I sat down tonight to complete the final part of my giveaway, the drawing. I am sure there are much, much fancier ways to do this (Pioneer Woman doesn’t use scraps of paper for her giveaways, does she?), but I don’t know what they are. Maybe one of you should help me out for next time. Anyway, here’s the process I used tonight.
Step 1, write down everyone’s name – once if you commented, twice if you blogged/tweeted about the giveaway:

Shockingly, I needed more than one piece of paper!
Step 2, cut y’all up!

Step 3, place into my favorite medium-sized Pyrex bowl.

Step 4, interrupt my husband’s Monday Night Football ritual and make him draw, so I wouldn’t be accused of favoritism.

He had no idea what he was doing this for.
Me: “JUST DRAW! I DON’T HAVE TIME TO EXPLAIN! I HAVE A BLOG TO RUN!”
And the winners are:
Of the leopard print makeup bag…

Mandy @ Just A Small Town Girl!
Of the adorable keys necklace…

Polly R @ Pretty Pollys’ Pretty Things!
& last but not least, of the TEXAS EARRINGS…

Kristin @ Jorden & Kristin!
Winners, please email me your addresses (laurenfromtexas(at)gmail(dot)com).
Thanks for playing! I loved reading everyone’s comments/blog posts/tweets. I’ll try to do another giveaway soon.
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Comments on And The Winner Is…
From Nora:
Congrats to everyone who voted! For some reason it was just fun to see my name on the piece of paper that you wrote all the names on because, um, I’m a dork =) and thanks to your husband for helping out too. Happy Blogoversary!
From Cio:
heyyyyy. I didn’t win anythingggggg.
: )
From mandy:
Yay for winning, Ttanks dear, I can’t wait! Happy Blogversary!
From Katherine:
I wish I knew how to “tweet” so I could win stuff… :(
From Kym:
awww boo i didn’t even get to enter! but congrats to the winners! ;P doin’ the draw ol’ school is the way to go! hehe!
From Meghan:
Yay, fun! Congrats everyone!
From Kitty:
Ah! Foiled again!
From osarah:
For giveaways, we use a random number generator like http://www.random.org/ and the numbers correspond to the comment numbers. Make sense? Hope that helps!
From Chelsea Hurst:
Boo hiss. Tell Michael he needs to pick better next time.
From steph anne:
Aww, I guess that’s what I get for falling behind with Google Reader.
From Polly R:
THANK YOU so much! I actually just screamed and my brother looked at me like I was a freak. I have never won anything on a blog before and I enter so many giveaways! This is so exciting thank you! I will email you my address now!
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