*this is not a sponsored post. this gift was purchased by me with my own hard-earned cash*
I love Christmas (as you may have noticed) and I thought that it would be the perfect opportunity for made up of little things' first giveaway!
As I'm a huge fan of Liz Earle products and as they do Christmas so well, they seem a perfect choice for a Christmas gift
Cleanse & Polish is my ultimate favourite cleanser and apparently a bit of a beauty blogger favourite too. It's suitable for all skin types and is a creamy, comforting way to melt away make up before sweeping away with a hot muslin cloth
I have a festive Cleanse & Polish and a pack of two muslin cloths to give away to one lucky reader
If you fancy winning yourself a Christmas present from me, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me what has been your favourite post on this blog and any requests for posts you'd like to see. That's it!
The winner will be chosen on Sunday 16th December. This will be an elaborate affair involving names written on envelopes and a Labrador choosing one at random
Good luck!
Ah now you're asking a trick question - I'm torn between the glimpses of how your kitchen is coming along (love me some home improvement!) and your Christmassy posts! Although the most helpful for me have been the beauty reviews as I'm terrible with that sort of knowledge so you've pointed me in the right direction on a few things! :-)
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Ahhh I'm a new-ish follower and followed because I love all your posts, this is so hard!!
ReplyDeleteI love all the Christmassy ones as I am as excited as a 5 year old for chrimbo, but I remember your 'Bonding Experience' with your Discovery made me laugh as I had a similar situation, so it would have to be that one!!
Future posts....being a country girl I love all your posts with the beautiful countryside and wildlife
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I njoi reading all your posts. They are very refreshing and relatable for me. But if I had to choose, I would say the 'a day at home'. Reason being i was on my core leave too and your post made me appreciate the blessing of my cozy Lil home.
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Missed on the future posts, honestly just keep up the flow. Your doing a good job anyway
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I love the Friday round-ups, I find them so interesting to read! I don't think there's anything necessarily missing from your blog but I would love to see even more photography'ish posts :) xx
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ReplyDeleteMy favourite post (don't hate me for it...!) was the one about the dodgy Discovery. It was written so well & it let me into your lovely countryside lifestyle! x
Lovely giveaway Rachael :)
ReplyDeleteI think my favourite post you have done was 'Mouse's STory', it touched me so much. So sad yet so nice too.
Amy xx
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http://www.madeupoflittlethings.com/2012/12/a-visitor.html I love this because I love Nature and animals above all :)
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Thank you so much for this give away :) I love your posts when you update us on how your new house is coming along. Its so wonderful to see something so special come together so nicely. I will be looking forward to the day you guys first move in. Also, I love your beauty posts :) Keep up the good work.
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This is such a generous giveaway! Ive only read your blog for a few months but love the honesty and personal style of it. I think thats why one of my favourite posts was your family traditions at lake windermere, it moved me but also made me smile :) I would love to see more posts around your home (nosey!) cause you look like you have such a lovely place xx
ReplyDeleteI've not been a follower for too long but I really loved your last post where you talked so in depthly about chickens, it made me want some! Would love to see more reviews, you write them very well :)x
ReplyDeleteWhat a great give away!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite post has to be the recipe for red onion marmalade as it has gone down an absolute treat in my house. I love the posts on the work you're doing to the house and also ones based around your rural lifestyle as it makes your blog so unique.
Gemma xx
Oh fab prize. I've never tried it myself, but love to use it.
ReplyDeleteI loved reading how your house came along. I love renovation projects, new builds and seeing how a house becomes a home, so these posts were the most interesting for me.
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I love reviews! The blogging world is so inspiring sometimes!
ReplyDeleteFab giveawy :) Merry Christmas!
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I'm a new-ish follower, directed here by the lovely Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. I heard lots of great things about the Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish but they sell them where I live.
ReplyDeleteI think my favourite post has to be the Friday Roundups. Living in a tropical city, surrounded by the concrete jungle, can be a bore sometimes. Seeing all the pretty snippets of an English countryside has a way of perking me up, especially after a long week! So I'd definitely love to see more of that. (: Hope you're having a great day!
It makes me happy that I got called lovely :) Molly, do you have a blog? Your link sends me to a blank google plus page x
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I've been thinking of starting one. But I haven't gotten around to it yet! (and to be honest, it's a little intimidating to put myself out there) Such a nice surprise to find a reply from you. It made my day (: I just love your blog! And yours too Rachael!!
DeleteMy favourite posts are all your lifestyle one's showing us what you've been doing! I always see if i can recognise anywhere haha :) I would love to see a tour of your house :)
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Hi Rachael,
ReplyDeleteI love all the different aspects of your blog, from renovations, recipes, beauty, animals and of course the Friday round up. The post about your Discovery made me chuckle! I live in deepest rural Devon and our house has been a big renovation project for the last 13 years so I can relate to the ups and downs of country life in a building project!!
keep up the brilliant blog, have a great Christmas
Sarah
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ALL of your friday round up! That make me feel so warm and fuzzy! Although i do have a soft spot for the post about mouse. It's too difficult to choose between them :p
ReplyDeleteI personally would like to see more posts with pictures of the country side, i live in city, so i miss the landscape beauty.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI really like your friday round-ups. It looks like a little story or something when you look at the pictures.
But I also really liked the post with your recipe for apple-chutney. I'm going to give that a go one of these days..
I do like food posts so maybe you could do some where you take a picture of what you've been eating the previous week or something.
And thanks for giving your readers a chance to win something nice!
Daphne
I can't make my mind up! I am torn between your Family Traditions - Lake Windermere post, and your Mouse's Story post, both of which had me nearly bawling with their loveliness. I also love your Friday Round-Ups though. I haven't answered your question with a straight answer have I?
ReplyDeleteLet's go with Mouse's Story, final answer. - I fricking love Liz Earle so I'll put some dog-bribery-biscuits in the post ;)
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I like all of your Friday round up posts as the photos always look so idyllic. But my ultimate favourite had to be little Mouse's story, I could really relate to that story because of my experience with my cat Pumbaa but also because your personality (and Mouse's) really came through in your writing style :)
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Jacquina.
I have been reading your blog since September!
ReplyDeleteEvery Friday I always look forward to sitting down, cup of Tea in hand and reading your Friday Round up posts! And of course, the slow cooked Spaghetti Bolognese post you put up, i tried the recipe myself and thought it was lovely! Perfect for cold nights like this!!
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Aimie
My favourite blog post was the one dedicated to your wee kitty, Mouse.
ReplyDeleteBrought a tear to my eye, but was lovely to read.
One of my cats - Huggles (Ahem. Yes, named when I was about 11, seemed a good name at the time...) - passed earlier this year. I think time is the only healer.
Adore all your posts though! As a city girl it's nice to get an insight into country life.
Steph (cat and beauty fanatic)
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hi, I love reading your blog but particularly your friday round up. I particularly liked your one dated 23.11. as I thought it was so sweet talking about your family tradition to do with your mum. so more life posts and cooking ones are great too. How to cook a sunday roast would be awesome x
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your Friday Round Up's!
ReplyDeleteKeep doing what you're doing...it's a great blog and I love it! Your recipes are great too.
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i love your friday round up and delicious recipes, id like to see everyday meals that you have like ciderwitherosiebee has :)
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Hello, my name is Charlotte and I would like to enter your giveaway. I hear you are very nice. I like posts that you have written. Follow me and I'll follow you? Hahaha, I'm going to stop now before I get sent to spam by blogger.
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, I like your friday posts and your pet posts because I'm nosey and I like animals. I'd like to see more of where you live and hear about life in the countryside since I live in the city and crave pictures of rolling green hills and stories of farmers and cheese
I'd also like to see photographic evidence of your dog choosing my name from the winners pile xxx
I always like haul posts or baking/cooking posts :)
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Hi please can I enter your giveaway?
ReplyDeleteI love the posts about your dogs & your photos are always lovely :) It would be fab to see more of your animals & countryside posts :)xxx
My favourite post of yours was the Christmas traditions ones. That is because I really know how you feel about trying to make new traditions for Christmas and them not feeling quite right. We moved to England so many years ago but still celebrate on Christmas Eve like most people in Germany. But trying to have Christmas on the 25th never felt right because not only was it my sister's birthday (try explaining to a four year old why suddenly everyone is getting presents on her birthday) but we've also had to concede that going to our local church before we opened our presents wasn't right either as it isn't our practised branch of Protestantism. We realised as well that visiting family over in Germany was to stressful and caused to much bitterness between my grandparents. Now we have our own Christmas that is just between the four of us at home. And it is perfect just the way it is.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm trying to say with this abnormally long comment that the posts really spoke to me, and confirmed to me that just because things change that the traditions that you enjoy are the ones worth keeping.
Leonie
My favourite post of yours are the friday round ups!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see some more posts on interior decoration and how you furnish your home because it always looks so lovely on instagram! :) Thanks for doing this giveaway! I've just run out of my LE cleanser so I need a new one! xx
I love your Christmas traditions blogs, it made me think about what I do and the excitement in doing them soon and possible new traditions! :)
ReplyDeleteahh it's too hard! I don't have ONE favourite post but I think my favourite ones are your Friday Round Up!
ReplyDeleteI've only recently started reading your blog after seeing it mentioned on Amy's 'Blogs I ♥' page over at 'alittleboatsailing', but it's such a lovely, cosy little blog that I know I'll check back again and again. I don't have a blog of my own but it's blogs like yours which inspire me to maybe start up one when I have a bit more time. Anyway, to the competition - my favourite blog posts of yours have to be the 'Christmas Traditions'. Recently, things have been pretty hard at home for us and none of us have been feeling very christmassy at all, but reading those two posts of yours really made me smile and just be glad for the things that we do have as a family, rather than sad for the things that we don't. It's always nice to hear someone else's viewpoint on Christmas and, this year, yours has made me determined to put all of the bad things to the back of my mind and to just enjoy Christmas together as a family, no matter what. Thank you.
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