In case you haven’t been hanging around here for the past several eons and don’t know me from Adam, I am obsessed with all things Harry Mason.
If you have no idea who … hey, wait a minute! What do you mean, you haven’t been hanging around here? Why not? Is there something wrong with me? Why do you hate me? What did I ever do to you?
Did I enjoy it, at least? Hopefully one of us did.
By the way, who the hell is Adam?
I love Harry Mason and if you have no idea who I’m talking about, Harry Mason is a former disco dance instructor/hippy/slalom-skateboarder-turned-jewelry-designer hailing from San Francisco who creates gorgeous, innovative, funky and unique earrings that make your ears moan and shudder and pass out from sheer ecstasy.
Did you know that if you click on his ad in my sidebar over there ———————> you’ll find a coupon code for $5 off? Well, of course you do. Because I just told you.
How much do I adore Harry? I’ve sung his praises HERE and HERE and HERE.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do sing off key and makes ears bleed all over the globe. What’s your point?
Harry doesn’t make ears bleed. He makes them gorgeous. His claim to fame are his earspirals which twist into your ear. Well, not your ear per se, but the pierced hole in your ear, but I’m betting that if I said that he makes stuff that twists into your hole, I’d have three tons of spam, courtesy of PORN ‘R US.
Oops. Too late.
Some earspirals are simple and classic … just like me!
Except, not really.
And some are slightly more … shall we say … involved? Off the beaten path? Marching to the beat of their own drum?
Totally like me!
I make my own drums because I can’t find any that are whackadoodlish enough for me. I use tires, plastic wrap, duct tape and cheese. Because I’m an artist, in addition to being a blogger.
Just call me a jack of all trades!
Or, jack-ess of all trades!
Not to be confused with jackass. Of anything.
Which I certainly am not.
Except, not really.
You can go small.
Or go big! Like they do in Texas!
Not that I have any idea what they do in Texas because I don’t live there. I live in New York where we do things expensive and then tax the ever loving shit out of it.
Know what I do know? I KNOW I HAVE THESE SPIRALS!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
When ears have eargasms, they made weird, high-pitched noises, just so you know. Be prepared.
Nate bought these spirals for me when we were in San Francisco for our tenth anniversary and when I wear these, my ears have the Big O and yell Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful in forty-three languages.
Kelly LeBrock, eat your heart out. Or your ears. Whatever.
For those of you who don’t know who Kelly LeBrock is and have no idea what the hell I’m yammering about … are you old enough to even read this blog? Go ask your mother.
Speaking of mother …
Would you believe my mother has these?
My mother, who cannot call my land line without reaching my cell phone because she’s technologically impaired, who still refers to jeans as “dungarees” and who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century, bought these for herself and wears them out to dinner or to the Thee-Ah-Tah (theater, for those of us who are normal) and gets so many compliments on them that she finds it necessary to call me on my land line and reach me on my cell phone and brag about them.
My seventy-eight year old mom wears these and hence, is cooler than me.
Stunned disillusionment, party of one? Your table is ready.
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SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Don’t tell my mom about eargasms because as far as she’s concerned, I don’t have any gasms WHATSOEVER.
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Can you hear them?
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Can you hear them now?
You know, when I wore black rimmed glasses, I sounded a lot more like the Verizon guy on the commercial when I typed that.
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On the left is an ear cuff. On the right is an ear fancy.
I don’t bother with all the different names. I just call them yummy.
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How pretty is this? It’s like someone drizzled liquid gold all over your ear lobe.
Wouldn’t that feel nice?
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You can even mix and match from Harry’s arsenal. I will take one of everything and pair it up with two of everything else.
Thank you.
I’m kind of liking these threads. I’m considering piercing my ears 22 times and creating a macrame sculpture out of these.
This is what I like about Harry’s stuff … it’s different, it’s unique and it gets you noticed and I when I say it gets you noticed, I mean that in a totally good way and not in a HEY, IF YOU WEAR YOUR PANTS ANY LOWER, I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU A PAP SMEAR kind of way.
So … what’s up for grabs?
I thought you’d never ask!
A $100 shopping spree to Harry Mason Designer Jewelry, at his online shop or at any of his stores!
All of our other body parts get pampered, right? We get pedicures for our feet and then dress them in Uggs and Jimmy Choos, we spend hours at the salon to get our hair done and then cough up more money on hair product to make it appear as if we just woke up that way, we get our boobs lifted or, if we’re on a budget, we slap on a wonder bra from Victoria’s Secret for the same effect at a fraction of the cost, we go to Sephora and make our face look ten years younger, we go to the gym and tone our arms and abs and thighs and butt or go to Kohls and buy some Spanx that essentially does the same thing without sweating.
So why not pay attention to our ears, ladies?
Why should our nether regions corner the market on all the gasms? Don’t our ears deserve a Big O every once in while? I mean, they’re the ones that actually have to listen to all of us and if your ears are anything like mine, they’ve probably had it up to their eyeballs with all the whining and complaining and yelling and lack of bipartisanship and worst of all, all the damn Miley Cyrus-ing or, as she’s known in our house, OH MY GOD, STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT, BEFORE I STAB MYSELF WITH A SHOVEL.
Do ears even have eyeballs?
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.The scoop:
- To enter, leave a comment in this post and tell me one thing you hope to get for the holidays this year. I’ll go first. I hope to get busy. Quick, someone tell Nate, before the moon leaves the seventh house and I come to my senses.
- Anyone 18 or older can enter. I was eighteen once. I was older once too. Lots of times, actually. Too many to count.
- The shopping spree expires thirty days from winner notification.
- Winner must confirm notification within 48 hours or I’ll have to choose a substitute which will make me sad and I’ll probably cry. Have you seen me cry? It’s not pretty. There are bodily fluids involved.
- If you have trouble setting limits, like me, you can spend more than $100 and simply apply the $100 to your total due.
- No entries after 9:00 pm eastern time on Sunday, November 29, because that’s when I will be outside examining our Christmas lights and making sure they are uniform and symmetrical. Coincidentally, this will also be when Nate is standing stoically by my side, biting his tongue and reminding himself of our wedding vows, specifically that pesky “’til death do us part” bit.
- I will use Random.org to choose the winners. Yay! Yippeee! Whoo hooo! Am I the only one excited by the possibilities?
- One entry per person. Entering more than once leaves me gobsmacked. I have no idea what that means, but I always wanted to say it.
- My blog theme Thesis is still messing with my comment numbers. It numbers all the way to up comment #300 and then starts back at #1 again. It’s infuriating but I’m aware of it so go ahead and post your comment and don’t worry if there are duplicate comment numbers! It’s under control, which is more than I can say for my temper whenever I even mention this.
- I’ll announce the winners on Monday!
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That’s it!
Good luck!
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I’ll go first, since no one ever wants to go first when random.org is in charge. As I said above, I hope to get busy. I’m off to go chase Nate around the house.
Now, go forth and enter!
I love wearing anything that I have bought at Harry’s. I particularly like to combine
Mickey Mouse stuff with your earrings as I am a huge Mickey nut. The convertibles
work well in this regard.
When I was in San Francisco, I got soaked because of a silly umbrella and the
ladies at Harry’s rescued this poor damp Canadian.
You guys rock! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Canada
I hope to get a house for Christmas… or at least know that we can buy the one my fiancé and I want. But if that doesn’t happen, I would LOVE to be able to buy myself, and my mother some of Harry’s AWESOME, INCREDIBLE, BREATHTAKING, AMAZING, BEAUTIFUL creations.
I hope to get a pair of ear fancys. I love my Harry Mason jewelry and I really need another pair of ear fancys!
I hope to get lots of harry Mason jewels for Christmas! Just discovered the store in October and what’s not to love??? I could be a real embarassment with an extra $100 to spend there….
I hope to get SPBFSSEGF
Earspiral with a small Butterfly with 5mm Sapphire color bezel set dangle. 14K Gold-filled. 1-7/8″ long. September Birthstone.
Oh, I am hoping for lots of things, but I am really hoping to get made full time at work!
Twitter: heather_t_
November 27, 2009 at 1:31 am
I am hoping to get into a size 16. =)
And then I’m hoping for a DSLR.
After that, I’m hoping the plane won’t fall out of the sky.
Andrea,
My husband discovered your blog.
You are so wet and wild!
What a sweet inspiration you are!
And oh yes, I too wear Harrys’ ear-gasmic, orgasmic luscious sculptures of lust!
Forget foreplay. Let’s ear-play! Yes, baby, yes!
His newest design is called SPINFINITY. You MUST get it on your blog site!
OMG! And it comes in 3 sizes. I wear the big ones! I must have them BIG!
What I want for Christmas is to be swinging around my pole wearing my Santa mini dress and Harrys’ SPINFINITY earrings and letting my inner Goddess out to sensational, sensual, sultry music that demands the eruption of my volcanic passion to escape the depths of my very soul! Chaa!!!!!!
Wow, Andrea! I needed to say that! Was it good for you?
Kathryn the Great
This year I hope to get a new pair of shoes!
lynnnjoe@hotmail.com
What I hope to get for the holidays this year is a teddy bear. I collect bears!
I am hoping to get more FTE from my job so I can afford to buy more of
Harry Mason’s cool designs!
I hope to be able to find a Papa Smurf toy to give my niece as a joke. As long as I can do that, I’ll be happy!
i’m hoping for a new handbag of sorts. i’ve been dropping hints like crazy. hopefully my bf will pick up on them sometime soon!
DolphinV27@aol.com
I want a new winter coat…mine has become too frayed to use and I can’t afford to get a new one at the moment. A gift would make it all better
BellaBelle27@gmail.com
I really hope to get home fror Christmas, and see my family. I’m living thousands of kilometers away from them.
I hope to get an awesome Canon DSLR!!
Yeah!
We just bought our first house so that is kind of my Christmas present. I am hoping that someone will get me Pioneer Woman’s cookbook (which I found out my mom is getting me), so I guess all that is left is chocolate.
I hope I can get a full body transplant – just take my head and put it on a skinny bod.
Boy can I relate to THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m hoping to get a gift certificate for house cleaning after the holidays!
i’d like a new washer dryer
mverno@roadrunner.com
I would like to get Photoshop software for Christmas.
For christmas this year I am hoping that my brother ca make it home, he was in a bad car accident last week.
With all the talk of snow and cold weather in the forecast I’m hoping to recieve lots of snow but no cold temps (I’m sorry but anything below minus 10C is just “minus stupid” in my books). And if that wish doesn’t happen then I hope I don’t get frostbite because that would totally suck rocks.
I hope everyone does as well as they can.
I’d like to get some peace on earth..at least on the little patch we call home…peace between my kids and a tad bit of quiet to go along with it…
My wish for Christmas is world peace.
Now that I’ve read this post I want to have an eargasm for the holidays!!! Great word and great giveaway!!
I’m hoping to get a stand mixer…been hoping for two years now. lol THanks so much.
I hope for a new iPod. Thanks for this great giveaway!
I am hoping that there might be some sort of a job out there that would enable me to earn some money. (I have a health issue which precludes some forms of employment). I also hope that I can keep on learning and enjoying knitting.
I’m hoping to get some Professor Layton games for my DS and I am really hoping to find a cyber deal on a DS Lite for my youngest. I’d love a Kindle too but that seems to be unlikely
I need an eargasm in a big way!!!
For the holidays, all I want is to wake up Christmas morning next to my honey and spend the morning snuggling.
My wife and I found the Harry Mason store on our first trip to San Francisco a few years ago, since then I’ve brought my daughter out twice – my daughter doesn’t have pierced ears AND is allergic to many metals used in jewelry BUT Harry Mason’s beautiful creations work perfectly because those lovely designs (even I love them) work perfectly on her non-pierced ears and there has never been any allergic reaction!
I am hoping for a little longer on this earth for my dear dear friend who has battled cancer for 7 years.
I’m hoping to be accepted into a program so I can move to S Korea and teach ESL next year! And for lots more Harry Mason jewelry…its fabulous!
OMG I love love love these!! How do you pick just one when they all cry out for you to take them home??
I hope to get the time to finish my Goddess course, and do some drumming, and a massage would be just wonderful too.
Twitter: MissusSmith
November 27, 2009 at 9:25 am
I can’t say I never win anything on your blog anymore after the last giveaway, but I can say that I don’t honestly expect to win again.
I just wanted to share with you my Christmas wish. I had a celebrity do a cameo appearance for your blog with my Christmas wish this year, and you can hear it here:
http://tinyurl.com/yzs28el
I hope to get willpower to stop eating all that crap that tastes so great but makes those damn numbers on the scale keep goin up and up!!!
i’m hoping to have more peace in my household. but some jewelry might do the trick too.
I’m hoping for a puppy that can help fill my empty nest, now that my baby has gone off to college. Oh, yeah, and world peace.
I hope to go back to San Francisco. It’s my favorite city! Every time I go, I make a trip to the Harry Mason store for a new pair of earrings, threads, cuffs etc…
My hope is that the brave young men and women serving our country can return to their families and loved ones soon. My hope is that the educators of America hold strong and remain dedicated to shaping the minds of our future. My hope is that caregivers for ailing family members or friends keep their faith and compassion. For all those who unselfishly share their gifts, who provide the avenues of hope, thank you.
I want chocolate!
Not entering but they are so pretttttyy…just hopping around to some fabulous sits gals:) Have a good day!!
I am hoping to get some of Harry’s earspirals, but none of my family is savy enough to go on line and order me some. I am now living in South Carolina and miss the time when I lived in the Bay Area. So for Christmas I will ask the family for a speaker dock for my ipod and use the cash my Mother gives me to purchase my own earspirals. Merry Christmas and good luck to everyone!
I want to be able to get my kids home so we can spend the holiday together.
I leave the Harry Mason flyers around the house every year at Christmastime, hoping my hubby will notice. I even bought myself some HM earspirals for my birthday one year. I just hope that this year, he pays attention!
I had my ears double-pierced this year, just for the sole purpose of wearing the threads (of which I still have NONE!).
Please, Santa, please bring me some Harry Mason ear art!
I’m hoping my oldest son will be able to come home for the holidays….so far, looking good. It will be wonderful to have the whole family together again. That is the only thing I want for Christmas.
I hope to get into the spirit of the holidays. Last year I was a bah-humbug and boycotted the holidays entirely. This year I’m starting out on a good foot by hosting a holiday cookie swap the first Saturday in Dec. I hope that trend continues.
Haven’t had a new eargasm in a while. Would love to win just so I can justify buying more. I always get oohhhs and ahhhhs when I wear my spirals…..I often have to take them out and play show and tell…..
Seasons Greeting’s from Boston!!!
I hope to get something that makes me feel pretty.
Your posts crack me up! I am hoping for some wonderful funky necklaces for Christmas, and some warm sweaters for my freezing classroom!
I’m hoping to be with my loved ones. That’s always what I want and so very often get the chance. They all love my enormous collection of Harry Mason cuff earrings and i love them…what a great combination.
This year, I am hoping for life to slow down a bit–and to be healthy enough to appreciate it!
All I want for Christmas this year is another year of health and happiness for all my friends and family. I have what I need. I am blessed with friends and family and wish for them to be blessed also.
I am a Harry Mason fanatic – I have so many of those little purple boxes on my dresser, but I could always use more. I visit his store on Pier 39 every time I get to SF.
I want new underwear for Christmas because I peed in mine while laughing at your blog. After that I want the regular classics ear hooks in sterling.
if i win i hope to go to San Francisco and pick out my first pair of ear wraps at the store on Pier 39, after i have a batch of fresh mini donuts downstairs, they’re so yummy!
Those earrings are GOR-GEOUS! Gorgeous, I tell you! I would wear the hell out of them.
To answer your question I’d have to say an unattainable and unreasonable amount of weight loss. A close second would be continued good health, surprisingly.
Love your site… the fancies and all. All I want for Christmas is my honey to be well and all our kids happy !!!!!
I hope to reclaim my house, my space, my nest.
This may be the only way I get some new eargasns this year. We both are just getting back to work for the first time in months. I guess we already got our real present
Love the blog and some of the new designs. Wish list going to Santa
Anything from Harry Mason’s would be a prefect gift!!!
I hope to retire after 30 years and then I can play. I hope to visit Harry’s again since it has been several years and I have several of the ear pins and spirals and hope to add to my collection.
I am hoping to come up with some money to buy Christmas for my boys before Christmas. That is all I really want.
I do love you site.
Cece
I want to hear the special man in my life tell me that he loves me….
I’d like a huge bar of chocolate, perfume, make up, clothes, chocolate, jewellery, a new Ipod, chocolate, shoes, books, chocolate, CDs, oh, and did I mention chocolate?!
For Christmas I would like to go back to fulltime at work. That would make me a the creditors extremely happy
I hope to get something, a new pair of Harry Mason designer earrings would be nice,
what a great way to wake up and have coffee, with a free drawing for a shopping spree at Harry Masons.
I am hoping both my son and daughter-in-law get full time jobs, so they can move into their own home.
I’m hoping to survive until Dec 26 without gaining back any of the 25 pounds it took me all all summer to lose! And some white gold ear threads would be a bonus
I would like my family to all come out and enjoy the time we have together. Everyone including my sons and their gf’s and my grandson. Looking forward to some time off.
I’m a Harry Mason fan. I live in CT and have found nothing like these designs. Thank God for the World Wide Web, or I’d still be looking for a real pair of threads. Bonus, Spirals!!
If anyone knows of a shop on the East Coast, NY or Boston, please post!
Looooove those earrings!
I am hoping to spend some time around Christmas with my boyfriend who sadly lives three hours away from me on the other side of the state!!! I am also hoping for some Fake Books so I can expand my music library even further.
Well, other than a $100 shopping spree for some new Harry Mason earrings, I want the choirs I direct to sing beautifully for Christmas (I’m a church musician–December is heavy stress time for more reasons for me!)
I’d like more time with my daughter and a job I’m passionate about!
I’m hoping for a weekend with my hubbie without the kids!
For Christmas, I’m hoping that my family and friends are happy and that our daughter does not have to go back to Afganistan.
And I hope to be able to have a shopping spree at Harry Masons, how exciting.
I’ve been telling my husband very directly — I learned long ago that hinting doesn’t work — that I want a webbook/notebook computer with MS Office. I’ve given him Harry Mason’s URL more than once and even told him specific earrings I especially like, but the only ones I have I bought myself on a business trip to SF. A $100 Harry Mason spree would be fabulous!
This has been a particularly rough year so what I want for Christmas is for my mom’s passing to be peaceful and for my daughter to find the answer to her question – that’s it and thanks for asking.
I’m hoping for some speakers for my iPod.
I love the variety and creativity of Harry Mason designs. No matter how many I have, I always want more!
WOW. Those earrings are amazing.
Im hoping that everyone is happy and healthy in my family for Christmas this year (my grandpa hasnt had such a great year, but hes on the mend!) I also hope to find a job that I love because Im not happy where I am right now.
This Christmas I have my eye set on a Kindle. It’s actually what I wanted for my big 3-0 in August, but unfortunately new tires for my truck totally trumped that idea. Poor me, who gets tires for a big 3-0 present? Now ear art as a belated 3-0 present, I could totally get on board with that!
I want my husband to find a fabulous job in NC so we can move back home. We moved away for dh’s work, and although we’ve looked and looked, the economy hasn’t been good enough in NC for dh to find a suitable position. Hopefully that will change this year.
These earring designs are fabulous! I need to show them to my husband. He has fabulous taste in jewelry, and I love having unusual pieces. My favorites so far are a pair of earrings made from roman glass–ancient pottery that turned to a gorgeous Mediterranean sea blue glass from the pressure of being buried for millennia. The rectangular pieces are surrounded with sterling silver and hang from french wires. These designs are the types of pieces that I can’t create myself but would love to wear.
Thanks for sharing!
hey andrea — i too am a junkie — all i ever wear is harry (i think that my rick is jealous!!!) but what the hell, he does buy them for me too!) i have about 30 plus pairs AND cuffs & wraps! my motto is: don’t leave home without harry!
thanks for the blog & the opp to win! happy everyday & merry always,
gin
I’d like a cleaning service for a day!
I hope Santa brings me the blue Mother of Pearl earspirals! (ESPOP14B) I’ve wanted them to go with a pendant I have, but he just isn’t getting the hint!
I have loved Harry’s earrings since I first visited his shop on the 39th Pier. I always get comments when I wear one of his earrings.
For Christmas and the New Year, I hope to loose another 40lbs to get down to my goal weight. So far I’ve lost 90lbs.
Happy Holidays to all!
Just love ALL of your earrings and never fail to be asked – “how’d you get that in your ear?” They are so much fun and will be coming for more and more!!
I just wish for a peaceful holiday. My family has has had some major issues lately and I just wish that we could all get along for Christmas with no fighting or bad incidents.
I hope to get a good bonus…and get busy.
I’m hoping to wear real shoes again by Christmas, a foot injury has me wearing fugly post surgery boot. A pair of Harry Mason’s in my ears would move focus up to my smilin face,as would waking up next to the love of my life bringing me coffee and hugs and (R rated) Love that man and Harry Mason Designs. Merrieist of Christmases Ever Tracy
I’ve been a Harry Mason junkie for about 15 years. I keep adding the husbands of my friends to his customer list.
And here I thought I was the most devoted Harry Mason fan….no matter, every woman deserves eargasms, as far as I’m concerned. As far as Christmas goes, there are priorities after all, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a couple days off to be able to visit family on the West coast for the holidays!
Besides those earrings? I hope to get stacking Tupperware containers. Yes, in my wildest dreams, all I really want, is an organized plastic container cupboard. It’s wild in my house . . .
I love Harry, too. First met him on a trip to Pier 39 in San Francisco and have loved him ever since. I’m hoping for a nice trip to Europe to see my adopted sons in the Summertime.
Harry Mason Threads are awesome!!!
I’m hoping for a life-size, bright red Pontiac Solstice. I have to specify, otherwise my darling husband might think I mean a Hot Wheels or something like that.
I hope for something extra special for Amber, Kevin, Greg and Steve.
Thank you for this introduction …. and prize pack! I saw your post at 2Ps … and didn’t know you there is you here — !!
I hope to get to San Francisco again – I am long over due for a trip to this city
I’m hoping for a Christmas filled with true sense of God’s presence and love, more quality time with family and friends, a less frenzied more peaceful pace this year where we all take the time to appreciate all the gifts God has already provided like life, health, love, food on the table, a warm hospitable home, and passing along some of the blessings to those who have not.
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