It's Winding Down

If you are new to Bloggy Giveaways and found us via the carnival, Welcome! I'm so glad you're here. You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (click on the orange button in the left sidebar) so you'll be alerted to each giveaway. I hold new ones every day, Monday through Friday. The carnival is quarterly and will be held again at the end of July.

Whew! What HUGE success the carnival was! That's entirely thanks to all of you. Thank you!

I hope you all win something, but if you don't this time, never fear. The next Bloggy Giveaways Carnival will be at the end of July.

Most of the giveaways should be ending today or this weekend. If you hosted a giveaway, please make sure to contact your winners as soon as possible; winners of giveaways, check your spam folders! I can't tell you how many times a winner forfeits a prize because they didn't check their spam folders.

Here are a few helpful articles regarding giveaways, choosing winners, the etiquette of giveaways, etc. They are all found at Blogging Basics 101.

• How should I select a winner for my giveaway? 
• How should I alert the winner of my giveaway?
• If the winner doesn't contact me, is it OK to save the prize for another giveaway?
• What if I contact the winner and they accept the prize, but then they don't send me an address?

On Monday Bloggy Giveaways will be back to business as usual. I have several amazing giveaways lined up for you all. You're going to love them!

Thank you again for participating in the carnival! See you on Monday!

Comments

[Marcia]

Thanks for doing a great job at keeping up with the links Melanie! This week has been pretty chaotic for everyone that participated I'm sure. Have a great day!!

[Anna]

The Mr. Linky won't show up for me and I have another giveaway to add! Boohoo, *sob*

[Shalee]

Chili, you are the best, you know that? Thanks for all that you did to make this shindig happen!

[rachel]

Thanks so much for hosting this! It's always a ton of fun.

[rachel]

Oh, fyi, #892(Krissi (up to 102 people can WIN BIG!!!) is blatantly going against contest rules and it kind of makes me grumpy that she's just mooching traffic.

[Stacy]

I was figuring another way to contact the winner would be to go back to THEIR blog and leave a comment saying they had won and needed to contact me. Is that not how its done?

[Stacy]

Another thought- could we attach a mr linky to this post for people to come and post the username/handle of the winner, and link back to their blog?

[Julie Anne]

This was soo much fun. I spent way too much time visiting other people's sites and signing up for giveaways.
I might join the giveaway in July (when I have more time to prepare for it).
What an interesting idea... what is the history behind this carnival???

[Rachel]

why is mr. linky gone? My contest runs through tomorrow night and lots of my peeps don't check email till saturday.? just curious. Thanks!!
This has been such fun giveaway!

[Heather]

This was great, thanks so very much for all your work on it - and thanks to all the bloggers for their fabulous give aways.

[Noreen Crone-Findlay]

Thank you so much for hosting this amazing carnival, Melanie!
I spent waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time blog surfing and entering other people's contests this week! What fun!
I will definitely be part of the one in July.
Thanks again!

[Alyson @ 3 P's in a Pod]

Thank you so much for being such a gracious hostess for all of this insane fun! Looking very much forward to July!

Alyson

[Sarah (Real Life)]

Thanks so much for hosting this!