And the Winner is...

Whew! Is it wrong to admit that I found my first giveaway to be completely exhilarating? Seriously, what a blast!

Before announcing the winner, I just want to quickly share some lessons I learned along the way:




#1 Although linky's appear clean and orderly on the page, I will not be using anything but comments for any future giveaways. Because, let's face it, we all love leaving comments and I got lots of sweet ones from new and old friends alike. I adored it! But it also made things a tad bit sticky for me when I set out to enter numbers into random.org. I found myself trying to decide between which comments were to be included and which were to be left out, and I simply couldn't do it. So I took the linky entries and then added all the comments and came up with my final total that way. It was crazy, lemme tell ya!

#2 A few days ago, when I realized what was happening, I learned how to number my comments. A future tutorial perhaps? We'll see. I'd probably just confuse everyone, present company included.

#3 I have the best followers on the planet! Honestly, thanks for stopping in and signing up. And thank you to all the new followers who've joined my crazy world!

#4 Random.org doesn't like me. I tried everything I could think of to get the picture of the winning number onto this post, but it was hopeless. If anyone could explain it to me, please, please, for the love of all giveaways, leave me a comment or email.

So without further ado, I present the winner: Congratulations #42 aquariann! 


Thanks again everyone, and don't forget that Blog Bash '11 is less than a week away. I promise more information in the days to come!