It’s Friday, so let’s celebrate with our first photo competition of the year. Yesterday I promised if you were good you’d get a competition, so here it is all you lovely people…

I reckon that before we dive into new treats for 2012 we should take a little moment to look back at last year. Thanks to you we certainly enjoyed a wonderful sense of community, not to mention a great deal of fun and inspiration from all your photo entries throughout the year. Highlights for me included the joy of adventzilla and the thrilling ride of 24LIVE. The collage shows just a few of these favourites. They’ll be plenty more where that came from but right now there’s a prize to win for the best photo of 2011.

That’s right just one, so think carefully! From all of last year’s photos we want you to share one photo on our Facebook wall which  sums up your year, was a particular high point, or just a shot you’re really proud of. As always, we’d love to hear a little about the photo and why it means so much to you. Deadline is midnight 20th January. If you have any problems uploading a photo for the competition, see yesterday’s blog post or try tagging us.

Ok on to the important business of a prize. We’re giving away one of our new Photo Acrylic Blocks for our three favourite photos so you can show them off with pride.

Enter now for your chance to win and let’s fill that wall with wonderful photos.

Linda
The Editor

I hope you all had a fantastic break over Christmas and celebrated New Year in style. PhotoBox has lots of great plans for you in 2012 but first off it’s time to clear the clutter and make a fresh start to another exciting year.

Don’t worry I’m not suggesting a massive clear out of everything in your life! It’s just that recently some of you have had problems uploading photos to our Facebook page. As we’ve another fantastic photo competition up our sleeve, we’re keen to knock any problems on the head so you all great a fair crack at winning our fabulous prizes.

Ok here’s the deal. We’ve cleared out lots of the photos stored on our Facebook page and now we’re asking you to do the same. Simply log into your Facebook account and go to your uploaded photos, then delete the photos you’ve uploaded to PhotoBox. This should be clear from your wall or timeline. Having too many photos there is what’s causing the trouble.

As an incentive, just post a comment on the wall to let us know when you’ve cleared the clutter and we’ll kick start our next competition. Come on, let’s do it today in time for a Friday competition. It’ll only take a moment then we can banish any January blues with lots of lovely photos.

Here’s to a great 2012 and lots more photo competitions

Linda
The Editor

Woohoo! It’s the 24th of December and before we get set to celebrate Christmas Eve it’s time for our final Adventzilla door.

Happy Christmas to you one and all! Thanks for taking part in our mighty Adventzilla. You’ve really kept me entertained in the run up to Christmas and I hope you’ve enjoyed it too.

As promised all this has been leading up to getting your name in our Santa sack ready for the big prize draw. Someone is about to win our £2500 cash prize so brace yourself…..

Ok we’re rummaging for a name…just a moment….here it is…

Our lucky winner is Shelley Cooper. You’ve won £2500! Nice one Shelley. You’ve been one of our regular participants so this is well deserved. We’ll let you know about getting your prize to you early in the New Year. What a wonderful way to start Christmas!

That just leaves me to wish you all a very Happy Christmas. We’d love you to keep posting all your festive photos on our Facebook wall over Christmas so we can continue to share the fun. I’ll be back with more exciting competitions for you in the New Year.

Merry Christmas and looking forward to sharing a fantastic 2012 with you all!

Linda
The Editor

A month ago we launched into our second fun & frantic 24LIVE photo extravaganza. All the winners were chosen but one was told to wait until 24th December to find out what their prize was.

Daisy, Daisy what have we got for you? It was Daisy Bradbury who won our 24th Challenge – All Wrapped Up. I’m sure you’ll remember the pic of her partner wrapped head to toe in pretty paper. Well it’s time to find out what her prize is…

Congratulations, you’ve won a 5-night holiday for 2 to Marrakech. Yay! You’ll be staying in a junior suite no less. So no post Christmas blues for you, you’ll be able to plan an exciting break to the sun. We’ll get the full details of your prize to you ASAP. Bet you’ll really enjoy Christmas now. Happy holiday!

Just a mo, I’ll be back with our final Adventzilla door in a bit

Linda
The Editor

Morning – we’re so close to Christmas now! I see a holly adorned door just begging to be opened. Without further ado let’s get straight to it and see what today’s little challenge is…

This time last year we’d had loads of snow, whereas this year they’re forecasting much warmer weather over Christmas. For many people a white Christmas epitomises the perfect Christmas though, so Adventzilla wants to know if you’re dreaming of a white Christmas or not. Would you love to me out there making snowmen and having great snowball fights, or do you tend to hide away until all the snow has melted away.

If you do delight in snow at Christmas perhaps share some of your favourite snow snaps from over the years. If you’ve got a pic of one of our new Snow Globes we’d love to see that too! Some parts of the country might even have snow now to share photos of.

So come on and let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Just share anything to do with snow on our Facebook wall for today’s chance of getting your name in our big £2500 prize draw.

Back tomorrow with our final door and to crown our Adventzilla winner.

Don’t miss it!

Linda
The Editor

Ding dong merrily on high and hark the herald angels it’s time for another Adventzilla door. What Christmassy theme is about to be revealed?

Listen, do I hear Jinglebells? It definitely won’t be a Silent Night like The First Noel, not with all that’s going on at PhotoBox HQ. Ok enough clues – today we’re asking ‘What’s your favourite Christmas Carol?’

O Come All Ye Faithful and post your favourite Christmas Carol on our Facebook wall, for yet another go at winning our £2500 prize draw!

Ok let’s burst into song

Linda
The Editor

With just a few days to go on Adventzilla we couldn’t possibly leave you without a Christmas competition, so here it is!
This one’s an opportunity for the whole family to get involved and have a right good giggle. You’ll need to make us judges crack a smile too!

We’ve partnered with the lovely people at Puffin Books to celebrate the publication of Cabin Fever, Jeff Kinney’s latest book from his bestselling series of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

There are three categories to enter - ‘Embarrassing Families’, ‘Christmas Dress-up’ and ‘Bad Christmas Presents’. Feel free to enter as many photos in as many categories as you like. The more laughs the better.

The three winners, one from each category, will get a signed copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever and their winning photo transformed into a Canvas Print. The overall winner also gets £500 of John Lewis vouchers!

All entries must be your own photos. Please see our full list of terms & conditions before entering this one as you need to enter via our competition site not Facebook for this one. Deadline is 31st December so get snapping and enter our competition now! Remember the funnier the better.

Linda
The Editor

Only four more sleeps until Santa. Yes folks it’s day 21 and daily door time so all together now, ‘Show us what’s behind the door oh mighty Adventzilla!’

Ah hello Aziz! Nice one Adventzilla, a photo from our Secret Santa pressie opening party. Just look at the excitement and expectation on his face. Christmas really does bring out the big kid in us all!

Your challenge for today should you choose to accept is simply answer this, ‘What’s in the box?’

That’s a long shot I hear you cry! Fear not, you don’t have to get it right for a chance to win our £2500 cash prize, just have a go and come up with some fun suggestions. Of course we’ll reward anyone who does actually guess the right answer with a surprise pressie of their own.

Ok it’s time to start guessing – just post away on our Facebook wall!

PS. If you’ve still got presents to buy, today is absolutely the final day to order Last Minute Christmas gifts

Linda
The Editor

Well we’re all familiar with our morning routine by now – I’m going to miss Adventzilla big time when it’s gone! So on to the most pressing question of the day…what’s behind door 20?

Yesterday we had ‘Show us your Claus’ and today we’ve got one of your Claus photos, we just need a caption. Thanks to Tracey Flett for posting this pic, it made us smile and is just screaming out for a fun caption.

Let’s spread some laughter as we give you yet another chance of winning our big £2500 cash prize. Just post a caption for this photo on our Facebook wall – simples! The funnier the better as we crank up that Christmas spirit.

Ok thinking caps on – on your marks, get set, go!!!!

Linda
The Editor

I’m so looking forward to my Christmas dinner after hearing all about your festive feasts. It’s not long to wait now – in fact the big day is only six sleeps away! To keep us busy in the meantime it’s time for another door – number 19 today…

Look at this! Adventzilla is obviously getting impatient – just too excited about Christmas and can’t wait to see Santa, so we’re asking you to ‘Show us your Claus’ now. Post a photo of you or your kids with Father Christmas, or maybe share a snap of your Santa decorations around the house or wherever you see a Santa.

Don’t worry if you’re having trouble posting pics on our Facebook wall, just share your favourite Santa stories to take part.

With Christmas fast approaching we’re getting close to announcing the winner of our £2500 prize draw, so be sure to join in for another chance to get your name picked as a our winner!

Right 3, 2,1  – Show us your Claus!

Linda
The Editor