follower giveaway announced & a sneak peak

wow, WOW, wow... 353 entries for the first BIG lovely poppy follower giveaway. i appreciate each and every one of you that participated and look forward to sharing more posts (and giveaways!) with you. i'm excited for the future of the lovely poppy blog, for new tutorials (i've got an awesome craft fair project in the works), inspiration, tips on starting a handmade business, growing your blog and more.

what's the number one thing i learned from this giveaway? i suggest if you are are planning on doing a giveaway to not have additional entries worth an additional point value. calculating 353 entries plus additional entries was a nightmare for my excel spreadsheet and myself.
however it was totally worth it and i'd do it again if i could write off 100 dollars worth of products again. i will be doing at least one giveaway a week with products from my shop, but won't be doing another giveaway with three digits until hitting a thousand followers.

you all are probably wondering who won the giveaway? did you scroll down to the bottom and skim through the first two paragraphs? (i probably would have too).

ashley from the vanilla tulip is the winner of the 100 dollar gift certificate to the lovely poppy shop.
ashley- please email me at thelovelypoppy at gmail (dot) com for more info.

again, thank you all participating. you'll want to stick around for the release of some new products..
                                                                       hint below!