It’s the time you’ve all been waiting for! Who wins that $50 gift certificate to The GAP!?!?!

And the winner is …..

(Yeah shut up it’s backwards. Whatever photobooth.)

RHI!!! From Rhi in Pink!

Congrats gal! Now send me an email or DM with your address and I’ll ship off your gift certificate next week ….

for right now? I’M GOING ON VACATION.

I’m going to a land where there are no phones, no tv and GASP, NO INTERNET. You won’t be hearing from me. At all. Until Monday. Ok probably Sunday.

This is AllEyesOnJenny. Signing off suckas!

Last Thursday I threw a party. There was fashion, there were walk-offs, and there were prizes. If you make it to the end of this entry, you can enter to win a prize of your own.

Here’s how it started: several weeks ago I blogged about getting picked for a Brand Enthusiast program for the Gap. Part of being a Brand Enthusiast is reintroducing my friends back to the Gap, specifically the new 1969 denim line for men & for women.

Here’s how that was supposed to work: The Gap was going to send me a bunch of denim and some party supplies to have an in-home party where my guests could check out and try on the jeans.

You know me. I don’t do anything the easy way. And, as an event planner, I like to have events. In-home party? Easy, but not an event. So I called up a few people, told them what I was doing and threw out some ideas, and a couple of hours worth of calls, emails and meetings later, I secured a venue (Thanks 28 Degrees Boston!), got donated food (Thanks Carl!), and sponsored goodie bag items (Thanks Van Gogh Vodka!).

I had to design the guest list and design the event (create and print signage, sketch out the layout of the lounge and come up with activities). Done. Done. Annnnnd done.

Here’s how it all went down: First the set up. The lounge space that was donated was simply gorgeous and needed no help. I just had to set up the jeans.

Clearly after setting up the jeans we had to pose with the signage.

Before the party I had prepared a … presentation … that was to be projected on the large screen on the whole back wall of the lounge and loop for the duration of the party. It talked about the sponsors, and me and … well. How about you just watch?

Click the screenshot to run the presentation. It’s worth it. Bonus points if you “get” the pics …

My guests arrived and mingled. I explained to them the event: Come try on jeans! Enter to win a raffle! Tweet about the party! Sign up for …. THE AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL STYLE FASHION CHALLENGE (oh yeah, you just wait.)

After a couple of hours, everyone had found their fit. And if we’re in full disclosure mode, I feel as if I should disclose this: I have a lot of gay friends. A lot of gay friends who like, apparently, to wear women’s jeans. Honestly? I think more than 50% of the men invited took home women’s jeans. And I had three women take home men’s jeans.

WE BREAK ALL THE MOLDS OVER HERE IN ALL EYES ON JENNY LAND

Then it was time for my FASHION CHALLENGE. Now that everyone had found their pair of jeans, I got a group of runway divas to model them for us. But of course, there’s more to it than that.

I cleared the remaining party guests into a runway path, and sent the contestants up into the fitting room behind the curtain to get ready. I had pre-selected three bitchy but hot judges, and gave them numbers to score each contestant.

You that’s Sarah right there in the middle!

And, of course, I got to be Tyra.

I had purchased a WHOLE LOTTA accessories for this challenge, dumped the accessories on the floor in the middle of all the contestants and gave them their challenge: they had ONE MINUTE to grab whatever accessories they could get their hands on and accessorize the hell out of their new jeans. They would then walk the runway and get JUDGED.

Oh. Hells. Yeah.

In the end two contestants tied. And we had to have a walk off. They wished each other well and gave it their all.

My friend Mike won, and Sarah took the news like a champ and threw her wig on the floor and stormed off.

Mike won a digital camera and Sarah won a $50 gift certificate to the Gap. Good work kids ;)

All in all, the party was a BLAST. We all had SO much fun. And got some awesome new jeans to boot.

Thanks again to …

The venue: 28 Degrees
The goodie bag and prize sponsor: Van Gogh Vodka
and of course
The clothing sponsor: THE GAP!

Check out the whole set of photos here. (There is video to come, but I had over 2 hours worth and it took me a whole weekend just to get through the photographs!)

Congratulations. You made it to the end! You should be rewarded by entering to win my contest!

The Gap was kind enough to give me an extra $50 gift certificate to give out to a reader on my blog! Here’s how you enter to win:

1.) Comment on this blog post to be entered into the contest once!
2.) Twitter linking to this post and using the #GapBornToFit hashtag to be entered twice (don’t forget to get an ‘@alleyesonjenny‘ in there so I can keep track of you! May I suggest something like “Visit the blog of @alleyesonjenny and enter to win a $50 gift certificate to the GAP! http://tinyurl.com/o6dv9g #GapBornToFit“)

You have until 10 pm on Tuesday, August 18th to enter. The winner will be chosen at random and announced Wednesday morning!

Good luck!

You must submit your guesses for both the name of the TYPEFACE and what TWO WORDS the letters on the canvases make up.

Enter your guesses in the comments sections of the contest entry HERE.

All hints and clues HERE.

Good luck!

HINT #1: Dante’s “Vita Nuova”
HINT #2: I am looking for two words.
HINT #3: Those two words are neither “Vita” nor “Nuova”
HINT #4: …who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences…?
HINT #5: Classification: Didone
HINT #6: Who you calling dummy?
HINT #7: Veering away from clues provided by me, and in case you missed it the first time, here’s one from Sarah.
HINT #8: This is not so much a hint, but a reminder – you have to guess BOTH parts. Not just the typeface OR what it says.
HINT #9: Canvases 4 and 5 are especially important.
HINT #10: Hints 1 and 5 are specifically about the typeface. Hints 2, 6 and 7 are about what it says.

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(Don’t worry if you didn’t get it right away, I’ll post hints and clues for my Blog Contest here in this entry throughout the week – so be sure to check back daily even if I don’t pop up in your RSS reader. And remember, contest rules say you can enter as many times as you need until you think you got it right!)

If you need to ask a question feel free to do so here, but if you want to wager a guess do it in the comment section of the contest entry.

Also: if you don’t win, don’t fret! To answer all your comments/emails in one fell swoop: YES I am already in the works of painting more of these and custom orders are welcome (custom meaning canvas size, colors, typeface choice, AND letters/words.) Shoot me an email at jenny @ alleyesonjenny.com to talk letter art!

So I had six 10 x 10 canvases hanging above my desk (I could go look for a pic, but I’m lazy). They were painted in 6 solid colors: teal, lime, chocolate, pink, red and mocha. Over the weekend I wiped them and started making new paintings. Out of letters.

(If you are new, you should know I am obsessed with typography, letters, typefaces, etc in general. So why WOULDN’T I make art out of letters?)

Here is my creation in full:

And canvas by canvas:

So here’s my contest:

PART 1: Tell me what TYPEFACE/FONT all those letters are set in (be as specific as you can in describing this typeface) and
PART 2: Tell me what all those letters spell out.

A few notes on this: There is only ONE typeface used throughout. You have to figure out what I mean about specifics, which you will if you look hard enough. (Hint: I just gave you a hint). Also, and this is most important, most of the canvases are just made up of letters artfully thrown together, but if you look hard enough you can see what this graphic designer is trying to say (Hint: I just gave you a hint there too).

Also, I’ve already posted some clues and will probably post more throughout the week.

Here’s how the contest works: comment on this entry with your guesses (you have to guess BOTH parts). The names of those people who guess correctly will be thrown into a hat and I’ll draw a winner at random at the close of the contest. During the contest, you may guess as many times as you want until you think you get it correct.

CONTEST CLOSES AT 2:00 PM FRIDAY MAY 9th, 2008.

No one is excluded from this contest since I was smart enough this time and didn’t tell anyone the answers! So any of you could win the prize.

Speaking of prizes….what is this prize you ask? YOUR OWN LETTER ART CANVAS. (I had an extra canvas lying around.)

THE PRIZE: 10 x 10 Acrylic on canvas. I call it “olive on aqua”.

I’m a nerd and threw the word “blog” in there for good measure.

Congrats! Shoot me an email that includes an address where I can send your prize!

My stepmother was on page 37. That page was an ad for Lululemon where she happens to be one of the company’s ambassadors and appears in a couple of their print ads.

Thanks to everyone who entered. More contests and fun to come!

The contest closes today at 3:00 pm, so get your guesses in ASAP!

Out of towners and/or other people with no access to the mag have their own version of the contest now too:

If you are an out of towner with no access to Boston Magazine but still want to play, enter in the same way as outlined below with an in-the-dark page guess. If you’re close (we’ll say within a 10 page radius – 5 pages in either direction) I’ll throw your name in too.

Keep those guesses coming. So far 6 people have entered (4 from Boston who guessed CORRECTLY, and two out-of-towners one of whom is going in the hat!).

C’mon people. FREE COFFEE.

(As for the rules, if you enter and comment on the contest entry OR this one, you get two chances at winning. Get that? Comments on either entry is valid!)

Also, just an FYI: If for whatever reason you CAN’T enter in this contest, don’t be sad. I’m working (non-Boston centric) contests in as a monthly feature.