dolls for friends

Not to use too many (or two many) quotes, but… “I love it when a plan comes together!”

This being our first ever Dolls for Friends giveaway (and something that we have wanted to do for quite awhile), we were not quite sure how to proceed, what piece to make and how best to reach our peeps with this special little giftie. But, about 3o seconds after signing up for Twitter, I think we knew the vehicle. Twitter is an amazing tool (as I’ve shouted from my soapbox in other posts), and we are so happy to do a giveaway for the people who find us important enough to include in their daily lives. So without further adieu, here is our new (or perhaps your new) friend, Lucias.

Lucias is our newest friend, and let’s just say he has a way of “seeing” past the issues and into the heart of a matter. This “eye”deal quality has made him a valuable assett to dozens of fortune 500 companies over the past two decades. He is a whiz of wall street and has been called by Young Entrepreneur magazine, “…a cash machine”. Although, never confirmed, it has been said that Lucias is so good at his job that he is number two on Alan Greenspan’s speed dial (again, this has never been confirmed). What we do know about our new friend Lucias is that he is a wealth of information and is quite a bit of fun to play Monopoly with (because money is at the center of the game, I imagine). There really is nothing bad to report on little Lucias, with the exception that he goes through quite a bit of disposable contact lenses, which he kind of leaves all over the place. At any rate, he is sure to be the “apple of your eye.”

Now, here is a quick rundown on how to get your hands on this little loverly:

1. Be an existing follower, or follow us on Twitter by Friday (@dollsforfriends)
2. Tweet about the doll or express your interest in participating this coming friday (June 19).
3. Make sure your tweet uses the special hash mark (#dffgive1). This will let us know that you are participating.

On Friday at 3 p.m. (PST), we will randomly draw one winner from the list and announce and DM the winner to get addy information for shipping the piece out. This will become a regular event for us, so if you don’t win, don’t worry, there will be plenty more chances to get in on this sweet, sweet candy (thank you Mr. Zap Brannigan). Thank you again for letting our weird little lives entertain you.

In order to celebrate our recent arrival to Twitter and the social media space, we’ve decided to do our first ever plush giveaway.

We love the opportunities that Twitter provides as an outlet for feeding the need for immediacy, harmless voyerism (who’s working on what project and what’s going on in their lives at the moment), and the general thirst for information overload.

We are still nailing down the details, but our current plan is to post next week with final details on how to participate and photos of the piece we’ll be shipping out.

In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter by looking up our username (dollsforfriends) and you can track comments and updates on the giveaway by searching on the phrase #dffgive1.

We’ve been looking forward to doing a giveaway for a longtime and are excited about finally getting around to it.

We just set up a new Twitter account for our loverly little project. While I would like to give Oprah credit for being the first to “discover” the social media wonder (because lets face it, most everything really doesn’t exist until Harpo says so, right?) and turning us on to it-I cannot. Those props wholly belongs to Sally Jesse Raphael and Donahue. Thanks to SJR and the “Don” for the awesome tip!

If you would like to follow us on Twitter, we would love that so. Our shiny, new url is located at: http://twitter.com/dollsforfriends.