My Online TEENVOGUE Subscription ❤

I just recently won an online magazine subscription Omaily from SSLT was giving away. I chose TeenVogue! I'm so looking forward to virtually browse through the next 10 TeenVogue issues! :D

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Bowtieful Bow Tie Winner ❤

So about two weeks ago I hosted the Bowtieful Bow Tie giveaway and today I'm announcing the lucky winner.  I wish I was the one rocking this super cool denim bow tie, but oh well.. I'm getting myself one pretty soon!! :D 

And the winner is..........JAZZMIN (JAZZY BELLE)!!!
CONGRATULATIONS! I will send you an email as soon as possible.
if the winner doesn't reply back to the mail within 24 hours, a new winner will be picked.

For the rest of you that didn't win, check out bow-tie-ful for more bow ties. And no worries.. there will be more giveaways on COTS soon! :)

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GIVEAWAY: Bowtieful Bow Tie ❤

In my previous post, I blogged about the amazing Bowtieful Bow Ties. 

Danielle was nice enough to send me one of her Bow Ties for a giveaway! Now all of my readers get a chance to win and rock your new favorite accessory. 

 There are just a few simple steps for anyone who wants to be eligible to win this Blue Jeans Cross Bow Tie.

Required (1 Entry):

-Like Confessions Of This Shopaholic on Facebook

-Tweet: "@PrncszTffny: I want to win a Blue Jeans Cross Bow Tie made by @DanielleCathari http://tiny.cc/f851bw"
-Leave a comment with: your name, a valid email address  (& show tweet status). If you followed me on bloglovin (which is the extry entry) as well, please state so. 

Extra (+ 1 Entry): 

-Follow Confessions Of This Shopaholic on Bloglovin 

IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY, SO EVERYONE CAN ENTER!

GIVEAWAY WILL CLOSE ON 15TH OF APRIL 2012 (23:59 Dutch time)

THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED THE NEXT DAY.

I hope you all enter!!

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Fashion Tip: Bowtieful Bow Ties ❤

If you're looking to "undull" your outfit with just one accessory, Bow Ties can definitely do the trick. Whether your style is preppy, casual, girly, boyish or chic...Bow Ties make a total statement. Now I know how hard it is to find Bow Ties you really like in Holland, so I found the next best thing. Or in this case, person.

Danielle is a 17year old girl living in Holland, that has been making her own Bow Ties for three months now. I was so impressed with her handcrafted Bow Ties, that I decided to get to know her story behind Bowtieful.

How did you come up with the idea to start making Bow Ties?

I always thought some of the Bow Ties models were wearing in fashion magazines looked very simple. I wanted a Bow Tie of my own, but I wanted one that was original. My very first Bow Tie was a black leather one and had 4 silver studs. I got so many great reactions, and people kept asking me where I got it from. When I told them that I made it myself, I kept getting the question if I wanted to make one for them as well. That's how I got the idea to come up with more Bow Tie designs, and when I realized that a lot of people were interested in buying them, I started putting all my designs on the site: www.bow-tie-ful.tumblr.com. On this site people can see all of my latest Bow Tie designs and order them if they like. 

Where do you see Bowtieful's success in a few years?

My Bow Ties collection is still extending, and that is why I'm busy trying to set up my own webshop. I hope that in a month from now, I can successfully launch www.bowtieful.nl. Right now I'm also busy getting my Bow Ties into several shops. In a few years I would still love to be known as the creative designer of Bowtieful, but with a lot more exposure!

How would you style an outfit with one of your Bow Ties?

I think you can wear a Bow Tie with any outfit. Bow Ties are originally known to be worn only on formal occasions, but my Bow Ties are much more than just classy. Most of my Bow Ties are decorated with studs, spikes and other applications, which makes them an everyday accessory. But I think a Bow Tie looks really cute on a blouse that is buttoned all the way up.

                                                              A few of Danielle's Bow Ties

Bow Tie: Soft Tarantula Fabric with Studs and Chains

Bow Tie: Shimmer Purple and Golden Chains

Bow Tie: Black Leather Studded

Bow Tie: Blue Jeans and Spikes

If you are (not) feeling these 4 Bow Ties, check out Bowtieful's site for more. Danielle even makes Bow Ties on request! With your choice of print and/or color, you can rock your own unique Bow Tie whenever you want. She even ships internationally! If there is more information you would like to know, just visit the website.

What do you think of her Bow Ties? I loooove them. 

GOOD TO KNOW: Soon one of my readers can rock their own Bowtieful Bow Tie, as Danielle was super nice to sponsor one of her Bow Ties for a giveaway on my blog. COME BACK TOMORROW FOR MORE INFORMATION!

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Announcing Giveaway Winner ❤

Sooo today is the 31st (almost over) and it's time to announce the giveaway winner! I seriously wanna thank all of you who participated, but ofcourse there can only be one winner! To make it as fair as possible, the winner has been chosen randomly through random.org.

Aaaand the winner isssssssss....
*drum rolls please*










Marina from (Fashion.MakeUp.LifeStyle)


Congratulations girllllll!
I'll be sending you an email very soon! <3

Thanks again to every one of you that participated, hopefully more giveaways will come your way soon! :D

Xx

Giveaway: Tatty Devine! ❤

As though I never heard of it before (totally thankful for Hypekappers introducing me), Tatty Devine is known for her cute-but-edgy jewelries!
Not to mention, very unique..

In 2001 two British ladies launched Tatty Devine, that the world immediately fell in love with! The real shop is in London, but luckily for us Dutchies these crazy and fun jewelry are also available at Hype!
It was a bit hard for me to choose, but I think these are my favorite pieces..
Feel like you can totally rock one of Tatty Devine's jewelry pieces?
Here's your chance to win! To see the whole collection, go to Hype and share & like the page on Facebook. Be sure to comment which piece you would love to win, on their wall post! While you're on the Hype page you can also enter the poll to let them know you absolutely love Tatty Devine! Everyone loves a little feedback right?

Are you feeling these jewelries? I totally am! Let me know which ones are your favorite and if you're going to enter the Tatty Devine giveaway!

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Urban-Stiletto Giveaway Winner! ❤

So for a couple of weeks now I have been reminding you under almost every post, about the Urban Stiletto giftcard giveaway, that I won after being one of the blogs with the most votes on a twitter contest.
I must say though, that I haven't gotten that much entries.. Maybe because it wasn't an international giveaway?
I hope the next giveaway (my official 1st giveaway) will be a much bigger success than this one!
The winner will be announced in this post, and has been randomly choosing by random.org

And the winner issssssss.. *drumrolls pleaseeeeee*:
Suz from Fashion is a Party !!

Congratulations Girl!! You will be receiving a mail from me soon! :)
Happy Shopping!

Xx

Urban-Stiletto Giveaway ❤

If you read my 'PIMKIE shirt' post, you probably know that recently I was one of the winners from a twitter giveaway hosted by Bloggers Contest and Urban-Stiletto. My prizes were a very fashionable tshirt and a €10 giftcard. If you know about the site, you would know that Urban Stiletto is a affordable webshop, so €10 is actually very generous.

At first I was going to use the giftcard to buy some cute stuff I saw in the webshop. But I would much rather give it to one of you in my giveaway. Since the beginning of this blog, I said I would host a giveaway when I reached 100 followers, but I thought this was the perfect way to thank all of you that voted and that are still voting for me through out this competition.

I wanted to make this g.a an international one, but Urban-Stiletto only ships within the Netherlands, Belguim and Germany. But I promise my next giveaway will be international, because I want everyone to feel just as appreciated!

Let's go to the very easy rules:
1♥ Follow CotS on GFC (Bloglovin is optional)
2♥ Send a printscreen of you voting for CotS to shopaholicoverhere@hotmail.com
3♥ For an extra entry: follow me on twitter and tweet: "I entered a giveaway from @PrncszTffny and have a chance to win an Urban-Stiletto giftcard http://bit.ly/dWT2Gs"
*the more printscreens you send, the more I enter your name..same goes for the tweets!
Today is March 14th, this giveaway will end March 31st (23:59 Dutch time).
I will announce the winner (via random.org) on April 1st. Don't worry it won't be an April Fool's Joke lol!

I'll be happy if you entered!
And remember, you can keep voting for my blog every 24 hours till April 16th!
Keep following, and you'll see more giveways coming your way :)
Thanks a million for all the support!

My PIMKIE shirt ❤

I think every blogger has seen the shirt 'My blog is more fashionable than yours!' before. I wanted this shirt sooooo bad! Not to diss any blogger, but just for the fact it had blog and fashionable in it. Those words have been one my favorites ever since I started shopaholicoverhere. I was seriously thinking about buying it.

But luckily, I didn't have too! On 6th of March, there was this twitter giveaway from @Bloggers_Contest (yes, the contest where I keep asking you girlies to vote for me), because they reached 50 participants, where you had to tweet "@Bloggers_Contest Ik vind dat [twitternaam van blogger] de #giveaway moet winnen!" -translation: @Bloggers_Contest I believe that [twittername of the blogger] must win the giveaway". And apparently I was one of the 2 lucky winners with the most votes! I was so happyyy!! I didn't even know at that point that I would get a shirt, some how I missed that tweet! I was just happy, that I won..

They DM'd (Direct Message) me telling my I had to email my adress to receive my shirt and giftcard. Because I didn't know what shirt I was getting, I immediately went to the Urban-Stiletto site to pick something I wanted to get! I saw so many things, seriously! I love that webshop. Don't believe me? Go check out.. definitely stylish and trendy. I already saw so many things I want to get, so the giftcard really comes in handy <3
















I had a real exhausted day when I received the U-S package in the mail, but when I saw the shirt my day instantly got better. I actually screamed, kept saying oh my goshhhhh haha :$
I thought of so many ways to style this shirt with, but I still have to buy them haha. So I took some shots with just a simple outfit. 1st photo: white laces "pants" from Pieces (I bought for €2!! in sale), New Look floral belt, black H&M hairband, Lanvin <3 H&M red lipstick. 2nd photo: same white laces, same red lipstick but with a huge blue H&M bow and hair sideways.




















side note: I had so much trouble finding a decent picture to post. Shooting outfits post is sooooo hard if you're alone. I admire the people who can really pull it off.. I don't know if I can.. But the main point you should focus on in this picture, is the shirt haha. If you want one, --> Pimkie should be your next click!

Again I want to thank Bloggers_Contest, Urban-Stiletto and ofcourse the voters. ♥ And don't forget to keep on voting at USBC2011 for me (CotS) if you think I deserve to win :)