And the Winners Are ...

And the winners of the giveaway are ...

*drum roll*

• Small Footprints
• Angela Felsted
• L.G. Smith

Congratulations! You each win a $15 or £10 gift card at amazon.com or amazon.co.uk, whichever is most convenient for you.

If you could just confirm in the comments whether you prefer the .com or .co.uk version, I will have them emailed to you asap!

(What I've done to determine the winners fairly is add the names of the people who wrote eligible comments to a list, assign a number to each (in the order of commenting) and then use the random sequence generator at random.org to sort it. The 3 numbers that came out first have been declared the winners.)

Thanks again to everybody who joined in, to my fabulous followers and to those of you who blogged or tweeted about this giveaway!

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2 Hours to the Giveaway - Last Chance to Enter!

Have a glass of champagne with me. Or a bottle. Pick your size!

Last Sunday I announced an Amazon gift card giveaway to celebrate getting close to 100 followers.

The celebrations will continue to 4pm CET today, which is in 2 hours and exactly 8 months after I published my first blog post.

If you haven't entered yet: don't be shy! Old as well as new followers are welcome to join in.

You can find the details of the giveaway and enter your name here.

The 3 winners will be announced shortly after 4pm. Stay tuned.

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Almost 100 Followers: Time for a Giveaway!

It's been almost 8 months since I started blogging, and I just hit 90 followers, which I am really happy with. Over that time my blog has grown and developed into something I am quite proud of - when I allow myself.

After a couple of months of slow but steady traffic, when 'The Woman Condition' was mainly visited by family and friends, it is now reaching a wider audience, and the A to Z blogging month of April has been a major step in the process.

What a journey so far, from my first tentative steps out of the safe(r) shadows of internet lurking, to discovering my online voice and connecting with others as 'me' instead of one of the many facades that get me through everyday life.

What blogging has taught me more than anything else so far, is that it's okay to be less paranoid. Probably. Most of the time.

Anyway, in order to celebrate the nearly-100-followers and thank you for sticking around, I want to give away a few presents.

If you're anything like me - and I'm sure we have enough in common - one can't go wrong with Amazon gift cards, so I will be giving away 3 gift cards of either £10 at amazon.co.uk or $15 at amazon.com, whichever you prefer.

If you want to take part in the draw:

1. Be a follower of this blog.
   (Old or new followers are equally welcome to take part.)
2. Comment on this post what you most like about my blog.
3. In your comment, mention which 3 posts on my blog you like/remember best.

This celebration giveaway will run until May 22, 2011, 4pm CET, which is exactly 8 months after I published my first blog post.

On the 22nd, an innocent hand (well, mine, but I give you my Leo Word of Honour that it will happen fairly) will draw 3 names from the qualifying comments. I will announce the winners here and inform them personally (via email, blog, FB, ... depending on what contact information I have).

Your answers should help me get a better idea of topics you'd like to see more of in the future, and (with any luck) I'll have a post to come back to every time I think my writing is awful and pointless and nobody could possibly be interested in what I have to say. I might be a Leo, but those days still happen. ;-)


Thanks for following, for your comments and your support!

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