Sunday, May 2, 2010

My Favorite Things Giveaway WINNER!!!

If you care about how I went about choosing the winner ...here we go! Its long! If you are too anxious to read through all this blahblahblah and just want to see if its your name there... scroll down!

OK so let me tell you guys how I arrived at this number! There were 196 comments, but not all were contest entries because some were truly just comments, most likely because the commenter lived in a foreign country not listed in the giveaway rules (I said I'd only be shipping to U.S., Canada, China or APO/FPO addresses). If you entered and you are in a foreign country and did not mention that you have an alternate address I can ship it to (within the giveaway delineated locations) - I had to withdraw your entry. I also said that if you post about my giveaway on your blog, you can receive an extra entry, which makes the random number generator method a little more difficult.

What I did was this. I wrote down everybody's name in the order you commented (no small feat). If you showed me that you posted about my giveaway in your blog, I checked and then put a star next to your name. When I had written all eligible entries down, I added each given-a-star-person to the end of the list in the order which they commented, so they each received an extra entry. There were 13 people who were given 2 entries.

Its not pretty... but it works. It used 2 legal size pieces of paper, front and back on both sheets.


Then, I went to Random.org where people far smarter than me created a random number generator, which for reasons I can't understand, creates a completely random number. After all was said and done, there were 195 entries and number 9 was the winner!


CONGRATULATIONS DECONSTRUCTION!! IT IS YOUR LUCKY DAY!

(Uh hello? I just learned how to change fonts and font colors... took me long enough... lol. I think I need Blogging for Dummies, which, somehow, I am sure exists.)

Now look, as someone who NEVER wins ANYTHING (well, I did win $500 on the slot machines my first time in Vegas!), I know how it sort of stinks to not win, again.

BUT... STAY TUNED because there WILL be more giveaways! And next time, I am opening it up to all countries. Because I love making someone's day a little brighter, especially someone who takes the time to read my blog.

I truly appreciate all my readers!

DECONSTRUCTION - e-mail me at sleighh122 @ gmail dot com to send me your address! You also have to let me know which 2 of the 3 nail polish choices you want. As far as the MAC lip conditioning balm goes, take a look at the colors here and let me know what your first 2 choices are (in case MAC is out of the other color).

THANKS FOR READING EVERYONE!

Steph

29 comments:

  1. yay. What a great winner! Congrats lady!

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  2. Lucky girl!!!

    I like how you did ALL that work to keep things fair. SO NICE.

    :)

    A.Co @ A.Co est. 1984

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  3. Hahah, I love how you chose the winner, too funny!!

    Congrats!!

    Chic on the Cheap

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  4. what a lucky girl! i will for sure watch out for any future giveaway that you will have. :)

    http://whatmimiwrites.blogspot.com/

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  5. OMG I won! Yesterday must have been my lucky day because I also won Couture and Crayons' giveaway yesterday too! I have to get back to her as well, but I will also reach out to you later tonight (we had a wedding yesterday, and I have to jump in the shower because we need to get a move on to Little League).

    http://deconstructed-life.blogspot.com

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  6. Haha wow sounds like quite a process!

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  7. I know right?! I'm not doing it that way anymore. From now on everyone only gets 1 entry and then all I have to do is use the random number generator :)

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  8. Congrats to the winner and thanks for your sweet comment :-) xx

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  9. just checked out those sandals...TOTALLY love them! great great choice!

    and congrats to the winner! what an amazing giveaway!

    xox Vicky
    Bikinis & Passports

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  10. Oh congrats to the winner! Looks like I missed it! But now I'm followung you so to keep in touch! :)

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  11. Adorable blog! I love it! Would love to ask you about your layout as it is fantastic!!! If you get a chance, stop by my blog and check out my giveaway:)
    smiles,
    gina
    http://hiyaluv.blogspot.com

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  12. Congrats to the winner! It's a nice prize pack!

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  13. Hi Steph!:D So glad you saw the award I gave you.:D

    Hope you can do the tag and as for the picture, maybe next time, I'm still kinda shy!:D

    http://allthingsmarie.blogspot.com/
    BEAUTY. FASHION. DESIGN.
    ...and everything girly under the sun!

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  14. LOL...I love how you wrote everyone's name down etc. That was awesome... :)

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  15. She is so lucky! You have a GREAT giveaway!

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  16. Dang! I didn't enter but I thought somehow I'd win anyway. Oh well, my wife gets angry when I polish my nails anyway...

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  17. Yay! I love Deconstruction! She totally deserves it.

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