Join our Mums' Make Date: Twitter, 19 September

This Wednesday from 8.30 - 9.30pm BST (world times here) join us on twitter using #somum to chat with other mums, get creative, find your inner SUPERMUM, and enter a draw to win an amazing pile of goodies for you!

         supermum

It's not often we feel super at being a mum, or indeed a grandmum.

We may have wonderful days, or moments, when we feel like we're parenting well. And then other days, or weeks, when we feel like a complete failure. 

But whenever we're trying, and failing, and getting up to try again, we're supermums. And sometimes we just need a little bit of help to see that.

So this month, we're making Supermum Postcards and sending them to another mum to remind her just how super she really is. 

Come join us on twitter this week to chat and make a postcard together. You can doodle a supermum picture (stick ladies are absolutely fine, no drawing skills required), or rip some pictures out of magazines and stick them onto a piece of card Mister Maker one minute challenge-stylie. You can join us to chat, and not make anything at all. However you want to play, we'll be happy to have you.

We even have a fabulous PRIZE, thanks to the wonderful Ellen Elwell. Ellen is a mom and copywriter based in Dallas, creator of #MomTips and #MomQuotes. She's one of the friendliest and most generous people I've met on twitter, so if you don't yet follow her, do it now - and send her a big hello from us at story of mum!

         goody bag from Ellen Elwell

The lovely Ellen (erm, are you following her yet...?) is giving us an amazing kit of gorgeous beauty treats and cosmetics from Neiman-Marcus (check out the amazing picture above). Simply share your Supermum Postcard in our gallery before the end of this week (midnight on 23 September) and you'll be entered into a draw to win the goodies above. We can ship the goodies to wherever you are in the world. Rules below.

So not only will another mum get a wonderful treat in the post from you, you could get your very own treat too. Ready your paper, pens, magazines and glue - and let's be super together.

        your mum superpower is love

Other rules

  • Duplicate accounts, automated entries, bulk entries or third party entries will be disqualified
  • Winners will be chosen at random from all those uploading a picture of their Supermum Postcard that fits the brief described here to this webpage between 17 September 2012 and midnight BST on 23 September 2012. Please note that you need to join the story of mum community in order to upload a picture.
  • The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  • The competition will run from 17 September 2012 to midnight BST on 23 September 2012 in Great Britain.
  • story of mum is compliant with the data protection act. While we will share the twitter names of winners and links to the submitted Supermum Postcard with great excitement, we will not pass on any other details to any third party without your prior consent.
  • If you don't want to enter the draw, that's absolutely fine. You can still take part in the Supermum Postcard activity and load up a photo, just contact us to let us know you don't want to be entered in the competition.