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November 2nd - Snail still nameless!

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 07:01:51 +0000

Hey everyone! This is what I know 1) Despite all my tweets and announcements about what I was going to dress up as halloween, I ran out of time and I'm ashamed to admit that I just ended up recycling last year's costume... I dressed up as a candy corn witch. Very unoriginal I must say... oh well... 2) The snail still doesn't have a name. The only thing that we've determined is that A) Its a male snail and B) Whenever I hug it, I call it Mr. Shnail. Don't ask, I've got no clue how that happened. 3) What did you guys do for halloween? I went trick or treating with Emerson's younger brother. He was dressed like a space ninja (which was really cute), Emerson went as Twitter, and I dressed up like a cow. I wore a GIANT cow costume and three sweaters underneath it (it was cold outside). The cool thing is that I'm really short, so I actually looked like a cow. I don't have a picture with me, but if I get my hands on one i'll post it surely! That night I also went to a party with my friends, and my favorite part was seeing what everyone else dressed up as. My favorite was probably this girl wearing pink tights, pink shoes and a pink dress. She had a headband with a flip-flop on her head.... can you guess what she was? GUM UNDER A SHOE! I also found a ridiculously cute site called My bento lunch and I ordered these awesomely cute sandwich cutters! Aren't they great? They make eating so much more fun (and CUTE!)

Wednesday October 28th - Squishable Snail!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:12:09 +0000

Hi Guys! Guess what? The other day I decided to treat myself to something special, so I bought myself this plushie from www.squishable.com, and it is the absolute CUTEST plushie I have ever owned (that might be a bold claim... I own a lot of plushies... lol) Let me present you, my cute new little SNAIL! (he's actually not little at all... its a HUGE plushie). It arrived today in the mail, and I was a really happy Gaby. I have one big problem though... It doesn't have a name yet :)! So i'm going to poll my lovely DC enthusiasts, and see what you guys think it should be named :)! Leave it in the comments below! This is the deal: If you suggest a name that I love, and I decide to name the little snail after your suggestion, you will win a free month of advertising at DC! Yes! I'm excited! So write in the comments below and feel free to suggest more than 1 name with your comment. Also, the little snail doesn't have a gender yet, so feel free to go with either girl or guy names. Go crazy :)! I'll upload some pictures with my cute snail soon and add them to this post so you can check it out :)! Also, i've FINALLY made the siggy's for my SOTM top 3 winners. Sorry it took so long and I hope you like them! Feel free to ask me to edit anything, I want you to be 100% happy with your Pandas :) Giveaways: Oh and before I forget, let me blog about some new cute giveaways I found: 1) Peace love and Pugs: 50 is Fabulous Sale-abration Give-Away! There will be three lucky winners from this giveaway, so I would recommend joining :)!

October 24th - Interview with Dani & Gifts from Nikki

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:17:49 +0000

Hey guys! I hope everyone's having an amazing weekend! Do you guys like the Halloween layout? Halloween is one of my favorite holidays so I decided to dress up Daily Cute for the occasion. I also want to send a big shout out to my friend Nikki from www.closetkawaii.com. I won a contest at her site and I received the package today. But Nikki was sweet enough to also send along a cute little note, an adorable mamegoma notepad and some milk pocky! Thank you so much Nikki :)! You made me soooooooo happy :). Dani, Bridget and Ash: I promise to make your panda siggy soon! I've been really busy this week/weekend and i've hardly had time to work on Daily Cute at all. Btw, here is the interview with Dani! Dani was the SOTM winner for October (congrats!) Here you can learn more about this great webmiss, and don't forget to check out her site! What is your full name? Danielle Christine Giberti :3 Where are you from? (nationality as well). I am from Los Angeles, California, and i have been here forever! I am a mix of Vietnamese and White :3! How old are you? My age is 13 years old. I was born on February 5th, 1996; a monday. What got you into making websites? (and how long have you been doing it). I used to have a little geocities site, but it went nowhere, that was when i was 7. Then i made a blogspot, and i just blogged. I got inspired by my two friends kitty and ash to get hosted, and then i had to make some content. I have been making websites for about a year. What is your favorite thing about owning a cute site like yours? I like how i get better and better, and its only been a few months since i have been hosted! Its really fun to make little graphics. Its uber fun. What are some of your favorite sites at the moment? I like http://carla.pandasaur.com/ and http://kim.auberginer.org/. Some of the cutest sites on the web. Check them out! o3o Name one of the happiest memories you've ever had: Going to Six Flags with my AVID class. Best day of my life<3. What is your favorite tv show? I don't really watch much television, but i like the Simpsons and Modern Family :D. What is your all time favorite movie? DONNIE DARKO! nuff' said. Do you have any collections? If so, what are they? (and why do you collect it). I collect crane paper. I love making cranes, so simple, yet so pretty~ What is your favorite memory from childhood? I forget :P. Do you know what you want to do when you grow up? I want to become a lawyer. What's your type of guy? A guy who is smart, funny and cute! I don't like guys who are all like,"aye. i am so pretty." >_< If you could go on a date with any celebrity right now, who would it be? They're all old men, ahah. We loved reading your interview Dani! I think this is a really great way to get to know our fellow web misses so i'm going to tag some of my friends so that they answer this in ther blog! I tag Lien, Ferny and Ashleenah to use all these questions! Before I leave, lets not forget the cuteness :)

October 20th - Best of GMH videos & gift pick-ups

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:07:10 +0000

Hey everyone! I'm writing a quick blog so that all SOTM participants pick up their gifts! Next blog I'll update you with a little more on what I've been up to these days. I hit an exciting milestone that I wanted to share with you guys though! I now have 500 Twitter Followers! I'm so excited :)! Thanks to all my followers! GIFT TIME Thanks for participating! Remember to save to your own server :) 1st, 2nd and 3rd place: ps - Dani I still need your colors for the panda :). Leave a comment whenever you can pls! COMING SOON! All participants Also, I wanted to show you guys two of some of my favorite videos. We recently held a GivesMeHope video contest where people made a video with their favorite stories. These were my two favorite entries. I cry whenever I see these videos. Thanks Christine & Lindsay for these wonderful videos :). I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! They are just so touching! The questions with Dani's interview is coming up next blog :)! Giveaways Btw, I wanted to let you guys know about some giveaways that I've joined the in the past couple of days. All of these are completely free! I hope you guys check them out :) 1) Halloween Handmade Drink Coaster Giveaway (10/21) - Super cute! I'm going for the spiderweb coasters. I really hope I win :). 2) $15 Gift Certificate for handmade items - On this contest I'm going for the fuzzy gloves! 3) A perfect dream giveaway - Its a giveaway for sterling silver, metal beads, gray glass pearls earrings! 4) Kansas City Etsy Adjustable Fairy Elven Choker / Necklace 5) Inspired, Wedding tips & ideas "Mr & Mrs" or "Family time" scrapbooks. 6) Creativejenv Halloween tote bag giveaway Oh, and don't forget the cuteness!

October 16th - Congratulations Dani!

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:39:46 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS DANI! You have won October's SOTM! In a fierce competition that was tied all the way to the end, Dani got enough votes before the end of the competition to beat Bridget during October's SOTM. Check out the results: I've decided that since everyone was such a good sport & participant, the top 3 contestants will win the Panda siggy! I will also make a gifts for all the people who participated this month! I probably won't hold another SOTM till a while from now. I want to do a domain competition first and after that I'll probably host another SOTM! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED! I hope you guys had fun (I know I did :) Dani: You will get an email from me soon with questions for the interview which will be posted on my next blog! Also, check out your site being displayed on the right hand navigation! Bridget, Ash and Dani: Let me know what text and color you want for your panda siggy! To all the participants: Keep checking back as I will post gifts for you guys later! Thanks so much! & don't forget the cuteness:

October 10th - SOTM contest coming to the end!

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:41:48 +0000

EDIT: Top DCers is closed, and the results are in! Congratulations to Marg and Rachel! You guys are the TopDCers! In case you are wondering, TopDCers are the most active commenters on the site. For being so supportive and awesome they have won two free weeks of advertising at Daily Cute (& lots of visitors thanks to that!) You guys are now in the TopDCer winning list. To learn more about top DCers, click HERE Hi Everyone! How's everyone been doing? It seems like the question blog went well and a lot of questions were asked :)! If you ever feel like asking any questions go ahead and I'll answer in the next blog. The last question that I didn't get to answer in the last blog was If you could change your name, what would it be? I would probably change it to Elle. I've always loved that name for some reason. :D Anyways, back to other news. I have a couple of updates 1. The SOTM competition will close on the 15th of this month! Be sure to put in your final votes before the 15th. Click HERE 2. We have a new hostee! Welcome Claire to the DC family, we're so happy to have you here! Click HERE to visit her, and look at how cute her layout is: Apart from that, I've been working a lot on Givoogle and GMH. We're currently hosting a GivesMeHope video contest that went online today. To check out the videos and vote for your favorite click HERE. We also went to the University of Chicago the other day to meet with the dean of students. He's working with us bc he's interested in changing the school's computer's homepages to Givoogle :)! Exciting news! Also before I leave, lets not forget today's cuteness!

October 4th - Question Blog!

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:41:45 +0000

Hi Everyone! Long time no blog. I've been pretty sick the past couple of days so I had absolutely no motivation to blog or do anything at Daily Cute :(. I did however, watch too many movies, since that's the only thing that sounds appealing when you are sick and have a fever.
The good news it that I'm back! and ready to start blogging again! My friend Lien @ Hushstar did this type of blog the other day, so I decided to give it a try to. This is a blog where you guys get to ask me any questions about... pretty much anything :)! Life, school, work, hobbies, friends, family etc. This is your chance to really get to know me better. Remember, you can ask as many questions as you like & don't be afraid to ask about anything! n___n
I'll edit the blog post and add questions with answers. Ask away!
Questions & Answers: What's your favorite ice cream flavor? I'm gonna have to go with chocolate cookie dough. No matter what brand it is, cookie dough always tastes FANTASTIC! It's probably got something with the fact that whenever I bake, I always eat half of the batter before it even goes in the oven. lol n___n Do you like anime shows? If so, what's your favorite one? I used to LOVE watching anime shows. I would do it religiously after I got back from school. Once I got to college though, I didn't have any time to watch any of the shows I was into, so I stopped watching altogether. My all time favorite show is Inuyasha, followed closely by Card Captor Sakura, Ranma 1/2 & Yu Yu Hakusho. What got you interested in making a website? When I was 12, I was pretty bored, and I was really into Pokemon. I thought it would be cool if I could create a website for my favorite two pokemon, mew & mewtwo. I started my very first website on a free host called Expage (it doesn't exist anymore). Eventually when Expage became too restricting I learned HTML and moved off to Angelfire, a good free web hosting alternative at the time. Do you collect anything? I collect a couple of things. My largest one is an owl figurine collection. Owls used to be my favorite animal when I was a little girl so whenever I went to visit a new city or country I would search around everywhere to find an owl figurine to add to my collection. I currently have over 30 owls. I also collect magnets of all places I go and I put them up on my fridge :) What's your favorite food in da WHOLE WIDE WORLD? That's TOUGH to answer... See... I love food too much... Lol! but if I HAD to pick one thing, it would probably be sushi. All kinds of sushi :)! I can't get enough of it n__n Do you like drawing? I adore it. One of the websites that I used to have when I was younger was a portfolio of all the things I drew. I especially like drawing chibi (cute) anime characters, since I was really into anime when I was younger :) What kind of movies do you like? I honestly love watching all sorts of movies. I'm not too picky about genre, but my preference is usually comedy. I also really like action movies and horror movies. My best friend Anafer and I are on a constant quest to find the scariest movies. We've found some pretty good ones so far :) What's your favorite animal? Like I mentioned above, it used to be the owl. I still really like them, but honestly I think my favorite animal now is the Chichilla! I've completely fallen in love with Zoe, and I think no other animal can rival its cuteness! What's your favorite show? Its a close match between two. My favorite show today is Family Guy, because no other show can make me laugh as much as that show does! I've watched every single episode, and most episodes I've seen twice or three times. Before Family Guy however, I would have to say Inuyasha takes the credit for being the show that I followed religiously, until cartoon network took it down! (cries u___u;) What did you major in in college? I majored in Management Consulting and minored in International Business. What's your favourite drink? I'm gonna have to go with, the fruit smoothies at Orange Julius. Specifically the banana strawberry smoothie. YUM! What's your favourite music genre & band? I like all types of music! My favorites though are probably the songs that are currently on the radio, because I spend a lot of time in the car! My favorite artist is Taylor Swift :)! All her stories really speak to me and I can't WAIT to see her in concert someday! What's your absolute favorite film? It's really hard to choose one film, but i'd probably go with Spirited Away. Its a Hayao Miyazaki movie that is absolutely fantastic for any age group. Its rated a 97% on rotten tomatoes. Check it out here. What's your job, and do you enjoy it? I just graduated from the University of Notre Dame in may of this year. I've been working full time with Emerson (my fiance), on my other two websites. They are GivesMeHope.com and Givoogle.com. I absolutely LOVE my job. Self employed! We get to make our own schedule (even though we're very hard working, so we don't really take days off on weekends), and I get to work on web programming/managing! (something that started out as a hobby and I've been doing since I was 12)! If you could go on a date with any celebrity, who would it be? Well, the celebrity that I would like the meet the most is actually Taylor Swift. I think she's an amazing girl who is so passionate about what she does, and RIDICULOUSLY talented. So I guess it would be more like getting coffee than an actual date. lol! Any advice for girls with websites? Put a lot of work into it and keep the content original! Sometimes it's really hard to think of new things to do on a website, but sometimes you can do things with a spin! Like a SOTM competition with interviews, special adoptables, creative contests, etc! People will surely keep coming back :)! Do you like Pirates of the Caribbean? Love it! My favorite movie was the first one, although I really liked the second and third too! What would be the one thing you would save if your house was on fire? Ever since I have Zoe the answer is definitely, her and her cage! Before that though, it would DEFINITELY be my macbook. Can't live without it! What is your favorite color? It's probably pink. Even though its not the color that I wear the most, its still the color I like the most :) What is your favorite memory from childhood? One of the coolest things that ever happened to me was when I was 6 years old. We were in a cruise of the Caribbean islands, and the cruise had a casino. I was playing in one of the slot machines, when suddenly I hit all lucky 777's! I won 500 dollars in QUARTERS! To this day I can still hear the coins raining down! What are your favorite books? (besides HP) Snap! Harry Potter is my favorite series! Apart from HP, these are up there: Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, To kill a Mockingbird.

September 28th - Zoe my baby chinchilla!

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:03:27 +0000

Hi Everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I was away for the weekend and only had my phone for internet access so I couldn't update DC. I have been updating my twitter (from my phone though) so a lot of you probably know I was at the Purdue vs. Notre Dame game. Btw... if you don't have twitter, you should get it. Its my new recent addiction, I love it! Follow me here
I've recently started doing a new initiative on my twitter. For 30 minutes each day, I'm going around to my friends/followers on twitter and saying nice things about them, their websites, choice of music, profile pic, etc. I've done if for two days now, and everyone seems to be loving it. It makes me so happy to lighten up people's days n___n. I hope to keep doing this for a long time :) If you are a follower of mine on twitter, if you get a random tweet from me, now you know why!
On other news... meet Zoe! my baby chinchilla. I don't have a camera so the photo is low quality, but I also have a video that I took with the camera I won from the I can has cheezburger contest :). Hope you enjoy the video :)! I'm planning on getting a camera soon so I can have higher quality pics, and I need to get more lighting in because the pictures are a little dark. The video is short, and Emerson gives Zoe a kiss :)

September 24th - We♥it

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:27:11 +0000

Hey guys! So as many of you may know, a lot of people in the pixel/cute community have been blogging about We♥it. It is a free visual bookmark service, where you "heart" your favorite images, and the website bookmarks them for you. You can follow your friends, see what they are "hearting", and get a lot of inspiration from the beautiful images.
After all my online friends signed up, I felt compelled to give it a try, and I must say that I ♥ the website too :). I found an this breathtaking image, which is now my new Facebook picture. Something about it so enticing. If you want to follow me at We♥it, my username is gabymontero

I also took a screenshot of my "hearts", so you get an idea of what the images there look like
On other news, I GOT MY CHINCHILLA!!!, but you are gonna have to come back tomorrow to look at pictures of her. (Ps: if you want a sneak peak, check out my twitter) I'm taking a video of her too and adding it to Youtube so you guys can see her. More details about my lovely chinchilla coming your way tomorrow!
The SOTM competition is going wonderful, keep at it contestants, the three people in the lead are currently, Danielle, Bridget and Ashleenah, but there is plenty of time for the other contestants to catch up.

I'm wondering if after this SOTM is over, you guys would want to do another SOTM or would you guys prefer a domain competition? Essentially, you hold some sort of competition to win a domain name of your choice! (and hosting from dailycute.net if you need it). Tell me if you would be interested in something like that in the comments!
Top Dcer points will be updated after I finish this blog! There's still some more updates that I haven't mentioned but this blog is starting to get long so i'll post it tomorrow! Have a wonderful day guys :)!

September 21st - Back!

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:07:24 +0000

Hi Everyone! Long time no update! The reason is that I wanted to give the SOTM the spotlight for a while so the sites could accumulate a lot of votes! Good luck to all the entrants you guys are doing fantastic! Keep it up till the 15th of October! To vote for SOTM click on the image below. These are the current results:

In regards to updates, here we go:
My affies have given me some gifts lately which are posted below! Thanks so much for these wonderful gifts! If you want to see who gave me each one, click on them.

Also, Daily Cute was written up in blondish.com, and it was selected as a site to quench your "cute" design craving! Check out a screenshot, or click on it to check out the article

I also found the missing star at Catch-a-star.net and got this prize for it!
Finally, the drawing board submissions have been updated, and include recent additions such as

And that's pretty much it! I've decided that the comments on the blogs regarding the SOTM will not be counted towards TopDcers, because everyone and their brother commented on it. But this blog entryWILL count towards top DCer points, so don't forget to comment! Before I go, check out the cuteness!

Site of the Month time!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:30:04 +0000

I've waited a couple of days to give everyone a chance to enter the competition, and we have 12 AMAZING competitors! (this will be a big SOTM competition!) Good luck to everyone!
Rules & Recommendations
1. The voting booth is configured so that each person can only vote once a day. You may vote as many times (and for as many sites) as you wish, but you are limited to one vote a day. 2. Because the competition is starting at the middle of the month, the voting booth will be open until October 15th. When the poll is closed the winner will be announced. 3. Tell your visitors about the SOTM competition! You may do so however you want! You can blog about it, make a banner for it on your site, put a link on a visible place, whatever you think will get you the most votes!
4. If you want to link to this blog entry/voting booth use the following url:
http://www.dailycute.net/app/news/full_story/137
And that's it! Good luck to everyone and may the voting begin!
Contestants:
Rebecca @ http://hushstar.net/rebecca Emma @ http://peach-palm.webs.com Danielle @ http://dani.pandasaur.com James @ http://gippersnaplyts.com Bridget @ http://stardust.dailycute.net Marg @ http://www.margsanimals.com/blogs Lou @ http://hushstar.net/lou Ferny @ http://ferny.dailycute.net Angelica @ http://angelica.dailycute.net Ashlenaah @ http://ashleenah.dailycute.net Lexi @ http://bubblewand.pandasaur.com Julia @ http://lmxxrnd.blogspot.com

Voting Booth

PS - Top Dcers, your buttons are up on the left navigation bar to be advertised for two weeks! Congrats again on winning Top Dcers!

September 10th - CONTEST TIME! everyone cheers

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:59:11 +0000

Hi Everyone! I decided that its time to bring some contests and new activities to DC, which is the reason DailyCute is having its first ever Site of the Month contest! This SOTM has many prizes though :)! The winner of the SOTM will win three things:
1. Their site will be featured for an entire month here at DailyCute in a "Spotlight On" box.
2. The winner will get an online interview that will be displayed here at Daily Cute! (unless you request not to, that is). The interview will be a mix of website/personal questions, like the site's history, future plans for the site, personal interests, hobbies, etc.
3. A custom Panda Siggy for your site, message board, etc! This one has my name on it, but I can change the color and size for your name :)

I think this is a nice way to make SOTM more personal, and to actually get to know our SOTM winners better!

How to participate
In the comments for this post, please write:
Your Name:
Site Name:
Site url:
Questions/comments:
I will leave this blog post up for 1-3 days depending on how many signups we get. Once the participants have joined, I will set up a voting booth, where our visitors can vote for the SOTM. Participants should also blog about the contest so their visitors can come to DC and support them during the competition!
Good luck to everyone and I hope people enjoy this contest at DailyCute! Btw, don't forget the cuteness:

September 9th - and the winner iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis drumroll

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:30:27 +0000

Hi Everyone! Its the end of the week! (Actually its Wednesday, it just took me longer than I thought it would), and i'm here to thank all my lovely commenters for commenting on my blog! These were the final scores:
Marg12 (8)
Puffs (6)
Ashleenah (5)
Jamesisgsnap (4)
Liesl (2)
Ferny (2)
SarahNL (2)
Dita (1)
Clopolly (2)
Danielle (1)

Thanks to everyone for being such wonderful guests and commenting on my posts. Like I promised, the top 2 DCers will win 2 weeks of free advertising! Congrats to Marg and Puffs! You guys are the Top DCers! Please comment on this post with your site url and site button so I can link you on the advertising section! You are now also listed as winner at the TopDCers page! I have also reset the top DCers comments to 0 to give everyone a fair chance. In two weeks the next 2 TopDcers will be picked and you will have a chance to win 2 free weeks of advertising.
I have a couple more annoucements:
1. Thanks for everyone who voted for DC at the THMB site of the year competition! I appreciate it so much! We were really close to winning! Here were the final results! Hopefully next year we will win!

2. Also, two of my lovely affies provided DC with these two cute buttons as affie gifts. Thanks Lou Bridget and Faith!

That's its for this blog, pretty soon i'll be posting about a new contest that i'm thinking about starting, but details will come later! Until next time, and before I go, don't forget the cuteness:

September 3rd - Happy Belated Birthday (to me... lol) and Wedding!

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:37:20 +0000

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates recently. As you can guess I've been pretty busy with my birthday which was on September 1st! I didn't have time to make a blog entry here, which is such a shame I missed out on my b-day wishes :( ! And once the celebrations were over we had to pack to come to Jersey for Emerson's cousin's wedding.
We woke up this morning at 5am and it was a 10 hour drive, but we made it to New Jersey! Tomorrow is the wedding, but we're staying for a couple of days so I won't be back home in a while.
My birthday was really fun too! We went to Chillis with all my friends and then out to a club. Dylan even bought me a cute Tiara so people bought me drinks at the bar for free! The night before that Henry Emerson and Dyl cooked dinner and we had a pre-birthday celebration. I took a picture of the dinner, check it out here
Another thing that was awesome, (and if you follow me on Twitter you already know), Is that I won a video camera from the I can has cheezburger contest! look at the images below! It was so lucky and random, it was the best birthday surprise ever! I'm going to bed now because we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow, but I won't leave without posting some cuteness!

August 31st - Its my Birthday soon!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:52:36 +0000

Hi Everyone! I'm really excited because.... *drumroll*.... its my birthday on September 1st! I'll be turning 22!. Which is pretty crazy! I still am not used to the idea that I've graduated from college, so turning 22 feels weird. Anyway, I'm really excited to celebrate with my friends! I don't know what we're doing yet, probably dinner and then going out to a club or bar.
Also, I've been searching for Chinchillas around my area, because I want to get a baby Chinchillas. If you raise a Chinchilla when its a baby, it becomes really attached to its owner, so if I got one, I'd definitely want to get a baby one :). The Chinchilla I'm thinking about buying is 3.5 hours away from here though, (which would be about 7 hours round trip)... so I don't know if its happening or not. I'll keep you guys posted! Before I leave, let me leave you with some cuteness submitted by one of our readers!