Fathers Day Giveaway – Marie O’Neill Pop Portrait
This is a giveaway that has been brewing for over a year now and I am so excited to be able to offer it to you!
In May last year I saw this post from BabyMac closely followed by this post from Mrs Woog at Woogsworld. Having seen online photos of both of them across the years I could really appreciate how Marie from Marie O’Neill Design & Illustrations absolutely nailed the pop art similarities of all the family members. Well, not Mr Woog because NOONE has ever seen him, but the rest were spot on!
I emailed her and politely requested begged her to do one for my family as well as let me give one away, and after 12 months of polite reminders of my existence persistent nagging she eventually said YES to a Fathers Day Giveaway. What an awesome present!
My Portrait arrived today and ta-dah!!!
What do you think? I am so pleased that we have this snap shot of us as a family, so quirky, different and funky. 🙂 Plus we are are all looking at the artist, Master J isn’t pulling a funny face and she even got in my little blue hair tips. It will be a reminder of my blogging days in years to come as well as our time spent in this little town. Squeeeee!
What are Pop Portraits by Marie O’Neill Design & Illustrations? Pop Portraits are a completely custom, original, illustrated family portraits. This can include, immediate family, extended family, friends, pets…whatever!
You can check out Marie’s website here.
Her Facebook page here.
Her Instagram here.
OK – the GIVEAWAY!
Marie will design the lucky winner their very own Fathers Day Pop Art Portrait featuring four members of their family (valued at $299). If you would like extra family members added, (she will even add pets, or family members who may be no longer with you), it will be $55 per member at your own cost.
You will receive your Pop Portrait direct to your inbox just before Fathers Day as an A4 ready to print hi-res digital file in both PDF and JPEG format. This gives you the option of using your artwork in the way that best suits you…perhaps you’ll print it and pop it in a frame on the wall. Maybe you’ll have it put onto a canvas. Maybe you’ll use it to print Christmas cards, mouse mats, cushions or a coffee mug. There are so many awesome possibilities…it’s really up to you to decide what suits you best!
All you have to do is tell me here in the comments why you are proud of the Father in your family?
Competition opens 1200pm AEST 3rd August 2016 and closes midnight Sunday 7th August 2016 AEST, open to everybody!
Good luck!
* This competition is open to Australian residents only.
* The prize is not redeemable for cash and Two Point Five Kids is not responsible if the prize is not received, although I will make every effort to ensure a successful competition for all.
I can’t really count myself as a strong single mother (although I’m pretty outstanding), but I can most certainly count my dad. He’s an amazing person (cough cough Collingwood supporter), fantastic father, wonderful grandfather and all round top bloke. He’s always been there whenever anyone needs anything from a hug to a car service to a kitchen installation. We love him to the moon and back a million times over.
For a long time Father’s Day was an occasion that I never celebrated, just a reminder that I didn’t have a dad. Now Father’s Day is a day that I celebrate my daughters Daddy, who is literally the best father I have ever met. I am so proud of his unconditional love for her, his everlasting patience and his ability to always see the best in her, even when she challenges us.
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So gorgeous!
My husband…a man in blue, too…is so supportive of me as I strive to study and (hopefully) gain a position as a midwife, which is something I have wanted to do since I was 16yo. After having our family and me jumping from admin to retail and back to admin again, I knew I needed something that really fulfilled me. He suggested I stop working to study full time, which turned into part time due to *ahem* having another baby at the beginning…and despite having to travel over 500km so I can complete my placements in Adelaide…he backs me 150,000%. His annual leave and sometimes long service leave, is used for when I have to be away for weeks at a time. He becomes Mr Mum for weeks at a time. I’m not sure I could ever repay him for the love and support he gives me each and every day…
I think my husband is one of a kind. Right from the moment our daughter was born, I fell in love with him all over again. And watching her eyes light up when Daddy comes home from work is priceless. He is a fellow boy in blue, so shift work rules our family life. But he makes every moment we spend as a family, a special memory. Without him, we wouldn’t be complete.
I LOVE Marie’s work and have long admired her family portraits. This really would be such a special gift for my husband (and the kids!). Bart is a wonderful father – he is 100% all in with our kids and always has been. We parent together and it makes me proud that he is so proud of being a hands-on dad. Actually, now that I think about it, what makes him such a special father is the way he cares for his children’s mother!! x
As a single mum of 3 I am mum and dad. But the dad I am the most proud of is my step dad. He married my mum only 5 years ago but in that short time he has given me and my children all the beautiful memories and love and advice a father should. He goes above and beyond in ANY way shape and form whether it be answering the phone at 1am just to hear me complain about the kids being horrible or travelling 7 hours just to visit for the weekend or teaching my kids to do the things i just dont know how to do. I am so proud to call him dad and even prouder that he is my babies ‘poppy’. He changed not only my mothers life for the better but ours. I know he would absolutely beam with pride if he could see a picture of us like this everyday hanging on his wall and on his mug and on a tshirt 🙂
My husband Bill is not the father of my kids, but he stepped into the job five years ago, and bypassed ‘father’ to rapidly take up the titles of Dad and Grandpa to adult kids. He goes way beyond the call of duty with toddler poop patrol, helping care for my adult autistic son, consoling my daughter when life gets tough, and keeping me together. He’s our rock, our go-to guy. Example: we got married in Sth Africa. Daughter flew over for the ceremony. Just after the vows, the casing of her cochlear implant fell to bits. Bill calmly fixed it(engineer) with duct tape that held it together until she got back to Australia. We’d NEVER had a fix-it, non-hysterical guy in our lives before. Wow! Bill is dad, grandpa, carer, husband, and owned by five animals. And now, 500 things from Pokemon GO. He is the best, the geekiest, the nerdiest, and he’s all ours.
I’d like to get one for my husband.
He is a wonderful man who I can never make a father (yes here comes an IVF infertility so story). He finds it difficult when it comes to Father’s Day and this year we finally said ‘no more ivf’. Id love to get a picture of us and our family which is consists of us, two geriatric pugs and two cats, one that thinks it’s a pug and the other a neurotic teenage girl.
My husband is amazing, he works away mining last Christmas was the first time in 7 years we had him home, it’s a very rare occasion to get him & my two boys together. He works his butt of and we love him to bits.
I hate bragging about my husband, because i know there are soooo many women out there who missed out on him ?
However, for the purpose of finally obtaining the elusive family portrait, I’ll give it a go.
Following the offer of a fantastic job this year, my husband put his hand up to stay home with our boys (aged 9 months and 2 years at the time) while i went back to work full time. He does all the cooking and all the cleaning (because, he says, i did it all while he was working). He doesn’t bat an eyelid when i have to work late or travel for work (because he ‘knew what he was signing up for’). He is the best dad to our boys, not least because he is showing them that dads can stay home too! Dads can cook and clean too! Surely that has to be one good step in the right direction for gender equality.
I’m so excited and proud to see our boys grow up with him as their dad.
My better half (dad to our girls) happily homes the rescue dog, picks up the endless poo and endured years of humiliation in our local park teaching him to walk on a lead. He lifts heavy things and sews buttons on little school dresses on uniform day. He sighs deeply at nail polish on new couches and joins netball games in the backyard. When people ask him if he misses not having a boy he looks at them quizzically and says honestly – no. He loves and cares for his mum and mother-in-law. Our one in a million blokey bloke with a soft centre.
I’m proud of the father that my husband has become when I see the look in his eyes when my daughter giggles at his dad jokes. The way his daughter runs to him when he comes home and the smile on his face. The way he cried when she was born. And the way he works hard everyday, sacrificing time with his family to make our lives easier and better. We love him for being him, the best father ever.
My husband has go to be the best dad ever, he is thoughtful, generous, funny and kind. He has so much patience with the children and understands my lack of patience! He is the best cuddler, play fighter and statues dancer. The kids think the world of him and tell him every day. He works extra hours so he can have every Wednesday off with them and allow me to concentrate on my career too. He focuses solely on the children when he is with them and brings their ideas for play to life in amazing, creative ways. We couldn’t be luckier to have him in our lives xxx
We don’t have heaps of family photos because my hubby hates photos. This would be a great way to get him in without having to beg him for a smile. He is a great dad, husband and friend. We just wish he had more hours in the day for us all.
Proud doesn’t cover it – he works his butt off so I can be home with our 3 munchkins, helped deliver our second child on the side of the road when we couldn’t get to the hospital on time, takes care of all the background stuff like money, bills etc so I don’t have to (although we both know it’s because I’m the worst money manager on the planet!), has always made us feel loved, secure and extremely special. He has been my rock through PND with our first baby, 3 breastfeeding adventures of varying degrees of success, general parenting guilt and fear of failure and still wants to take me out to dinner and keep the spark alive even though I feel like he got the raw end of the deal!
Recently I fractured my ribs on both sides and, well, he’s just taken it all in his stride which can be hard when our 1yo, 3yo and 7yo are all desperately trying to make their needs heard. At the same time. To the entire suburb. He assures me he wouldn’t have it any other way and I while I don’t know what I did to deserve him, I hope I remind him everyday of how loved he is.
I’m super dooper tremendously proud of my husband and boy’s father, Nathan. When I got offered a fabulous opportunity to head back to work, just as our youngest Ali was headed back to school – major transition time – he stepped in and became primary carer and full time stay at home dad. 4 years later and we have two little guys, Jake, 9 and Ali, 8, who have enormously benefitted from having their dad on hand. Nath is super organised, having enrolled and coaching the boys, in their chosen sports but he’s also shown them that there is nothing, not gender, not disability ( did I mention he’s legally blind?), that can stop you from being a supportive, loving, generous, hard working human being. We love you Dadda.
What a fab contest and prize! It would be a special gift for my husband. I am so proud of him! Father to our two beautiful girls, because no matter what pressures come our way he always prioritizes our family and lives out our values. He is our rock! <3
I’m so proud of the wonderful daddy my husband is because he is always there for the kids supporting and encouraging them no matter what. He does all the sport drop off and picks up, he attends as many school events as he can, he does all the homework support and is there for the kids no matter what. Not to mention how wonderful and supportive of me he is as well. ?❤️
OMG – this is an awesome competition. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win something like this. My husband strives to make our family happy – first and foremost. He loves us and provides for us. He is selfless and is about to start on an epic business journey so that our family will be better off. I know that life isn’t about money, but having a little sure does make your life easier. We love him with everything we have.
battling a pancreatic tumour, i needed dad more than anything. I needed help from the one person i knew had my back when i was little an would have my back now. No matter how old i get, im always dads little girl who needs her dad to make it all better.
Just today my husband and I were sitting on our verandah watching the kids play with the neighbourhood kids and he said he would love to press pause on life and be able to enjoy our little family as we are for a couple more years. He is such a caring, thoughtful, stable, loving and providing father. What better way to capture our family at this moment in time than a Marie O’Neill Pop Portrait!
Marie O’Neill is amazing! Best giveaway ever!! So appreciative of my husband. My family is overseas and he makes it a priority each year of getting us back to visit so the kids can spend time with their grandparents.
Why am I proud of the father in my family? It’s easy, he makes the kids and I smile everyday. He has a way of making things feel simple, he’s always been so supportive of everything I want to do and achieve. This means that often I am racing out of the house at crazy witching hour and he manages to get my 3yr old and 1 yr old fed, bathed and into bed without a worry. I’m very lucky, many of my girlfriends won’t leave the house til the kids are in bed, but my kids have a super capable, loving, and fun daddy who I trust will just get things done. I could write for pages, but having such a wonderful husband and loving, caring and fun daddy for my kids is all I could ask for.
My husband is a fly in, fly out Dad. I’m proud of the way he always makes the most of every opportunity he has with his children and when he’s away stays in contact on the phone. The biggest thing he said one day was that perhaps his main purpose in life is to be a Dad…this was before children and melted my heart. Best wishes to all the Dads out there, esp those who do it tough and are sometimes away from their families as they support them from afar.
The father (Dad) in our family is one in a million, that’s why! 🙂 Jus for example, everyday after work he rough and tumbles with the two boys for and hour or so, then comes in and helps me with tea and shower time. Simple little things, mean the world to us. That is why we are so proud of the father in our family.
My early childhood was spent with a man who was an alcoholic wife beater and can barely be called a father until my mum saw sense and did it on her own until myself and my sister grew up. I now have my own children and they have a father the complete opposite to mine, he is caring, hands on, and ALWAYS can be counted on! Everyday I count my blessings that I didn’t follow the cycle of my mother and found a wonderful man, who truly loves me and his children.
Recently it took eavesdropping to realise how proud I was of my Hubby, the father in my family.
Two school mums were discussing the prep required by them to organise their Husbands and the house before they could take a short ‘mum’s only” holiday. They were stressed leading up to their well deserved break & expected a bomb site of a house to come home to.
I realised that I would not have been able to contribute to this chat because he’s awesome & just does the 50% of stuff that’s needed to make our family run smoothly. I would have been able to walk out the door for that holiday without a worry!
I was proud of him for being the great, contributing, equal parenting powerhouse and all round spunk-rat that he is and I told him so.
I am proud of My Fiancé he is an amazing father! from the moment our girls were born. sure he sometimes struggles with how to play with them but I admire most that he never gives up he is always trying, striving to interact with them he is an amazing Father and partner. He picks me up and sets me back on track when the kids have given me a rough week and he is firm but loving with the kids he is definitely the man I wanted to be father to my kids and the best part is I can leave the house without a worry he is super capable of handling the kidlets on his own which allows this mumma some breathing space! The best part of my day is daddy’s arrival home from work the girls run to the door screaming daddy as he envelopes them in a bear hug doesn’t matter how mischievous they’ve been that always makes me smile