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The Little Big Club Live in Concert – Giveaway

July 27th, 2010

The Little Big Club Live in Concert This giveaway is now closed and the winners have been informed.

Calling all London-based nonstopmamas: we’ve got a treat for fans of Bob The Builder, Barney & Friends, Angelina Ballerina, Fireman Sam, Fifi Forget-me-not and Pingu (phew!). All of these favourites feature in The Little Big Club Live In Concert, one of this year’s most buzzed-about family shows from Hit Entertainment and Premier Stage Productions.

The show is currently on UK tour and comes to London’s Hammersmith Apollo on 14 August, for two performances only, at 11 am and 2 pm. We’re thrilled to have been given four family tickets (each admits four people) to the London shows to give away.

To enter, all you need to do is be signed up to receive nonstopmama’s email updates (see top of page), ensuring that the email you give when you subscribe is the same you use to enter the giveaway below. It’s as simple as that!

Posted by Jen in family, giveaways.

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501 Days Out For Kids … Giveaway

July 21st, 2010

501 Days Out For Kids In The UK & Ireland This giveaway is now closed and the winners have been informed.

Are we nearly there yet? In some cases, yes, and others, almost! With the summer hols upon us, what better giveaway than a big, glossy book filled with ideas for days out to suit all tastes and budgets – from big ride theme parks to museums and galleries, a bit of National Trust flora and fauna or a family-friendly farm or fun-packed beach resort. You’ll find it all in 501 Days Out For Kids In The UK & Ireland.

Put together by a team of writers, this is as much a coffee table book as it is a specialist travel guide (although, we warn you, leave it out to be flicked through and you’ll have no end of ‘requests’). With a destination per page and great photos throughout, it also features crucial details such as ‘Amount of Walking’ and ‘Best Time To Go’. It’s a great way of getting some fresh ideas, which you can then follow up online to check seasonal opening times, admission prices and so on.

We have two copies of 501 Days Out For Kids In The UK & Ireland to give away. All you need to do is be signed up to receive nonstopmama’s email updates (see top of page), ensuring that the email you give when you subscribe is the same you use to enter the giveaway below. It’s as simple as that!

Posted by Jen in family, giveaways, travel.

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Annabel Karmel giveaway and tips for nonstopmamas

May 17th, 2010

Annabel Karmel This giveaway is now closed and the winners have been informed.

Nonstopmama last interviewed Annabel Karmel after the launch of The Princess Party Cookbook. Her latest book, Top 100 Pasta Dishes, has just been published and features as many takes on the busy family favourite – making the most of pasta in all its shapes and sizes – including recipes for babies and toddlers. Featuring clear directions, tips aplenty and colour photos, it promises to be another classic, go-to guide for busy mums and a useful source of inspiration for doing pasta with a twist (sorry).

Here, Annabel shares some of her favourite time-saving tips with nonstopmama (and don’t miss the chance to win a copy of her latest book, below).

* Freeze ahead. When cooking for the family, make several portions and pop some in the freezer for days when you don’t have time to cook. It’s also a good idea to freeze mini individual portions for children in ramekins.

* Plan meals in advance to incorporate leftovers from the day before. For example, use left over roast chicken for a Chicken Caesar Salad the next day.

* Keep frozen vegetables in your freezer – they are already prepared and easy to cook. They are frozen within hours of being cooked, so they are often more nutritious than vegetables that have been sitting on the supermarket shelf.

* It’s a good idea to design a menu plan for the week ahead, before you do your supermarket shop. Not only will this save time when you are in the supermarket, it will also save you money.

* Keep a notebook in the kitchen, so when you have used the last one of some particular ingredient or run out of something, you add it to the list.

* If you freeze individual portions of fruit and vegetables in covered ice cube trays, you can make up your own combinations by defrosting two flavours together, e.g. apple and pear or sweet potato and broccoli. If you have friends with babies the same sort of age, you can each make up a batch of various foods and share them between you, so you can end up with six different flavours, for example, even if you have only made two.

Nonstopmama has two copies of Top 100 Pasta Dishes by Annabel Karmel to give away.

Posted by Jen in family, food, giveaways, interviews.

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Heartland DVD Set Giveaway

April 27th, 2010

Heartland: The Complete First Season DVD Box Set This giveaway is now closed and the winners have been informed.

Girls and ponies, ponies and girls … An award-winning TV series which nonstopmama has yet to catch up with, Heartland is a family drama set in the Canadian Rockies. Based on the bestselling novels by Louise Brooke, the action takes place on a ranch for rescued horses. The Fleming family are struggling to keep the rehoming centre running after the death of their mother, so daughter Lou gives up her job in New York to take up the helm, while her younger sister Amy finds she has inherited her mother’s “horse whispering” gift. Sounds like great mother-and-daughter, tissues-to-hand material to us.

This week sees the launch of Heartland: The Complete First Season 4 Disc Set, on 4Digital Media. Nonstopmama has two box sets up for grabs.

Yee-haw! Oh, that’s wasn’t very horse whisper-y was it? Happy watching!

Posted by Jen in family, giveaways.

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Grandpa in my Pocket DVD giveaway

March 12th, 2010

Grandpa in my Pocket DVD This giveaway is now closed and the winners have been informed.

Do we have any fans of a certain shrinking Grandpa in the house? Next Monday, 15 March, sees the DVD release of Grandpa in my Pocket, the BAFTA-nominated CBBC show about the adventures of Jason and his Grandpa, who has a habit of ‘downsizing’ as duty calls.

Nonstopmama was offered an interview with actor James Bolan, who plays Grandpa (not so helpfully, in-house suggestions for questions ranged from “How do you make yourself so small?” to “Where do you buy your famous red cardis?”). Not sure he’d be impressed. So we said thanks very much for the kind offer of a giveaway.

We have five copies of Grandpa in my Pocket, The Magic Shrinking Cap to giveaway.

Posted by Jen in family, giveaways.

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Tess Daly The Baby Diaries Giveaway

March 4th, 2010

Tess Daly The Baby Diaries Giveaway closed at midnight on Sunday 21 March 2010.

The lovely Tess Daly was one of nonstopmama’s first ‘Five minutes with …’ interviewees, back in November last year (read the post here). To celebrate the launch of her new book, The Baby Diaries, we have five copies to give away.

Full of personal recollections and anecdotes about Tess’ pregnancies and the births of daughters Phoebe and Amber, there are plenty of honest and practical insights covering all three trimesters and life during the first six months. And Strictly fans will be amused to hear about the tricks that Tess and the show’s stylist relied on to keep her second bump under wraps (opting for a ‘relaxed’ floaty number finally gave the game away, prompting a flood of text messages after the show aired!).

Posted by Jen in family, giveaways, interviews.

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Brown & Harris English Rose giveaway

February 16th, 2010

Brown & Harris English Rose Collection This giveaway closed at midnight Friday 5 March 2010.

Nonstopmama loves a budget-friendly body lotion that looks pretty and does the job of leaving skin soft and freshly fragranced. In fact, we’ve been using Brown & Harris‘ Moisturising Body Lotion in English Rose as a hand cream as it’s absorbed almost immediately and the pump dispenser is super-practical (who has time to fiddle with lids every time you wash your hands?).

Inspired by the scent of English gardens, the Brown & Harris collection includes goodies for the bath, beautifully wrapped soaps, linen waters and more in a choice of English Rose, Lily of the Valley or Lavender. Prices range from £3.99 to £6.99.

To get nonstopmamas in the mood for sunnier days ahead, Brown & Harris is giving away one complete collection of English Rose goodies. The prize includes 11 products (Generation Game moment coming up): a pack of 3 Fine English Soaps; Moisturising Foaming Bath Essence; Conditioning Handwash;Moisturising Shower Cream; Moisturising Body Lotion; Conditioning Hand and Nail Cream; Perfumed Drawer Liners; Perfumed Drawer Sachets; Linen Fragrance; Room Fragrance and Perfumed Wardrobe Sachets.

Posted by Jen in beauty, giveaways.

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Vie At Home spring make-up giveaway

February 8th, 2010

Vie At Home Bathed In Light Spring Make Up Bathed in Light Eye Collection, £12.50 This giveaway closed at midnight Sunday 21 February 2010.

It may be too early to think about swapping winter boots and opaques for flip-flops on the school run, but it’s never too soon to indulge in a pop of think-sunny make-up. With the spring collections hitting counters already, it means we get to treat ourselves to a pop of mood-lifting colour now – when we need it most.

With this in mind, Vie At Home has given us a set of its new Bathed In Light Spring Make-Up range – comprising an Eye Collection palette of pastel shadows, a Cream Lip Gloss and Nail Colour in Blushing Pink – for one can’t-wait-for-spring nonstopmama.

Posted by Jen in beauty, giveaways.

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The Times Destinations Show 2010 Giveaway

January 29th, 2010

The Colloseum, Rome, with the Destinations Show This giveaway closed at midnight Tuesday 2 February 2010.

A last minute up-for-grabs: the Destinations Holiday & Travel Show, presented by The Times, has kindly given nonstopmama 10 tickets (each one admits two people) to the exhibition, taking place at Earl’s Court from 4-7 February (um, next week, in other words).

The UK’s favourite holiday and travel show, the exhibition offers the opportunity to browse getaway options from a wide range of travel companies and explore ideas to suit all budgets and tastes, from exotic adventures to city breaks (when in Rome … put your back out and have to come home, in the case of my other half. Memorable holiday, if not in the way we’d hoped).

Meanwhile, travel personalities including Kate Humble, John Simpson and Julia Bradbury are scheduled to be at the Meet The Expert Theatres during the week (check timetables here).

Wish you were there? Enter, enter!

Posted by Jen in giveaways, travel.

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Ideal Home Show 2010 giveaway

January 13th, 2010

This giveaway closed at midnight on Sunday 13 March 2010.

How excited is nonstopmama to have 10 pairs of tickets for the new look Ideal Home Show 2010 to give away? This year, the exhibition itself – running from 20 March to 5 April at London’s Earls Court – has had a makeover and will be divided into eight self-contained ’shows’: Ideal Home Improvements, Ideal Village, Ideal Food, Ideal Gardens, Ideal Shopping, Ideal Woman, Ideal Housewares and Ideal Interiors, featuring a range of pro-designed sets (no jumping on the beds, now), decorating ideas and storage solutions to inspire even the most space-crunched, organisationally-challenged nonstopmama (we’re relying on it).

Ideal Home Kitchen The 2010 show will have an emphasis on family life and homemaking, with lots for children to see and do throughout. Tickets can be booked online at www.idealhomeshow.co.uk (£17 per adult on the door at weekends, £12 if booked in advance, or £15 and £10, respectively, on weekdays, children under 16 are free – hoorah – and there are concessions for the 65’s and over).

Nonstopmama has ten pairs of tickets up for grabs.

Posted by Jen in giveaways, homes.

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Check back regularly for more great giveaways!

Rules, rules: entry is by email, limited to UK residents and one entry to each giveaway per person.

In order to enter our giveaways, entrants must have signed up to nonstopmama's free email updates (subscribe on the homepage). Please ensure that the email address you provide when you enter the giveaway is the same one you have signed up for the updates with.

The giveaway will end at midnight GMT on the date specified. Winners will then be drawn at random - using random.org - and notified by email.

If we have no response from a winner within 48 hours, we will send another email notification. After 72 hours, we will (regretfully) have to assign the giveaway to the next, randomly selected entrant.

While we'll do all we can to ensure winners will receive their prize - hoorah! - safely and swiftly, nonstopmama cannot be held responsible in the unfortunate event of a prize becoming lost in the post or if we have mistakenly given an incorrect address. Finally (phew!), if, for some reason, a giveaway becomes unavailable, we will endeavour to substitute it with one of similar value.

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Jenni Baden Howard writes for a range of UK glossies and websites and was beauty editor on The Daily Telegraph's Style pages for six years. She has a weakness for dark chocolate and silicone kitchen gadgets and keeps meaning to do more exercise.

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