Recent competition wins

January and February have been really slow months for me in terms of competition wins. This time last year I had won over £750 worth of prizes. Up to now this year I have won Just over £100.

I much prefer creative competitions and recently I haven't seen as many around, there seems to be much less than last year. I've tried my hand at twitter comps as well this year, just the simple follow and retweet. I've had no luck, in fact I've lost a bunch of followers on twitter and I wonder if thats why, because I'm spamming their timeline.

Anyway the prizes I have won I like and they are all very useful to me! First up is a £50 Wallis voucher I won from Super lucky with a silly video I did to wish her luck in the teamhonk relay.

I bought these boots with the voucher and I have pretty much lived in them since I got them!

An angry birds dvd which was a runners up prize from a text competition that I found in compers news.

I won a blog competition with a prize of go-karting for 2. I had a good feeling when I entered this as there wasn't many entries. My husband and I love go-karting and only usually go on holiday so this will be a nice treat. We get a bit competitive though!

I did win a twitter competition for a soppy tweet I sent to lakeland in their Valentines competition. I won a heart shaped cookie tin. 

So there we have it, my best wins of the year so far, whats your best win so far?

My 2014 wishlist

My wish list for 2013 was really ambitious and I didn't really seek out the particular competitions. But I still did pretty well. Here's what I wished for and how I did!

• DIY or garden vouchers
• Food shopping vouchers  I won over £150 of Sainsburys and Tesco vouchers combined
• A weekend break
• Children's clothes vouchers £25 Tesco clothing vouchers came in handy for PJs
• A years supply of anything useful  I won a supply of zoflora cleaning items that will last well over a year.
• A TV
• A Hamper I won a Easter and and a chocolate hamper.
• A sofa We bought one with the cash we won.
• A new laptop

This year I would really like to transform my bedroom. We've not done anything to it since we moved in and it need some love! So my wish list will be based around that as well as other things!

• A TV
• Vouchers for B&Q or other DIY stores
• Vouchers for furniture e.g Laura Ashley, slider robes, 
• Vouchers for soft furnishings e.g. dunelm mill, Marks and Spencer, John Lewis
• A new bed
• A weekend away
• Children's clothes or vouchers
• A years supply of anything useful e.g cleaning products, teabags
• A hamper ( I love hampers!)
• Something nice for myself... anything :)

I know its another ambitious list of goodies but you've got to aim high. With a holiday already booked for next year and not much spare cash I'm determined to do even better than last year. 

Happy new year everyone and good luck with your comping, leave your wishlists in the comments  for me to have a look at!

My 2013 competition wins

Its been a good year for competitions for me. I've been on and off them for all year and some months I haven't entered or won a single competition. So here's some of my favourite wins this year:

January

It was the best start to the year ever, on the 1st I won a £100 red letter day voucher and topping that on the 11th  we won an ipad mini!

February

I won 4 prizes including £500 cash for some fun comic relief cupcakes with Jackpotjoy. This is the biggist amount of cash I have ever won!

March

I couldn't believe my luck when I won another £500 cash with jackpotjoy in another of their members only photo competition. I also won a Easter hamper of goodies from himmeandthree blog, a hamper was one of the prizes off my wishlist!

April

I won 2 prizes, a hamper of chocolate from a local radio station and £10 worth of nectar points in confused.com pinterest competition.

May

This was the month of the tropicana competition and I managed to win £120 cash (after the purchase of the bottles), this was one of my favourite competitions this year and brightened my day in the morning when I got a winning message. 

June

I won 7 prizes, 2 of them with J20 a £50 Tesco voucher and £20 pizza express voucher, which were also prizes from my wishlist.

July, August and September

This was when my comping really slowed down I completely lost my mojo, I think was just enjoying the summer rather than spending lots of time on the computer. I won a nerf gun in July, a ticket to Drayton manor in August and nothing in September.

October

I really got back into comping in October when I won 3 prizes including some snazzy sony headphones, a tool kit and a monster high dvd

November

I won 1 competition with Tesco clothing on twitter with this daft photo. With my £25 voucher I bought some Pj's for the kids for Christmas.

December

Came the results of all the movember competitions and I won 2 small prizes. I also won a super cute girls jumper from squeaky jumpers.

I'm really happy as always with my wins this year. Winning over £2400 is more than I've won in a year before. Now I will have to start thinking about next years wishlist!

What has been your favourite win this year?

Comic Relief 2013 cupcakes with Jackpotjoy

When I got an email to say Jackpotjoy were running a cake competition, obviously I had to enter. They had so many generous prizes on offer a new the chances of winning a prize were pretty high. I didn't have time to make them until the day it closed, so I new I wouldn't be able to put my full efforts in, but with 150 x£50 runners up prizes I knew I was in with a chance. 

So the cupcakes had  to be comic relief themed and fun! Here's what I came up with:

Comic relief 2013 cakes

Although when I submitted the picture I had to miss the bottom 3 cupcakes out :(

BUT... I won £500.

This was an amazing promotion with the overall winner bagging £1000, 5 runners-up with £500 and 150 further runners up winning £50. Jackpotjoy donated £1 for each entry to comic relief and after looking on facebook at the other entries I don't think all prizes were won as there wasn't enough entries. Also a few people are complaining that the winners weren't comic relief themed or they were googled images. The competition was only open for a week and I only got an email about it about 2 days before it ended. I'm sure if they had it open for longer they would have got a lot more entries. Jackpotjoy are doing loads to raise money for comic relief and up to now have raised over £50,000, which is pretty amazing

Thanks Jackpotjoy!

Thank you Tate kids :)

When I saw Tate kids competition on Super Lucky's creative round-up for kids I knew I had to ask Leon if he wanted to do it. I told him there is a chance he could win an ipad mini and to my surprise he was up for it. He's not the most creative person ever - neither am I, so when these competitions come up I always try and do them to get all our creative juices flowing. Sometimes I don't enter the final pieces if its a prize we wouldn't particularly use. But this time I did!!

So, Tate kids asked you to  'invent your very own mission for the Night Zookeeper drawing torch app'. So after reading through the examples of current missions we had a feel of what was expected. Over Christmas Toby was in hospital, so the current theme in our house then was hospitals for just about everything (dressing up, drawing, pretend cannula's- you get my drift!!). So Leon wanted a doctor animal, originally he decided on a doctor elephant but then thought that would be too hard to draw, so came up with a monkey! (personally I think they are both quite hard to draw- but hey my opinion didn't count!). I pointed out to him that animals aren't seen by doctors but vets, so it quickly changed to a monkey vet. He really got into talking about the whole story and decided that a lion would be the poorly animal, which he thought was funny 'because usually i bet the lion would eat the monkey and know he wants the monkey to make him better' were his words! So here's his mission which is going to be included in the night zookeeper drawing torch app.

"The Lion is poorly and the vet is out, a monkey vet steps in to save the day. What would Monkey Vet look like?"

And this is what he came up with:

Isn't it great? This is the best drawing he has done to date it took him ages to do and i think I will probably keep it forever!!

He waited until i got home from work to open it even though he new what it was and it was addressed to him. Bless!

Soooooo excited :) 

Thank you Tate kids for running a brilliant competition and of course picking Leon as your winner.