How about we kick off this week with a giveaway, shall we?
Clevelanders, it’s time to get ready for the 2013 Great Big Home + Garden Show taking place February 2 – 10 at the IX Center.

In its fourth year, the Great Big Home + Garden Show will feature more than 650 exhibitors, new improvement features, celebrities, familiar features and returning favorites from the previous shows.
Wondering which home improvement experts and celebrity guests will appear?…
- Professional Organizer Peter Walsh from the hit TLC show “Clean Sweep”
- Matt Fish, owner and chef of Melt Bar and Grilled
- “Top Chef” participant and Ohio-native Chris Crary
- and Matt Fox, co-host of HGTV’s “Room by Room” and host and producer of “Around the House with Matt and Shari.”

This year’s Idea Home (photo c/o event’s website)
Other event highlights include:
- Daily themed cooking demonstrations taking place on the Loretta Paganini Cooking Stage.
- U.S. landmark-themed Showcase Gardens created by Northeast Ohio’s top landscapers.
- A 4,000-square-foot Idea Home, and the 2,000-square-foot Dream Basement.
- The Petitti Gardening Stage, featuring daily gardening seminars held by Northeast Ohio landscape experts.
- The “Product Runway” fashion show on Saturday, February 2.

You can purchase tickets online - where you can save $3 on each ticket - or you can take a chance at winning two general admission tickets here on PIP!
SO… HOW DO YOU WIN TICKETS TO THE GREAT BIG HOME + GARDEN SHOW?
- Mandatory first entry: Leave a comment telling me what 2013 Great Big Home + Garden Show feature or celebrity you are most interested in seeing. It’s that easy!
- Follow @poiseinparma on Twitter. Please let me know if you do by commenting on this post!
- Follow @GreatBigShow on Twitter. Please let me know if you do by commenting on this post!
- Add Poise in Parma to your Google Reader or RSS feed reader of choice. Please let me know if you do by commenting on this post!
- Twitter users can get an extra entry each day by tweeting: “I want to win the #CLE @GreatBigShow giveaway from @poiseinparma! http://wp.me/p1303r-2c4″. Please let me know each day you tweet this by commenting on this post!
You have until Thursday, January 24th at 11:59PM EST to enter. The winner will be announced on Friday the 25th. Make sure to leave a separate entry for each one of these tasks that you accomplish. Since this event takes place in Cleveland, make sure you can attend before entering! UPDATE ON 1/25: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED – WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE.
Keep up to date on other event features and beautiful designs over at the Great Big Home + Garden show Facebook page. So get ready and enter today!
Disclosure: In return for offering this giveaway for two general admission tickets to the event, I received two media passes to attend the 2013 Great Big Home + Garden Show. All photos c/o event’s website. All thoughts and opinions are my own.






We just built a new house so we want to see everything! But I am very interested in Petitti’s because we need to plan our landscaping. I’m also doing built-ins, crowne moulding, board and batten treatments, furniture makovers, and trying to design and build the kitchen island of my dreams. Along with about a hundred other projects. I’ll be excited to see everything they have!
I follow you on twitter, which is how I found out about this giveaway! @tammigirl
I just signed up to follow Great Big Home Show on twitter, too. @tammigirl
I really want to check out, among other things, the Petitti Garden Stage.
I’m following you on Twitter
I’m following the Great Big Home Show on Twitter
I am subscribed to your blog in my google reader
I would subscribe, but I can’t figure out where to sign up for emails.
I did tweet, however: https://twitter.com/tammigirl/status/293355391172096001
I tweeted
I’d love to meet Peter Walsh! I LOVED his show when he was on TLC – so sad that I can’t watch him on the OWN Network, since my cable provider doesn’t have the OWN channel.
I follow you on Twitter (@CarlyRose0711)
I follow @GreatBigShow on Twitter (@CarlyRose0711)
I’d love to see Peter Walsh! This would be so much fun!
I follow on Twitter (gedert014)
and I tweeted.
and I follow @GreatBigShow
and I follow in my Google reader!
I have signed up for your feeds via email now.
And thank you.
I read your blog but I don’t follow you on twitter cus I follow you in life. Where ever you are, I am there spying on you. lol
What’s a Google reader? Do I need one? How well trained is he or she? Where do I get one? How did I live so long with out one and twitter?
I tweeted this: “I want to win the #CLE @GreatBigShow giveaway from @poiseinparma! http://wp.me/p1303r-2c4″.
I follow @GreatBIgShow for an entry to win
I followed @PoiseinParma for an entry to win
I am most excited for The Petitti Gardening Stage!
added you to my google reader
Celebrity I would love to meet?….Why of course George Clooney or Michael Buble’…lol! Would love these tix due to the finishing of the backyard this year…so I would like to meet at Petitti Gardens with any of them so I get great ideas!
I’m excited for Peter Walsh.
I follow you on Twitter as @MalininGrl.
I follow @GreatBigShow on Twitter as @MalininGrl.
You’re in my Google Reader.
I tweeted this.
I tweeted on January 22 at 1 p.m.
I need to win cus I have no social life.
I need to get ideas for the wasteland behind my house they call a back yard.
If I win I can take you or your mom. Cleo still doesn’t like big crowds.
Mr. Jinx is busy that weekend but I’ll take his ticket if he should win. lol
I tweeted on January 23 at 10:47 am
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I tweeted on January 24 at 8:42 am
I love to visit the celebrity gardens at the show. Gives me hope that spring is coming soon.
I follow @poiseinparma on Twitter
I follow @GreatBigShow on Twitter
I tweeted today, Thursday
tweeted again today for another entry
Most excited to see Peter Walsh
follow you on twitter
follow the garden show on twitter
you are on my google reader
I tweeted: “I want to win the #CLE @GreatBigShow giveaway from @poiseinparma! http://wp.me/p1303r-2c4“
Hey! I tweeted
I can’t wait to see Petiti’s Gardening Stage…might be buying a house soon and I need some pointers!
I follow you on Twitter.
I follow Great Big Home Show on Twitter.
I tweeted about this!
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Is it bad that I don’t want to see any of the celebs? They draw crowds and I don’t like crowds! I can’t wait to see that house, though. I love Craftsman style and want to see how they incorporate it into a modern build.
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