Congratulations to Laura, Cathy and Nick for winning the scavenger hunt yesterday at Seattle Square! Enjoy your lunch at Delicatus in Pioneer Square, guys!
Keep an eye out for the Hawaiian warrior at the next Seattle Square!
The warriors of ancient Hawaii often waged war against rival tribes, carrying cannons and firearms and various weapons made from the native Hawaiian koa tree to bludgeon other warriors with. Our Hawaiian warrior, however, is much too cute for that. I imagine he’s more into hanging out at the beach or lounging about in a velvet robe. Or, more likely, we can catch him hanging out weekly at the Seattle Square market, where he’ll mob with various vintage effects and pop up randomly to surprise Seattle Square patrons with prizes!
For the rest of the summer, Seattle Square is offering a scavenger hunt at every market featuring the Hawaiian warrior. The rules: Find the Hawaiian warrior while sifting through the outdoor market for everything from locally designed clothing, to handmade housewares and accessories, to mid-century furniture. This week if you happen to find the little warrior helmet with a mohawk of feathers hanging out at one of the vendor booths at the Square, turn it into one of the Seattle Square organizers right away for a $20 gift certificate to Pioneer Square’s premier deli, Delicatus. At Delicatus you can get artisan-quality sandwiches made from local Northwest ingredients. Our little mascot is promising big already!
Keep an eye out for the Hawaiian warrior at the next Seattle Square! In the meantime, we’re having some trouble naming the new Seattle Square Scavenger Hunt mascot. Should it be something like Tony? Laid back and a distant cousin of The Situation? Or something like Ikaika, an ancient Hawaiian name for “masculine”, “strength”, and “Hawaiian warrior helmet”? Please nominate a name in the comments – we’ll be putting the final vote to the people of Seattle on Facebook next week!
Using a random number generator, the winners of the two blogger contests are:
1. 1 night stay at Courtyard by Marriott (including breakfast in the morning):
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2. Cooking Class for 10 by Luigi DeNunzio, chef and owner of Seattle’s Little Italy restaurants
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We had almost 100 total blogs and articles written about the market! Thank you so much for coming down and taking time to take pictures + write about The Seattle Square. It was instrumental in spreading the word.
If you wrote a blog post, I also have $5 gift certificates to FX McRory’s (fantastic restaurant in Pioneer Square) — email your address to jen@theseattlesquare.com and I’ll get one in the mail!
I am in the process of updating our press page with all of the recent articles + blog posts about the market. (note: I am so far behind since we lost our social media volunteer!) So if I haven’t linked to your post or article yet, don’t worry — it should be up soon.
As this Saturday is the last day of the market, we will be announcing the winners by next Tuesday.
Up for prizes:
A free night’s stay at Pioneer Square’s new Courtyard by Marriott (+ breakfast in the morning)
A cooking class for 10 people by Little Italy restaurant owner + chef Luigi DeNunzio
Just make sure to post your blog by next Monday, September 27th, and we will announce the winners the following day. Make sure we know about it by emailing it to us, or by mentioning us in your tweet (@SeattleSquare)
The Facebook Photo Booth has been such a fun part of the market — I have a blast looking for new outfits and it just gets better when I get to see the results. If you haven’t seen it on our Facebook page, here is the photo of the July 24th photo booth winner:
Congrats you guys! You won some fun prizes from the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, including your own gold panning kit, gold rush scrabble and some real gold.
I’ve just uploaded last week’s photos from the Facebook photo booth and I just crack up when I scroll through them. Don’t forget to tag your picture for a chance to win a $50 chocolate gift basket from the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory!
Here are a few of my favorites:
Our amazing social media sponsor, Banyan Branch, has organized a bunch of different contests for the market throughout the summer.
In addition to a Facebook photo tagging contest (which we’ll talk about soon), they have organized a blogger contest.
Here are the rules: [Right after I wrote that and looked at their sheet to see what the rules are, only to see "there are no rules here, just start blogging and you could win."] Awesome.
Basically any blogger who writes about the Seattle Square will be automatically entered to win a fabulous prize.
Banyan has been monitoring all of the sites and blogs that have been writing about the market so far, and once a month, they will choose a blogger to win a great prize from a local Pioneer Square business. The actual prizes haven’t been announced yet, but I promise — it will be worth it!
For more information on the contest, or to submit your blog for review, email Michelle@banyanbranch.com.