YEG Wood Sunglasses Giveaway
I often receive emails through my contact form about new products and services but this is only the second time a message has been about sunglasses. Not limiting my contest to purely big-brand items, I am pleased to partner with YEG Wood for a unique giveaway.
YEG Wood, based out of Edmonton, makes wooden apparel such as watches, iPhone cases, and sunglasses. Sustainably made from Cherrywood, their eco-chic TreeFarers style is based on the classis Ray-Ban Wayfarer. The hinges are spring-loaded so they can bend in or out and the lenses have a medium tint, rated UV400.
They have offered up a pair of wooden sunglasses to one lucky reader of mine. The winner can choose between the TreeFarer in Cherry, the TreeFarer in Rust, or the Porschler in Marble — all valued at $119.
To enter to win, leave a comment on this post naming your favourite tree species or favourite specific tree (as we’re sticking with a wooden theme). My favourite tree is in Stanley Park, just up the Third Beach Trail, although it was a victim of the windstorm five years ago.
You can also enter by posting the following on Twitter:
I will draw one winner at random from all entries on at 10:00am on December 27, 2011. If you’re in Edmonton, you can check out YEG Wood’s official launch party this Saturday as well.
Update The YEG Wood folks would like to extend a discount to all Miss604.com readers as well. The code is valid until January 15, 2012 and will take $20 off the purchase of sunglasses. Here’s how to use it on the website:
Select your glasses and click “Add To Cart”.
Click “Checkout”
In Step 1 of 2, enter all the pertinent info; then click “Continue to Next Step”
In Step 2 of 2, under Discounts enter “Miss604GetsWoodGlasses” and then click “Apply”
The price will be adjusted, and then you are all clear to complete your transaction.
With Standard Shipping, glasses will arrive in 4 – 5 days; with Super Fast Christmas Shipping, they will arrive in 2.
Update The winner is @TanyaFanya!
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Oh my god. I’ve always wanted wood-framed sunglasses. And based out of Edmo! Bonus.
Favorite tree? Aspen. Definitely.
Cedar, it smells so good!
I love magnolia trees, particularly in the Westend
Willows are my fave!
The Arbutus tree outside the Empress hotel in Victoria, BC
as far as trees in nature, my favourite is the Doug Fir! And for wood to make things from, I love the grain of alder!!
My favourite tree is the huge one at Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island
My favorite tree is the Hollow tree at Stanley park! It’s been looking great since the refurbishment! My favorite type of tree is an Acer ‘sangu kako’ also known as a Coral Bark Maple. It has awesome pink barks that look amazing this time of year!
These are beautiful! Never heard of it but would definitely love a pair!
Oops my favourite trees are definitely willows!
My favourite wood is birch. I like when the bark is peeling off the trunk and you can see the new bark underneath. And I love the art made with birch bark.
I’m going to have to go with the big willow tree at 2nd beach (near the outdoor pool). Beautiful, atmospheric and home to a whole murder o’ crows…
Being from northern Ontario, my heart is with the birch tree…Palm trees are cool too, especially when visitors see them! OMG! Vancouver has palm trees!!
My favourite trees are oak trees. I love how big they grow and they are good for climbing!
I would go with the beautiful Arbutus tree with it beautiful red bark. Perfect pair with Vancouver’s weather, the beautiful red darkens with the rain.
red cedar
Being a good ol’ Canadian girl (who loves maple syrup! But, really, who doesn’t?) I have to say maple trees! They’re also so pretty in autumn!.
Arbutus. It rises to whatever occasion: clinging to craggy rocks or soaring above the canopy. And the color! We need to find some blown-down arbutus to make a limited run of glasses out of 😉
Weeping willows! We’re so lucky – we’ve got an enormous one in our backyard.
Weeping willows, I used to climb them as a kid.
My favourite tree is a cedar I used to sit in at outside of my school in Toronto. it’s base formed a wooden seat where I could dangle my feet above a lush ravine.
I love cedar trees. There is one just under our apartment and the most amazing fragrance drifts up to the apartment in the summer.
Tis the season so my vote is for Christmas trees, or good old fashioned pine trees.
My favourite tree is the Blue Spruce(s) that were planted for each of my daughters when they were born! Still at a park in Edmonton (ironically enough!) and still growing strong! Second favourite wood is cedar… the smell will always remind me of my Grandparents!
Maple. Not only does it have amazing fall colours but also gives us Maple Syrup!
I love willow trees!
My favourite is the Arbutus. In fact, my fiance just proposed with a ring box he carved from ome’s branch! Wood sunglasses would totally match….
These look great – very West Coast – would love to wear them at the 2012 Summer Olympics. And I love cedar.
i like the big tree on hornby island 🙂
i remember the stanley park tree … amazing!
my favourite trees … arbutus.
I love the arbutus.
Birch, the veneers that come from it are lovely.
These look rad! Would love to have a pair of the Cherry! 🙂
Zebrawood is the coolest looking wood out there.
They are completely unique and never look the same.
I’ve always loved the smell of a fresh cut Pine during Christmas.
love the banyan.
This is my favourite tree… not even sure what it is. Dogwood?
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I have always loved Weeping Willows. Those sunglasses are super cool.
There is a tree near my moms house that was put up one day when I was younger.
My brothers and I always used to run into the woods behind an empty lot and there was an empty space that we would play in. One day we ran back there and a tree was planted. It wasn’t like any other tree, it was a pale green, almost white in colour. I never found out what the tree was (or where it came from) but I always thought fondly of it because it brings back great memories of playing with my brothers.
Cedar trees by far!
One of the most memoriable trees is a 200 year old fig tree that I saw near Caines. The grandpa tree gives off this Santa Clause feel. It was a very special tree.
I love Arbutus trees! I’m from the East and hadn’t laid eyes on one until 7 years ago when I moved to BC. Beautiful trees, beautiful glasses, great company!
Cedar trees, because of their magnificant scent!
Maple!
I’ve always loved weeping willows, theyre so mesmerizing!
whoa!!
I have always loved weeping willows. I’ve always wanted one to sit under and read in the summer time.
Koa wood is my favourite wood for sure, takes me back to Honolulu…sigh
wow – very eco – cool – my favorite tree is the white alders moving to a summer breeze
I love sequoia trees. So amazingly beautiful!
A 400 or so year old western red cedar that I’ve visited for about 20 years now. It’s shaped a little corner of second growth into a beautiful marsh with ferns, a yew, and younger cedars and firs as neighbors.
Hummm…not easy…cedar for their smell….oak for their strenght …sugar maple for their colours and yummyness and arbutus for their funky looks….I could go on but I won t!
The line of trees a block from my old house. The roots were all coming out and they made it fun to bike over 😉
I tweeted. https://twitter.com/#!/carolem/status/147933891112607744
Have always adored cedar trees 🙂
I love sequoia trees – they are so big!
My love for trees and involvement in conservation earned me a reputation amongst family and friends as a “tree hugger” years ago so this is a tough question. The tree that sparked my interest in the environment is this beautiful willow tree along the lake shore in the Okanagan but my favourite is definitely the Sequoia!
My fave tree is the arbutus…all around Cortes Island. Each one looks like a beautiful modern dancer perched on a rocky cliff.
My favourite tree is in Ontario. I planted an apple seed when I was 5 and now that tree has become something substantial.
I make sure to go and see it when I am home. Still waiting for the year I get to eat my first apple.
Love cedar trees! There are a few huge ones I love to visit near Squamish Valley Road.
Palm Trees
Hailing from Northern California, I do love me some Redwood trees.
Cedar – because of it’s usefulness and smell
Love the cherry blossom trees!
The Cherry Blossom trees in bloom.
Pine Tree’s are my favourite.
Love willow trees.
Cedar trees are the best tree species!
Fruit trees. Apple and wild cherry!
I love the large redwood trees.
My favorite is the Redwood Tree. I still remember the trip my parents took us on in the 1970’s to the Trees Of Mystery in Klamath California. The Redwood trees stood as tall as 375 feet and they grew up up to 20 feet in diameter. They are the largest living thing on earth! They are really something to see!
Cedar, it reminds me of my grandparents house on the beach.
Willow trees.
Birch 🙂
Cherry blossoms are my favourite cause they’re so gorgeous to look at! Sad that my dad and I are both allergic to them though…!
Love Willow trees.
I like cherry blossom and cedar trees.
Doesn’t everyone love PALM TREES?!?
I like spruce because it smells so nice.
Oh Maple tree….where to begin?
You provide sticky, sugary syrup for drizzling upon our pancakes turning a flat bland bread into a really special morning treat. You provide much needed (and appreciated) shade on the hottest of days and we can hang tire swings from you to swoop around over the ground and fly through the long days of childhood. You look like you’re on fire with your brilliant red and orange leaves in the fall. You’re the first tree around to drop leaves in the ground much to the delight of all the neighborhood kids. Maple is the mother of all trees 🙂
I love all trees but in particular willow trees and Cherry trees.
Willow
Maple Tree
I love cedar trees.
white birch
PINE!
Red maple, or whichever one produces those cherry blossoms.
Oak trees. My elementary school had them all over the grounds and was named for them
I love the Maple Tree Grove at VanDusen Gardens.It smells just like maple sugar and feels so fresh.
That’s interesting!!
Birch trees, for their interesting looking trunks.
Pine trees because they smell like Christmas
Cedar – it’s classic
I love all trees, but I have a favourite White Birch back in NB that I grew up with!
My favourite tree is in my front yard in East Van – a giant maple.
My favorite tree is a Douglas Fir, and we planted one in my Aunt’s yard of beautiful trees, it’s the only Douglas Fir, in honor of my dad, who’s name was Doug, just after he passed in 2005. Whenever I go up to 100 Mile, I go and spend some time with my “dad’s” tree.
Cedar. Reminds me of Tofino.
I love the ancient, giant trees hidden all over Vancouver Island!
Maple, definitely.
It’s Maple for me.
kauri – it’s a native new zealand wood.
I like the smell of cedar wood.
My favourite has to be pine because they smell like Chirstmas.
partial to Cedar, saw similiar glasses in Portland, love them.
Larch trees for me!
Orange Groves are the best – the smell of orange blossom – ah! to die for 🙂
Definately cedar. Our next door neighbour built a cedar fence that divides our property and I love sitting near it in the summer, it makes our yard smell so good.
cedar, just reminds me of camping as a child and the PNE smell…lol
These are too cool! I saw a pair of wooden eyeglasses years ago and loved them. Would SO love to win this!
sequoia trees also my fave!
I’m new to and amazed by the range of woods we find here. Haven’t narrowed one down, still discovering them.
Arbutus 🙂
Quercus kellogii
Arbutus is my favorite.
Cedar ftw!
Blue spruce trees
Cedar. Such a part of the west coast.
I have an affinity for willow trees, when the wind is blowing they sound like the ocean1
Cedar!
This might be my only Christmas present this year.
willow is my fav! XD
I really love hemlock trees. Something about the way that they flop over at the top is really amusing to me.
Being a local boy, it’s gotta be cedar!
My favourite tree is the Mountain Ash in my Grandpa’s backyard. So stately.
My tweet
http://twitter.com/#!/Trublujo/status/149299320473133056
trublujo at hotmail dot com
My favorite tree is the birch, I love the white bark. I also love Crimson King Maples
I love Japanese Maple trees. My favorite specific tree is at a house I lived in about 5 years ago — it’s a HUGE pecan tree in the backyard.
Thanks for the great giveaway!!!
These are wicked cool!
I love the Trembling aspen tree.
My favourite tree is the arbutus tree and my dad had a few of them on his property on the Sunshine Coast
Arbutus trees are my favourite 🙂
My favourite are the Garry Oaks around Victoria
These are cool sunglasses – would love a pair!
My favourite tree is the oak.
Willow trees, I think. Though, those living root bridges in Cherrapunji India are pretty awesome as well.
Pine trees are my favourite. They are so beautiful.
Cedar! I love the smell.
Cherry trees: their blossoms transform Vancouver streets!
Definitely cedar. Smells so good and I was surrounded by them growing up.
I love the smell of Cedar!
Do Christmas trees count? so pretty!
Maple trees!
Maple trees
Cherry Blossoms 🙂
I miss the gorgeous cherry tree in the backyard of my childhood home in Richmond.
there’s an arbutus tree hanging over the water in Drumbeg Park on Gabriola that’s great to sit under 🙂
Just saw these and loved them! Can’t imagine owning a pair, so exciting!
Maple trees!
Favourite tree: the hollowed tree at science world that you can climb inside. Childhood:)
My favorite tree is a poplar that I used to climb to get on my roof and watch fireworks or win at hide and seek.
the big tree in my parents backyard
Birch!
I had a few pair of YEG Wood sunglasses years ago. I used to love rudy project glasses, but I don’t think I’d spend that much on glasses again when I can get good quality from a $70 pair of tifosis.
weeping willow
Coconut trees. When I see them it means I’m on vacation!
I’d have to say that cherry trees are my favourite. 🙂
I’m a sucker for maple trees 🙂
I love Christmas trees !!
I absolutely love the smell of red cedars so red cedars it is!!!
Arbutus trees look absolutely amazing imo
Douglas Fir is my fav 🙂
My favorite tree that comes to mind at the moment is the well lit up tree at Holland Park in Surrey. My photo of…
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+1 for pine trees. Gotta love ’em.
The Blue Spruce… Its so beautiful and uniquely colourful
Love Maple trees. Grew up with a whole forest of them near our house. Great memories of them!
I love Cedar trees.
these are so cool
My tree is the giant Blue Spruce in our front yard…..the quails love it too.
My favorite tree is the Douglas Fir. They smell so good! I love these glasses. Really nice looking!
I posted this on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/jasmyth10/status/151852913352900610.
Zabrano wood would be cool
Ever since I was a young girl, I have loved weeping willows. I would lay under them and soak in their magical sense of calm. Now, I am in my 50’s and am still doing it!
I love Sitka Spruce!
i love cedar , the aroma, the fact it is so easy to work with.