Celebrating 200 Planetarians and a giveaway!

Oh my! Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this day ever arriving. We now have 200 Planetarians along for the ride on this crazy planet (and a warm welcome, Grigore)! When I started blogging 4 ½ months ago, I didn’t even know how to follow a blog, let alone that people might actually follow mine. I was staggered when I reached 100 followers and now this. Just brilliant. So many of you have become bloggy friends and enriched my life in inestimable ways. I can’t imagine my day without interacting with you. Thanks a million for all your fabulous support and enthusiasm about Planet Baby.

Giveaway

To celebrate, I’m hosting my *first ever* giveaway! What, with 100 posts, 200 followers and Christmas, I can’t think of a better excuse. It also gave me a reason to go shopping – o happy day. With Joshie and Sammy in tow on a windy Hobart afternoon, yesterday I bought a selection of pretties reflecting my love of stationery and all things French. So, are you smiling yet?! Remember when I went a-wandering in Hobart here? As so many of you loved Karen’s pretties at Chez Moi, I thought I’d better pay her a visit. Spotlight, Typo and Chez Moi yielded the following beauties:

The goodies

They are:

* A sweet little snowflake-covered tin.

* An Eiffel tower wooden peg.

* A little tin heart like you saw here (I bet you like that one, Tina!).

* A Tiffany blue (swoon!)  2011 diary with elastic strap, perfect for fitting into your handbag.

* A ceramic, rose-scented heart.

* A celadon wooden dove with snowflake motifs.

* Two ceramic honey bee magnets (I wanted to buy the honey bee jug you all ogled over but decided it would be too risky to post – these are its pretty substitute. Are you swooning yet, Felicity?!)

* A tin Eiffel Tower biscuit cutter.

* Six Parisian place cards (handmade by the talented Karen)

* Six fleur-de-lis and Eiffel Tower gift tags (also made by Karen)

I thought they’d be delightful to receive whether at Christmas or afterwards – I didn’t want to disadvantage any overseas Planetarians who might not receive their parcel in time for Christmas.

Terms and conditions*

So, here’s the fine print (that’s the lawyer in me talking!):

1. If you're a Planetarian, leave a comment and you're in, like Flynn (hmm, remind me to tell you about Errol Flynn’s Hobart upbringing one day).

2. If you're not, sign up to follow this crazy planet and let me know with a comment that you are now a certified Planetarian.

3. You get an extra entry for:

- blogging about it;

- linking to it; and

- putting it in your sidebar.

Just leave a comment for an extra entry to be awarded in each case.

4. This offer is open worldwide to all my fellow Planetarians.

5. The giveaway will close at on Tuesday 21 December at 6 pm AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time so overseas Planetarians please take that into account) and will be drawn by Joshua from one of the pixies’ gumboots you see in my header.

So, go ahead and have some fun entering – the best of British to you! Oh, and *hopefully* Mr PB will be starting his Christmas holidays tomorrow, a day earlier than we had hoped, so I will finally have time to write the posts I’ve been meaning to this week.

* You know, that’s the first time in three years (ie since I was last in *paid* work as a solicitor) that I’ve had the chance to write that!

PS Karen said to tell you all that she's hoping to have her online shop up and running in the new year so stay tuned.