giveaway - long live The King ! Who, me ?

UPDATE: just to let you know I made a new cap, since the one I hade made and is in the giveaway picture, turned out way too big and not good enough and I couldn't make a new one earlier than this. The tube is a bit flatter now (due to putting on the cap while holding the tube and there seems to be an airpocket there which left it more fragile than it should have been doing that..). So this one will be for myself and I will make a new tube for the winner that I just want to be right, with this cap.

the tube in the giveaway also has real handcream inside! (this is the photo from an earlier tube I made, because I don't want to squeeze the giveaway one)

today is a historic day for The Netherlands: our beloved Queen Beatrix for 33 years passed on the throne to her eldest son, Prince Willem Alexander this morning. He is the first king since 1890, after three queens. He, his wife and 3 daughters are very popular in our country and I think he will make a good king. Although I don't have much with the institute of a kingdom itself , I do love our royal family. That I find very warm and authentic and really add something to our country. Not only because of their genuine and warm personalities, but also because of their great efforts and work in all kinds of very inspiring communityprojects they're really passionate about. Projects that help the less fortunate of our society in all sorts of ways to make them able to make something of their life, despite their challenges.

Queen Beatrix and Prince Willem Alexander with his lovely Princess Maxima & their 3 princesses: Amalia, Alexia & Ariane

to celebrate this very special occasion, in combination with my last name being "The King" in Dutch - yes, I feel very royal, although I seem to lack every teensy bit of grace & elegance that should go with that :) - ánd to show my appreciation to all of you who take the time to follow my work, I decided this is the perfect moment to have another giveaway.

Dutch country crest

what am I giving away?

well, as you can see it's nothing kinglike - I didn't think you would get very excited over miniature mugs and plates with pictures of our king on them ;) - I would like to give you the opportunity to win these few handmade Fabulously Small-items as seen in the first photo, I hope you like it:

- a tube of handcream l'Occitane, and for you who missed my post about this: it contains the real delicious stuff that can be squeezed out (it can't be refilled though, so when empty, it's empty ;)

- soapbottle 'stones', with real tiny 'stones' inside

- 3 rustic candles on a small metal plate (I poored them with candlewax and a wick. The brown candle is chocolatescented and smells delicious I think!) 
- candle with ornamentimage (I used a great technique I found a while ago which lets the wax absorb most of the image. I can do a tutorial on making a candle like that someday if you like) 

then I also have a consolationprize for someone I'll draw after the winner. Who will get items that haven't turned out how they'd supposed to, I think is a waste to throw out and maybe can still make someone happy. It's a l'Occitane tube of handcream (yes, with the stuff, the tube just didn't turn out the quality I wanted) a plate of candles and an ornamentcandle, that are all a bit too far from perfect, but don't suck completely either.. ;) 

 how to win?

to have a chance of winning this giveaway I ask you kindly to meet the following 3 conditions:

1) be a follower, or become one

2) let me know in a comment to this post you want to participate in this giveaway

3) let me know in that same comment if your country has a king, queen or else and - if you could choose - would you like to have a queen or king in your country (or if you already have that, would you want to keep it that way)? And why would or wouldn't you like to have/keep that ?

because I got the question last time: to participate it doesn't matter where you live, as long as it's on planet earth (you never know these days :D) and there's some kind of mailservice provided in your residential area, in case you win ;)

I will have the draw of the winner on the 21st of May so if you'd like to enter it,
make sure you do this in time. Good luck!