{"id":5521,"date":"2010-05-24T20:17:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2010-05-24T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:34:06","slug":"congratulations-satc2-polyvore-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/congratulations-satc2-polyvore-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, SATC2 Polyvore Contest Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who entered the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/win-my-sex-and-the-city-earrings-on-polyvore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyvore contest<\/a> for my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/sex-and-the-city-2-earrings-in-the-new-york-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sex and the City 2 earrings<\/a>. I loved all the entries so much that I cracked under the stress, thought I was on American Idol and developed multiple-personality judging disorder. First, I got hostile like Simon Cowell. Then I got <a href=\"http:\/\/the-coveted.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/delirious\/\" target=\"_blank\">delirious<\/a> like Paula Abdul. Now I&#8217;m Randy Jackson.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hrnEkwyeq4Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hrnEkwyeq4Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Aight, dawgs! The first runner-up and winner of my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=33&amp;collect=true&amp;id=496\" target=\"_blank\">Teeny Genie necklace<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/profile?id=671581\">~Adorable~T<\/a>. She used my gold <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?id=246&amp;collect=true\" target=\"_blank\">Cleopatra earrings<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=185\" target=\"_blank\"> Diana ring<\/a> to create this green-themed set for Carrie.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 400px; height: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/sex_city\/set?.embedder=365306&amp;.mid=embed&amp;id=18635428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Sex and the City 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/img-set\/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFm10aktQUVZkM3hHVnhLc01iSDRzMEEAAAACaWQKAWUAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sex and the City 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><a style=\"position: absolute; bottom: 4px; right: 4px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"Fashion Trends &amp; Styles - Polyvore\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.polyvore.com\/rsrc\/img\/logo_embed_alt_63x21.png\" alt=\"Fashion Trends &amp; Styles - Polyvore\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The winner of my $450 silver <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=33&amp;collect=true&amp;id=499\" target=\"_blank\">Cleopatra earrings<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/profile?id=111693\">\u00e2\u2122\u00a5Rachel\u00e2\u2122\u00a5<\/a>, who used the silver Cleopatras and the silver <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=33&amp;collect=true&amp;id=493\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Royale<\/a> <em>fleur-de-lis<\/em> necklace in this summery, yellow-and-white Carrie set.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 400px; height: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/satc_wendy_brandes\/set?.embedder=365306&amp;.mid=embed&amp;id=18613792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SATC 2 and Wendy Brandes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/img-set\/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFmNIeHJ5MmRjM3hHNmdjT3BhMzRzMEEAAAACaWQKAWUAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SATC 2 and Wendy Brandes\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><a style=\"position: absolute; bottom: 4px; right: 4px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"Fashion Trends &amp; Styles - Polyvore\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.polyvore.com\/rsrc\/img\/logo_embed_alt_63x21.png\" alt=\"Fashion Trends &amp; Styles - Polyvore\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Big thanks to gorgeous Polyvorist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/profile?id=113838\" target=\"_blank\">DIDESI<\/a> for hosting the contest on her Sex and the City Polyvore group and helping me judge. I encourage you to check out all the beautiful contest entries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/win_sex_city_earrings_from\/contest.show?id=173690\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t agree with our decision, feel free to yell, &#8220;I don&#8217;t even care&#8230;they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;s talkin&#8217; about!&#8221; like Stewie from Family Guy when he was rejected by American Idol.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XsIG0Xa6Sk0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XsIG0Xa6Sk0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you want to experience the SATC2 earrings another way &#8212; and do a good thing by raising money for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/09\/20\/2009-09-20_learning_how_to_fly_getting_into_laguardia_hs_requires_all_the_right_moves.html\" target=\"_blank\">famous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laguardiahs.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music &amp; Art and Performing Arts<\/a> &#8211;A\u00a0 bid to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biddingforgood.com\/auction\/item\/Item.action?id=114037597\" target=\"_blank\">cocktails with me in a gorgeous penthouse apartment<\/a>. In other words, you can help out deserving high school students by drinking more. How perfect is that?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who entered the Polyvore contest for my Sex and the City 2 earrings. I loved all the entries so much that I cracked under the stress, thought I was on American Idol and developed multiple-personality judging disorder. First, I got hostile like Simon Cowell. Then I got delirious like Paula Abdul&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/congratulations-satc2-polyvore-contest-winners\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,45,60,257,470],"tags":[494],"class_list":{"0":"post-5521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-charity","7":"category-contests","8":"category-earrings","9":"category-polyvore","10":"category-sex-and-the-city-2","11":"tag-contest","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}