July 27, 2009 HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TO BLU!!! BLU TO LAUNCH SOFIE!!!
** Sparkles for BLU as they blow out 6 candles today!
** See our ten winners below who had a pizza party on BLU today to celebrate our milestone!
** Lucy + Betsey worshippers, get ready - for Sofie! Blu launches a new site after midnight on Tuesday with a familiar feel that celebrates Blu's many milestones and brings you the latest in functionality! Don't wait up ... our team has to toast with champagne and eat cupcakes and then finish Sofie!
** I LOVE all the entries we received for our birthday and the birthday wishes! I really do get tears and an immense feeling of gratitude when I see all the entries for every contest. The creativity and the laughter and the way it brings people together to interact and WOW the ideas are just so mind blowing! Every contest we have I think " OMG did they really do all of this for BLU!" I truly just sit here and wonder how our audience grew so big and really just how much fun everyone is! I pinch myself. We are lucky but also very blessed! We all truly love what we do and hope to continue to bring the community together through our little BLU BLOG! We are happy people everyday + thank you for putting smiles on our face and for sharing your passion and talent with us in so many ways!
SOFIE gives you many different home page looks! The first look is a homepage with a border around the photograph and button tabs on the menu or you can take out the button tabs and have a clean menu. The second look is a tribute to LUCY fans! You can have button tabs or a clean menu as shown. The third look is a tribute to BETSEY fans! You can have buttons tabs or clean menu as shown.
The photograph above was one of our FAVORITES however they were disqualified because they forgot their visible sign that read "Happy Birthday Blu!" We will give them some BLOG love as they are worthy and we can't believe how creative they are! We are so bummed that we are willing to give another $1000.00 cash prize out if they can FIX their mistake and resend us as NEW photo!
www.noviadistinctivephotography.com
We have whittled down the winners! The BLU PARTY winner we chose based on the party BLU peeps would like to go to! The Balloon category we randomly selected 6 winners! This category was our biggest and over 900 entries! The Cupcake winner was based on sheer creativity! Judging is never easy and in the end we love you all had fun!
THE WINNER OF THE BLU PARTY CONTEST! A party that costs less than our favorite bottle of champagne! Even your 6th birthday can be eco-friendly! Congratulations to Teresa Hermes! WE love how much fun they really are having at our expense! Email us at bludomain@gmail.com to claim your prize!
Peace, Love, and Cupcakes! We had such a crush on 4 cupcake entries that we are going to give the 3 "not so lucky winners!" a $100.00 gift card to Nordstrom's for entering! The effort was truly amazing!
THE OFFICIAL WINNER OF THE CUPCAKE CONTEST is Leah Simmers! We love her creativity + effort + execution!
www.leahsimmersphotography.com Email bludomain@gmail.com to claim your prize!
How can you not mention these next three entries? Fabulous cupcakes!
Love these cupcakes by Wee Nee Tan + all the way from Malaysia!
Unbelievably creative and this entry leaves me speechless! This girl has talent!
www.lisajane.com
We just loved this entry by Cindy Laverdiere + had hoped that we could have licked the frosting right off these cupcakes!
The BALLOON posts are under yesterday's post! Sorry we posted them under the wrong day!
July 27, 2009 HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TO BLUDOMAIN! BIRTHDAY PARTY IN PROGRESS!
BIRTHDAY POST will continue under this post ALL DAY LONG!
Happy Birthday to BLU TODAY!
** TWITTER "@bludomain Happy Birthday to You" TODAY + you could win a "BIRTHDAY SURPRISE!" Trust me you never want miss this ONE!
** You will LOVE what BLU is about to launch! The mix of LUCY + BETSEY with all new features!
** Stay tuned as someone from BLU sings their heart out for sugared frosting ... cupcakes rule!
** Sparkles for BLU as they blow out 6 candles today!
** BLU shows you the $$$. One person on today will WIN $1000.00. Have a birthday party for BLU! Just submit your photograph "celebrating BLU's Birthday" Be creative! The photograph must be 660 pixels wide! A sign saying "Happy Birthday BLU' must be visible! Send your winning entry to bludomain@gmail.com before TONIGHT at 10 PM MST.
** We've got 6 goodie bags! You want it? Send us a photograph of 6 balloons and a sign that says "Happy 6th Birthday BLU!" + someone in the photo! Make it fun! The photograph must be 660 pixels wide! Send your winning entry to bludomain@gmail.com before TONIGHT at 10 PM MST.
GOODIE BAGS CONTAIN a $200.00 gift card to Nordstrom + $100.00 gift card to iTunes + $100.00 NIKE gift card
** Our traditional 3 large pizzas and 2 litters of soda giveaway. We will make sure you celebrate with us on Monday with a pizza party delivered to you at lunch. Send us your name and address of delivery, nearest pizza delivery place, their phone number and what pizza's you wish for and the soda's you want to bludomain@gmail.com! It's really that easy! All we ask for is a photograph once you receive the PIZZA to post on the blog! PIZZA's will delivered at your lunch time between 12:00 and 1:00 PM in your time zone - Remember we do not tell you .... the pizza is just delivered. NOTE: pizza contest is over! Pizza winners are being organized now!
** BAKE us some cupcakes! Six of them! Put our logo on 1 of them (just the symbol), a candle of another one, the word "blu" on the third one. Take a photograph of just the cupcakes and send it to bludomain@gmail.com. The photograph must be 660 pixels wide! If we like your photograph * then we send you a bottle of champagne + a $300.00 check payable to you! The photograph must be 660 pixels wide! Send your winning entry to bludomain@gmail.com before TONIGHT at 10 PM MST.
* Celebrate Blu's birthday in style - the more champagne, and cupcakes the merrier!
* To celebrate our birthday, BLU threw an intimate BBQ in Colorado over the weekend complete with champagne toasts and gift bags!
* The boys from left to right are Daniel + Zahari + Harald + Mr. Wade + Dan
missing from the photo is Patrick! Our traditional "guys at BLU" photo taken by an inexperienced photographer!
* Did you know that even though our name is "BLU" are team color is the color of this green balloon! We think random + do not like anything to be predictable!
* Pizzas have been ordered + 10 lucky winners will have a PIZZA birthday party in honor of BLU! Stay tuned for photographs. Over 1200 entries so thank you! I love surprises!
* BLU pizza party #1 has happened in Lenexa, Kansas! Congratulations to Ed Creaden!
www.edcreadenphotography.com " Wow! We were all so surprised today -- as we sat down for a monthly staff meeting, in walks the pizza man! Couldn’t have been better timing (or better pizza!!)"
* BLU pizza party #2 has happened in Dexter, Michigan! Congratulations to Jill Love!
www.jilllove.com " Thank you so much for the hysterical pizza party!! I know you're going to think this is a joke, but my husband had just called me as I was standing outside taking a break and thought he'd stop in for lunch because he hadn't gone to the bank and got cash... as he was saying this, the pizza delivery driver drove in!!! I'm not kidding. Synchronicity!!! "
* BLU pizza party #3 has happened in Jupiter, Florida! Congratulations to Jennifer Weiss!
www.jenniferweissphotography.com " Happy 6th Birthday BLU! Thanks for the "cheesy" birthday gift. We LOVED it!! "
* BLU pizza party #4 has happened in Tracy, California! Congratulations to Kia Gregory!
" Um, what the what. We had to invite our friends over to get down on some of this pizza. HAPPY BIRTHDAY and THANK YOU BLU!!"
* BLU pizza party #5 has happened in Encino, California! Congratulations to Sherri Johnson!
www.sherrijphotography.com " Thank you for the lunch!!! "
BREAKING NEWS ::: IN 2 HOURS SOME SCREEN SHOTS OF THE HOT NEW SITE TO LAUNCH AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!
* BLU pizza party #6 has happened in Wilmington, North Carolina! Congrats to Cindy Laverdiere!
www.imaginaryfriendsbakery.com " THANK YOU, BLU DOMAIN!!! I had just told my husband at noon that I guess we didn't win because the pizza would have probably been delivered by then... and around 12:30, I opened the door to a pizza delivery guy!!!
Happy Birthday Blu Domain and thanks for lunch! "
* BLU pizza party #7 has happened in Park City, Utah! Congrats to Melissa Davis!
melissadavisphotography.com " Thank you so much for the pizza! We have a funny story too! My family and I are on vacation and I didn't know you were going to only pick 10 winners to get pizza. So I told them we'd be getting pizza for lunch on Monday. We had gone swimming and came back to my sister making lunch and I said "hey what are you doing?! We get pizza today!" (not knowing that we may NOT get any). She stopped what she was making and we waited for our pizza to come. Sure enough, 10 minutes later we get a knock on our door from the pizza guy! We enjoyed out pizza, took a picture and I checked back to your blog to find out that we were actually LUCKY to have gotten the pizza today! LOL!!!! So THANK YOU SO MUCH, we enjoyed it!"
* BLU pizza party #8 has happened in Petaluma, California! Congrats to Wendy Moya!
" I was down today with a migraine when I received the best surprise! I don't have to cook today! Thanks you Blu! Happy Birthday! The little guy could not wait for me to get the shot set up :) "
* BLU pizza party #9 has happened in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin! Congrats to Jason Mann!
* The morning after. Mom's at work. Dads in charge of feeding the kids. Thank you Blu. Pizza taste better cold the morning after."
www.jmannphoto.com
*BLU pizza #10 has happened in East Brunswick, New Jersey! Congrats to Scott Neumeyer!
" Thank you SO much for the pizza! You guys absolutely ROCK! We really enjoyed it, although Baby Skylar was clearly jealous! ?
www.scottshoots.com
We announce the BLU BALLOON winners! Happy Birthday BLU, never felt so good! Congrats to our six winners! We randomly chose out of over 900 entries! Email bludomain@gmail.com to claim your prize!
My favorite entry by Leah Simmers! She was not randomly selected but if she was she forget the "6th" in her sign and would have been disqualified! LOVE this ENTRY!
SOME MORE ENTRIES * WHO DID NOT WIN * BUT WE LOVE YOUR LOVE FOR BLU! SORRY WE CAN'T POST THEM ALL *
BLU's resident adventure boy celebrates his birthday in style - it's not just another day in the office ... he is a happy guy ... maybe because today is his 35th birthday! Sparklers + birthday cake + birthday hats + lots of presents!
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** Congratulations to Kim Mendoza for making the "35 Beautiful Photography Websites" list at Smashing Magazine!
www.smashingmagazine.com
Happy Birthday to us - now take our gifts! So for the month of JULY (starting today), we'll be discounting our $400.00 websites to ONLY $100.00 (not including hosting) and enough prizes to last a lifetime! It's our way of saying thank you to our longtime loyal fans! *blu couture sites are not included*
To kick things off, we are giving away a $1000.00 cash prize on JULY 27th to one winner! Just submit your photograph "celebrating BLU's Birthday" (a good example above!) Be creative! The photograph must be 660 pixels wide! A sign saying "Happy Birthday BLU' must be visible! Send your winning entry to bludomain@gmail.com before JULY 26th at midnight MST.
You can wait and send us a birthday card later ...
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