This is exciting news! We only have a handful of followers to go before I can run the 300 Followers Giveaway. This giveaway is for Andi Blog followers only. (Sorry, there seems to be some confusion about this. I’d love you to sign up to “follow (get notifications) so we can get to 300, but a follower also just means somebody hangs out over here and reads the posts.
So, the contest is for those of you who hang out and read the blog, whether you officially “follow” or not. It only means that I will not do a general giveaway on my 2,000+ newsletter email list. I’m also going to keep it simple by letting you all (when the time comes) enter via the comments rather than the Giveaway page. But alas, I get ahead of myself.
If any of you love reading Andi’s blog but have not gotten around to “following” the blog, now is the time! Let’s get to 300 legitimate followers. Yes, sigh. I sometimes get followers from other countries and they are following in another language. I delete those followers. They are not legit but some kind of strange follower.
The 300 followers giveaway means that THREE winners will receive THREE prizes. I need ideas for prizes, as three prizes x three winners = a lot of prizes for me to give away, so the prizes can’t be too elaborate. I think what I will do is have a grab bag that lists a whole bunch of possibilities, and the winners may choose any three prizes. Sound good? With that in mind, feel free to offer prize suggestions. If there are a lot of “big” prizes suggested, I might let the winners choose one big prize and two little ones. I guess I’ll wait and see what comes up on the comments. Have fun!
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Yay! Can’t wait!!!! I think the idea to have the list to pick from would be good😊
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Cannot wait!!!
Hmm maybe notebooks?? I love your notebooks!! i would be happy to win anything tho 🙂
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Notebooks? What are notebooks? Do you mean journals?
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I think journals would be really cool!
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Here’s some things that are good for prizes:
Tumbler
Mug
Baseball hat
Tote bag
A book of their choice
Can’t wait for it!!😊😊
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I’m almost out of hats so I can’t do that. Sorry! And the ceramic mugs are too expensive (and cost too much to ship). Tote bag works. Tumbler works. 😉
The younger books work but the new Milestones books are too expensive. Lol
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That’s great! A tumbler and a tote bag would be awesome! And I was just thinking of the books because my little sister is trying to collect them all.😊 She only has the first series. 😊
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Yeah me too I like the idea of the list!!! Cause I bet alot of people want certain things!! 😀😀
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You have no idea! Just….wow
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And can’t wait to do this!!!
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I think t-shirts would be fun! Tote bags, and tumblers would be awesome too. But anything would be exciting to win! 🙂
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T-shirts are like $14 each. I used to get them cheaper from a homeschool store and have the first and second place Annual Contest winners each one. But it’s way too expensive to do that any longer, so no way could I do that for three winners of a random followers contest. ☹️
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I totally understand! I have looked into customizing things like that, and it definitely gets pricey when you add in the shipping.
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Maybe the tote bag or the journals? or the mug or Puzzle??
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Tote bag…. Yes. Mug or puzzle way too expensive (and too expensive to ship).
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What about a journal?
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Yes ….
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Yay!
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I like the list of stuff! Does it include books!
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not sure yet
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Congratulations! Almost 300 followers? YAY!!
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Wow so cool! 300 followers!!! 🥳
For the prize list…
Journal,
mb one of the new books (The “extra stories” that just came up)
a tumbler
tote bag
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Maybe you could do:
A mini poster,
A safari horse, or
A writing workbook.
Not sure if any of those are too expensive, but just my ideas 😉
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Congrats on almost 300 followers! I think I first came here when there was about 100 followers and now you have almost 300!!! I’ve loved seeing it grow. 😊
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I don’t know if I’m a follower, but I read almost every post! I love the blog.
I like the tote bag and tumbler ideas!
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You did sign up to follow them. Then you will get an email when I post something new.
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So, am I a follower if I look at/read all your posts? I’m not actually getting emailed whenever you post things, but my mom might be…
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No, an official follower is someone who signs up to get emails when a new post goes up.
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Okay, but if my mom is a follower can I enter? (It would just be me, no other siblings)
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I’m not sure what you are asking. It’s pretty simple. As soon as I reach 300 followers, I will put on the contest. Anybody can enter….
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At the top, you said “This giveaway is for Andi Blog followers only. This means I will not do a general giveaway on my 2,000+ newsletter email list” Doesn’t that mean I have to be a follower to enter?
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No it just means I’m only offering the contest on the blog and not on Facebook or in my newsletter
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Oh, okay. Thanks for clearing up my confusion. 🙂
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Oh, and about the earlier comment where you said you were running out of hats: Can’t you just order more? Because I would like it if a hat could be a prize (I LOOOOOOOVE hats! Lol.)
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I can’t remember where I got them and I need to save them for people who want to buy one. You can easily buy one, but if you are waiting for me to give them away, I’m afraid that is not going to happen any longer.
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So…you don’t need to be a follower to enter? For prizes i would like to win…
A book\audio book of my choice
A tote bag
A journal of my choice
A tumbler
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The contest will be open to anyone who sees the post. 👍
But at the rate we’re going, it will still be awhile before I get 300. 😥
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A tote bag
A book/any one book of my choice
A journal of my choice
A tumbler
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That’s great! For prize ideas, a book or audio book, a journal, a tote bag, or (if you still have these) a book key chain would be fun.
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I do have book keychains actually. Good idea. I dunt del those any longer but like to give them away. 👍
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I can’t tell if I’m already following or not how do I tell??
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Do you get an email when a new post goes up? If so, then you are a follower. Go ahead and sign up. It will tell you if you already are a follower
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Ok than you I figured it out and got an email
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You could do a circle C pen if you still have those.
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I do!
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You could do the fan fun extra books
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I just messaged a bunch of people and asked them to follow hopefully it helps
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But if you’re doing books can you do by the winner’s choice? Because they might already have the book(s) offered
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Some of the books are simply too expensive to use in a contest like this…. Sorry! When I’m giving away so much.
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A new book is so exciting! And soon it will be out! Maybe that can be a prize choice because many people won’t have it because it’ll be so new
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Wait there’s going to be a new book!?!?!?
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Yes, a Christmas Collection, which includes a 14,000-word brand-new novella as one of the stories.
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Wait Really???! Yay!!!!
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What new book???
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A Circle C Christmas Collection, a full-sized novel-length (176 pages) of six Andi Christmas stories, one is 14,000 words itself and brand new.
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Ooh! Can’t wait to read it!
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🙌👏👏👏🙌 Yay! I can’t wait!
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It won’t take you so long to get to 300 followers. You already have 3 or 4 more than yesterday. (And I can’t wait to get the new Christmas book!!!!)
Will any of the newest books be a prize option? Meaning Trouble at the Line Shack, Terrible Secret, etc.
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No print books will be offered as prizes because I have three winners and this is just a little for fun contest….
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Okay, that makes sense. Especially considering the fact that you’ll have three winners, and if everyone chose a book (plus their other two prizes), that would be a decent amount of money.
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Exactly my reasoning.
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I would have loved that option a few months ago, but now i have the fun pack but would love the new Christmas Collection
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10 more followers!!!!!! Your SOOOOO close, Mrs. M!
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I know!
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9 more followers!!
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Lol, every time i go on this blog and glance at the follwers number, i do a count down!
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Me too!!! I can’t wait till Mrs. M has 300 followers! Since she’s getting 1 or 2 more every day, it should be roughly another week, lol.
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Hopefully
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Are you excited to have 300 followers, Mrs. M? Or are you excited to do the giveaway?
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Oh yes! And I love giveaways but I usually don’t give so much away to so many winners at the same time. Wait till we get to 400!🤪🤪
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Haha. :-0 🙂
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8 more followers! I’m excited!😃
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Me too!!!!!!
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The number of followers is staying pretty much the same now…
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I know. ☹️
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Sadly i dont have an email….
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Seven more!!!!! I need to ask my Mom if I can follow…
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Absolutely! 👋
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Did you change the home page for the blog? I like it!
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Kind of. Thinking about a different banner though
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What other options do you have?
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Oh, I dunno. Just want to play around with other pictures. You can get free pictures when you use the image block!
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Aww!! The picture today is sooo cute!
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