Contest winner announced

WOW!! After reading all those wonderful comments, I'm feeling pretty special! Thank you for all the nice compliments and your continued support. Also, as promised, today we find out who won the book, Tiny Yarn Animals. The contest officially closed at midnight last night with a total of forty-five comments to Win this book! The comments were numbered in the order in which they were received as follows:

1. Jenni J
2. Mari
3. Scarlett a.k.a. kittyred
4. AngelaJ
5. Robin McCoy
6. Jen Spilker
7. kelly
8. Deeners
9. wellie
10. MARIA EUGENIA
11. Tiffany aka: mieljolie
12. Bethany @ Gettin' It Pegged
13. westie-mom
14. Stacie
15. guppygirl
16. jpirkle
17. Angelbeader a.k.a Mari
18. Just Me
19. LindaJ
20. Michele
21. Kelly Croasmum
22. Angel
23. Laura
24. Marlys
25. karmicraft
26. Renee
27. MELINDA
28. Nel
29. Rayann
30. KathrynJB
31. Helen J.
32. Anonymous
33. Andrea
34. sevenstars7
35. Karen
36. dlandlrd
37. keeper
38. Aurora
39. wormlynn
40. Laura
41. Dianne Carroll
42. Linda M
43. LoomLady June
44. nugatorytm
45. Elizabeth S.

After assigning numbers to each comment, I went to Randomizer.org and had it to select two numbers out of the 45 comments. The first number is the winner and the second number is the alternate. The following is a screen shot of the winning numbers showing the winner as number 15 and the alternate as number 17:


Congratulations number 15, guppygirl! You have until April 27, 2009 to claim your prize. If I do not hear from guppygirl by April 27th, the prize will go to number 17, Angelbeader aka Mari. Guppygirl, please contact me to claim your prize!

Win this book!

The Loom Lore blog began it's journey on Thanksgiving, 2006, but I somehow never remembered to host a blogiversary. Since my birthday is April 15th, the day we Americans show our love by paying income tax (lovely day for a birthday, huh?), I decided to bring a little joy into this otherwise depressing day by having a little blog contest just to celebrate two and a half years of sporadic blogging.

Being a certified bibliophile who just happens to love loom knitting, I thought I would turn my recent mistake into my blog readers' good fortune. When I'm buying books, I sometimes forget that I already have one just like it at home and end up with duplicate copies of a title. That is just what I did when I ordered Tiny Yarn Animals by Tamie Snow (click on the title to read a description of the book from Amazon). All the best amigurumi patterns available seem to be crocheted; however, even though the patterns in Snow's book are crocheted, loom knitters can get plenty of inspiration from this book!

OK, this is how the contest works:

1. Leave a comment to this post telling me which projects from Loom Lore you have enjoyed the most and what types of projects you would like to see included in the future. This will count as an entry. Only one entry per person please. Also, if you are an Anonymous commenter, please include your name at the end of your comment so I'll know who you are in case you win.
   
2. At the end of the contest, each comment to the "Win this book" post will be assigned a number in the order they are received. One winner and an alternate will be selected using Randomizer.org based on the total number of comments listed to the contest post.
3. The contest begins on April 15, 2009 and ends on midnight April 24, 2009. The winner will be announced on April 25, 2009.
4. The winner will need to contact me with mailing information for their prize delivery at my email address located in the Loom Lore About Me page within 48 hours of the announcement notification. If I do not hear from the first winner by the April 27th deadline, the alternate will be declared the winner. The same procedure will be followed until we have a final winner.
   
5. The contest is open to all Loom Lore readers, both domestic and international.
   

Best of luck and thank you for putting up with me for the past two & a half years! Loom knitters rule!!