Holiday Gift Card Giveaway Days Novica Earring Review and $40 Gift Card Giveaway 12/13

November 23, 2010 By kristi maloney 194 Comments

If you’re looking for gift card giveaways to spend at some great online stores on the things that YOU want, you’ve come to the right place. The next series of giveaways on Moms Own Words are all gift card giveaways!

About Novica - Novica is one of the leading fair trade artisan websites and they work with National Geographic to offer talented artisans around the world a place to express their artistic talents online and provide access to the world market. Novica has thousands of beautiful jewelry pieces, works of art and home décor items hand-crafted by talented artisans around the world – all available on the Novica site.

Novica gives artists and artisans around the world a global platform to express their true artistic talents and to spur their creativity. Novica provides shoppers with access to unique, hard-to-find items at great values that only the Internet infrastructure can allow.

At the deepest essence of their philosophy, Novica wants to create a bridge between you and the many talented artisans across the globe – know about who you’re buying from and feel that attachment to the product and to the hands that created it.

Helping Artisans - The Novica microfinance program helps artisans around the world secure funds to continue their crafts. More information on this ground-breaking program can be found at: http://microfinance.novica.com/.

The Product – Poised in sterling posts, allamanda blossoms whisper of Balinese gardens. Nyoman Rena transforms them into earrings. With its sweet, fruity aroma, the allamanda nobilis, or “yellow trumpet” is a delightful presence in the tropics. .925 Sterling silver.

The Price - $27.99

The Artist-Nyoman Rena is the Balinese artisan who crafted these sterling silver earrings. Here is a brief bio. and a video of Nyoman Rena at his craft.

The Review – I like studs or button earrings – nothing too fancy that I can wear for days. I am a sterling silver person. When I saw these earrings on the site, I instantly liked them. The earrings arrived in a cute fabric covered jewelry box, tied with a paper bow and flower. They are simple, yet delicate. The detail in the flower petals is impressive. Having the ability to learn something about the artisan is fantastic and makes these earrings extra special to me. Based on this review, I recommend Novica for unique hand-crafted jewelry at an affordable price.

Win a $40 Novica Gift Card - Caitlin from Novica is generously offering one Moms Own Words reader a $40 gift card to spend on anything at Novica.

This giveaway is now closed. Thank you for stopping by. Look at the right sidebar for a list of current giveaways!

Here is how to enter.

Mandatory Entry

1. Visit Novica and check out their hand-crafted products. Please leave a comment telling what item caught your eye!

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10. –FOR 5 EXTRA ENTRIES – Write a blog post about this giveaway,by posting this on your blog – “Stop by Moms Own Words – New England Mom Blog, Freelance Writer product reviews and giveaways. Enter to win a $40 Novica gift card. (Feel free to add more, just please post my link as written. )

Giveaway ends on Dec. 13th 11:59 PM EST. Open to US. Winner will be chosen by random.org and contacted by email. Please respond in 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen. To be fair to everyone, comments not meeting requirements will be deleted.

Many thanks to Caitlin for providing the Novica $40 gift cards.