So I finally got my act together and threw the names into a randomizer to make the draw. The result? (I’m not going to pot the WHOLE list here, just the first bit!

Congratulations, Joan!! I’ve sent a confirmation email your way, so be sure to reply to that – I’d hate to ship this parcel to the wrong address!

Thanks to everyone else for participating, but thank you especially to those who sent stories to theNotice! I hope you don’t mind, but I’m putting your warm fuzzies up for everyone to enjoy. I know that some of these are personal, so if you’d like it taken down, feel free to send me an email or even just leave a comment. But, if not, I hope we can all enjoy them!

From Laura

Best husband on earth.

After a much-needed long weekend with my family, celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving (my favourite holiday!) in Ontario, I arrived back home on Monday night and went to work Tuesday morning. My Lyme disease was flaring up from the 6 hour drive home, making me achy and sore. Not only did I have built-up email, and several projects to revise, but I was required to attend a lengthy meeting at lunchtime…a meeting that went long, deprived me of my lunch, and accomplished nothing.

I was definitely feeling blue as I clunked up the stairs to my floor and my cubicle.

When I stepped into my cube, I was surprised to see this HUGE brown and green box literally covering my desk. It was from a florist, but I couldn’t tell who or why from looking at it. I checked the label because I thought it must be a mistake.

I opened the box to find a vase with a bouquet of a dozen roses in different colours AND a box of chocolates AND a note from my husband of 7 months.
He wrote that he knew how much I missed my family, and how stressful work is after a holiday, and he just wanted to let me know he loved me and was glad I married him.

I cried.

Later I found out that he’d ordered the flowers weeks before.

From Ahn

My fuzzy story would be about my daughter who is 5. On Friday (the day before Valentine’s), she made me a card. On the card, she wrote “Happy Valentine’s Day, mommy and daddy”. I guess that was what the teacher told the kids to write in general. It’s just that in our case, her dad is no longer living with us. Putting him and me in 1 card would mean one of us could have the card and the other couldn’t. So I asked her whether she wanted me to send it to her dad. She went ahead and erased the words “and daddy” on the card and gave it back to me. She said “I made it for you, but evevyone else put daddy on their cards, so I did too”. It was hard to describe how I felt at the time. Of course I was touched that she made it for me, but I felt sad for her, as she can’t have both of her parents together so we could share a card. Divorce is bitter, but she and I manage to make the best of our lives.

From Qin

3 weeks ago, I was thinking to myself that I have not seen a rainbows for years and years. I kind of wishes that I could see one.
Then a few days ago, there was a heavy downpour in Singapore. And somehow, there is a double rainbow across the sky and a kind lady actually pointed it out to me, otherwise I would not have seen it! It totally made me day and make me as happy as a kid who got a new toy :D

From The Caravan

The first thing I think of is my dog. Sounds cliche, but he is both literally and figuratively warm and fuzzy.
Lst night when I was sick and sleeping on the couch, he came up and nuzzled his big golden-retriever head into my side and made little tender cries, as to say “mommy are you ok? I hope you feel better soon!”
He’s just the sweetest most sensitive creature I’ve met on this earth and I’m so lucky to call him my baby boy!
I think all dogs are angels from the heavens!

From FB

My warm fuzzy story was when I was in the convenience store the other day, about to stuff my face all alone at home with chips, pop and chocolate and a 7-year old girl in front was buying 2 chocolate bars.

She had enough money to buy it, but she kept hemming and hawing at the counter for some reason.

We couldn’t figure out why but she kept insisting that she wanted change back and wouldn’t have any if she bought 2.

Finally, she told the lady to put back the one chocolate bar, paid for one, and put all of the money of the 2nd chocolate bar she could have had into a charity box that the owners had put up to collect money for homeless kids.

It was so freaking cute that the owner of the store gave her the second chocolate bar for free.

So, what did she win?

• A sample of Lancome Magnifique
• Some spatulas and a five gram jar, for mixing her own lip balm, storing some moisturiser, or anything else she can think of!
• A sample of Costal Scents‘ Silica Spheres, my HG loose setting powder.
• A Philosophy Frozen Lemon Custard gloss, used once on a q-tip. I can’t stand scents (I always eat them off my lips!) but I definitely wanted someone (who hopefully has more self-control than I) to get to enjoy this, because it smells delicious!!!
• A pack of pointed q-tips. These are heaven for correcting tiny makeup slips.
• A clean, sharpened Bobbi Brown lipliner – the colour is very universal, but I found two of them in the traincase!
• Samples of Kinerase’s peptide treatment and Smashbox Photo Finish. Though I don’t like the latter for myself, it’s my go-to for anyone else. Why? Its consistency is perfect for anyone with skin that is normal, slightly oily, or slightly dry. It’s just that mine is very dry! For super-oily skin, though, reach for Photo Finish Light.
• And lastly, a Smashbox Cream Eye Liner in Putty. I fell in love with this at first swatch, and was thrilled to find another! I stroked the top with a clean art brush to make sure it was still moist (in anguish the whole time for marring the surface, and most certainly crying inside) and it was! This is the one that inspired the giveaway – I had to spread the love for this!

Enjoy the goodies, Joan!