£40 voucher winner!

Sorry sorry, I am so tardy in revealing the winner of the £40 voucher giveaway! 

I numbered the comments 1-14, then I used the good old random Random Number Generator and extracted a rather blurry snapshot of the result...

And lucky number 13 is...Claire of The Hookery!  Congratulations Claire!  I will forward your email to CSN who will email you your £40 voucher so you can get shopping!

Thanks so much everyone who commented and left me positive vibes - it seems to have worked as for now I still out of hopsital and actually seeing some improvement to the blasted condition that makes me so unwell!  Still no sign of baby, I will keep you all posted!

xx

£40 Voucher Giveaway!

The lovely people at CSN Stores have given me another chance to do a little giveaway for my lovely readers - I have a whopping £40 voucher to give away to the lucky winner! Not heard of CSN yet?  They're a UK based online supplier of..well..pretty much everything from wardrobes to wall-art, lamps to cookie cutters.  If you win you can use the voucher in any of their online stores and treat yourself (or someone else if you're feeling really generous) to something lovely in time for Christmas!

I wanted to do a little giveaway of this kind for purely selfish reasons - I need a little good karma to come my way.  I am having a Bad Week.  Considering it's only Monday night you can imagine how rough my day has been!  I am not well at all and could end up being admitted to hospital for the remaining 3 weeks of my pregnancy...I don't want this obviously so I need all the postive karma I can get!

In the absence of any of my own photos to accompany this post, and in honour of winter fast approaching, here are some lovely frosty things I picked out from CSN..stuff I would definitely be buying if I were lucky enough to have a £40 voucher...

Marvell's Ltd Winter Tree Scene Wall Art

KitchenCraft Star Shaped Cookie Cutters

Dar Lighting Gazetta Table Lamp

This giveaway is open to UK readers only I'm afraid as they only ship to the UK, sorry lovely US readers!  All you have to do is leave me a comment (and send a little luck and positive vibes my way of course).  Make sure you leave your email address please, if I can't get in touch with you I can't send you your online voucher!

You have until 7pm GMT this Friday (12th Nov) night to enter.  What are you waiting for?

£25 Giveaway winner!

For the crafty homebody blogger the biggest sin
must be a post with no pictures in,
I hope you'll forgive me for leaving them out
I hope you don't whine, or stamp or pout.
So to make up for being picture free
I am blogging in rhyme as you can see....

Well ok, I am not going to write an entire post in rhyme, don't worry!  But I do I hope you excuse the lack of pictures though, and the tardiness of my announcement of the winner, life has got in the way the last few days, long story.

So without further ado as they say, the winner is...

Mrs Shilts!  Fellow crafty person and devotee of the boxy pouch.

I used a random number generator thingy, numbered all the comments 1 through to 12 and, well, randomly generated...

Congratulations Mrs Shilts!  I will get the people at CSN stores to email you your £25 voucher straight away so you can get spending!  Thanks to everybody who entered and to those of you who I shamelessly bribed to follow me :)

Photos will return once more,
of this fact you can sure.
So it just remains to say,
farewell 'til another day.
("No more rhyming now I mean it...
...anybody wanna peanut?")

(First person to name that film wins a boxy pouch!)

x

£25 voucher giveaway!

In what has been a truly awful week for reasons I don't have the energy to go into, and I wouldn't want to tarnish my lovely sunny blog with tales of woe and hardship anyway, there has been a little ray of sunshine - the lovely people at CSN Stores have given me a £25 voucher to give away to one of my readers!  Plus the opportunity to review one of their products on this blog.  Very exciting all round.

CSN Stores has several lovely online stores where you can find everything from ceiling lights to cookware, cake stands to furniture, so you'll have plenty of choice when it comes to spending your winnings.

Personally I am tempted by the traditional, yet digital (joy!), scales...

And very tempted by the cake stands...

And maybe when the baby arrives we could toast the new arrival with a colourful glass full of bubbly...

For your chance to win the £25 voucher just leave me a comment on this post telling me your favourite thing to bake, comments muct be left by 5pm on Monday 19th July!  How simple is that!  I'll use a random name generator to pick a winner (spam will be removed first!)  For an extra chance to win please follow this blog and leave me an extra comment to tell me you have done so, if you already do then leave me an extra comment to tell me so! 

I'll announce the winners on Monday night.  Good luck everyone!

Edited to add: Please ensure you leave me your email address when entering so I can contact you with your voucher straight away should you win!

Giveaway winners!

It's time to announce some winners!  Thank-you everyone who took the time to say hello, and to those who suggested such wonderful names.  As there was such cosy number of entrants I decided to draw names the traditional way.  So I wrote all your names down...

Then I popped them all in a large cup...

Then I enlisted some help picking out a winner...

And Lillia picked...

Congratulations to Smbumblebee!  The doll is yours and will be on her way as soon as she has packed up her borscht recipes and her Russian ballet DVDs.  But she will need a name for her passport.  The suggestions were all marvellous and a few really made me smile, I really wish I could send a gift to each of you, truly, in fact I probably would if I didn't have hubby to talk me down to earth!

But in the end, after much debate, there was one name that all three of us agreed on...Valentina, suggested by Pea Green Kitty, after the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova, who was Russian and, it would appear having googled her, pretty cool.  Before she was an astronaut she was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist!  How could I not choose to name her after such a woman!  So thank you Pea Green Kitty for such a great suggestion, a runner-up prize will be on its way to you! 

If both winners could please email me (address in my profile!) with the address they would like their parcels sent to that would very handy :)

Ah.  I feel better for getting ready to send some gifts out into the world.  It's been a long tough week but it has all been worth it.  Yesterday I managed to bag myself a new job in the organisation I work at - a job that will allow me to work more flexibly and be there more for Lillia when she starts school.  It has always been so important to me that I would be there every day, well almost every day, to pick her up from school.  Now I will be able to. 

My heart is full :)

Valentina

My first giveaway!!

My daffodils are blooming rather nicely and I am feeling in a rather generous mood today...



I hope you enjoyed my first ever tutorial on Monday?  I see some of you have even made yourself your own dolls already!  You've certainly been busy! It's been lovely to see them popping up.

I have another "first" today - my first giveaway!  I am both very excited and nervous about doing this.  Excited because I love to package up parcels of goodies and send them off to people.  But nervous in case nobody is interested!   But this has already been a week of putting myself out there and taking some chances, one of those bowel clenchy weeks where decisions are taken, paths are chosen, changes are afoot and the air is ripe with hope for the future.  So here goes...!

In writing my tutorial over the weekend my latest doll was created.  Here she is...

Isn't she pretty?  Pretty but, alas, nameless!  So here's what you need to do - leave me a comment on this post before midday next Wednesday (24th February).  I will then do a random number picker thingy to pick a winner who will receive this doll as their prize.  You only need to give me a hello and a wave in your comment BUT! if you suggest a name for this doll I will award a runner-up gift to the commenter whose suggestion I like best!

Good luck everyone!  I hope I don't only get two comments from my mum or something.. ;)

x