HAPPY BIRTHDAY Crystal Sparkly Dreams – 1 Year Old Today + Makeup Giveaway

Hi everyone, today is my blogs first birthday! :-)  Exactly one year ago today, I sat at my laptop, listening to the fireworks outside and finally decided to create my first blog post.  I was very nervous but extremely excited as well, as I'd been planning and wanting to have a blog for quite a long while.  Since then, I've uploaded 69 posts (including this one) and have had nearly 5,400 views.  Between all my social media's (Bloglovin, Google+, GFC, Twitter and Instagram) I currently have 97 followers, which in some ways is a small amount but to me it's brilliant and I have readers from all over the world, all of this makes me very happy and it's something that I never thought I could achieve!

Over this past year, I have felt my confidence as a writer and photographer grow and grow and my own personal confidence is better than it has been all my life.  I feel more at ease talking to strangers and being in social situation than ever before and have learnt everything from how to use Twitter to dabbling with html, whereas before I never had a clue!  I've also met people that I never would have got to speak to if it hadn't have been for my blog.

I still feel I have a lot to learn, a lot more opportunities to explore and a lot more to give but I can honestly say, having my blog has made me so happy and been a real pleasure from day one.  Although there may be times when 'life' happens and I can't do a certain post on a certain day, I will always continue my blog for as long as I possibly can.  Because even though it brings me a lot of pleasure, I want it to bring you, my readers, pleasure too!

Finally I want to say a very HUGE thank you to every individual person who follows me or my blog, who's ever written a comment or shared one of my posts, to all my lovely friends that support me on and off line and for putting up with me going on about it all the time :-)

***** THANK YOU *****

Ok, and now on to my very first Giveaway :-)

As another very big thank you, I wanted to give something back to you.  So, I have spent out some of my hard earned savings and re-purchased a selection of my most favourite makeup items, just for you.  I decided I wanted to keep the items a surprise for the lucky winner, but I have mentioned and occasionally reviewed each and every one of them at some point on my blog.  Also I've not included any foundations, concealers or blushers as everyone has different skin tones and types, so I thought it best to stay away from those types of products.

Ok, so how do you enter – I am using Rafflecoper to collect the entries and choose a winner for me, all the full entry terms and conditions are below, the giveaway will last for 3 weeks from today and you can enter as many times as you would like.  Good luck :-)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The Rules:

©    To be in with a chance of winning my 'Blog Birthday Box of Beauty Favourites', enter via the Rafflecopter widget

©    Please make sure you leave your full name and email address in the comments, so that I can contact you if you win

©    There will be only one winner

©    This giveaway is open internationally

©    You must complete all 3 mandatory entries before you can access any of the extra entry options

©    This giveaway will run for 21 days from Wednesday the 5^th of November 2014 until Wednesday the 26^th of November 2014, 12.00am gmt

©    Once the giveaway is over, I will contact the winner directly via email, once the winner has been contacted they will have 72 hours to reply or a new winner will be selected.

Until next time, stay happy and good luck ♥

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