Congratulations!

Yesterday, I compiled the list of names for the giveaway draw. This was the order of your comments here and on facebook:

1 KDShort
2 Minna
3 Beatrice Dassonville
4 Cola E-son
5 HepzibethClare
6 Margot Ensink
7 shale
8 Thmini2
9 Christine Jaeger
10 Frederieke
11 DollMum
12 Amy
13 Iluna
14 Rosa
15 Marian
16 Sans
17 Karin Goldring
18 Susi
19 Nicola

Some of you said you didn't want to go in the draw, or didn't say you did want to, so your names aren't there. (I do hope I got that right!)

I had also said that the giveaway was for my followers. Now I know this is a great way to get new followers! ;-) I'm very happy to welcome those of you who discovered my blog through this giveaway, and I've enjoyed exploring your blogs, too. But I am sorry, MarVer, I did not put your name in the draw, as I couldn't see you among my followers, or my blog in your list ...

So, the list above was the final list, and the random integer generator spat out:


Congratulations, Amy! The Meyer family will be coming to live with your peeps on Lundby Lane! Please let me know your address - I've sent you a message through ebay with my email address (ebay's useful for lots of things!) Or you could just send me a comment with your address which I won't publish.

Wow, I look forward to seeing where they'll live - is there an empty house they can rent, or will they [you!] have to buy a new one?

101 Followers! Giveaway!

Dear blog followers, readers, lurkers, visitors and especially fellow bloggers, I am delighted to have passed 100 followers! And I'm a little ashamed that this milestone comes when I have not been keeping up with all of your blogs. I shall try to catch up, now I'm home and over the first week back at work ....


To celebrate having so many followers, I have a little giveaway. Longtime readers of my blog know that my favourite dolls house dolls are by Erna Meyer - they live in lots of my houses, and I have so many that quite a few live in a large box (a special one for conserving textiles). Among the box-dwellers are some old store stock dolls which I bought in a live online auction some time ago. Because they're old store stock, there are quite a few duplicates, and I would like one family to have a new home with one of my followers.


If you are one of my followers, and you would like a chance to win this family, please leave a comment saying so below. (If you want to comment but don't want to go in the draw, just let me know - I will enter the total number of people who want them into a random integer generator, so I just need to be able to distinguish between people who'd like to have them and people who just want to leave a nice comment ;-) Thought I'd mention that, as I don't always comment on giveaway posts - but now I've used random.org, I know it works on a number, not the actual comments.)

Please note that ONLY the dolls are included in the giveaway - the red leather Lundby lounge is NOT included, it's just so they didn't all have to stand up. It also gives you an idea of their scale: the adults are about 12.5 cm tall (5 inches, or just a little less if their hair wasn't so fly-away), the boy is 8.5 cm (about 3 1/4 inches) and the girl is 8 cm (3 1/8 inches).

Here is Mrs Meyer's twin sister in my 1960s Lundby house:


So, a big welcome to my new followers, and big hugs and thanks for your support to my fellow bloggers over the past couple of years! Good luck in the draw :-)

MORE INFO: I forgot to say when the draw would close! Please leave a note by the end of Wednesday 2nd February if you would like to enter.

Also, some collectors who are followers here usually read my posts on facebook, and they have left comments there. I will include them in the draw (I did just say 'below') - all entrants will be numbered following the order in which you commented (I have the exact date and time of each comment, so that's easy!), and I'll enter the total number into the random integer generator.