WANTED: Your Superlucky stories!

Ack, I'm so unbelievably busy this week! The deadline for the January issue of Compers News has been brought forward to next Thursday, and the launch of the new look PrizeFinder website - featuring my new blog - is scheduled for tomorrow. I'm also collating the list of Advent comps for The PrizeFinder, running daily giveaways on the Compers News Facebook page, designing Vegan Cafe menus for Touch, Ayurveda Powerpoint presentations for Tri-Dosha and dealing with a toddler who's sleeping for approximately 3 hours each night. I didn't have time to enter a single comp yesterday, never mind open the 174 virtual M&S parcels I've been passed on Facebook!

So that's where you, my lovely blog readers come in... I've recently received lots of great messages, emails and Facebook posts about fabulous prizes that you've been winning as a result of reading my blog, or spotting a comp at the SuperLucky Facebook page or on Twitter... and I want to know more. Yes, I'm nosey - but what's wrong with that? After all, I tell you all about my favourite competitions and prizes and the daft things that Ry and I get up to - so it's about time I heard a bit about your wins too!

Over the next few months I'd love to feature some 'guest posts' from readers - I don't want SuperLucky to be neglected when I start blogging at The PrizeFinder, so I need help to write some fun posts. Your story could be about your first attempt at a photo competition, an unusual prize you've won or a video that you're proud of - if my blog has helped or inspired you in any way then I'd love to hear more.

As a thankyou, anyone who sends me a story (whether I use it on my blog or not) will be entered into a random draw to win a yummy Biscuiteers London box ...simply because I LOVE the postbox biscuit that you get in it!

You don't need to write me an essay - just a few paragraphs and photos (or you can send me links to photos or videos if that's easier) will do - email me at superlucky@mac.com before 31st December 2011.

Looking forward to hearing from you - and thanks again for all your good feedback; I'm excited to know my ramblings have resulted in so many brilliant prizes for you all!

Using Bitly

Along with Tineye and Evernote, Bitly is one of my favourite websites for making a comper's life that little bit easier. In a nutshell, Bitly shortens long web links. If you register at www.bitly.com (you can do this easily by logging in via Facebook or Twitter) you can customise link names and track the clicks on your links too. 

I find Bitly really useful for:

• Creating customised short links to popular blog posts, eg. http://bit.ly/NovBlogComps - on Twitter, it gives your followers an idea of your post content even at a quick glance
• Creating links to Facebook pages, photos, comments and Apps - Facebook links are long and full of numbers so shortening them makes them much more user friendly
• Creating a personalised link to an entry in a voting competition, eg. http://bit.ly/VoteBiscuit - this makes it easy to share and remember
• Creating a memorable link to a YouTube video, eg. http://bit.ly/RedHotIceCream
• Tracking how many clicks your links get

When customising, you might find that your preferred keywords have already been used, but you can always adapt your links by adding your initials to the end! 

To explain in more detail how Bitly can be useful for both compers and bloggers, here's my short video tutorial....

Photo & Video comps: November 2011

'It's been too long!' I can hear you grumbling. Yes, I know it has - and I'm sorry! I've been so busy putting together the fantastically festive December issue of Compers News that I've neglected my talented creative blog readers... but never fear, here's a bumper selection of photo and video comps to get you excited all over again!

Over the past few weeks I've heard about Ian winning the £3000 Autoglass video competition, Anthony bagging a Wii with his Zhu Zhu pets video, Jen getting a new PS3 for her Arthur Christmas gingerbread men, LOADS of you winning the £200 Cafe Rouge vouchers in the wine tasting video comp, and of course Kate winning a fab trip to New York in the bagel carving competition. Lots of you won fab prizes with your pumpkins, Halloween costumes and cooking - I won a Boo! box, a month's Total yogurt, a buggy blanket, £25 vouchers, chocolates, bath toys and puzzles for Ryland with our Halloween projects. And last week I won £250 cash in a Jackpot Party video competition that only had 5 entries! It really is worth taking the time to enter these creative comps - with more practice your videos, photos and recipes will get more adventurous, more fun and more successful! And of course it's hugely entertaining to see all your entries too... 

First off, Monarch are giving away a pair of return flights to Egypt - to enter, upload a photo of you walking like an Egyptian to their Facebook page. I can't get the App to load so can't tell you the closing date I'm afraid!

Who's growing a moustache for Movember then? There are several comps you can enter your photo in:

Spitfire are giving away an iPod for Movember photos uploaded by 20 November, and an iPad for photos uploaded between 21 and 30 November. Enter here.

Win a £100 bonus for your Movember chairty fund by uploading a photo at Movember Madness and getting the 'most encouragements' before 30 November 2011.

Paycare Corporate are also offering £100 towards your Movember fund - plus £100 cash - for uploading your photo to their Facebook page and getting the most Likes (boo!) by 1 December 2011.

The PhotoBox 24Live photo challenge is back on 24 November - hourly prizes and an overall £3000 cash prize to the best photo! Join the event on Facebook.

If you spot the new Merchant Gourmet lorry and snap a photo of it you could win a Merchant Gourmet hamper of goodies - get your photo over to competitions@merchant-gourmet.com before 25 November 2011.

Over at the Railcard Facebook page, turn your quirky photos into a postcard and a random entrant will win a £500 TopShop spree. There are also twenty £26 Railcard gift cards for their 20 favourite postcards. Enter by 28 November 2011.

Interflora are giving away two places at their new Flower School in London - to enter, email a video of you 'performing a skill you have learnt from an expert' to blog@interflora.co.uk by 28 November 2011.

The Fiestagram competition is still running, with the fifth of the challenges from Ford to be to upload an Instagram photo on the theme of 'music'. The prize for the best challenge photo is a year's Spotify subscription and a pair of Beats headphones - and of course, the entries from all 5 challenges will be judged for the top prize of a Ford Fiesta! Enter by 28 November 2011 - you'll need to download the Instagram App for your Smartphone to enter.

Do you have an unstylish room in your house? Upload a photo of it to www.thishomeisme.com and you could win a design consultation and £1000 to spend at Isme.com - four runners up will also win £1000 to spend on homewares at Isme.com. Enter before 30 November 2011 - entries will be judged!

Netmums want to see your photos of 'the woman behind the mum' - top prize is £150 shopping voucher with five £25 vouchers for runners up. Read more here and enter by 30 November 2011.

Kleenex are giving £500 John Lewis vouchers to their favourite tip to soothe away colds and flu - you can enter a photo or video here by 30 November 2011. 

You're pretty much guaranteed a prize if you enter a photo for the Campbells Soup competition on Facebook - upload a snap of you and your Campbells Cup Soup and ten daily winners get a Campbells mug - this ends on 30 November 2011.

The Innocent 'Big Knit' promotion is raising money for Age UK. Although it's a voting competition, every photo uploaded guarantees a 10p donation to charity, and each daily vote is worth another 5p. To enter, upload a photo of your Innocent Smoothie 'Big Knit' hat held in position by a hand over a pet, a landmark, etc. (see example below!). Each week the three most popular photos win smoothies and the three with the most votes over the whole competition period (when it ends on 2 December 2011) will win £500 Amazon vouchers each.

A fun App for music lovers is HTC '25 Steps to Being A Music Legend' - you need to complete music challenges and upload photos to Facebook. Reach different levels by entering more challenges, and you'll be entered to win prizes like HTC Sensations, Jawbone Jamboxes (!) and £1000 Memorabilia vouchers. Closes 8 December 2012

Here's one to keep the Dads busy! Email a photo of your best Lego creation to competitions@puffinbookclub.co.uk and the most impressive will win a big box of Lego bricks. Read more and see the postal entry details here - enter by 9 December 2011.

Win a trip to Lapland at facebook.com/santainlapland. Upload a photo showing how much you love Christmas along with 20 words on why you deserve to win a trip to Lapland. This competition closes on 11 December and the winner will get an overnight trip to Lapland, flying from Gatwick on 22 December. 

J2O are giving away £50 every day to the person who can grin for the longest on their webcam! The longest grin will win a New Years Eve party for ten in London - final closing date is 14 December 2011 - enter on Facebook.

At the E2Save Facebook page you can win a TV, Laptop and Galaxy Tab by writing a creative letter to Santa – you can also have a second entry by emailing a photo demonstrating your love of Christmas. Entries for this close on 16 December and a panel of judges will select a winner based on the creativity and originality, but also taking into consideration the quantity of Facebook ‘Likes’ for the entry.

iExplore Travel are giving away the trip of a lifetime - upload a photo of a 'thrillaxing' experience with a description to their Facebook App before 16 December 2011. The ten most popular entries will be judged for the to prize, a £5,100 voucher to spend on an activity holiday at www.iexplore.com/uk

Upload a photo of your 'wish face' to the PayPal Facebook page and four winners will be chosen at random on 20 December 2011 to win £5000 of prizes each. 

Win a VIP trip to the premiere of The Woman in Black next year. To enter, film yourself reading an original ghost story and upload to YouTube before 20 December 2011. Ten finalists will go to a public vote and the winner gets a trip to the London premiere in January with accommodation - Daniel Radcliffe will also read the story and this will feature on the film's DVD release! Find out more here.

I you spot the new Lidl bus, grab a photo of yourself with it and you could win a TV and DVD Player every week at the Lidl Facebook page! It's in the South West of England this weekend. Closes every Thursday until 23 December 2011.

LloydsTSB are giving a huge £10,000 prize to their favourite room design - upload up to 3 photos of a room in your home (you can enter more than one room) at www.lloydstsbmyfavouriteroom.co.uk by 9 January 2012 to enter. There's also a £100 prize every week for the photo with the most votes - this week's leader has over 5000 votes, so I recommend you don't bother with that one!

Trident Insurance are giving away a holiday to Miami in their interior design competition in conjunction with Attitude magazine. To enter, upload a photo of your room PLUS a photo of you actually in that room (to prove it's your handiwork!). Monthly winners will be decided on votes and then the monthly winners will go head to head and the winner will be the entry with the most votes - argh! You also need to be prepared to do an interview with Attitude magazine if you win - keep that in mind! Entries close 26 January 2012.

The Pirates! Facebook page is giving away Sony goodies every fortnight. To enter, upload a video of you singing along to their pirate shanty. The video with the most votes (voting closes on a Monday) bags a Sony Bloggie each fortnight, then the 12 fortnightly winners are judged to win a TV, Cybershot or PS3. The final closing date is 29 February 2012.

That's all for now folks - don't forget to tell me on Facebook if you win any of these comps!

Double Trouble - ditch your comping Facebook account!

Over the past few weeks I’ve had a flurry of requests from Facebook friends to add their ‘new comping account’ as a friend. As a comper, it’s easy to annoy your 'normal' friends with constant status updates, links and activities which will clutter up their Newsfeed. So surely the simple solution is just to set up a new Facebook account specifically for comping - perhaps with a nickname? 

In a word, No. This is against Facebook rules:

• Maintaining multiple accounts is a violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Violations of this rule could result in all of these accounts being disabled.  (see http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1126) 
• Profiles (timelines) must list your real first name and last name. (see http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1132)  

Of course, many people use two or more Facebook accounts without being found out. But having two accounts can offend fellow compers (you have two chances to win competitions, two chances to vote, etc...) and it’s easy for someone to report your second account as a fake profile and get it deleted, so is it really worth the risk? 

There are several ways you can restrict the amount of 'comping' that your friends see on Facebook - using Lists, adjusting your activity visibility, and asking your friends to change their subscription settings. 

Using Lists 

Facebook lists are an excellent way to organise your account, and can help solve the dilemma of keeping your comping activities separate from your work or family ones. You can assign a friend to one or more lists - Family and Close Friends are two of the default lists, and I suggest adding a new list called ‘Compers’. I've made this video tutorial to help you do this - please excuse my Movember profile photo!

To set up a 'Compers' list, choose LISTS from the menu on the left of your Facebook homepage. Click 'Create a List' and name it 'Compers'. You can add to your list on the right of the page by typing in the box - but it's actually much easier to go to your main Friends list from your profile page, then scroll down adding each friend to the 'Compers' list - or any of the other lists - as you go. Friends can be added to more than one list - so if your sister's a comper, pop her into the 'Family', 'Close Friends' and 'Compers' lists by ticking beside all 3.

As you add new friends, make sure you add them to the appropriate list. When you've sent a friend request you can assign that person to a list from the drop down menu, even though they haven't accepted yet. If you receive Friend requests, you can Confirm, and again assign them to lists in the drop down menu.

When you post on your wall, you can choose which list to post to. You do this by selecting from the drop-down menu in the top right of the box. If I’m posting details of a competition, I select ‘Compers’ to ensure I don’t annoy my non-comping friends. If you want to share family photos you could choose to share with 'Close Friends' and 'Family'. For 'Like and Share' type competitions, unfortunately this system won't work - although the promoter will see the total number of Shares, when they click to choose their winner from the list they will ONLY see the names of people who have set their Share to 'Public'. So, if you limit your Sharing to Friends, Friends of Friends or to your Compers list - then you won't be in the draw. This is a real shame and one of the reasons I rarely enter Sharing comps - there are probably many of us wondering why we don't win them, and not realising this is why. Any comps that require you to Like, Comment or Share a post are actually breaking Facebook promotion rules too!

After posting on your wall, you can change your mind about the visibility by clicking to the right of the post and changing the setting - for example from 'Public' to 'Close Friends'. You can also assign these restrictions to your photos and photo albums - if you're combining your comping with a personal account, it's probably worth changing the privacy of your photos from 'Public' or 'Friends' to 'Close Friends' and 'Family'.

You can view your News Feed from a specific list too - so you can view your ‘Compers’ list to see all the competitions that people are entering in one place, without all the updates from Fan pages and your non-comping friends.


Keeping your wall tidy
Because I only have one Facebook account and my wall privacy is set so that anyone can see it, I like to keep it tidy. I regularly delete Automatic wall posts from friends via Facebook Apps - to do this, just click to the right and choose 'Delete post'. If someone has tagged you in a competition photo or status which has appeared on your wall, you can also click to the right and choose 'Remove from Profile' - don't worry, this won't remove the tag from the original photo or post! If you're worried about what certain people can see on your wall, you can click the 'View As' button on your profile and view your page as 'Public' or as any of your friends to check what's visible.

Hiding wall activity

You can hide Comment, Like, Wall posts and Friending activity from your profile page by clicking on the 'X' next to the activity on your wall, then choosing 'Hide all recent likes/wall posts/commenting/friending activity from profile'. This video will help you do this:

To change this setting back, scroll down to the bottom of your own wall and choose 'Edit Options'. Changing these settings will hide activity from your wall but unfortunately it's not guaranteed to hide all activity from your friends' newsfeed or ticker! To guarantee they don't see any of your comping posts, your friends will need to take action themselves...

Restricting what updates you see

As well as being useful for you, this is something that you should make your friends aware of if you intend to do a lot of comping on Facebook. In your News Feed or Friends list, click to the right of your friend's name and you can choose which updates you see from them – ‘all updates’, ‘most updates’ (this is the default) or ‘important updates’. I recommend you tell your non-comping friends and family to change their settings so they only see your 'Important' updates, then they won’t have your comping posts filling up their News Feed. Facebook is currently rolling out the new 'Timeline' profile, which will allow you to label your status updates as 'Important' - eg. new job, new baby, relationship event, etc - these are the 'Important' updates that you would probably want all your friends to see.

If your friends don’t want to see your comments and likes in their Newsfeed, they can click to the right of them and choose ‘Unsubscribe from comments and likes’. They can also choose 'Unsubscribe' so they won't see any posts at all from you - if you have friends who complain about your comping then this is what you should advise them to do! They can always pop over to your Facebook page to catch up on anything they’ve missed, and there's no need for them to 'Unfriend' you. If you're thinking of merging two Facebook accounts, it might be worth sending messages to your close friends and family to explain their options for hiding your comping posts and activity!

Merging two accounts
Facebook doesn't have any way of merging accounts - you will have to delete one account and add the extra friends to the other account. As your comping account probably has a lot more friends, photos, Apps and Pages then it might be best to keep that one. Send a message to Friends and Family from your original account to explain what you are doing - include a polite recommendation that they might want to change their subscription settings to avoid seeing all your comping activity!

Whilst logged in on your comping account, visit your main account's Friends list and click to Add Friends from that account - remembering to put them in your 'Close Friends', 'Acquaintances' or 'Family lists. Before deleting your original Facebook account, you should download all the information - you can read how to do this on the Facebook Help pages. 

Reporting a fake Facebook profile

If you believe that someone has multiple profiles and is using them all to enter or vote in competitions, then you should report them. To do this, scroll down on their profile page and choose 'Report/Block'. From the pop-up menu choose 'This profile is pretending to be someone or is fake', and from the drop down menu 'Does not represent a real person'. You can then add more information, such as a link to that person's other profile, explaining that it's a second account set up just for the purpose of entering competitions.

When Facebook Security alerts picked up my account as being fake and disabled it without warning (see this blog post), I got in touch to ask them about reporting fake and comping profiles and they responded by telling me 'If you ever come across a profile that violates our policies, feel free to report it by using the “Report/block This Person” link located on that profile' - so don't feel any guilt about snitching!

These methods should help you to keep your comping separate from your personal Facebook - of course, it's not the perfect solution as many posts will slip through the net.  But if you're serious about comping then any real friends shouldn't mind the odd post about your hobby - and if they complain about it, then perhaps they're a friend that's not worth having! 

Appy Days: winning with your smartphone

Have you got an Android or iPhone? Companies are now using Apps as a way to run their promotions - and not a lot of people know about it yet! For most people it's probably taking comping a step too far, but of course I like to give you a heads up on these things as there's a great chance of winning.

I told you all about the BlippAR Heinz competition last week - this is running daily until 19th January and you need to have an iPhone to use the App. Since I won my Secret Ingredient cookery set last week I've heard that four of you have also won, so it's definitely worth a go - read more here.

Then I heard about a new Android App called Shopitize - to use this, you take photos of your grocery receipts and upload them to the App. In return you'll get offers and discounts tailored to your shopping habits. They're running a great promotion where you can win £500, and also a weekly prize of £25. To enter, you can either upload your recipes via the App - or if you don't have an Android phone, you can email photos, or a list of your purchases, to snapprize@shopitize.com. The weekly draws close at 12 noon every Friday and the £500 draw is on 16th December - every receipt you send over gets you an entry into the grand prize draw, and you can upload or send a maximum of 10 a week. You can read the T&Cs here and Like the Shopitize Facebook page for more details - it sounds awfully complicated, but by now you know that these are the type of comps with the least entries so why not give it a go?

I was excited to read on MummyTips at the weekend about Simply Tap (there are also 10 boxes of Thorntons chocs to be won on Sian's blog post). It's an instant mobile checkout App for your iPhone or Android - you register your card details and when you see something you want to buy in store or in a magazine you just enter the 'Tap Code'. But don't register yet! Because for the next five days (until 14th November) they're giving away £100 Selfridges vouchers on Facebook for the people who register fastest with the App each day. I was lucky enough to win yesterday's prize! To enter, first download the App here - and then keep an eye on facebook.com/simplytap and twitter.com/simplytap for their competition announcement. Then register your details (be warned - this takes a while as it's your name, address and card details!) and see if you were the fastest...

In Compers News this month I read about the Richer Sounds iPhone App - you receive a virtual scratch card every fortnight and can win a prize. The main prize differs each time - the current one (valid until 21st November) is a Logitech Universal Remote. I scratched last week's card and won a Sonos pen, and this week I won a pair of Maxell headphones - to claim, you need to show your phone/winning scratchcard in store!

I've been using Appysnap for a few weeks and it's great fun - you download the App for your Android or iPhone, and they send you photo missions to complete in a certain amount of time (could be an hour, could be a week). Missions get you points - and uploading a photo for certain challenges could win win you spot prizes like Amazon vouchers. Last month a random user won a MacBook Air! Read their blog at appysnap.posterous.com  or Like them at www.facebook.com/AppySnap

Finally, I stumbled across this video on YouTube promoting a Bad Teacher competition on an iPhone App called GoldRun.

 

The prize is a Sony Cybershot Camera - to enter, download the App, click on Bad Teacher, take a photo featuring the Bad Teacher text and logo, and then upload to Twitter with the hashtag #BTGold. I can't find any details of the closing date or geographical restrictions - and perhaps not surprisingly, I'm the only entrant so far! I couldn't get the App to Tweet for me (it said my Tweet was too long but I was unable to see it to edit it!) - so I emailed my photo to myself and then uploaded to Twitter.

Let me know if you get lucky with any of these!

Fill a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child!

How many of you have got unwanted competition and raffle prizes lying around the house, perhaps gifts that a disadvantaged child would appreciate this Christmas? This week I've been busy popping mine into a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child. 

I read about the project over at Mummy..Mummy..Mum! - who is also running a fab competition to reward those who take part in the project. Samaritan's Purse distributed over a million shoeboxes full of gifts to children in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa last year.

If you want to take part, this is what you have to do:

• Take your shoebox and wrap the top and bottom separately in gift wrap. 
• Decide who your box is for: boy or girl, age 2-4, 5-9 or 10-14 years. Print off a label and stick to the lid. 
• Fill your box with goodies. The items should be new, and try and include a variety of things from the suggested categories. 

There are lots of suggestions for gifts on the website, here's what I popped in ours: toothbrush, hairband, plasticine, notebooks, pencils, erasers, jellybeans and sweeties, a Japanese doll, origami paper, puzzles, soap and a snow globe. These were raffle prizes that I'd won over the past couple of years, topped them up with some Wilko bargains!

Once you've filled your shoebox, if you take a photo of it and upload to Mummy Mum Mum's Facebook page before 15 November, as well as leaving a comment on her blog post here, you'll be entered into her prize draw and could win one of these super prizes: 

• A set of Bath Toys from Brother Max 
• A set of Freya Lingerie 
• A £25 voucher for Big Blue Cuddle
• A LEGO DUPLO Play With Numbers set, 
• A HOP goody bag

You then need to make a donation of at least £2.50 online at https://occ.samaritans-purse.org.uk/donate - after donating, you can print off a barcode to pop in the box which means you will find out where your shoebox went! Drop off your shoebox locally (check here for details of your nearest location) before 18 November.

This has been a lovely project to get involved with - it's great to think of how happy our shoebox will make a little girl this Christmas - and I hope some of you will get involved too! 

Join the Avocado Brotherhood - and you could win £250 vouchers!!

The avocado is my most favourite food. The colour, the texture, the taste - I just love it! Luckily Ryland's a big fan too, so we're forever picking up the reduced price ripe avocados in our local Tesco and wondering what to do with them. Most times I just eat them straight out of the skin - yum!

The Avocado Brotherhood have just launched their Blog-an-Avo competition to win £250 of supermarket vouchers. To enter, simply blog about avocados! Then tweet the link to @AvocadoBrother with the hashtag #avotweet. If you don't blog, email it through to avocadobrotherhood@gmail.com - the first twenty entrants will get a £20 shopping voucher!

As I had two ripe Hass avocados conveniently lying around the house today, I decided to do something I've wanted to do ever since spotting it in my mother-in-law's 1981 cookbook - create an avocado cheesecake! Lacking in eggs, water biscuits and gelatine I decided to fashion a somewhat makeshift version from what I could find in the fridge... and it shows!

To make this wobbly, crumbly delight, you need to bash 125g biscuits (I used Salt & Black Pepper Savours!) and then stir through 75g melted butter. Press into a loose bottom cake tin and chill for an hour. For the topping, whizz up 150ml soured cream with 300g herby Philadelphia, 2 medium avocados, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and the grated rind of half a lemon. Season, then plop it on top of the base and leave to chill for at least 5 hours.

I topped my cheesecake with toasted pine nuts and though it tasted rather lovely, it was far too sloppy and the base fell to bits! That didn't seem to bother Ryland, who wolfed it down.

The closing date for the competition is 10th December 2011 and you can read all about it here - good luck!

Did I mention that mother-in-law's cookbook also contains a recipe for sardine cheesecake? That's the weekend sorted then!

Blog Comp Linky: December 2011

Welcome to my blog comp linky for competitions that are closing in DECEMBER 2011. If you're hosting a giveaway please add it to the list, including the prize and the closing date - and your blog name if you can fit it in! You can access this post and the NOVEMBER linky via the links on the right hand side bar.

Please note, competitions MUST be hosted on a blog and they should be open to UK entries. For advice on running blog comps and more info about Rafflecopter check out this blog post.
If you want to enter these competitions but aren't sure how, check out my post on How to Enter a Blog Competition for advice!

Don't forget to add your blog giveaway to www.theprizefinder.com too!

And the handbag winner is...

Thanks to everyone who entered my Dune handbag competition - the lucky winner picked at random by Rafflecopter was FionaLynne Edwards, who commented to tell me she would keep "chewing gum, lipgloss, wipes and travel sickness tabs for my daughter" in the handbag. Fiona, there's an email on its way to you now - congratulations!

I hope you all enjoyed using Rafflecopter! It's an easy way to run a giveaway and as it requires your email address there's no danger of you missing out on a prize because you missed the announcement or the tweet. If you're a blogger who runs giveaways, I still have a couple of Rafflecopter invites left if you want to email me...
Keep an eye out for another competition very soon!