An early Christmas treat for you, I have a two great prizes to giveaway with love from Littlewoods. These items both first starred in the Littlewoods Christmas ad, which is here if you haven’t seen it. Lil’ H has been wearing to review a Ladybird parka for school a favourite brand of mine which sadly disappeared with Woolworths but is now back at Littlewoods. So once you’ve entered to win, check out my lowdown on Littlewoods Ladybird children’s clothes, I will add the link here
The competition closes in a week on Thursday 8th December 2011 so Littlewoods can get the prizes to the winners in time for Christmas. I will redraw on Saturday 10th December if the winner hasn’t been in touch. Each of the two prizes will have a winner to spread the Littlewoods love, I am using Rafflecopter with makes it super easy and fair for everyone. So let me tell you what you can win …
First we have an XBOX 360 Kinect Sensor Bar and Adventures, this is top of many a Christmas list this year, we’ve all seen the ad where you are the controller and I know you have all thought, yeah I could do that! £129 is a lot of money but if you enter and win this competition will make your cyber kids Christmas morning and they can spend the rest of the day “being the controller”. The sensor unit comes with a copy of Kinect Adventures, which lets you float in outer space, experience the thrill of roaring rapids, tackle mountaintop obstacle courses and dive into the deep to explore a leaky underwater observatory.
Next up less action and more looking pretty! Also up for winning is this beautiful Silver Necklace. You can’t go wrong with a new bit of sparkle for yourself at Christmas or if you were feeling generous this necklace would make a lovely gift for your mum, mother-in-law, auntie, sister, cousin, friend etc. At £65 you will be get generosity bonus points and your festive halo will be shining! Quick & easy to enter, why on earth not?
Holidays are coming, holidays are coming! No escaping it and the first of what will no doubt be many online orders have been placed here at Villa Lancaster. An early gift from me and the lovely people at Matalan will be £30 of vouchers for a lucky Cheshire Mum reader! With such great value prices in store and online they will go a long way this Christmas, some of my favourites picks are these biker boots for me £25 and this wreath £8 for my home.
Entering is easy, first you need to check out Matalan’s latest ad, here it is…
To enter just pick which key pieces you would spend your voucher on, you can see all the items featured in Matalan’s festive ad here, have a browse, your choice doesn’t have to feature in the ad just tell me what you like over at http://www.matalan.co.uk. Additional entries are available for liking Matalan’s Facebook page, this blog post and tweeting about the competition. Competition closes at midnight on Tuesday 6th December 2011.
I am a mum, I work, I also happen to blog. I work in marketing and have done for over, shhh, 15 years – but I look a lot younger – honest! I’ve been working with Princes and lots of lovely bloggers on their latest campaign reminding you, your neighbour, your friends and the world that their canned fruit products are great at breakfast. We created a fabulous breakfast goodie box and there is one for you my lovely readers - lots of opportunities to enter too with my new sparkly Rafflecopter gizmo but first check out what everyone else wrote and made with their Princes Breakfast Boxes.
First post into my reader when the boxes started to land was from Mummy Space, followed by Nicki from Curly and Candid created a fab photo galley. From Yorkshire the breakfast box headed South to Katie and the Kids where they gave breakfast the Princes overhaul then out to the Seasider in the City had the most competition entries (so far!) and Susan K Mann put the boxes through the challenges of a working mum and made loads including the Princes Peaches & Cream Fairy Wings. Scottish Mum , Mellow Mummy and Kat from Housewife Confidential all made muffins – these have been very popular both made with canned peach and pear slices here’s the Princes muffin recipe. Topping the breakfast heart monitor challenge on the morning of the Mad’s was Kate over at The Five F’s and managing every morning with five children was Nova over at Cherished by Me, also Thinly Spread, see what I did there, was Christine and her brood enjoying the fruit straight up as it comes. Mrs M, Mummys Little Monkey and Freckles Family all gave Princes Fruit for breakfast a whirl. Also trying it and liking it were White Lily Green, Mummy Musings and Princes Breakfast was enjoyed in Kels Hiding Place. Flying the economic flag was Cass at Frugal Family creating a fabulous Peach Cobbler, Nova’s Pear Golden Syrup Microwave Cake is on my wish list to try too. Nickie from I am Typecast and Amy from and 1 more means 5 spent the day in a radio studio being interviewed about the stresses at breakfast time for mums. The results from the heart monitor tests undertaken by our bloggers showed that during the morning shift, some mums experienced a heart rate of more than 170 – that’s the equivalent to a long run – the mystery as to the whereabouts of my size 6 body continues! As Amy , who is a massive pancake fan, pointed out during the radio day who really knows how to cut open a pineapple, and who could really eat a whole one? Princes canned pineapple is a favourite here at Villa Lancaster as pizza topping and also in sweet and sour.
As you can see there is loads you can make and enjoy with a fruity Breakfast Box from Princes, to be in with a chance of winning one just enter the competition below which will run for a week. A BIG thank you from me, the PR agency and Princes to all the bloggers for their posts, photo’s, tweets and all their readers for all your entries. You can get more information and recipe inspirations head over at the Princes website http://www.princes.co.uk/
If you have been reading my posts for a while, you will probably already know I experienced colic with my second baby, Baby G (now Diva G!) Having a baby who cried for as many as eleven hours a day took me to a very dark place indeed so if you are here reading this with a baby with colic let me give you a (((BIG HUG))) have a read of my post “Babies cry but …” maybe there will be some ideas of things to try there for you.
I used to have Infacol on my weekly shopping delivery, I was genuinely afraid of running out, I had bottles in most rooms in the house, most bags and even the car! If Infacol had a social presence back then, Baby G has just been promoted to Diva G as she recently celebrated a very Happy 2nd Birthday , I would have liked and followed in all the usual ways. I’m really pleased that Infacol have arrived with new social pages on Facebook , Twitter, You Tube and a Blog *pops party popper*
To celebrate Infacol are running a sweep stake competition on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/infacol), the prize being approximately £500 worth of baby related goods. It’s super simple to enter – Just ‘Like’ the new Facebook page (www.facebook.com/Infacol) then answer 3 colic related questions correctly and follow the instructions BEFORE TUESDAY 1st NOVEMBER – one lucky winner will be picked to win the prize on 2/11/11.
Before you head off, I thought I’d re-publish one of my most popular posts, this is me and back then Baby G showing you “Tiger in a Tree” – remember you saw it here first!
Green Giant ambassador Colin Jackson is coming to Manchester this half term! The event is at The Trafford Centre on Saturday 29th October, it is open to everybody but there is a VIP area which I have a chance for you one of you to be in. As well as a VIP pass the winner will have the chance to meet the sporting legend Colin Jackson and will also receive a top of the range scooter and helmet!
Olympic and Commonwealth sporting superstar Colin Jackson CBE will be at Orient Way the Trafford Centre from 10.30am on Saturday 29th October to meet families and sports fans, full details are here. Colin will be encouraging families to ‘High Five’ the legendary Green Giant animated character by jumping up to high five his hand and will also be giving out height charts, great recipes and coupons to help families get their five a day.
Entries must be completed by over 18s. Maximum of two people to meet Colin per entrant and children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
