Giveaway Announcement

It is July 1st and I promised I would announce the winner of my blog birthday giveaway today!

I had Madeline help me with picking the name out of a bowl. 

And the winner for the birthday giveaway is.....

Marcia (The Kings)

Congratulations! I will get the package to you soon!

Update on the giveaway

If you read my other blog you will know that I just announced we are buying a house. 

So we are moving some time in the next two weeks and my time has been crazy!

So I haven't had time to go back through the comment and pick a winner for the birthday giveaway. 

I have decided to extend the giveaway. 

It will now be through the end of June and I will announce the winner on July 1st instead. 

That will give any of you that want to enter a little more time to comment and I will be able to really focus on it by then!

I'm back! And Happy birthday Scones and Crackers!

We are back from our three week adventure in Europe, most of that time spent in England. 

I am so excited to share some of our adventures with you here on Scones and Crackers. 

We had an amazing time. 

England was just as beautiful as I imagined, and even more so. 

While I was away my little blog hit a milestone. 

My first blog post was April 12, 2015.

Let's Get Started

I can't believe this blog is over one year old now. 

I wanted to celebrate its birthday but since I was away, it had to wait until now. 

I have some English goodies to send out to one of you. 

I am going to extend this giveaway through the month of May. 

For every comment made today through May 31st you will get one entry. 

(This counts for past posts too as long as the comment is written from today onward!)

On June 1st I will announce the winner!

 

Let's talk about: Cadbury Dairy Milk buttons

A few months ago we picked up these Dairy Milk buttons at London Market to try. 

The girls loved the packaging and were a little disappointed when they opened the bags and found that they weren't chocolate animals but just the buttons used for eyes in the picture. 

I knew that was what they were but I guess I didn't think to mention it. Haha. 

They liked them but they weren't their favorite. 

They are very sweet, a little too sweet. 

Basically it felt like if you took a few chocolate chips and had them flattened and put into this shape and ate them by themselves. 

I won't be buying them again. There are too many other treats that taste better and are more unique. 

 

In other news: 

I sent off  the package of items from London Market to our giveaway winner Donna last week and she posted a picture last Friday. If you want to see what she got, check it out here.

100th Post Giveaway Winner!

We have picked the winner! 

I wrote down the first letter of each of the participants names on a paper for each of your entries. 

Then cut them up and put them in a bowl this morning. 

Madeline was my helper and pulled out a slip of paper.

It is hard to see in this picture... but here she is showing me the paper she picked. 

And the winner is: 

Donna!  (at the Doll Sweet Journal)

Donna: you can email me with your address and I will get a fun package off to you in the next week!

Congratulations!

100 posts!

We did it!

This is the 100th post of Scones and Crackers!

I am so excited to be here and so happy with this blog experience so far. It has been so much fun. I hope you are enjoying reading it as much as I enjoy making it!

You may remember that way back on the 50th post I said that I would be doing a little giveaway when I got to the 100th post. 

The way to gain entries into this giveaway was to comment here on this blog. 

I have been keeping track of comments and as of now Marcia is in the lead with 46 comments! Donna is at 10 and Julie is at 12. 

I am going to allow one week to give you a last chance to go back and comment on any of the blog posts you would like to before we pick a winner. This one counts too! 

Next Monday, the 7th of September, I will put all of the entries into a bowl and then have one of my daughter's pull out a name. 

Good luck!

50th post!! (and a giveaway)

This is it guys!

This is my 50th post!

I am so excited to have made it to fifty posts and I wanted this one to be a little special. 

So I have a question and an announcement. 

First, I would love some input!

Are there any British people, books, movies, music, locations, or anything else that you would like me to talk about on Scones and Crackers? 

Is there a book you have been wanting to read or movie you have wanted to see that you would like to hear a review of first? 

Or have you found something you love and would enjoy talking about it with others? 

I would love to know what you are really interested in and would like to hear about!

Let me know in the comments!

Second, I want to do something really special for my 100th post and we are now halfway there. 

Between now and my 100th post every comment on this blog will get you an entry into a giveaway I will be doing on the 100th post. 

I will announce the winner on that post and then you can email me your information so that I can send you a little something from the London Market. 

I am so excited to see who will win! 

Thank you for taking this journey with me so far. 

I am excited for many more posts in the future!

Now I am going to go join these guys in doing a little happy dance.