The Winners Are?

First off, I want to take the time to THANK EVERYONE who visited my site this week. It was an eventful week and I had FUN staying up and visiting 100's and 100's and 100's and 100's of blogs. The most important thing I learned through this experience is the WEALTH of TALENT that is found ALL OVER the WORLD! Congratulations to everyone who participated. We are ALL Winners when it comes to sharing our talents. THANK YOU!!!!

I wanted to share a few statistics with you before I announce the winners.

• I had over 454 comments.

• I had over 600 emails to read.

• I added over 45 new followers.

• The number of visitors on my site jumped from just under 10,000 to over 13,420.

• I had 1,280 entries from comments, bloggers who blogged about it, and friends that mentioned friends that blogged about it.

• I had quilters, knitters, scrapbookers, stampers, & crafters of every kind visit my blog.

• I had visitors from ALL over the World including USA, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Phillipines, and Holland, just to name a few.

• Congratulations came in a few different languages. Thanks to my husband who speaks & understands Spanish/Portugese for translating the many greetings sent from Spain, Brazil, & Argentina.

This is how I picked the winners:
I used microsoft excel to build a table and filled in all the important information like, name, blog, email, comment point, blogged about it points, friends mentioned your name points, and then I tallied up the points and assigned a number or a range of numbers if you had multiple points.

This is an example:
1 to 5
6 to 42
43
45
46
47
48 to 59
60
61
62 to 113
114 to 140
141
142
143 and so on. . . and so on all the way to 1,280.

Then I generated a random number through random.org. . .


Let's hear the drum roll please. . .


The WINNERS of "The Spread the Love Giveaway"

are. . .

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

41 970 

Timestamp: 2009-02-01 16:50:05 UTC

and the names that go to the numbers above are. . .

the Suspense is killing me here. . .

Scroll down a bit more. . .

Shari from

mumsyblossomsworld

wins the Mini Purse with the Mini Charm Pack

and

Pam

(no blog) from (I don't know) wins the Love Note Pillow.

Congratulations to both of you for winning my 100th post giveaway. I will be emailing both of you shortly to let you know and to get your home address so I can get it mailed to you tomorrow!

One last surprise prize. . .

Goes to the person with the most friends who left a comment and mentioned that their friend sent them here. The winner is. . .

Nancy from patchworkpenguin

You will recieve a Mini Valentine Purse filled with Valentine treats. Sorry, there's no fabric but you do get the purse filled with chocolate!!!

Again, Thank you to everyone for participating in my 100th Blog Giveaway!!!

It was definitely a SUCCESS!!

I'm so HAPPY!!

P.S. I noticed the time that posted on this post and it's apparently not set for my time zone. Right now my clock says 10:26 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. I did wait for 10:00 a.m. before I posted the winners. : )