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TWITMAS12 – Day 12 – The Grand Finale

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

Douglas hotel - Twitmas FinaleWell guys it’s finally here – the Finale of Twitmas12 – yes, it’s Day 12! The Final #Twitmas12 prize giveaway today! Up for grabs today a chance of a luxury 2-night stay at the The Douglas Hotel on the Isle of Arran! It was a cracking top prize!

‘The Douglas Hotel is a unique boutique hotel, set in the scenic landscapes of the Isle of Arran. Enjoy a relaxing visit within the rustic atmosphere of the Hotel, bistro and whisky bar. Under new ownership the historic property is currently undergoing full refurbishment.’

You needed to follow the @douglashotel and RT – as per normal.

Of course like every year the response was phenomenal!

Because we’re pretty good folk, generally speaking, we’ll even throw in the ferry travel across too! A perfect romantic getaway perhaps, allowing you to start 2013 in true style!

And that’s a wrap for another year on Twitmas12!

To quote Gary in the winning tweet

“Well done @nicolagilray winning our final #Twitmas12 prize – 2 nights in the gorgeous @douglashotel on the Isle of Arran!”

Congrats Nicola! Hearty thanks to the Douglas Hotel for donating another prize this year!

And that’s me off blogging duty for the rest of the year! At least about Twitmas ;-) On behalf of my entire team at NSDesign – I want to wish you all a wonderfully cool Yule and a fantastic New Year. Cheery bye!

TWITMAS12 – Days 10 & 11

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

coldplay cover live 2012Hey everyone it’s Thea here with a wrap up of Friday and Saturday! So rather happily we had some entertainment  to give away courtesy of EMI on day 10. We had not just one but five prizes. A stack of Coldplay’s latest ‘Coldplay Live 2012′ DVD+CD.

The five winners of Twitmas12 – Day 10 were:

@KatMcLay @slamdunkmclay @Saint_tom @spritneybeers @LindseyClark20 – Congrats to all of you guys – well done!

Then on the rather quiet Saturday – we had another double prize – this time it was an in-home Massage or Malt Whiskey (12-year old bottle of Chivas Regal).

The massage was courtesy of Head to Soul. This from a massage therapist Karen who will come to your home. The second prize from NSDesign ourselves and was the whiskey (Gary’s private stash thankyouverymuch).

We are delighted to award the first prize of the massage to @EmmaReid01.

The second prize of that 12-year old bottle of Chivas Regal goes to @ali991.

So today we have reached the final day of our 12 Days of Twitmas campaign…The Grand Finale – hope you’ve been following along the @nsdesign Twitter feed and the #Twitmas12 hashtag!

TWITMAS – Day 9

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Highlighter pen mugHey it’s Thea again, back with the #TWITMAS12 update for Day 9. Today we were delighted to have two fantastic prizes for your home or office – or even your home office!

First up, from Citrus Office – we had a fantastic bumper pack of goodies:

Bic Velleda Whiteboard Markers, A4 Rhodia Book, A5 Rhodia Book, AF Telephone Wipe, a pack sticky fixer, a pritt stick, Roll Sellotape, Roll CleverTape, Eziball pens black/blue, the Swan Stabilo highlighter & mug set (pictured right), and some satchets of tea and coffee too! Whoah, isn’t that great!?

From The Logo Workshop – we offered up 250 Business Cards, printed in full colour, on both sides, on Deluxe Silk 400gsm! Plus they kindly threw in free delivery! Thanks guys!

The winner of this amazing Bumper Pack for today was:  @Serconltd

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Thanks again to:
The Logo Workshop Follow on twitter – @UniformCarla
Citrus Office Solutions Follow on twitter – @CitrusOffice

TWITMAS12 – Day 8

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

seven-scented-candlesHello folks, Thea here again, on a rainy night in Glasgow (well it was earlier)….I just wanted to wrap up today’s #Twitmas12 rather quickly for you all…

Today we gave away some gorgeous, scented candles courtesy of our friends at Maia Gifts. One of my fave things…ever! : )

In particular today, it was a Sparkling Seven Scented Candle Set. “ (SEE: pic at right).

Key Features of This Set:

  • Collection of 7 large decorated t-light candles
  • Each with 10 hour burn time
  • Seven delicious fragrances in each
  • Presented in tasteful gift box
  • Handmade By Best Kept Secrets Candles

Darn, they’re so lovely I wanted to win them myself. OH well, maybe Santa will bring them to me?

Anyway there could only be ONE WINNER for today’s prize and that winner is,… @Angiebaby2488

Thanks again to Soni and Co at Maia Gifts for donating a prize for another year!

Tune in tomorrow from mid-day or so for some prizes for your office, your home or even your home office!

Night!

TWITMAS12 – Day 7

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Monitor Hub LogoThea here again folks and another day has drawn to a close. Today’s  Twitmas12 Day 7 was for the business folks out there. We called today’s offerings “Tech Tuesday and had a trio of prizes to award!

1) a year’s uptime website monitoring (worth $50/month!) from MonitorHub (Google+)

Broadband Cloud Solutions Logo2) a Domain and High Usage Web Hosting Package worth £99.00 (ex VAT) from Broadband Cloud Solutions (Google+)

3) Also, for someone locally in the West of Scotland – we’ve decided to throw in a place on our very popular, always-a-sell-out Embrace the Space master class – running in the New Year!

To win all you had to do was follow @broadbandcloud and @monitorhub. Then RT the relevant tweet from @nsdesign as per usual.

Our winner for  Day 7′s The Techie Bundle was @glasgowCARD – congrats to you!

Finally just to reiterate our thanks again to Broadband Cloud Solutions and Monitor Hub.

The fun will kick off again tomorrow form mid day! See ya then!

TWITMAS12 – Day 6

Monday, December 17th, 2012

nuvo gadget games consoleThea here, again, everyone and it’s Day 6 which means that we’re to the halfway-mark on our #Twitmas12 for another year…

Big thanks to everyone who has contributed prizes, thus far, and to all of you who’ve been following and retweeting to the various prizes.

Today though, we offered up one for the gadget-loving gamers out there. This Nuvo Pro was courtesy of the folks at Nuvo Gadgets.

This is perfect for any gamer who wants to turn their handheld device (specifically an iPod Touch or iPhone) into a games console!

Congratulations to today’s lucky Twitmas winner – @gedmclay.

We hope you have lots of fun with it!

TWITMAS12 – Day 5

Monday, December 17th, 2012

DKNY - Donna Karan New YorkHey guys, Thea here again, we’re five days into the 12 Days of Twitmas…and today was a classy bit of “Bling” courtesy of the Uk Gift Specialist. We gave away a beautifu bangle in white metal set with stones presented by DKNY [Donna Karan New York].

Congrats go to today’s lucky winner of this sweet bit of bling – @Girlyougotstyle.

Well done and we’ll do it all again tomorrow…Be sure to follow @nsdesign on Twitter to be in with a chance of winning something over this final week of goodies!

PS: Please note that this blog was written late Sunday night but never went. Sorry folks! Was tired I guess : )

TWITMAS12 – Day 4

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

Glasgow Rocks Basketball NSDesignHey folks Thea here again. That’s a wrap on Day 4 of our #Twitmas12 campaign.

Today it was VIP courtside seats at any Glasgow Rocks Basketball home game at new Emirates Arena!

This is, quite honestly, a great fun-filled day (or evening) out – which is fun for the whole family – (even if you don’t know much about the sport!)

And from these seats you’ll be right next to the action!

So, without further adieu today’s winner is … @soapyscot !!

TWITMAS12 – Day 3

Friday, December 14th, 2012

Bottle of Wine from Alexander Wines Or Whisky from Straight from the CaskTwitmas12 Thea here, Late Friday night, and we’ve just announced the winner for today’s Twitmas12 – Day 3 prizes!

Yes, prizes – as we had both Wine, from Alexander Wines and Whisky from Straight From the Cask to giveaway.

The Whisky was A 10 year old Talisker from the Isle of Skye

The Wine was a Parxet Cuvee 21 Cava Brut...

Example picture of each as shone on the right side — >>

For some odd reason, I can’t work out why exactly, the Booze always goes down so well on our Twitmas campaigns. Why is that? : )

In any event, the response was huge, as ever, so thanks to everyone who took part. There could only be two winners in this case…

Here’s Gary’s Tweet announcing the winners…

#Twitmas12 results! – winning Cava from @alexander_wines is @beachrambler & winning Talisker from http://bit.ly/XZ0bfS  is @inztinkt

We also want to thank our benefactors for today’s prizes – once more! Alexander Wines and Alan Mitchell, “The Malt Whisky Ambassador” from Straight From the Cask!

Tune in again tomorrow mid-day or so when the action returns and when I say “action” – I mean action! Night night!

TWITMAS12 – Day 2

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

Hey guys, it’s Thea here again…Well, we’re done with another day of #Twitmas12 – where we contrasted yesterday’s Adrenaline Activity Vouchers with a totally different sort of £50.00 voucher…

Day 2 has been hand delivered from the Fairies, as it were…

This fabulous wee online shop has something for men, women and children – and the lovely fairies gave us a fifty pound voucher to spend as you wish! (Aren’t they sweet?)

So many lovely things to choose from!

And the lucky winner of today’s #Twitmas12 (selected at random from all the entries) is… @dreich – Massive congrats on winning that £50 @giftsff voucher!

Big thanks to the folks at Gifts From Fairies – and heartfelt thanks to all who took part by re-Tweeting. There will be more fun to come from tomorrow, mid-day. In fact we decided that, as it’s Friday, it’ll have to be fun in a bottle. Yep tomorrow drinks are on the cards…see ya then!