Bloggy Giveaway WINNER!

Before we get onto that, some info.  When I closed the giveaway post at lunchtime today, I’d had 176 entries - just wonderful.  Thankyou to everyone who had a go.  However…

Of that 176, I had to delete a further FIFTEEN entries who somehow missed the instructions to leave an email, or had otherwised fudged their entries.  I didn’t delete any ‘regular‘ email address (although I did feel a pang of sympathy because they’ll probably end up with extra spam) because I wanted as many people as possible to have a chance at winning.  But I did go ahead and delete those who completely missed the instruction altogether.  In addition, three or four of those fifteen forgot to add a blog URL at all making it impossible to contact them even if they had won!  Some were still contactable via their links back to their blogs but - and don’t hate me for this! - when you’re talking 176 comments it really does take up a lot of time to chase up the stragglers.  This is kind of why I stressed the issue of including your email in the first place.  It just makes it a whole lot easier for me and a whole lot more fun when I get to give stuff away!  Please don’t look too deeply into it if your entry was one that was deleted - I’m not a mean person! LOL.  But I did feel as though I needed to make it fair for the folks who entered correctly.  The more incorrect entries I allowed through, the less chance of winning for everyone else.

How I ended up doing it in the end was to simply copy/paste the entire 176 original comments into a Word document where they popped up with numbers next to them.  Viewing them underneath the post meant no numbers, and viewing them via my Wordpress admin gave me numbers but mixed them up with other recent comments from my other posts so it all got far too confusing (yes, I could have counted manually - but ouch on the eyes!)  Then I deleted the necessary comments via the Word document.  It wasn’t worthwhile to bother doing twice the work and deleting them from the site also - this is why, underneath the giveaway post, you’ll still see ‘176 comments’ when the final count was actually 161.  And then I just used a random number generator (www.random.org) to arrive at the winner.

Who is, without further ado…

No. 148 (adjusted!) ~ katklaw777!  Kat doesn’t appear to have a blog so I can’t direct you there but congratulations Kat!

Again, thankyou to everyone who participated and I’m sorry I had to get all Fussy Lizzie on the comments issue.  Nobody hates me, right?

Please come back.

Please? (LOL)

Cheers,
Lizzie