I didn’t win the Mumpren­eur 2010 award for Best Online Busi­ness.

But I was in great company.

Amongst the judges were Rachel Elnaugh, ex dragon on Dragon’s Den and founder of Red Let­ter Days. Jo Cameron from series 2 of BBC’s The Appren­tice. And multi-award win­ning Lisa Warner founder of Fink Cards. Not bad hey?

The Best Online Busi­ness Award went to Adina Bel­loli for Little Lun­alu.

Not only a fant­astic busi­ness selling the coolest urban clothes to the under fives, but Adina cre­ated The Lun­alu Found­a­tion, so when you buy any Little Lun­alu product, 5% of the sales goes towards mak­ing the lives of under­priv­ileged chil­dren around the world better.

As much as I’d love to have won, the award went to the right person.

Other win­ning entre­pren­eurs included…

• Anna Louise Simpson won Best Start-Up for Mama Tea. Her herbal tea is now sold in Waitrose.
• Carry Somers won Inspir­a­tional Busi­ness Mum for Pachacuti. Carry set up co-operatives in Ecuador to make her Panama hats and is pas­sion­ate about improv­ing the lives of people in the Andean region. Her hats are sold in 300 retail­ers around the world.
• Claire O’Connor won Best Inter­act­ive Busi­ness for Baby Bal­let, a multi-award win­ning song and dance academy with branches across the UK.
• Jac­queline Wag­gett won Most Unique Product for Paca­pod, an innov­at­ive and multi-award win­ning baby chan­ging bag.
• Solvej Biddle was run­ner up for Most Unique Product for TrayKit, the all-in-one kid’s carry-on back­pack and play-tray. You may have seen Solvej on this series of Dragon’s Den. She won the sup­port of all five dragons, but settled for a joint deal between Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden. Brit­ish Air­ways is now TrayKit’s chosen air­line partner.

So I didn’t win this time. But there is always next year. And other awards. So watch this space!

As a final­ist in this year’s Mumpren­eur Awards I know that I’m up against five other busi­ness women. I’m not yet sure who all of them are, but I do know about Vic­toria Dixon who runs Enhance Me.

Vic­toria cre­ates per­son­al­ized enchanted por­traits from your own pho­tos. And they really are quite charming.

In par­tic­u­lar I love her Fam­ily Tree…

You could have real fun pos­ing your fam­ily. I rather like the idea of hav­ing Great Granny swinging in the upper­most branches.

Coulson Macleod’s PR for the Mumpren­eur Awards 2010 con­tin­ues. Yes­ter­day our local paper wrote this art­icle on me…

A mum who built a busi­ness up in 18 months has made it through to the finals of a national entre­pren­eur com­pet­i­tion cel­eb­rat­ing women in business.

The Mumpren­eur Awards recog­nise busi­ness­wo­men through­out the UK who juggle a com­pany with fam­ily life, and 39-year old Han­nah MacLeod of Ket­ter­ing, has been singled out in the 2010 awards.

She has been short­l­is­ted for the Best Online Busi­ness award for her inter­net art busi­ness, with the award going to the final­ist who has the most deserving busi­ness and most inspir­a­tional website.

Ms MacLeod, who runs Coulson Macleod with her part­ner Mark Coulson, is delighted to be in with a chance.

She said: “I was very pleased to find out I had made it through to the final. I feel proud the com­pany has grown so much since it was estab­lished 18 months ago and delighted to be recog­nised by these awards.”

The busy mum launched the busi­ness with no ini­tial invest­ment and has watched it grow – the company’s goods are now stocked in shops around the UK and Nor­way, is a favour­ite of Saat­chi and Saat­chi, and has been fea­tured in numer­ous magazines includ­ing Elle Dec­or­a­tion UK, Easy Liv­ing and County & Town House.

Because she has been nom­in­ated for an award, she is also in with a chance of win­ning the title of Inspir­a­tional Busi­ness Mum 2010, which will be judged with the rest of the awards at the Mumpren­eur Con­fer­ence on Septem­ber 18 in Warwickshire.

She added: “It is import­ant for mums to know that they can do it – they should be con­fid­ent in their abil­it­ies. Being a mum makes you a multi-tasker – and you can put a load of wash­ing on, send an email and talk on the phone at the same time.”

Found out yes­ter­day that I’m a final­ist for a Mumpren­eur Award. Out of 302 entrants from around the UK, I’m down to the final six in the cat­egory Best Online Business.

So what do you think, is Coulson Macleod in with a chance of winning?

The award cere­mony is on 18^th Septem­ber so we’ll let you know.