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Voting has closed and the winner of the inaugural Travelling T-Shirt Comp is………..

McMommy!!!!

Here is the winning photograph:

Do you think it was the castle or the fact that it looks like she’s wearing no pants???

Congratulations McMommy!

She has won $30 and a link to her blog in my sidebar for 12 months.

Winner of the Blog Review on Lightening’s Blogworld (drawn randomly from all participants using a random number generator):

Kaiser Alex

Winner of 8 x 10 Print of One of Lotus Carroll’s nature shots (also drawn randomly from participants using random number generator):

VDog Little Man

Winner of Lightening Desk Calendar (drawn randomly from commentor’s using random number generator):

Tamsyn

Congratulations to all winners and thanks for your participation. If winner’s could contact me, I’ll make arrangements for you to receive your prize.

If you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to vote for your favourite photo in “Lightening’s Travelling T-Shirt“. Be sure to leave a comment on that post as well so you can be entered into the draw for a Lightening Online desk calendar. Winners of the Travelling T-Shirt prizes will be announced tomorrow.

It’s time to wrap up the first leg of the Travelling T-Shirt fun! While the t-shirt didn’t make it to quite as many blogs as I’d hoped during it’s 6 month journey, I still had lots of fun following it around and seeing what other bloggers came up with. In particular, I was impressed with the ideas that came forth for deciding who would get the shirt next.

Thank you to all those bloggers that hosted the t-shirt.

If you lost track of the t-shirt along the way, you can see the posts here:

The Travelling T-Shirt Meets the Rack

Alex Year Two

VDog Little Man

Mommy Is Moody

Whisky In My Sippy Cup

The Playpen

The McMommy Chronicles

DECIDING A WINNER

I’ve chosen my 3 favourite photographs of the t-shirt and now you get to vote on the final winner. The blogger with the most votes will receive a $30 prize (it worked out to $28 but I’m rounding it up - Christmas Cheer and all that! ) and their photograph with a link will be placed in my sidebar.

A) This little cutie sure captured my heart.

B) Right in the middle of the presidential race, I thought this was quite a clever photoshop.

C) And here we are at Disneyland. The closest I’m sure to ever get!!! What wannabe princess wouldn’t want to live in a castle like that????

YOU DECIDE

Here is the poll that will decide the ultimate winner of the inaugural Travelling T-Shirt competition.

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Have your say by voting and sending your friends and blog readers here to vote as well. Votes will close on Thursday 18th August.

DIDN’T MAKE THE TOP 3, DON’T FEEL BAD

To thank all the bloggers who kindly took part, there will be 2 random drawings taken from participants:

Winner 1 will receive a blog review on Lightening’s Blogworld.

Winner 2 will receive a free 8 x 10 print of one of Lotus’s nature shots. Thanks to Sarcastic Mom for her support of the travelling t-shirt.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!!

Everyone that votes goes into a draw to win a Lightening Online desk calendar. Just make sure you leave a comment after you’ve voted so I know you have and can enter your name into the draw.

WHAT NEXT FOR THE TRAVELLING T-SHIRT?

We’ve started a new competition that will run through to December 1st 2009. With a whole year, hopefully the t-shirt will have time to visit more blogs and we’ll have a larger prize. Hopefully the t-shirt will show up at Cara Dee’s any day now.

All winners from the 2008 Travelling T-Shirt will be announced as part of my Smiley Saturday post on Saturday 20th December.

Edit: Winners post will be published Friday 19th December (assuming I get it organised) rather than in the Smiley Saturday post.

Our local paper has a feature called the “Travelling Tribune”. People are encouraged to take their local paper with them when they travel (or send it to friends in far away places) and photograph themself doing something interesting with the paper.

So I’ve decided to pinch the idea (because of course, most good ideas are simply copied aren’t they??? ) and adapt it for a single “Lightening Online” T-Shirt I had made by Vista Print.

The idea is that said t-shirt will make it’s way around as many blogs as possible between now and the 1st December. Each blogger needs to take a photograph of the t-shirt. They can be wearing it or do something else creative with it (as long as it doesn’t damage the shirt). Then they post their photograph on their blog with a little spiel explaining what it’s all about.

Yes, the purpose of this little competition is to promote my blog. But I hope it’ll do more than that. I hope it’ll be lots of fun for all involved.

And of course, there will be prizes. First prize is a cash prize (donated by yours truly) for the photograph voted most creative (so you’ll all get a say in who wins). I’m hoping to add some other prizes as the competition continues and there will be at least one prize draw for those who comment on the final voting post in early December.

I’m going to begin with my own photograph of me wearing the t-shirt (although I’m naturally excluding myself from any prizes):

This is me on the only Tractor I think Farmboy would trust me to right now. It’s Trailer Boy’s plastic ride on tractor. And yes, I’m too big for it!!! Not by much though!!! Makes me wonder how my 4-year old manages to zip around on it so quickly.

In the background is our air seeder and bar. Somehow I don’t think I have enough horsepower to pull it!!!! You’d think for the price of said toy we’d get at least some horsepower under the bonnet (I know WE got it for free but I mean the usual price of said toy).

The rules of the competition are that the blogger in possession of said t-shirt has the choice of where it goes next. So I’ve requested the help of a fellow blogger to get this launched.

Anytime now I’m expecting it to make it’s landing at it’s destination and we’ll hopefully be away. Stay tuned for more on the “Travelling T-Shirt” as news comes to hand.

Oh, and if you’re interested, you might like to read my “Travelling T-Shirt” page.