The white company festive bedroom competition

Fresh Design Blog have teamed up with The White Company to give bloggers a chance to win £200 worth of bed linen. To enter all you need to do is create a blog post showing how you would style your bedroom over the festive period. If you fancy entering be quick, the competition closes TOMORROW. Check out all the details on Fresh Design Blog.

This year I'm planning to decorate my bedroom, so I've got some great ideas from the white company. It's actually really nice that the competition is how you would decorate over the festive period. It really got me thinking about Christmas, it passes in such a flash its nice to think back to all the festivities.

So I will start with the bedding seem as it the biggest. The Copenhagen bedspread caught my eye instantly, it looks so warm and wintery, get so crisp, clean and fresh. I would definately have to hang fairy lights over the headboard over Christmas I wouldn't be able to resist. not sure it would go down to well with the husband though :)

Over Christmas I would swap my usual vanilla diffuser for this pine cone diffuser. How Christmassy would that be waking up to the smell of pine.

I would add a couple of these Clarendon Cushions on the bed and a chair I have in the bedroom. They are made from silk and would add a super luxurious feel to the room. I like the shiny fabric which would contrast with the other cushions on the bed.

Sparkle glass tealight holders would not only be romantic but just gorgeous! 

The final touches to my festive bedroom would be these Mini pine cone wreaths I would have one hang one off the curtain rail, and hang one on the wall and maybe one on the knob of my drawers. So what do you think?

Good Luck if you decide to enter...

Get Fit, Feel Epic competition from Moneysupermarket.com

Mum reinvented and Moneysupermarket.com are running a great competition where bloggers can win a set of FitBit Aria Wifi Smart Scales and a Fitbit Zip Activity Tracker-all you need to do is blog about your fitness plans or New Years Resolutions. Take a look at all the details on the mum reinvented blog, here.

This year I have decided (again!!) that I need to loose weight. Ideally i would like to loose 2.5 stone and 2 stone by August (when I'm bridesmaid at my sisters wedding). My biggest problem in the past is that i have lost about 5lb in the first week and then because i have done so well I have slacked off abit. This time I would like to lose 2lb per week, which after doing some research is the best way to loose.

I like exercising and particularly running, instead of going every day for a week then getting bored I am going to run once a week to start with and also do exercise at home. Last year I won an exercise ball and mat so i will be putting that to use.

So I guess my fitness Resolutions would be:

• Loose 2lb a week
• Vary my exercise
• Try a new type of exercise
• Only have treats at the weekend

I feel much more determined this year so lets hope it works!

Good Luck if you decide to enter...

My 2013 wishlist

We are a week in to the new year and I've been really thinking about what i would like to win this year. I made a wishlist last year and ticked off a few things. My ultimate prize which I would love is the same as last year Mulberry handbag.

So here's my list:

• DIY or garden vouchers
• Food shopping vouchers
• A weekend break
• Children's clothes vouchers
• A years supply of anything useful
• A TV
• A Hamper (I have won 3 hampers and find it so exciting pulling each thing out, it feels like you have won over and over in one go!)
• A sofa
• A new laptop

Good Luck with your comping this year and I will keep you updated in my wishlist!

My comping year of 2012

I have just been looking back at my comping success over the past year. I have won 56 prizes in total from packets of sweets to vouchers. On my wish list this year I wanted to win vouchers, I certainly did and this and had lots of luck in November. I won £100 Argos vouchers, £100 Morrisons voucher and £100 Marks and Spencer vouchers all in the space of 2 weeks!!

My blog post here about homemade Halloween outfit won me a fantastic bundle of goodies from Moneysupermarket worth over £500 alone. 

My favourite competition is definitely the Cloggs facebook competition where you had to make shoe cake or cakes, these bagged me a £50 Cloggs voucher.

Shoe cupcakes

I won a few prizes from blog competitions and my favourite one has to be from the princess and the pickle  blog pudsey adventures colouring competition, there were so many prizes and it was all for a good cause. We had so much fun taking part and the kids were talking about it for ages, we also received a lovely box (yes box!) of prizes for taking part.

About half of my prizes were creative competitions, so it definitely proves its easier to win them. I'm going to think of a wishlist for next year now, although i have a feeling it will be pretty much the same!

So my total of 56 prizes is £7981 this includes the kitchen makeover which I didn't end up taking. The terms and conditions weren't clear and we just had a 'bad' feeling about it.

So not including the kitchen 55 prizes came to the total of £1481. I'm determined to beat this total as its about half of what I did last year. But I am very happy and grateful for all the prizes I have won this year.

Happy new year everyone and good luck with your comping in 2013!!!

Next dress for Christmas competition

Next... I love it! Its my favourite shop to go for the kids clothes and I quite often go there first when I'm looking for something for myself. On Christmas day we always have new outfits, I just think it helps to make it extra special when you have 'posher' clothes on, as well as being a great excuse to wear a dress! I've been browsing the website and there are quite a few things that take my fancy! Having 3 children I spread it out and I have already bought my 2 year daughter this beautiful dress, I actually bought it in October before it disappeared off the shelf!

party dress

It was £24 and next have some really nice neutral tights to go with it. I know I'm already going off Christmas day, but I've just seen these and have to get them for Millie! I just love them, I'm sure she will as well!

tights

As for the boys who are 6 and 4 I usually dress them the same, which they love by the way! But this year Leon seems so much more older than Toby and has his own things that he likes. He's really into waistcoats at the moment!! I think he would look great in these:

 

 

Waistcoat  turn up jeans shoes

Toby who is 4 is a bit more a of a cheeky chappy and to be fair doesn't really care what he wears! He's one of those little boys that look stylish in whatever he wears and can pretty much get away with wearing anything! I like this outfit:

shirt jumper jeans shoes

As for me, I like to wear something simple and comfortable but dressy at the same time. I love wearing crisp new clothes on Christmas day. I'm usually in need of new clothes at this time of the year as well. I have my eye on these:

dress leggings shoes
As for Dave, well i can't choose what he wears can I? But I can certainly influence him!! I really like this, its fun and stylish. Holidays are coming t-shirt.

t-shirt

Now I know this is supposed to be for clothes but how nice is this, I love it.

bark wreath

This is an entry to Northern Mum blog, thanks for hosting the giveaway.

P.S. I have no idea why my pictures turned out blurry, or how to do fancy things with pictures!

My winning weeks :)

Recently I have won some really good prizes from all different types of entry methods. Firstly I won £100 Morrisons vouchers  in a competition I saw in compers news magazine. There was one winner per store and you had to purchase a Heinz product and send off the coupon found in store.  Not long after I got a call to say I had won.

I won a fantastic prize bundle from the princess and the pickle blog. Our prize bundle was worth over £100. I donated £5 to enter the competition, you should head over and enter their new competition and donate to the charity whilst your entering. More info here. 

Next I won a Halloween bundle from my homemade Halloween blog post. We won the group's category and bagged a fantastic prize bundle including 4x cinema tickets, 4x Alton Towers tickets, £100 marks and Spencer vouchers and a £200 haunted happenings voucher.

Last week I won a £100 voucher from Argos over on their Facebook Page, you had to donate your unwanted toys to banardos through Argos take a picture and summit it onto their Facebook pages. This is a picture I won with:

The competition is still open and you can enter here. Make sure its a picture of you saying Good-bye to your toys, some people have summited any picture. Admin have said on the wall it needs to be a picture saying bye-bye to toys! Closing date is 27thNovember.

 

Winning these prizes is definitely going to make Christmas a bit easier this year! I'm so pleased I have won £100 a week for the past three weeks ,it goes to show when you put the effort in it pays off.

Postcard comps......

I'm sat here writing out postcards to win competitions for all different prizes. I find myself wondering so many things. This year I haven't won a postcard comp, in fact I think the only postcard comp I have won is a bottle of mouthwash from what I can remember. I try to match up with the theme of the competition, so if its to win a car i use a car card, if its a shopping comp I use a shopping card etc.

I've cut up my birthday cards to make eye catching entries. I find myself wondering does it really matter what they look like, does the promotor really put all the entries in a pile and pick one out? I must enter about 20 per month. I suppose this is very little compared to some people. This doesn't include entry forms.

When a company offers entry via text or postcard do you have a better chance with a certain entry method? I have been a subscriber to style at home magazine for the past year and I have entered at least 2 entry form competitions with them per month (sometimes they have more). There is also entry methods via phone or text. I always feel they would prefer the entry form as it proves I read the magazine.

Have people stopped entering postcard competitions because the price of stamps have gone up? I know i haven't because I think if less people are entering then I must have more chance of winning!! I don't have any friends that comp so I don't really have anyone to compare to.

So what are your thoughts on postcard comps?