yesterday was our 1 year wedding anniversary. We've been going 6 years strong now.
Crazy gambles sometimes pay off and more.
XX.
Mae Lu, thereafterish.
Email: maeko_ish[at]yahoo[dot]com
The most craziest thing? Hm, my story is not crazy, but I moved for my love from Germany to Brazil. Big step!
What was the craziest thing you have ever done for love?
xoxo Sandra
http://glamirrorous.com
Jai
j_ngeno@hotmail.com
The craziest was break up with the love of my life so that he wouldn't convince himself to not follow his dreams and pursue his dream job abroad. He was offered a great position in Europe but he turned it down to build a life with me in Alberta. When i found out, I was so sad. I would hope that he would never stop me from following my dreams so why wouldn't do the same for him. I broke up (and it was a really rough break up full of drama, fights, make-ups then break ups) with him, told him to go and if it was meant to be it would be.
-I follow Charlie & Lee and you on Twitter as "calidreamin87"
-My email is in my profile.
-I've never really done anything crazy for love :( I'm boring I know.
I am now following Charlie & Lee & You on twitter, my twitter name is @pavigarcia
My email is Paviellemgarcia@gmail.com
I put myself out there for a man for 5 years!
I drove him around, fed him, bought him stuff, and most of all I gave him everything emotionally and physically.
My fear of losing him became my reality and yes, I did get heartbroken, I felt as if my heart got taken out of my chest and shattered...
I know it sounds dramatic, but unfortunately that's probably the best way to describe it!
BUT if I never did that, I would have never known what it's like to love someone- even when it's not right.
Now i'm 20 years old, moving to NYC in 20 days!!! I'm going to the fashion institute of technology and I am DEFINITELY not the same girl I was when I wanted to just "fall in love." Time really does heal everything...
So I would have to say, The craziest thing I've EVER done for love-
was fall in love with myself.
I've finally fallen in love with myself.
And I couldn't be happier in this relationship.
email:onika_lewis@hotmail.com
The craziest would have to be traveling to go see him. We had an awesome trip. :)
Craziest thing I ever did for love... My father and I have a terrible relationship. Not your typical kind of terrible father daughter relationship. We're sort of in limbo. I would try to convey my feelings to him for years but nothing would ever change. I finally sat him down and told him if he didn't start acting like a father I would be done trying to have a relationship with him. We've spoken twice since. In the name of love I gave my father an ultimatum and the crazy part of it is it may have ruined any chance we had at a loving relationship.
Shit happens, right?
m.e.marin@gmail.com
Thanks for the opportunity..
damn, i feel so lame; i can't think of any super crazy stories involving love. :( i guess i've cared about another person a lot more than that person loved me back, which turned out to suck a lot in the end. lol. other people have cuter stories than i!
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