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May 9th, 2008

Green Kids Contest

One of my other blogs - Tree Hugging Family is having a cool kids green toy giveaway. Just a heads up in case some readers here have kids.

Enter the contest.
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By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

April 27th, 2008

Who Won My Favorite Building DVD?

So who is the one lucky winner of Building With Awareness - A DVD & Guidebook On Building A Straw Bale Home? I usually let my son draw a name, but this contest was pretty big. We had a ton of entires. Talk about paper waste to write all the names down.
That said; I randomly […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

April 23rd, 2008

More Contests for Offbeat Folks

Earlier this week we posted a list of our first round of giveaways here on the b5media Lifestyles Channel.  Those giveaways aren’t even over and here comes wave Two!  How fun is that? Pretty fun if you like contests.
If you haven’t signed up for the first round, check out a complete list on our resident […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

April 21st, 2008

Bloggy Contest - Win My Favorite DVD

I don’t do the Bloggy Giveaway normally, but I’m doing it at another blog, so I figured why not do it here as well. The prize I picked for this contest is really cool, my favorite DVD, well, technically this is not my favorite DVD ever - that would be Sleep With Me - a […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 69 comments

March 16th, 2008

HGTV Has All Sorts of Stuff Going On - Starting Today

Who remembers last year’s HGTV Design Star event? I sure do. We had the nice Sparkle Josh visit Offbeat and then no one I liked won. That was exciting. Well Josh was cool, I wasn’t quite so excited about the outcome of the show.
In any case it seems like it’s been simply years since the […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 2 comments

February 23rd, 2008

Offbeat Homes Vacation Extravaganza AND Win Free Tickets for the First Eco Wedding & Lifestyle Show in Canada

I think the above is my longest post title ever.
It’s been a long week. The servers here have been funky, although b5 tech has been and is working super hard to get it sorted out (go team!). I’m thinking that Offbeat will actually have some new posts this week. Coolness, right? Still, server issues are […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

February 15th, 2008

The winner of the WAN House of the Year 2007 - yup, I totally called it!

So, I guessed correctly. The winner of the WAN House of the Year 2007 was…
House J designed by South African architect Kevin Fellingham from Kevin Fellingham Architecture. This was his first major project and thus it’s a huge deal that he won. For once it’s nice to guess right, let me tell you.
The jury’s comments:
“This […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 0 comments

February 11th, 2008

How Would You Redesign the White House?

If ideas popped into your head when you saw the post title, then today is your lucky day!
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group is holding a little competition called the White House Redux.
The basics:
You ponder, you design, you send your idea for a spankin’ new White House in.
“The best ideas, designs, […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 3 comments

January 5th, 2008

December’s Reader Appreciation Contest Winners!

You know, I realized this week that I never did give the correct answer regarding the last bonus points — sorry, I spaced it.
The answer was:
Everyone playing, correctly guessed that Josh Johnson from HGTV was the real Offbeat visitor. However, most people seem to think, that if it were up to me, I’d like to […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

January 1st, 2008

Best of Offbeat Homes 2007

Welcome to 2008 Offbeat friends!
It’s been a busy year and a busy December. First I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the December’s Reader Appreciation Contest — all of you made this the best month Offbeat has ever seen. I’ll have the three winners sorted out and posted within a week (lots of […]

By Jennifer Chait -- 4 comments

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