The season of goodwill rolls on and after the success of last week’s Argos toy giveaway it’s time for the home to get a little treat. Deck your own halls like they do in the magazines with ?150 Homebase Vouchers.

Here are a few things the winner might choose…

Perhaps you’ll go for a ‘real’ christmas tree this year, I like this norway spruce.

I’m also loving the negative bauble craze. This completely unchristmassy lime bauble says “I don’t even like Turkey”

Or what about this cute reindeer bauble, love that.

The vouchers aren’t limited to christmas decorations though, so if it’s a quick lick of paint the house needs or a new piece of furniture then you need to get entering!

How to Enter

1. One Entry – Comment on this post telling me what you’d spend the vouchers on

2. One Entry – Retweet this competition

The winner will be chosen at random on Monday 13th December at 9am.

The official Homebase website has thousands of products available to buy online. Choose from kitchens, bathrooms , decorating, furniture, homewares, lighting , flooring, tiling, heating, cooling, building and decorating materials, hardware, tools, gardening, outdoor living, and home electrical.

This has to be one of my favourite giveaways as what I’m giving away should appeal to you all. I have one Wiki Digital Camera to giveaway courtesy of IWOOT. If you didn’t hear all about the wiki digital camera read about it now – Wiki Digital Camera Review

The Wiki would make an ideal gift for a teenager, or if you’re a blogger keep it for yourself to capture short videos for your blog.

The Rules

1. All (UK residents) newsletter subscribers receive one entry, as does anyone on the mum blogger e-course. If you sign for either or both before the competition end date then your entries will be counted.

2. Comments will receive one entry, as will retweets on twitter.

Simples, yeah…

This competition is only open to UK residents.

The draw will take place on Thursday 10th December 2009.

Once an entry has been chosen by random number generator I will email the winner and they’ll have 48 hours to respond with an address to which the camera can be sent.

Good Luck!

PS Sign up for the mum blogger e-course here (one entry) and the newsletter here (one entry)

Christmas has come early! I have a fab christmas themed jollybox for one lovely winner.

The Jollybox company offer a range of themed playtime boxes that encourage children to use their imagination.

Each Jollybox equips parents with the tools to transport their child into an exciting, imaginary world of characters, themes and scenarios. Whether it is a dinosaur, an explorer or an airline pilot, children are encouraged to explore their imaginations through creative play, acting and drawing. Jollyboxes have been created to promote problem-solving skills, strengthen communication and encourage social interaction in children at an early age.

The range includes The Explorer Box, The Wedding Box, and The Holiday Box. Each box contains illustrated flash cards, an inspiration booklet and an activity book with puzzles, themed games, amazing facts, exciting new characters and plenty of creative ideas for budding young artists.

I have the Christmas Box to giveaway, which is bound to keep the little ones busy throughout December, or you could even keep it as a special gift for Christmas Eve or the big day itself!

Two Ways to Win

1. Join my newsletter for one entry, how easy is that?

2. Leave a comment on this post on the subject ‘One thing I hope for this christmas….’. This will count as one entry too.

You can enter either way, or do both for two entries. Newsletter subscriber will automatically be given one entre

I will choose a random winner on Thursday 8th October 2009

*This competition is open to UK residents only*

Time for some primping and preening in preparation for my big trip (you know, the one I might have mentioned once or twice!)

I received these Aveeno goodies ages ago so it was good to finally have an excuse to try them out. First up the colloidal oatmeal bath, every time I mention colloidal I think it sounds like a nasty hospital treatment. I have to say the reality of the bath wasn’t much better. See video

I think it’s only fair to take the good with the bad so I hopped in and the, um, scum went away a bit, which was nice. The smell did subside a bit too, it started out like a hops smell, my husband thought I had started my own home brew in the bath. The result was pretty good though and my skin felt nicer afterwards, not sure it was enough for me to try it again though. I bet my bath needs a good clean now.

The moisturising cream was much better though, the consistency was quite thick to look at but when I started smoothing it over my skin it was absorbed really easily, leaving no residue or that familiar wet feeling.

I’m not sure where the cream was meant to go but seeing as I’d just done a facial scrub (I’m really ramping up my efforts in a bid to look half way decent while I’m away) I decided to put it on my face. All the products are fragance free and their selling point seems to be their ‘naturalness’.

Now to the good part, I have five of the sets you see above to giveaway. All you need to do if you’d like to be in with a chance of winning one is sign up for my newsletter. You’ll automatically be entered into this AND all future giveaways (no catch, just enjoy!)

BONUS

For an extra entry, leave a comment on this post (only newsletter subscribers will be given the extra entry).

Competition closes on Sunday 26th April

Update: Open to UK residents only