My Big Christmas Giveaway

No, I don't mean it's MY big Christmas Giveaway, but that's what it's called.  It's actually Michelle at I Shall Not Covet that is running this huge competition.  If you haven't seen it already, then go have a look.  If you are overseas, then sorry, but you can still go look at what you could have entered to win.

There's a rather enviable list of prizes from 15 sponsor companies with a combined value of over £1400.  I'm not going to give a complete rundown of each one, go have a look, but here are my 3 favourites.  And they aren't the most expensive items.

Olivia Burton watch, supplied by The Dressing Room
Paul's Boutique Mila bag, supplied by  My Bag
Masterful Collection Pearlescent White Makeup Brush set, supplied by Nanshy

Funny, I don't even wear makeup, but those brushes are just so pretty.  We could give them a good home, you can see that Lisa likes playing with makeup, even if not exactly in the usual fashion beauty sort of way.

November wins

Lisa won the first prize of the month - first prize for her Halloween fancy dress on November 1st.  She says if she had known she was going to win she wouldn't have encouraged the landlord to choose goodies from Lidl.  Still, we enjoyed the shell chocolates and fizz.

I had a fairly quiet month for new prizes, but still fun, and there were enough parcels arriving from previous wins to be most satisfying.

Manny dvd and poster - Bike magazine daily clickies
YA novel Demons and Thieves - UKMums.tv
Couple more chocolate bars from Cadbury
Cinnamon disinfectant, most festive, useful to have with an elderly dog at Christmas
Voucher for a Co-op Christmas pudding - Lisa gave this away, neither of us like it

Fancy dress

No, this isn't me.  This is Lisa getting ready to go to the pub.  Max wasn't at all sure about it all.

She won first prize, which she does find funny as she's in her normal clothes.  She only decided to go as a werewolf when she saw a latex prosthetic to buy very cheaply.  So she watched a few vids on youtube on how to apply fur and that kept her quiet for a bit.  Some cheeky sod asked how she'd got grey bits in her hair to match.  Hmm.  No, that's called being 40.

October wins

Lots of little and not so little wins in October, I've been very lucky.

Boardwalk Empire Season 4 On Blu-ray - Empire daily Extra Entry
Arm and Hammer tote bag
Pair OM Yoga show tickets - Win Something daily EE
Extendable Tub & Tile Scrubber‏ - Zoflora
£200 shopping vouchers - Made for Mums and Baby Expert
Cadbury Starbar x 2
60 nectar points
Toffee Apple Set - thanks to Jac @tinnedtoms
Sudocrem goody bag - thanks to Ness at Always be a friend
Steam Fresh voucher
Leather skull necklace - Urban Male
Haribo Despicable Me Night In, sweeties and dvd - thanks to Jo at Given to distracting others.

Only one place to spend love to shop vouchers in Ruthin - Boots.  I couldn't think of anything I wanted until I remembered that my shaver gave up the ghost the other year.  And Rachael's did too, so we are having new ladyshaves.  And Lisa has had lots of fun buying smellies.  So happy early Christmas to us from the comping fairy.  Yay!

I've shared the Despicable Me Haribo with the girls next door.  Far too many for me.  At least, I could eat that many, but it wouldn't be a good idea.

September wins

Not sure how I forgot, but I did.  So here is the list of my September wins.

Tickets to VegFest - @FineFoodies
book - @johnmurrays
4 comedy dvds - @CultBoxTV
Bag of Wagg dog food - @WaggFoods
Lagoon book - @WeekendReads
Two Faces of January signed poster and book - @moviesonVM
Sanctuary body lotion - not sure where from
100 foot journey goody bag - Thank you to Fuss Free Flavours
3 pack wildflower seed collection - Thompson & Morgan
Suspects on dvd - no idea where from

My daughter enjoyed vegfest, all the samples were vegan, so was great.
Max enjoyed the bag of Wagg.

Win £300 to spend on your own #SleepHappy

I do like sleeping, you have probably figured that out already. So when I saw a competition to win £300 to spend on bedroom furniture at Wren Living (wrenliving) on LittleStuff I knew I had to enter.  Okay, everyone knew I had to enter, I do love entering competitions, and you don't have to write a blog post, so go enter everyone, you've got 3 days left.  littlestuff comp

The strangest place I've slept.  Took me a while to remember this one, I fall asleep so easily, watching TV, used to fall asleep in the cinema, but then I remembered.  I slept a couple of hours at Nottingham Pride, could be 10 years ago now.  With all the loudspeakers, singing, chatting, Pride whistles, I ate my picnic, then stretched out and slept.  Lisa had to ward off all sorts of people asking if I was okay, has she drunk too much, got sunstroke, nope.  She's having a nap.  Leave her alone.

My ideal place for a nap?  At home in bed, thank you.  No, not very adventurous, and maybe outside on the deck on a comfy lounger could be lovely.  But.  Could get bitten by midges, and that wouldn't be so lovely.  Lots of mattresses on Wren Living, I wonder if the prize could be spent on that?  Some very expensive ones reduced at the moment.  Expensive to me at least, would like to try those out.  Lots of gorgeous beds and wardrobes, but it occurred to me, some matching bedside tables would be wonderful.  We have an odd collection of mismatched second hand and cobbled together bits, could be handsomely replaced with rustic-jacobean-oak-3-drawer-bedside-table.

This is my entry into the #SleepHappy competition over on LittleStuff  - go enter, it's rafflecopter, so very easy.  Littlestuff - Wren living competition    

A few August goodies and a monster in the kitchen

Tickets to Alison Moyet, Glasgow thanks to Magners on twitter. Couldn't go, and all the family I have there, none of them could go either so had to turn it down. Teach me to be more careful what I rt, thought it might have been for cider. We love Alison too.
Lovely cookbook Spice by Dhruv Baker, thank you Fuss Free Flavours. Visit fussfreeflavours  for lots of recipes and giveaways too.
Happy Egg instant, not arrived yet, so don't know what. Hoping for seeds.
Pantene age defy shampoo and conditioner, supersavvyme 
Louise Penny - The Long Way Home Thanks to goodreads
Silvikrin mousse

That cookbook would make a good Christmas present if anyone is looking for ideas.

Had my final checkup at the eye clinic on Friday, and I've been discharged.  So that's good news at least.  No further changes.  I do still see the floaters, and sometimes everything looks a bit blurry, but oh well.  Can't be helped.  

Now.  This monster.  We can't see it, and we've looked really hard.  But Max our 11 year old GSD can see it.  It's so scary that he can't eat his dinner in the kitchen any more, and wouldn't even come in to clean up all the ham scraps I dropped all over the floor.  Lisa put a towel over the cooker in case he was seeing his own reflection and didn't like that.  So what is he seeing?  Or is it just another marble lost?  We've ended up putting his dinner outside, no monsters there.  Daft old boy.