did you win?

I've actually done real live writing with a pen, look:


I've gone all old-school today - I cut the paper into strips


and got Mr Nifty to pull out the winner...



congratulations Dannie!

I should have known Dannie would know about games - she's crocheted angry birds!

I'm a winner!

Aren't giveaways great? Winning is even better of course - so I was very pleased to hear I'd won Team Bacon's giveaway!

What's that you say? You haven't heard of Team Bacon? I'm not a member, but this is what their charter says: "Team Bacon stands for having fun with creative like-minded individuals and supporting charitable endeavors through our collective obsession with bacon. Bacon brings together so many people from diverse walks of life. Some prefer pork; some prefer turkey, some prefer soy; but all can agree that in all its forms, bacon is wonderful. Bacon connects the masses in a communal love for a tastier life."

What's not to love? Mr Nifty knows the way to my heart inevitably involves bacon, so I consider myself a worthy winner!

So - what did I win?



My very own Sassy Sally Bacon, carved from the loins of awesomeness, fun and never-ending good times. (It must be true, it says so on her birth certificate)

I'd just like to point out to those people who think I'm slightly eccentric for knitting meerkats in costumes that I am VERY sane indeed compared to BaconMama!

Not only did my bacon come with a birth certificate, I also have a licence entitling me (compelling me!) to build a better world through laughter and bacon.

I also got a couple of sachets of bacon salt - a product I had not known existed but for which I shall now scour the UK supermarkets!

BaconMama asks "What do Bacon do?"

Well - Sassy Sally came on a day trip to Whitstable, Kent (one of my favourite places, and where we hope to live in a few years time)

We had a picnic on the beach (no bacon in the sandwiches...it seemed wrong)



...posed for photos with Nifty and an inevitable meerkat hitchhiker...



...and considered diving into the sea (fortunately decided against it!)



then home again, where *somebody* discovered an opportunity for a photoshoot with the latest meerkats!



Thank you team Bacon!

Bye bye Etta

One last hug from Mum, then off she goes into her travelling box to her new home, with all the other lovely goodies.

Congratulations to Quincifer of Purple Schmurple Jewellery

YES! Etta has a new home :-)

Want to know who won? Check our etteam blog post

Arosha's ring has been named!

Voting is now over, thank to our lovely finalists and to the amazing two hundred and seventy five voters! There are extra bonuses in store, so read to the end!

In keeping with tradition, I shall announce the results in reverse order:

In third place, Moon Pebbles by Angie Larson with 33 votes,

In second place, Silver Waves by @FleurDemar with 67 votes,

And in first place, with an amazing 101 votes is VickiDiane with MoonaLuna.

Well done Vicki, a magnificent result! Arosha will be in touch to check your size so that he can make you the very first ring to bear the MoonaLuna name!

For everyone else Arosha has a real treat: there's a 15% discount on this ring for anyone mentioning "moonaluna" at check-out, and 10% discount on the whole shop right up until Feb 6 (so just in time for Valentines Day) Don’t forget – you need to mention "MoonaLuna" at check-out to get your discount.

Thanks for stopping by, I don’t think my blog has ever been so busy!
The next giveaway starts in Sunday's blog (31st) for a Valentine Meerkat, so please stop by tomorrow.

Blog giveaway winner...ME!

I do so love a giveaway - and I've been lucky enough to win a couple recently.



Maggie of intothemagpiesnest.blogspot sent me a beautiful faerie collage sheet, and I knew there was someone in my family who would love it even more than I do. If collage is where your heart is, check out Maggie's shop MagpieMine.etsy.com for more.
Follow Maggie on twitter

Caption Winner!

Lots of fabulous captions, thank you everyone who entered. Some of you forgot to say which of the cards was your favourite - I know, it's so hard to choose!


Particles of Stone chose "To boldly kiss" as her favourite card and gave us the caption "Let's tie up the loose ends" ... not my favourite part of any knitting project I must confess!

I shall tweet you in your StoneDragonfly persona and wait to hear what you'd like to spend your free £5 on!

And the winner is...

The winner to my Winnie the Pooh giveaway has been selected by random.org from the 25 entries (some of them were multiples from people who had spotted they'd get another go by following me on twitter )



Entrant number 6 turns out to be Jenny, who said "I'm pooh, of course, round and absent-minded!"

If you don't believe her, check out her blog! Jenny's blog

It's Meerkat Winner time!

*drumroll*

The meerkats are all clustering arond MeerkatTime, trying to discover where the prize meerkat will be going...even the new mob, the paler furred ones from teh other side of the Kalahari have turned up!

"What's the time Mr Meerkat?"



"It's winner time!"

There were 70 entries (including a few double entries from people who had blogged about the giveaway)

random.org has been consulted, and says the lucky winner is:



*hastily checks laboriously typed list*

Congratulations BeadyPool!