Win one of 3 UK World Tour Collection Kits!

From Thursday 31.3.11, you’ll have the chance to enter our UK Collection Treasure Hunt to win one of 3 UK Collection kits, each featuring 4 exclusive new bead designs.

The UK Collection Treasure Hunt

Here’s what you have to do to win!

Over the next 6 days, a series of 3 different images will appear, one at a time, hidden amongst the beads somewhere here on the Trollbeads website.

The first image goes live on Thursday 31.3.11, changing to a new image at 5pm on Friday 1.4.11 and the final image will appear on Monday 4.3.11.  Competition closes at midnight on Tuesday 5.4.11.

When you find the unexpected image simply let us know which webpage it is hidden on. To enter, just send the page URL (web address) or the page name to: competitions@fabletrading.co.uk or DM (direct message) us via our Twitter page @mytrollbeads.  Keep an eye out for clues as to what the picture is on our Twitter and Facebook pages throughout the 6 days!

Once we receive your correct answer, you will be entered into the draw to win one of the UK Collection kits! For each picture clue there will be a separate draw, so you will have 3 chances to win!   Three winners will be drawn and announced  here on the website on 6th April 2011.  Winners will be informed by email and on Twitter @mytrollbeads and Facebook My Trollbeads.

Full details can be found in the rules of entry within the terms and conditions section of the Trollbeads UK & Ireland website.  Winners are drawn at random.

Good luck!

Trollbeads Exclusive Valentine's charm bracelet

Thank you to everyone who entered the Trollbeads ‘Win an Exclusive Valentine’s Bracelet’ Competition.  We had a wonderful response to this competition and it was fascinating to read all the entries and learn how Trollbeads charm beads have such meaning in so many peoples’ lives.

We’re delighted to announce the winner of the beautiful Valentine’s Bracelet and the 10 runners up, who have each won a Pink Agate Bead from the new spring collection.

The Winner is Craig from Surrey, whose favourite bead is ‘Endless’. Craig says, ‘This was the first bead I bought my wife, as an eternity gift to mark the birth of our first baby. Instead of the traditional ring, I discovered Trollbeads, so bought her an ‘Eternity Bracelet’ with ‘Endless’ as her first bead. Better than the eternity ring, as we now both collect many symbolic beads to add to the eternity bracelet to remind us of all our precious memories through life. It’s perfect!’

Congratulations Craig, your Trollbeads Valentine’s bracelet is on its way to you!

The runners up, who have each won a beautiful Pink Agate Bead, are:

My favourite bead is ‘Earth’ as I bought it for my wife and she is my world! Michael from Gloucester

‘Unity’ – It was my first Trollbead and given to me by my children to represent unity in our family. Linda from Locks Heath

‘Transition Woman’ – I love this as it symbolises in one tiny bead all that happens in life. All the joy, the sadness, the fun, the hardship – the journey through life. Patricia, Northern Ireland

‘Two Sides to Everything’ – This very clever bead portrays an idea that every negative has a positive; every path has an alternative route to dreams we all crave. Angela, Tyne and Wear

‘Milky Way’ bead because all the specs of silver inside the bead signify dreams and everyone has a dream that we all wish one day come true and wearing it on your arm everyday can make that happen. Daniel , High Wycombe

My most loved Trollbead is ‘Blue Desert’. As a child I adored collecting pretty marbles and often think glass Trollbeads are my ‘grown up’ marbles. My most treasured marble was a ‘Blue Lady’, blue desert reminds me of it and transports me back to childhood. Karen, Bracknell

‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ because whatever life throws at you, you know you’ll get there in the end. Yvonne, Birmingham

It has to be ‘Fairy’ as it reminds me of being very young and camping out at the bottom of the garden waiting… just waiting… Alex, Herts

‘Ocean’ – because it sums up so many journeys – from North Cape to New Zealand and reminds me of life’s changing nature and beauty. Mrs Barnard, Dorset

And finally, we have a joint runner-up to finish with -

I love my ‘Silver Buttons’ bead as it remind me of playing with my Grandma’s button tin when I was a little girl – a long time ago!! Lesley, York

I love the ‘Silver Buttons’ bead as it reminds me of my wonderful grandmother, ‘Nanny Buttons’. When I was a little girl, my Nanny used to keep me entertained by letting me play with her button collection. I had hours of fun playing with her extensive assortment of jumper, cardigan and coat adornments. I would run my little fingers through her button box, mesmerised as all the different shaped buttons clattered and clicked together – so many different colours and textures colliding with each other, it was always a treat to spend an afternoon with Nanny Buttons. I love Nanny Buttons for encouraging my creativity and not minding when I covered every surface in her living room with buttons, all carefully laid out in spiralling patterns. Wearing this bead on my bracelet is very special to me as it makes me feel close to my very special Nanny, as it’s obvious to see where this fascination with buttons has led – to Trollbeads of course!  Rebecca, Oxfordshire

Trollbeads 2011 Calendar

Join us on Monday 10^th January 2011 with a new competition on Twitter.  If you have already downloaded the stunning Trollbeads 2011 Desktop Calendar for January, you will be aware of the exquisite photography featuring a beautiful Trollbeads picture and a calendar of the current month.   As a special one off for all our fab followers, Trollbeads UK would like to give away two of the actual Trollbeads 2011 Calendars to two lucky winners in this week’s Twitter competition.  These Calendars are Limited Edition items.

The new competition will take place on Monday 10^th January 2011.  Make sure you are signed up and following us on Twitter (@mytrollbeads) to enter.

To enter this one day competition, you will need to Retweet (RT) the competition phrase which we’ll Tweet at 8am on Monday 10^th January 2011.  The competition will close at 4 pm on that day.

Competition Tweet – ‘I love my new Trollbeads desktop http://www.trollbeads.co.uk/blog/articles/?p=2202’

We will draw, via Random.org, two lucky winners from all entrants who have Retweeted the competition Tweet.  The winner will be announced on Twitter later that day, Monday 10^th January 2011.  Once again we look forward to your entries.  Please take a moment to read the full competition Terms and Conditions.

Ice Bear - the winning design

Many congratulations to Kristi Denning from the USA, winner of the Trollbeads People’s Bead 2010. Her winning charm bead design is the Ice Bear. In Kristi’s words “the ice bear is strong, beautiful and in trouble. A constant reminder of the fragile climate we need to protect. With luck his story will have a happy ending.”Well it certainly has been a happy ending for Kristi; let’s hope it’s the same for the ice bear.

Kristi received the highest number of public votes and wins the coveted prize of receiving her design made in gold, and becoming a Trollbeads designer. The Ice Bear will be available in silver in this year’s Christmas collection.

Kristi Denning - winner of the People's Bead 2010

A poignant message in our environmentally-conscious world

Denmark chose this bead to be a finalist because it illustrates so perfectly the environmental struggle that we all – animals and humans – are facing today.

This is a wonderful achievement as Denmark received over 6,000 entries for this year’s People’s Bead competition.

Many thanks to all those who took part and congratulations again to our UK finalists. To see all the wonderful submissions and finalists please visit the Trollbeads Universe website.

We had lots of fun reading your tweets, and we were delighted to brighten the days of the winners at the end of each month when the winners were announced. However, we also had a couple of people tweet us feedback that they were unhappy that people who only ever tweeted competition entries were allowed to enter, and that they had thought that the content of their tweets was being judged. As the whole idea of it was to make you smile… we thought we’d get some of your ideas for next time.

What makes a Twitter competition fun for you?

Before we embark on more Twitter competitions, we thought we’d ask for your ideas for what makes them both fun and fair for all. Please use the comment feature below to share your ideas for a really fun and fair competition that we can run on Twitter in the future.