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Whitworths Sugar Competition Win

Wow, what a few weeks it's been, and I will be glad to see the back of them. I've had a few anxiety triggers, my website was hacked (still trying to sort this out), our laptop died, then I've had to try and help my Dad, who is a complete technophobe and doesn't like tech change get familiar with our new laptop. And sigh!

About time for some positive blogging so I thought I'd show off my little prize haul that I won on Twitter a while ago and have now received. Given the sheer scale of Twitter I didn't expect too much when I started doing a little bit of comping to keep myself amused, but I've been lucky enough to win the odd prize here and there. I recently sent off a pic of a cake I'd baked to a Whitworths Sugar competition and was pretty excited to win. I'm not sure Dad quite understood why I was excited given the prizes, but that's men for you!

Anyway here is my HUGE array of sugar which should keep us in baking supplies well into next year, and a very fancy looking digital scale to weigh it all out on, I may well keep this as I love the way you can put your mixing bowl on there, and reset each time you want to add ingredients and it will measure each correctly - scale technology!



Have any of you guys had any lucky wins lately or had the chance to blog about any cool treats? would love to hear from you if you have, and do be sure to leave a blog link so I can have a nosey!

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  1. Wow, nice prize! Well done! I'm big into my comping, not won a huge amount recently but as I'm earning less since I went freelance, I'm trying to win Christmas presents this year...cheeky I know!

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  2. Thanks Emily and good luck with your xmas comping, do you try the countdown to xmas type prize draws, those are fun.

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