Is the anticipation killing you?

The wait is over!

After many hours spent exporting comments from Typepad, importing them into Excel, flagging the blogs who mentioned my giveaway, throwing in their two extra entries, sorting them randomly, then using the Random Number Generator to pick out the winning names...

The winner is...

Holly from Thoughts of an Incurable Midwesterner!

I picked three more names for the little booby prizes (yes, that's what they are called: little booby prizes):

mollie who said "i'm a lurker too... but you are on my rss feed so i read every new post! ..."

ohgoodie who said "It also got to meet a blogger who I adore, Garden Antique News, it is so cool to actually meet in person..."

Kim of the shopkim blog

Congratulations!!

Thanks again for all of the comments. It was great to see all of the lurkers come out of the woodwork. And I found lots of fun blogs that are new to me, like Apples on a Stick and Sweet Jessie. I'd like to give a special shout out to two of the commenters who referred to themselves as "giveaway whores". And thanks to everyone who linked to my giveaway from their blogs!

If you didn't win my giveaway (or even if you did), head over to Sarah's blog at Girl Land and enter her giveaway. But hurry...it ends on Wednesday, Sept 12!

PS: The reason I had this giveaway was because I had my first "reader encounter" with Ava. Guess what? I met two more readers at a tag sale this weekend! Dona & Connie sell cool antiques at the tag sales that they have four times a year in Chester County, PA. They have great taste in vintage finds...and they need to start a blog ASAP!

Comments

[Holly]

Wow! Really? I can hardly believe it! YAAAAAY!
Thank you!

[Apples on a Stick]

Aw, thanks for the linky love!

I'm sad that I will not be receiving the cute little vintage coloring book. And slightly emerald over whomever it is that receives it!

I've been a subscriber to your feed for about 6 months now, but I promise to comment more often!

[Gabreial]

WOW, this was awesome! I have a giveaway every month on my blog too!

[ohgoodie]

Yippee, Skippee, Thanks so much, I am so excited. You can email me at jcdas@msn.com
Smiles,
Carol

[Denice]

Hi Colleen,

You left e-mailed me, and I deleted it (along with 27 other pieces of "junk" mail!) Oopps! Couldn't retrieve it, and didn't open it! I'm the one who e-mailed you about Imogene Coca. Love the blog. Denice

[Rosemary]

Congrats to the winners!!
Rosemary

[Jessie]

ah well, maybe next time?....
Thanks for the "sweet" (hee-hee) comment - I hope to hear from you again!

[Lee W]

Bummed I didn't win... but how cool that you actually meet readers! I'm not sure if I have any readers- haha

[Connie]

Thanks for mentioning Dona and I. I feel like a celecrity. You inspired me to start my blog. I hope to see you soon at another exciting event.