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Congratulations to Chel of The Casual Observer blog! You won a Moleskine Pocket Ruled Notebook + Php500.00 worth of Avalon.ph Gift Certificate!

Thank you very much to Oodles and Goodles for hosting the contest, and a big thank you to all those who participated. The Moleskine Blog Hopping Giveaways 2009 – Series 2 is suspended at the moment but we will be back! Be sure to add us to your RSS feed so you won’t miss any announcement, or simply add our Social Media accounts:

Yahoo Messenger: avalonph
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/avalonph
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/avalonph
Plurk: http://www.plurk.com/user/avalonph
Multiply: http://avalonph.multiply.com

Buying a gift and can’t decide what to give your friends? Why not give them Gift Certificates? Avalon.ph Gift Certificate comes in denomination of Php300.00, Php500.00 and Php1,000.00 and they make excellent gifts! Let them decide what they want to get, hassle-free!

Avalon.ph generates a unique code that allows the recipient to receive an equivalent amount off of items purchased on the store. The recipient is automatically notified via e-mail if the buyer opts to do so. Or you may opt to e-mail yourself the unique code and give it to the recipient. Partially redeemed Gift Certificates can be used again until fully redeemed.

Once again, we apologize for suspending the contest at the moment because we want the focus of people to be about helping others. Thank you very much for your understanding.

Due to Typhoon Ondoy’s aftermath, we are temporarily suspending the Blog Hopping Moleskine Giveaways contest series. We like the focus of people to be about helping others.

Glenda of Oodles of Goodles was placed in a very uncomfortable position of declaring a winner on Oct. 1 amidst the recent events. Thanks Glenda for your professionalism and understanding. Thank you also to Rico and Gail for working with us in suspending the contest series.

For now, let’s help. Thank you very much.

Note: Winner of the Oodles of Goodles will be posted here as soon as it is available.

It’s back for the 2nd series this 2009!  Avalon.ph Blog Hopping Moleskine Giveaways (2009) is fast becoming one of the most anticipated annual event in the Philippine blogosphere. Aside from being a promotion between different participating sites to giveaway Moleskine Notebooks, it is also a great way to introduce new and old blogs to different readers.

Visit each site during their contest period to determine their contest mechanics. These are all great sites even without the contest so check them out.

Discover blogs by people who loves to write, share ideas, and make images standout. Enjoy their blogs and you might win a Moleskine Notebook to further inspire you to write, sketch, doodle and create ideas.

Don’t miss out this unique blog contest series – and yes, you get multiple chances of winning! Click the links below during their contest period to join.

Sep 24-30 www.oodlesofgoodles.com – Oodles of Goodles
Oct 1-7 www.bahay-bahayan.com – Buhay Bahay-Bahayan
Oct 8-14 vivalavieboheme.tumblr.com – viva la vie boheme
Oct 15-21 blog.avalon.ph – Avalon.ph Blog (finale contest)

Schedule and participating blogs are subject to change.  Keep visiting this site for details.

Oodles of Goodles (www.oodlesofgoodles.com)
Oodles of Goodles is the eclectic blog of Glenda, a self-proclaimed jill-of-all trades. She was once a corporate rat who decided enough is enough and proceeded to spend her time with people and things she cares about most. And to save the world, one blog at a time. She has never looked back since.

Buhay Bahay-Bahayan (www.bahay-bahayan.com)
An online journal of a husband and wife team going through the roller coaster ride of playing real-life playhouse (bahay-bahayan). Rico is the husband, and Riza is the wife. Read on as Rico narrates his thoughts, dreams, interests, and opinions.

viva la vie boheme (vivalavieboheme.tumblr.com)
Gail. Twenty four. Has a love-hate relationship with the world. Bohemian. Writer. A philomath. I express myself better in written words and photos. I like taking out lines from lyrics, movies, and good books. I like getting lost in another world through reading, listening to music, and writing.

It is recommended you subscribe to their RSS feeds to guarantee that you don’t miss any details about their individual contests.

Don’t forget to check out the Avalon.ph Blog for regular updates about this contest.

What are you waiting for? Join now!

Good luck everyone!

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Interested to see the previous Blog Hopping Giveaways? Check out the 2008 and 2009 (1st series) editions!

Want to be a participating blog next year? You can submit your blog/website details, check the link here (note: some details updated).

* For privacy of entries real names of entries via website purchase were cut using first 2 letters of first name, and 3-6 letters of last (as you can see some weird names listed above). No real names were submitted in the list randomizer unless you used your real name displayed on the website to submit your entry.

Congratulations to Ka(ren) Punza(lan) [name disclosed w/ permission]! She purchased 4 Moleskine Notebooks last September 10, received 4 entries and was picked by random.org’s list randomizer as the winner of the Neil Gaiman SIGNED book giveaway!

Thank you everyone for participating! Watch out for our next giveaway so keep checking our website, this blog or better yet, add us to your RSS feed.

Still can’t get enough of Neil Gaiman? Here is your chance to win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman’s Adventures in the Dream Trade (trade paperback edition)!

SIGNED by Neil Gaiman

This giveaway is part of Avalon.ph (still) celebration of our 10th year online. We are one of the longest running online shopping websites in the country. You can read a quick history and timeline here.

Adventures in the Dream Trade is one of Neil Gaiman’s harder-to-find book locally. The book covers Neil Gaiman’s web log during the publication of American Gods, some essays, introductions, stories, poems and song lyrics.

Just how can you win this amazing signed book?

Complete this phrase: “Ten years ago……..”

Be creative, sentimental, funny or just be honest! Feel free to add images if you write your entry in your blogs. I reserve the right to disqualify tasteless entries.

So how to submit an entry?

Easy/basic:

a) Answering in the comments section below gives you one (1) point.

or

b) Answering in your blog, with a link back to this post gives you three (3) points. You must mention Avalon.ph in your blog entry. Note: one blog per person/entry.

On blog entries, I will award you one (1) extra point if I like your post. This will be purely based my personal discretion and I expect myself to be stingy with it.

Basically that’s it, you are now qualified to win this Neil Gaiman signed book.  But wait! Want to have more chances of winning? We are giving options to submit more entries that’s worth the effort.

Advanced:

- Twitter – one (1) extra point. You may also follow our Twitter account: avalonph. Twitter entries can be easily traced as long as you use the following tweet format:

RT @avalonph Win a SIGNED copy of Neil Gaiman’s Adventures in the Dream Trade! Exclusive giveaway only on www.avalon.ph #avalonph

I suggest you copy and paste before you tweet. Helpful comments before RT is okay, the rest must be entered once and as is during the contest period (Aug 26 – Sep 22). Please do not spam.

Sorry, no Plurk entries because their search system isn’t optimize to guarantee your entry gets counted.

- Purchases on Avalon.ph. For every valid purchase worth Php500.00 on Avalon.ph, you will earn one (1) extra point. This is valid during the contest period (Aug 26 – Sep 22) and must already be paid/fulfilled before the end of the contest period. There is no limit to the number of points to be awarded.

I’m tempted to include a Facebook point reward system but I believe that’s too much already. However, I will deeply appreciate if you “share” the contest details once it is posted in our Facebook Page. If you are not a fan of Avalon.ph yet, here’s our Facebook Page link: www.facebook.com/avalonph. We also have giveaways exclusive to our Avalon.ph Facebook Page Fans so make sure you add us up.

This giveaway will run from August 26 until September 22, 2009, 11:59pm Manila time. Raffle is only open for those with a Philippine-based address that’s serviceable by major couriers. Raffle will be through Random.org or other facilities that can handle random drawing.

Raffle winner will be announced before 12:00nn September 23. We will exert best effort to communicate with the winner within 5 days, but if efforts fail we will use our discretion in choosing a new winner either through a re-draw or pick #2.

As much as we want everything fair and square there might be unseen issues. Loopholes or oversights regarding rules- common sense applies!

So what are you waiting for? Good luck! Most of all, reminisce something in your life ten years ago!

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