I’m just about to draw the winner of my blog birthday prize giveaway using a random number generator.
And the winner is…
Number 14!
Congratulations to Sandy of Craftsnotherstuff! I’ll be sending you a parcel of goodies just as soon as I work out where on earth you live!
Thank you to everyone who participated in this birthday celebration. I would have loved to give you all prizes, but, sadly, I just don’t have that many stamps…
Don’t forget to put your name down for our wonderful blog birthday giveaway. I will be drawing the winner’s name on Thursday.
Do it. Do it now.
As you may know, my humble blog turned one on Monday. In honour of this momentous occasion, and because I want to thank you for being such faithful and engaged readers, I’m having a BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you want to see the loot?
Here are some blue bells similar to the ones I used to yarnbomb Bells Beach;
And here are some snowflakes, similar to the ones I stressed out about last year, including a star snowflake, which is my one-and-only original pattern published on this site.
Aaahhh…if only this blog had smell-o-vision! Here is a delectable soap made by my dear friend whom I will call Pippi. It’s hand-made from all-natural materials and really makes your skin feel nice. I hear it’s good for those with allergies too. Plus it smells amazing. And I have a thing about smells (there are many fragrances I can’t stand. If Mr Knightley buys scented baby wipes or scented toilet paper, I throw a small temper tantrum)
Finally, here are some fun educational swap cards about Australian animals. Our supermarket gives these out with each purchase, so this part of the prize is really only for an international winner – I’m pretty sure if you’re Australian, you have enough of them floating about!
And here we have the complete prize haul. As you can see, I made a rather lame attempt to fashion the loot into the shape of a Christmas tree, but didn’t think about the position of the sun, hence the lovely shadow. Plus, can you see the alluring glimpse of t-shirt at the bottom of the photo? Pure photographic genius!
So, would you like to get your hands on all this sugary goodness? Here’s how you can do it:
1. Follow this blog, or like the FB page, if you haven’t done so already
2. Leave a comment after this post – you don’t have to write anything profound, but it will act as your virtual raffle ticket
I will give each commenter a number and use a random number generator to pick the winner. I will draw the winner at 12:30pm next Thursday November 14 and notify the winner by email (so make sure you don’t use a fake address). You don’t have to be a regular reader to enter, so feel free to tell your friends and family to put their names in the hat too.
A note to my male readers – I’m sorry this prize is a bit girly, but if either of you were to win, you could use the prize as gifts, so please enter just the same!
Can you believe it? Laptop on the Ironing Board is a year old today! On this day last year, I tentatively uploaded some awkwardly worded posts and reshaped some humorous anecdotes that began their life as family emails. Back then, the blog was called “James James Morrison Morrison”, but I got tired of spelling it out for people, so it quickly changed to “Laptop on the Ironing Board”. It wasn’t long at all before I was totally addicted to blogging. It’s still my favourite thing to do. And now that my blog is having a birthday, it’s time for some serious celebration!
Blog Candy!!!
I’m going to have a little giveaway to celebrate this blogiversary, but I haven’t quite got the booty ready to photograph. I want to raffle off some gifts to thank you for being such delightful readers. I’ll have another post up this week to tell you all about it. Sorry for my lack of organisation!
What’s that? A gift for me? Oh, shucks, you don’t have to get my blog anything! But if you insist, what my blog would most like for a birthday present is some new readers.
Laptop on the Ironing Board Birthday Gift Registry (choose one, if you like):
Vital Statistics
Finally, I thought I’d share some fun (well, fun for me) stats with you:
53 Posts (counting this one)
284 Followers (and I love you all)
6,755 views
and 463 comments
from 75 different countries
The most hits I got in one day was a whopping 233. This happened when my friend promoted my blog on her Facebook page. I couldn’t stop smiling all week after that.
Thank You, I Love Youse
So, thank you so much, dear readers for taking the time to read and engage with me. You are what makes this such a joyful and affirming experience. Every time you leave a comment, I just about fall over myself with glee. You make writing exciting. You really do.
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