Happy New Year Cuban Food Poster(s) Giveaway

I've got all this great Happy New Year energy going right now and I have so many stories to tell and I'm going to San Francisco next week to visit Pixar and Skywalker Ranch. I just feel like I want to share the love and happy vibes.

If you were in my town, I'd say, "Hey, come over for dinner. I'll cook you something Cuban." But since that's not likely to happen, how about I just do a Happy New Year Cuban Food (Poster) Giveaway? 

Yes. I think it's a wonderful idea. 

If you were coming to dinner, I would be torn. What to serve? Check out this poster and just try to make a decision.

Because I look at this one every day in my kitchen, I think I'm going to try to master the art of making Pan Cubano. (See? It's not just cool looking. It's motivational, too.)

So much Cuban food. So little time. *sigh* 

I'm going to be giving away Three (3) Cuban Food Posters to 3 lucky winners.

Each 16"x20" poster is unmounted and  printed on heavy duty premium luster paper with archival fade-resistant inks.

It looks just like the photo above. Black background with white lettering and some distressing for an aged texture.

To enter the drawing for a chance to win one of the 3 posters, please leave me a comment on this post and tell me...

• What's your favorite comfort food? (I'd have to go with picadillo, myself.)
• Who makes it the very best? (Your mami? Tia Cuca? El Palacio de los Jugos?)

Leave one comment only, please! 

Remember that if you want to enter the drawing for the poster, you must leave a comment on this post and I'll choose THREE winners on Wednesday, January 14th at 11:00 am PST.

Gracias and Buen Provecho! 

If you're the impatient type (and you know who you are), my posters are for sale over at my Etsy shop: Marta Maria Designs. the 16"x20" is only $21.00 plus shipping and handling. 

I also have a larger size (20"x30") and one (16"x20") on canvas, but that's not important right now.

Buena Suerte and Happy New Year! 

 

Marta's Christmas Gift Guide #2 - It's all about the image

As long and as far back as I can remember, everyone in my family has had an old school "cafetera" sitting on the stove. There might have been a few years (waaay back in the day) where my parents used a sock-thingy to make Cuban coffee. But for the most part, the stovetop cafetera has always been the must-have Cuban coffee making device.

And so, whenever I see this very familiar image of a stovetop Cuban cafetera it makes me totally happy. And makes me want whatever I find with a cafetera on it. (Shut up. I know.)

I do all my Christmas shopping online. All of it. It makes total sense for me in all my busy-ness, plus the stuff gets delivered to my door, all that's left for me to do is to wrap and tag. And voilá I'm done with Christmas shopping. Win-win.

Today I want to share some of the very cool online I-love-my-Cuban-cafetera finds with you.

From the super fun ChiChi and Flaco shop comes the Cafe con Leche! tshirt:

I love the clean simplicity of the design. 

From the very prolific and talented Cuban artist, Tony Mendoza, one of his most fun Fine Art Reproductions, Cuban-American:

I have been coveting this charm for my Pandora Charm Bracelet for ages. (Thinly veiled hint to whoever happens to be buying me something for Christmas, but that's not important right now.) From Santayana Jewelers in South Florida, the Cafetera bead charm:

My very artistic friend, Maria Soto Robbins has the most beautiful stuff. This one is a pin with her original art called Cuban Coffee and Lime. I am completely in love with it! You can also get her Cuban Coffee and Lime print at Fine Art America. 

And from the muy loco geniuses at Latin Laundry, comes the Artudito tshirt for the Cuban Star Wars lovers.

Me? I'm going to have another colada so I can get my second wind for wrapping all the fabulousness I just purchased.

P.S. You're welcome.  ;-)

Art Attack! - A Giveaway

One of the benefits of living my life so publicly on the blogosphere is that I get to meet some amazing people online. (Yes, I know how it sounds, but believe me, the folks I meet through My Big, Fat, Cuban Family are wonderful!)

Maria Soto Robbins is one of those. Here is her blog. We had been friends on Facebook and she has been a faithful reader of MBFCF, so it was a wonderful treat for us to get to meet her in person at Cuba Nostalgia in Miami this year.

Amy, Maria, & Me. Cuba Nostalgia. Miami 2010.

• She's Cuban.
• She's an incredible artist.
• Do you need to know anything else? ;-)

So back in September when I gave away the RED Betty Crocker Cookbook, Maria happened to be the winner, and it occurred to me that MBFCF readers would flip over her work......and you will.....so I asked..... (Shameless. I know. Shut up.)

Maria has a fabulous ETSY shop in which she sells her paintings and then she also has miniatures of her paintings made into pendants.

Jewelry, people! Beautiful, colorful, goes-with-anything, jewelry.

Amy Kikita, Lucy, and I went nuts when we received these.

Maria sent a pendant to each one of us! I would get a photo of the ones the girls received, but I can't because they're both wearing theirs as we speak. In fact, they have been wearing them daily since we got this incredible care package, but that's not important right now.

Here's mine:

Lucy's is the Sunflower and Amy's is the Miami Beach one, but that's not important right now, either. It's on an adjustable cord with a clasp so you can wear it as a choker or as a pendant (my personal preference).

Maria has graciously offered to give away one of these gorgeous and beautifully-made pendants to a lucky MBFCF reader. Here's how to enter:

1. Go to her ETSY shop, Art by MSR then come back here and leave a comment on this post, telling me which one of her paintings is your favorite. (You will have multiple loves, so it's okay to share that.)
2. If you'd like to be entered more than once into the giveaway, (Yes! More than one entry!) and you're on Facebook, please go request Maria as a friend. Here's the link: Maria Soto Robbins.
3. Then come back here and tell me you sent her a friend request. (That way, you can see what she's up to and won't miss any of her cool offerings, plus you get two chances to win the pendant.)

I'll be choosing a winner on Monday, November 8th, 2010 at 11 AM Pacific Time.

I'm wearing my pendant today. In fact, I already named it My Lucky Hibiscus. Did I mention it was RED?? ;-)

Thanks, Maria!