Thankyou for all the fabulous winning stories you've emailed me about your creative competition endeavours - you can read them all here. Before I announce the winner of the Biscuiteers prize here are a couple more short stories I wanted to share with you...
A few words from Claire - and her prizewinning cat Rollie:
I like comping (that's no secret!) - I love winning things, especially for school. I suppose its the thrill of the chase! Yet a little known secret is that my cat actually comps with my help. And you know what? Rollie is rather good at it! He won a weekend away at a hotel thanks to Laterooms.com as part of their pet factor competition.
Rollie has also won pet food, a rugby shirt and even £250 shopping vouchers for wearing a teacosy on his head! I love the quirky photo and video comps on SuperLucky that pets can get involved in, they're great fun to enter and you might even win a prize. So why not get comping with your pet, you never know what they might win...
And a tasty story from Julie!
My best prize, but one I worked quite hard for was won from New York Bakery on Facebook in July. This was a toughie. I had to do a 30 word tiebreaker first by email to explain why I should be Head of Taste for New York Bakery, then I had to make a 30 second video saying why, so I dressed up as an American footballer and had loads of New York paraphernalia around me, and did a rhyming ditty.
It was a voting competition on facebook and I won (surprisingly!!!!) THEN I had an hours photo shoot and lots of media interest. There are loads of articles on the web saying my tastebuds are insured for £5 million! They took over 500 photos (the one of me with the flag is the one that was used on their website) THEN I had to visit loads of bakeries in NYC and keep a blog with photos, THEN post it all on their FB page for about 6 days.... The holiday was for myself and my daughter and we stayed in a fab 5 star hotel (Mandarin Oriental) overlooking Central Park for 3 nights. The prize included $200 spending money for bagel related expenses, and flights - it was amazing!
...and so, which of my Winning Story authors has won these yummy Biscuiteers treats?
I visited the lovely random.org to choose the winner, who is Anne-Marie! I wonder if she'll share her biscuits with the neighbours, or perhaps with the ladies at Bolton Hospice....?!
Congratulations Anne-Marie - I'll be in touch soon to get your address details!
Thanks to everyone who sent stories, I'll hopefully run a similar giveaway later this year as I know a few of you didn't get your stories written in time! Until then, feel free to let me know here, or on Facebook or Twitter if you've won a fabulous prize in a creative comp I've told you about... and keep on comping!
A few words from Claire - and her prizewinning cat Rollie:
I like comping (that's no secret!) - I love winning things, especially for school. I suppose its the thrill of the chase! Yet a little known secret is that my cat actually comps with my help. And you know what? Rollie is rather good at it! He won a weekend away at a hotel thanks to Laterooms.com as part of their pet factor competition.
Rollie has also won pet food, a rugby shirt and even £250 shopping vouchers for wearing a teacosy on his head! I love the quirky photo and video comps on SuperLucky that pets can get involved in, they're great fun to enter and you might even win a prize. So why not get comping with your pet, you never know what they might win...
And a tasty story from Julie!
My best prize, but one I worked quite hard for was won from New York Bakery on Facebook in July. This was a toughie. I had to do a 30 word tiebreaker first by email to explain why I should be Head of Taste for New York Bakery, then I had to make a 30 second video saying why, so I dressed up as an American footballer and had loads of New York paraphernalia around me, and did a rhyming ditty.
It was a voting competition on facebook and I won (surprisingly!!!!) THEN I had an hours photo shoot and lots of media interest. There are loads of articles on the web saying my tastebuds are insured for £5 million! They took over 500 photos (the one of me with the flag is the one that was used on their website) THEN I had to visit loads of bakeries in NYC and keep a blog with photos, THEN post it all on their FB page for about 6 days.... The holiday was for myself and my daughter and we stayed in a fab 5 star hotel (Mandarin Oriental) overlooking Central Park for 3 nights. The prize included $200 spending money for bagel related expenses, and flights - it was amazing!
I visited the lovely random.org to choose the winner, who is Anne-Marie! I wonder if she'll share her biscuits with the neighbours, or perhaps with the ladies at Bolton Hospice....?!
Congratulations Anne-Marie - I'll be in touch soon to get your address details!
Thanks to everyone who sent stories, I'll hopefully run a similar giveaway later this year as I know a few of you didn't get your stories written in time! Until then, feel free to let me know here, or on Facebook or Twitter if you've won a fabulous prize in a creative comp I've told you about... and keep on comping!
