Warren Evans Clocks Go Back Giveaway

The clocks go back on sunday this week, so we will be getting a whole extra hour in bed, or maybe you will spend your extra hour doing something else. And that's just what Warren Evans wants to know...what will you be doing for your extra hour on Sunday? Warren Evans is a bed and mattress specialist and will be giving one lucky winner a free handmade double bed and a luxury mattress. Who could't do with a new bed, I know me and Jon would love a nice new luxury bed! Liking this rustic one at the moment

And this chic minimalist white one. 

To enter the giveaway just visit the Warren Evans Facebook Page on Sunday and leave a comment a comment saying 'when the #clocksgoback...' telling them what you will spend that extra hour on. It's really that easy, and you could win an amazing handmade bed and mattress. Simple!

Review and Giveaway - Creative Tops Gourmet Cheese Baker

I've worked with Creative Tops before, a while ago I reviewed their new Katie Alice Collection for them, which was beautiful. So when Caitlin got in touch to ask if I would like to try out their new item, a cheese baker, I almost bit her hand off! I love baked camembert! Like seriously love it! So having a cute little baker especially for it sounded perfect.

So here is the Gourmet Cheese Baker which will cost you £13 from their shop The English Table, check out their store for lots of other brilliant kitchen and dining items too.

So here's what I thought of it, and pictures of my yummy baked Camembert.

It arrived in this cute little box, which is great if you are giving it as a gift, the presentation is lovely.

And here's my baker!! It is made of stoneware and is 11cm wide by 4cm tall, perfect for a camembert to fit in snuggly. It's microwave and dishwasher safe, making it super easy to use and clean.

All you have to do is pop your camembert in the baker, replace the lid and place it in the oven at 200 for around 15 minutes. You can add a drizzle of oil or some herbs or garlic to the top if you wish, or just serve with a relish like we did. This one is sweet red onion chutney that we bought from a tea shop on the Norfolk Broads. Then eat with crispy bread or your choice of veggie batons.

Granted camembert comes in a box which it can simply be baked in, but often the box can catch a little if the oven is too hot and they can get a bit messy if you want to eat them directly out of the box. With the baker it is all self contained and get's evenly cooked all over. Plus when you take it out of the oven you can just remove the lid and pop it straight on the table to enjoy your cheese from. Simple and a bit more classy than the wooden box!

So onto the giveaway part. Creative Tops have been kind enough to offer one of my lucky readers their very own Gourmet Cheese Baker. It's very simple to enter, just fill in the Rafflecopter form below and a winner will be chosen at random on the 30th. Open internationally!

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Thanks everyone and Good luck!

Bumper Beauty Bundle Giveaway!

Good morning. At the start of my month off I promised you all 2 great giveaways, well one was held during my time off, so thank you for all those who entered, I hope Florrie and Taylor love their new books. 

I didn’t have time to get the second up whilst I was moving so here is giveaway number 2! I thought I would offer you all something a little different to my usual giveaways so here is a bumper beauty bundle giveaway I hope you will all love!

You will win all of these fun items!

Elf items - Eyebrow Kit, Contouring Blush and Bronzer Kit, Cream Eyeliner

Burts Bees Soap - Mango and Orange Energising Body Bar

Lush products - Popcorn Lip Scrub and Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter (I love both these products, they smell amazing!)
Over £28 of beauty goodies!

Open internationally, nice and simple to enter, just fill in the Rafflecopter below.

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Good luck everyone!

Update on my life! And a Giveaway!

Well lovely ladies (and the occasional gents who read my blog) a lot of you will know that Jon, the hubby, is very much into his photography and you may have noticed the odd Cross-Jones Photography post cropping up on the blog. Well big changes are coming in my/our life. We are very excited about it but it is also a little scary. Now that the wheels are fully in motion and the plans are all in place I thought I would let you all know.

Jon has decided to go self employed (me part time!) he has left the pub trade and we are launching own company. Cross-Jones Photography will be an official company as of 1st July!! For this to happen we are moving home to Neath to live with my parents for a while, so Jon can dedicate time to getting the company up and running and to help relieve a little tension on the finances while we build the company up. We will be available to shoot weddings, engagements, family portraits, head-shots, newborn, maternity, events, publicity and anything else you can think of. We almost have everything in place now, it's just a matter of promoting the business and getting our name out there.

As I will be moving this month (and that is a mammoth task!) and trying to launch a company I am sadly taking a month off blogging, but I wouldn't dare leave all of you without some great posts. So don't worry, for the month of June I have some amazing guest posts coming your way from some of my favourite bloggers. I have asked them all to do a post on the theme of 'Show Us Your Favourite...' meaning they will be telling us about their favourite bands, beauty products, holidays, clothing items, food or what ever else they want to tell you about. I hope you enjoy them.

But as I am leaving you and in honour of our new company I am also hosting a little giveaway (actually 2 giveaways, 1 now and 1 in 2 weeks time! So remember to come back). This giveaway is for 1 of 2 awesome books. 1 to fit with my blog and 1 to fit with Jon's. You have the chance to win either a Vivienne Westwood book or a Digital Photography Guide (one of Jon's favourites!)

 Vivienne Westwood Book

The Complete Digital Photo Manual 

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So please don't forget to enter my giveaway and check back in on the blog as I will have a ton of brilliant guest posts for you all to read. 

Event - Harrods The Summer of Now Event!

Listen up ladies, this event hasn't happened yet and it is definitely something you will all be interested in attending, and you can! It's today! Online!

Here is the invite! (I feel this all needed exclamation points!)

So as you can see from the invite above this event is being hosted by Harrods, Online, from 4pm to midnight today and all you lovely ladies are invited. Its to help celebrate and launch their new 'The Summer is Now', because Now really is the start of the summer.

I was totally excited when I was asked to blog about the event today as there are some awesome things happening. As the Great Gatsby is about to hit our screens and fashion this season has been taking lots of inspiration from history and vintage styles, Harrods 'The Summer is Now' and their event today is all based around vintage luxury glamour and lots of 1920's style. 

First up there are going to be flash sales, discounts and gifts available throughout the day on their online store. 

There will be interviews with the likes of Alice Temperley and other stylists asking questions on their favourite Summer Party memories, their must-have pieces for this year and what Summer Parties they are looking forward to and lots more fun and interesting stuff.

Finally there are some totally amazing competitions! You could win a weekend in New York, Cocktail Making Masterclasses, an exclusive preview screening of The Great Gatsby and lastly this stunning Alice by Temperley dress from the designers unreleased A/W13 collection! How amazing would that be! I would just need to find an occasion to wear it!

So what are you waiting for - if it's after 4pm get yourself over there and enter all the awesome giveaways and maybe do a little shopping - if it's earlier than 4pm set yourself a timer, alarm or nice big note in your diary so you remember to swing by and see what Harrods.com has to offer, I mean seriously do you want to miss out on winning that stunning dress or a trip to New York? 

Sponsored by Harrods

Giveaway - £70 Barratts Shoes Credit

Yes it's that time! I have managed to score a great little giveaway for this month for my lovely readers. This giveaway is for £70 credit to spend on Barratts Shoes Online, my great February sponsors.
Who doesn't love a free pair of shoes, or two! Ladies can never have too many shoes. So whether you are after a new pair of boots, a cute pair of flats, a pair of skyscraper heels for a night out, or just a simple pair of trainers, you will be able to buy what ever you want!

Here are just a few of my favourite shoes under £70, that will be great for the coming spring.

Dolcis Wedges £35

Ravel Gladiator Sandals £40.50

XTI Slingback Wedges £22.75 (you could have these in all 3 colours!)

Timeless Studded Ballerinas £35

Sorry but this giveaway is only open to my UK readers as Barratts doesn't post internationally at the moment. But don't worry next month will be an internationally friendly giveaway for everyone to enter. You will need to have a paypal account as this is for £70 credit to spend on what ever you want on the site.

So all you have to do to enter is follow the mandatory rule below in the RaffleCopter widget, then enter as many of the extra entries as you want. The giveaway will end on the 28th Feb and be announced on St David's Day, 1st March.

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Giveaway - Firmoo Glasses Voucher

So the lovely people at Firmoo Glasses have given me 25 vouchers to the value of $20 each for some of you lucky readers. With their glasses starting at just $8 a pair you will definitely be able to find something you like either under $20 or use the $20 towards a more expensive pair. Add your prescription lenses or have them with plain lenses as a simple fashion statement. You can even have some sunglasses if you'd rather. All you need to pay is the shipping.

So here are a few of my favourite pairs all of which cost less than $20

$17.50

$8

$19

$8

$18.50

 On to the giveaway!

The winner's will be chosen at random and will be sent a $20 voucher for Firmoo Glasses.

Open internationally!

So how do you enter, it's pretty simple!

Just follow my blog via GFC then visit Firmoo and tell me what you would spend your voucher on. 

Please leave your email address so I can send you your voucher if you win.

For extra entries:

Follow @Daisydayz25 on Twitter or Daisy Dayz on FaceBook

Or Firmoo on FaceBook

Just leave me a comment to tell me which extra entries you have done

If you tweet or RT the giveaway with @daisydayz25 attached I'll give you extra entries too!

This competition will end at midnight GBT on the 16th December.

Good luck!

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of my blog or sponsoring a giveaway please feel free to drop me an email at daisydayz25 at googlemail.com

Giveaway - Crabtree and Evelyn Festive Indulgence

Hello Lovely Ladies, hasn't time flown, I can't believe it's December already! And as December means Christmas I thought some of you might like a little gift for yourselves. I've teamed up with wonderful people at Crabtree and Evelyn to offer one of you this beautiful Festive Indulgence Cookies and Fudge Christmas gift set. I can personally attest that the Spiced Ginger biscuits and fudge selection are amazing. I promise you wont be disappointed! 

 On to the giveaway!

The winner will be chosen at random and will win the lovely gift set above.

Open internationally!

So how do you enter, it's pretty simple!

Just complete one (or both for 2 entries) of the following:

Follow my blog via GFC and leave your email below
or

Follow @Daisydayz25 on Twitter and Follow @CrabtreeCardiff on Twitter and leave your twitter tag below so we can contact you

If you tweet or RT the giveaway with @daisydayz25 attached I'll give you extra entries too!

This competition will end at midnight GBT on the 9th December.

Good luck!

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of my blog or sponsoring a giveaway please feel free to drop me an email at daisydayz25 at googlemail.com

Outfit Post - In the Castle and giveaway winner

So sorry I have been rubbish lately girls, just been super busy with some writing stuff and general life! I did meet a few of you local bloggers at the St Davids Cardiff Fashion Week event a few days ago, which was lovely but apart from that I have done very little.

Last week me and Jon did take a trip to Bath to see my best friend and her other half in their new flat, but instead of going straight there we thought we would stop in Cardiff Castle for a quick few snaps. So here is a little outfit post for you all to see what I've been wearing!

 Dress: Everything5pounds.com (I say dress but it would be a micro mini on my legs!)

Jeans: Warehouse

Cardigan: Vintage

Shoes: Dorothy Perkins

Necklace: Internacional

Hairband: From China

Earrings: From Miki

Bangles: Leather wrap from Miki, others from Swap and Barcelona

Ring: Vintage

Hope you like ladies. Have you been having any fun recently?

I have another little announcement though - you may remember I held a giveaway a few weeks back, well I thought it was about time I announced a winner. So drum roll please!!!

The winner is MissKatV

Congrats you have won the Jeepers Peepers Franz Glasses you liked! I'll be in touch for your address shortly.

Blog Birthday Giveaway

My little old blog is 3 today! Yep 3 years ago today I posted my very first blog post, you can see it here, it was all about Etsy Finds - still a popular topic with me! I honestly can't believe that I have stuck it out so long, but I have made some great online friends, meet lots of lovely people and just loved every minute of it. Plus I'm pretty sure that I will make it another 3 years, as I have no intention of leaving any time soon.

Winning the Wales Lifestyle Blog of the Year 2012 has also shown me that I am obviously doing something right. And that you guys, my readers actually enjoy my little corner of the internet. So as a big thank you to all you guys, whether you have been with me from the start (I know a few of you have) or are one of my newer readers, I am hosting a little giveaway with one of my long term sponsors SunglassesShop.com. 

Up for grabs is a pair of sunglasses. Yes ok I know its winter coming, and shades probably aren't the first thing on your mind, but the winter can still be bright sometimes, especially glare when your driving. So I have teamed up with Sunglasses Shop to bring you some of the hottest styles for this winter. There are 4 pairs to choose from. 

SXUC Mirrored Aviators 

SXUC Kylie

Le Specs The Revolver

Jeepers Peepers Franz

So ladies (and gents!) all you have to do is be a follower of my blog (via GFC) and leave me a comment saying which of the pairs of glasses above you would like to win? Tell me why you like them, or how you would style them, anything about them. 

Plus follow me on Facebook or Twitter for an extra entry. 

You can put it all in one comment and leave me your email so I can get hold of you. 

Open internationally!

The giveaway will close on the 20th October and the winner will win which ever pair they chose!

Good luck!

Giveaway - Crabtree and Evelyn Gardeners Handcream

Here you go Ladies (and Gents!), if you follow me on twitter you will know that I promised you a giveaway for to today, sponsored by the very lovley people at Crabtree & Evelyn. You all know how much of a fan I am of the brand and will do anything to get my hands on some of their amazing products - especially their hand cream!

Well, they have given me not 1 or 2 but 6 of their 25g Gardners Handcream to give away to 6 of my lucky readers! These are a perfect size to fit in your hand bag (I always have one in mine), in your desk at work or while your travelling.

I will be awarding 2 to my blog followers, 2 to my twitter followers and 2 to my Facebook followers. So if you follow via all 3 you have 3 chances of winning! Just read the rules below to find out how to enter.

1. You need to follow my blog via GFC or Bloglovin and leave a comment here telling me what your favourite Crabtree and Evelyn item is.

2. Follow my facebook and leave me a comment on my Facebook wall telling me your favourite summer scent.

3. Follow my Twitter and RT this message.
Follow @daisydayz25 Tweet

That's all!

This is open internationally and will end a midnight GBT on the 7th May.

Please leave an email or way of contacting you if you comment here, I will contact you via FB or Twitter if you win through them.

I am going to Paris until Friday so see you in a few day lovely ladies!

Thanks and Good Luck

Daisymay X

Spring Fashionista Event!

Welcome to the semi-annual Fashionista Events, ALL FASHION, ONLY FASHION, Giveaway Event. This is the Largest Fashion giveaway event on the internet, with 105+ blogs offering over $20,000 in prizes, hosted by Still Blonde after all these YEARS with co-hosts The Socialites Closet and Modly Chic.

So here it is ladies, what you have all been waiting for!

This is what is up for grabs for one lucky reader.

£50 voucher to spend on Sunglassesshop.com

$50 to spend on Wonderlost

A Swarovski hair barrette from Stone Bridge worth £44

A Polka Dot Scarf from White Stuff worth £19.95

This necklace from Curvety.com worth £8.75

Lastly 3 charm bracelets of your choice from my store Daisy Dayz Emporium on Etsy worth £9

Thats an amazing £163 prize!

Plus for every giveaway you enter you will get an entry in to the grand prize draw for the chance to win this Marc Jacobs bag worth $1200 (retail) from Bella Bags

The giveaway will open at 12:01 EST on the 2nd March so be ready to get entering!

This is open internationally!

Mandatory entry is to be a follower of my blog and to leave a comment below with your email.

Visit any of the companies and leave a comment telling me your favourite item (1 entry for each company - you may do this in one comment if you wish)

Facebook Likes: Daisy Dayz, White Stuff, Curverty, Sunglasses Shop, Yellow Pony (Wonderlost) (1 entry for each company - you may leave 1 comment telling me all you have Facebook liked)

Twitter follows: Daisy Dayz, White Stuff, Curvety, Sunglasses Shop, Yellow Pony

(1 entry for each, you may leave one comment telling me all you have followed if you wish)

Tweet, blog, Google+ or FB this giveaway for 2 extra entries just leave me a comment with the link

Heart Daisy Dayz Emporium or your favourite item and leave comment with your Etsy Name (1 entry per Heart!)

Google+ me for 1 entry leave a comment with your name here

I think thats all!!

And here are all the others for you!

Still Blonde after all these YEARS , Spring Fashionista Giveaway Events or the Spring Fashionista Giveaway Event bloggers are not responsible for sponsors that do not fulfill their prizes.

Have fun all and good luck!

Daisymay X