Over 150 followers - that calls for some celebrating. Let's give some stuff away!!!

Wow, this blog is well over 150 followers, and I've been posting about once a week or more for more than 2 years.

Thanks to all of you!  Doing this blog has been a blast for me, your comments are very motivating, and I hope that some of what I've shared has either helped you or inspired you in some small way.

I had a lot of fun with my last giveaway to celebrate hitting 50 followers more than a year ago, so let's do it again!  This contest will run through February 3, 2012.

Just leave a comment here and you will have one entry and a chance to win one of two prizes.

And since the Uncle has dipped a couple of toes into social media, I'm going to sweeten your chances in the contest.  For each of the following you will get an additional contest entry:

• If you are a friend of UncleAtom on Facebook, that gets you a contest entry;
• Follow @Uncle_Atom on Twitter and that gets you a contest entry;
• Oh, and if you promote this contest on your blog, that will also get you an entry, just send me a link to your blog's post.  I'm gonna have a heckuva time keeping track of these entries so I need to hear from you!

So anyone and everyone who comments on this post can have as many as four chances to win.

Whew, I am gonna be busy trying to sort out how many entries you all get in this contest.  But that's OK, I like a challenge.

So, what can you win?

Well, I've been pondering that for a while...

I am a lamp-aholic, so of course I have a lamp to offer up - how about this little bedside number for our top prize?  It stands 16 inches from the base to the top of the shade.

The brass is worn a bit, but it's got a killer beige lampshade that will work in any color scheme, and it's been rewired, so it's plug and play.

I also have too many vintage magazine racks, so how about this magazine rack from my etsy store for our second prize?

I also will have a surprise or two that I'll announce at the end of the giveaway.  Good luck everyone!!

Giveaway over at I HEART EVERYTHING blog, check it out!

I always enjoy Amber's blog posts, and she's having a Giveaway Bonanza, and you could be a winner.  Just get over to I HEART EVERYTHING and leave a comment.  And while you're there, check out all her other posts - she's got an arcade in her garage!!!  And she hauls fireplaces in her vintage station wagon.  And she's very creative and crafty.  Take those fezmingos in the photo - her creation.  Stop on over there now and tell her Uncle Atom sent ya!

P.S.  I'm planning to do a giveaway too, but I'm still formulating the details.  Stay tuned...

We Have a Winner of the MIB Pull-down Lamp...

Thanks to everyone who entered the Uncle Atom giveaway contest.  Each entrant's name went on a scrap of paper, and I put my teenager to work to draw the slip of paper with the winner's name.

And the name she drew was =========>>>

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But Uncle Atom blog, you don't look 50 plus - Heck let's celebrate anyway! GIVEAWAY TIME

Looky there, we're up over 50 followers!  Sounds like a good excuse for a giveaway!!  After checking through the Uncle Atom coffers holdings hoard pile o' stuff, I've turned up a nice little item to give away to one of my lucky followers to celebrate the 50-plus milestone.

Since the Uncle already has a pull-down kitchen light, and a sputnik light in the dining room ceiling, this Mint In Box Pull Down Lamp has collected dust in the atomic attic long enough.

I scored this Imperialite for a song at my favorite flea market a couple years ago. It was made in Latrobe, PA, (yes, home of Rolling Rock beer) near where my parents' family's are from, and was sold by a store in Lock Haven, PA, not far from where I grew up.  The lamp dates from about 1961, so it's aged even better than me, but then I haven't been stashed safely in a box all that time either.

The lamp has a matte/flat black finish with nice gold tones and this great frosted glass reflector with a concentric circle design.  The wiring parts are sealed up in the original shipping envelope along with installation directions.

And it could be yours!!!  Just leave a message below this post before 6 pm Aug. 15, and you are entered.

And, if you post a link to the contest on your own blog, you'll get a second entry in the giveaway drawing.  If you do make a post about the giveaway on your blog, include a link in your comment here, or you can e-mail a link to your blog post at uncleatom at gmail dot com.  I just need some way to know that you have earned that second contest entry.

Whatever you do, make sure I have some way to notify you if you win, good luck, and thanks for reading!