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The Throwboy promotion ended on Friday, and today I’ve just put all the names of the people who bought an RSS tee into a hat and picked out 3 winners at random.

The 3 lucky winners are… *drumrolls*

1) Brianna Alvarez, from USA
2) Robert Shippey, from UK
3) Gary Caplehorne, from UK

I’ll be emailing the addresses of the 3 winners to Throwboy today ready for your prizes to be mailed out as soon as they’re ready :)

Thanks to everyone who took part!

I definitely want to do more raffles and giveaways and stuff like that in the future :D

In other news, the limited edition SMILE t-shirt has been selling really well. Sizes small and medium have both sold out already, and there’s only a handful of large and extra large ones left. Seeing as the SMILE tees have nearly all gone, I think it’s a good time to release the next limited edition t-shirt!

I’m really excited about this new t-shirt. I’ve teamed up with American Apparel for the first time, and the t-shirts are just so soft and comfortable! I really love the cut/fit of them too. Also, using AA means I’ve been able to get the design printed on size XS for the very first time, which is perfect for you more petite people out there ^_^

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This new design is now on sale at johnnydurhamclothing.com.

In other news, most of you have probably heard about the Summer In The City youtube gathering which is happening in London later this month. If you haven’t you can find out details here. I’ve told a few people that I’ll be going, but I don’t think I’ve properly announced that I’m going yet, so I just wanted to say… I’ll definitely be there! :D

The gathering is going to be pretty huge, so I’m looking forward to meeting lots of new people. I was speaking to Gary about the gathering, and he told me he was taking lots of sets of badges to give away to people as little gifts, just because it’d be a nice thing to do (people like getting things for free xD) but also it would serve as a cool, novel way of introducing new people to his channel on youtube. I thought it was a cool idea, so I decided to do something similar. I’ve ordered a bunch of wristbands which will look something like this:

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The exciting thing about these wristbands is that they are slapper wristbands! I.e. they’re the kind that are flat until you slap them against your wrist, and then they coil around you :)

Slapper wristbands are SO MUCH FUN, so I’m hoping people will like them. So yeah, it’s a nice little fun gift I can just give out to people, and it’s also a way of promoting my webstore. It’s win-win :D

For anyone who can’t make it to the gathering but wants a wristband, I’ll probably be putting the remaining ones up for sale on the webstore after the gathering. I’d make them free on the webstore too, but they weren’t exactly cheap to get made, so I’d like to try and make a little of the money back for them. They’ll only go on sale for £1 - £2 though :)

In other (very exciting) news it was my sister’s birthday yesterday, and her boyfriend proposed to her, so she’s now engaged to be married! I’m so incredibly happy for her :D

Her new fiancee, David, is a great guy and we get on really well. That being said, I can’t wait to give him the “if you ever hurt my sister, I’ll hunt you down and kick your ass” talk à la Ross from Friends (when Chandler is getting married to Monica). It’ll be funny, because Dave could easily snap me in half xD

Here is a picture that I stole from my sister’s facebook of them together. I think this was when they were on holiday in Paxos last year… don’t they look cute?!

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I should really stop embedding pictures into my blog. I just got the invoice for my server charges for this past month, and it was £38! My blog doesn’t get THAT much traffic, but I think the fees were so high because lots of data was being transfered thanks to all the New York pictures etc that I’ve been uploading. Also, I’m on a really basic hosting service package, so if you go over your usage quota, the costs mount up fast! I’m going to try upgrading my package to hopefully reduce the costs because there is no way I can afford to pay in the region of £38 a month. I’ll let you know how it goes :)

Yikes! Long blog post, sorry!

Much love,

Johnny <3

You ever thought of moving hosting providers? I use dreamhost.com - you get more and more disk quota/bandwidth each month for free! The plans are fairly decent if you pay for several years at once and you also get a domain free for the life of your hosting.

(As a side line to my comment, congrats to your sister!)

I’m petite :3

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY dead blob tshirt :) in XS too :D
my begging and pleading finally paid off :P
oh i’m excited about how comfortable they sound! if they’re not as soft as a marshmallow, i will demand my money back!

OMG, i’d love to go to SITC, i didn’t even know it was on tbh :P but meeting youtubers, getting free badges, SLAPPER BRACELTS, and London! oh and you! :P i would LOVE to go, but i don’t think i could afford to fly to london, and stay in a hotel :(
i should start a gathering in belfast :D wana come? ^______^

awk, i love that your sister is engaged :) you have to post photo’s of y’all look dapper and fancy in your tux’s :)
[i don't care if your server charges will be expensive, you're doing it!]

YAYAY blob tshirt’s OH i should buy it now and get #1 of 100 :) can i have a free pack of badges please :D

YOU’RE THE BEST XD

Kevin :) <3

http://www.youtube.com/griffybabyyyy

Wow congratz for your sister! Thats an awesome T-shirt/ wrist band also !

OMG THAT T-SHIRT. I’m ordering now.

this is the kind of blog post i like. where its not just tshirtstshirtstshirts, where it talks about the tshirts a bit, but then we also get a normal blog. (:

also, congrats to your sister!

Congrats to your sister! They do look very cute together, and she’s particularly adorable. And I think I’m getting one of the bracelets once they come up. And if you keep using this host, why not host your pics on image sites like flickr or photobucket, both who have free and paid options which I think are really nice.

i’m so glad you switched to American Apparel! almost all the t-shirts i own are manufactured by them! i always know what size will fit me since i’m familiar with the product. yayness! <3

Yesssssss, XS stuff! Nice one! =D

I want a wristband!!
My holiday has changed though, will have to check the dates. Knowing my luck I’ll no longer be able to go… =(

Congrats about your sister, your Ross speech will be great! =D

I need to have that shirt. But I also need money. So the shirt will have to wait. Sadface.
I love those wristbands, they are so fun! And it’s a good thing that you actually like your sister’s boyfriend. My family kind of hates my brother’s girlfriend (with good reason, but still).

i wish i could go to a youtube gathering and meet you.
aww i’m so happy for your sister. my boss just got engaged last week. i love it.
meh, you really don’t have to say “long blog post, sorry” i’m pretty sure we all check to read up on your life. i like long posts. gives me more to say back.

love,
dyan

You’re being scammed. You can get very good unlimited web hosting for $3 a month. The most you should pay a month (for unlimited) is $5.

http://webhostinggeeks.com/

:) Yea! I got my first Johnny-Durham-Tee this morning! Soo cute! I only ordered one, the RAWR one, ’cause I wasn’t sure about the size. I’m from Sweden by the way :p

Reading that the SMILE Tee is almost sold out makes me want one too :/

The wristband is a MUST-BUY, really want one :/ Guess I’ll have to wait and hope u’ll put it on sale soon so I’ll order other Tee and wristband :(

Oh, by the way, I got your signature!!! COOL!

I got one of your smile t shirts :D absolutely love it! am in the process of sewing it to make it smaller so it fits lol!

shall be making youtube video about it in next week so shall send you a link if you want :)

Congratulations to your sister and her fiancé, they look so happy in that photo.
I’m so looking forward to SitC too because it will be my first ever gathering. A bit of a big one but w/e. My sister and I collab so we at least have each other. I wish there were more gatherings in the north… ;)
I’ve already got my SitC t-shirt for the Friday, I’m thinking my “I like giraffes” on is perfect Saturday wear.
:D

Wow, the wristbands sound amazing, I’m hoping to get there for at least the Saturday for the gig, want one now though! Lol.

Sorry, I’m a bit behind on everything internetwise, been away for a week without it. x

Hello there:) and cheers!)

Awww i reeeaaally want a slap bracelet. When are you putting them up exactly?
and congrats to your sister. (: <3

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