***This giveaway has reached our cap of 10,000 entries and is now closed. See who won below!***
It took you guys just a little under 6 hours to push this blogiversary giveaway to its 10,000 entry cap, so we’re here with an earlier-than-usual update on our randomly selected winner. That lucky person is… Britta (who’s currently living in baby/preschooler world so she hopes in five years she won’t “have to deal with someone else’s poop on a daily basis and to be able to sleep through the night!”). Congrats Britta!
For every blogiversary we try to do something special for that week’s giveaway. And this year we ran with the five theme and snagged five different $500 prizes for one lucky winner from a few of our favorite places: FLOR, HomeGoods, Joss & Main, Shades of Light and Z Gallerie. Which means someone’s gonna get a grant total of $2,500 to spend in celebration of our big five year blogiversary.
The five generous folks who are each giving away $500 aren’t just places we love, but also places that hold a special place in the our blog’s history (and future). In addition to being one of our first and most longstanding sponsors, Z Gallerie has dished out prizes for a blogiversary before – and was our first ever giveaway to break the 1,000 entry mark.
Richmond-based Shades of Light (also a long-time sponsor) has found their way into our home on several occasions (their local outlet makes us crazy). Plus we’ve got an exciting announcement about them that we’ll be sharing soon (secrets, secrets, are no fun).
Joss & Main is a newer favorite of ours, and they’ve invited us twice to curate sale collections on their site…. so we’ll always be grateful to them for making us feel like real designers – even if only for a brief time. Haha.
While HomeGoods seems to find their way onto our blog pretty often (like a $500 giveaway for you guys last week), one of our favorite instances was when they helped us makeover a local family’s living areas for them a while back.
And last but not least is FLOR, whose catalogs is one of our favorites to get in the mail. But more importantly, they’re gonna play an important role in our upcoming book tour. More details on that next week!
- PRIZE: $500 gift cards to FLOR, HomeGoods, Joss & Main, Shades of Light and Z Gallerie (totaling $2,500!)
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “FIFTH ME” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: … where you see yourself in five years. We always say we have no clue where we’ll be down the road but it’s always fun to imagine, right? How might your family be different or have grown? Will you be in a new home or a new city? Will you have the same job?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, Sept 26th at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States (although we do try to wrangle as many international giveaways as possible)
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of FLOR, HomeGoods, Joss & Main, Shades of Light and Z Gallerie.
Sarah says
Fifth me! I hope to be in the same house with the same dear husband, but with a couple of kiddos around! Happy blog-iversary!
Lauren says
Fifth me! Still in Chicago, with a kid or two, and a dog.
Kelli says
Fifth me!
In five years, I’ll own a home – hopefully with enough room to house a bunch of critters (both of my own and fosters). And I’d love to have my own “pit bull” dog and cat rescue in the works!
Carla says
FIFTH ME!
In five years our little one who is due in November will be almost five years old and we hopefully will still be living in San Francisco, but with our track record who knows!
Erin says
Fifth me! And happy fifth bloggiversary to you all!!! Your faithful readers are so grateful for you too.
Bernice says
FIFTH ME! In five years, we will have a 15 year old, a 13 year old , and a 9 year old (triple yikes!!). We love our neighborhood and plan on being here for a long time!
Kyle I says
Fifth me
Cynthia says
FIFTH ME!!
I see myself and my husband at least 98% done our house reno’s.. fingers crossed.
Lisa says
FIFTH ME!
I hope to be in our own home in the area we moved to last year. Perhaps we will have sold the house we moved from, and the children will be happy, healthy and doing well. And perhaps I will have figured out what I want to do when I grow up and will be doing that!
Anika says
“FIFTH ME”
In five years hopefully my husband and I will each have new jobs that we like better than our current ones and we’ll hopefully have bought a house!
(Sidenote: this giveaway is extremely generous – wow! I’m curious why you guys chose to combine them all instead of doing five giveaways, like one a day, for $500 each? Obviously I’m incredibly thrilled by the chance of winning $2,500 I was just curious.)
Grace says
Fifth me! I imagine in 5 years my husband and I will have moved somewhere new where he has been offered a teaching job in creative non fiction. We just bought our first home, have a baby on the way, and I have a thriving pillow business. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Emily says
Fifth me!
I want to have another kid. And granite countertops. In that order.
Nicole Norman says
FIFTH ME! In five years I hope we’ve finally had that baby we’ve been trying for for so long, and maybe another one too!
Emily says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years I hope to have moved into our forever home to enjoy with our (hopefully) expanding family! Our son will be 6, there will be 1-2 more behing him, and I’ll be able to stay at home (and fix it up with my husband!)
Katherine says
Fifth me!!
In five years I hope to be out of our condo and into a forever home!
Chrissy says
Fifth me! Hopefully living in our first house, decorating and doing fun projects!
Blake says
Fifth me! Done with my bachelors!
Emily V. says
Fifth Me!
In five years I hope to have a career in interior design and have at least 1 child. : )
Anna says
Fifth me!
In five years, I just want my family and myself to be happy and healthy.
Laura says
FIFTH ME! Wow, in five years I’ll have a 7 1/2 year old and a 5 year old! And might be living next door – our house is way too small and our neighbor keeps saying he’s retiring in 5 years and moving to FL, so we were thinking we might just take his much larger house off his hands! Do you still need to rent a truck to move the really big heavy things one house over??
Jessica K. says
FIFTH ME! I hope to have all of our home projects completed and focusing on growing our family! Life will still be good!
Alissa says
FIFTH ME! In five years my husband will be done with grad school and we’ll hopefully have two children along with an old home to make our own. That way we’ll be able to put more of your brilliant ideas to use!
Meg G. says
Fifth me!
I was just asked this question on a date recently. (Yes a guys pulled this one out on a first date!) So I’ll give the answer I gave him…Who knows? I’m certainly not where I’d thought be 5 years ago but I’m much happier!
Emily says
FIFTH ME! In five years I hope to be in the same house, but with more updates and tweaks, and hopefully with a flourishing fruit and vegetable garden. We currently have two lemon trees (brand new) that may produce 2-3 lemons this year, but at 5 years we could have as dozen or more each season!
Katy Appling says
FIFTH ME!!!
In 5 years I’ll be 27 (woah…). Hopefully married, living in a house I own (maybe by the beach) and as for the rest, I’ll leave that up to the Big Guy Upstairs!
Kristin says
fifth me! who knows where i’ll be in 5 years, because every year i am amazed at how i could never predict where i am!
Michele Daggar says
FIFTH ME!!
In five years I hope to have both kids settled happily in high school and college!
Jessica says
FIFTH ME!
In 5 years, my husband and I plan to be living out west… We’re thinking about Denver, Portland, maybe even Anchorage.
Shanelle says
FIFTH ME!!!:) Five years ago, I was VERY pregnant with our first child:) She was born December 24th, best Christmas gift ever!!
Lacey says
FIFTH ME! With a kid or two more, being a mommy and loving every minute!!
Nanette says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years, who knows? So many amazing things might happen by then.
Nate says
FIFTH ME!
Kids, new house, happy, DIYing!
Emily says
FIFTH ME! Hopefully we’ll have bought a house by then and well on our way to decorating it with a little DIY here and there. And maybe another baby or 2 :)
Kristine says
FIFTH ME! I hope to be a new mom and still enjoying the home we just purchased.
Joy says
FIFTH ME!
Oh wow, high five YHL!
I am in the process of getting a Nursing degree. Hopefully, I will be done in 5 years. :)
Anne says
Fifth me… Hopefully still enjoying our house and our recently renovated kitchen.
Katie K says
FIFTH ME!! Wow….can’t even imagine where we’ll be in 5 years! Maybe a little one or two?
Megan says
FIFTH ME!
In five years, I’ll be in the same home which will have been paid off by then. :) I’ll probably have a different job since our grant funding is down to less than two years. Maybe another child, maybe not.
Julie says
FIFTH ME!
In 5 years I hope to be married, with maybe a baby on the way. I will hopefully still be living in the lovely city of Richmond working for my same company but maybe in a different role.
Amanda says
Fifth Me!
Paying off student debt/car loan/owning a home!
Julie P. says
FIFTH ME!
Hoping to have another kiddo or two running around. Other than that, I hope a lot more of what my life is today!
Olivia says
Fifth me! I see myself getting a puppy :)
Her @6degreeslove says
In five years we will be crazy busy, with a house full of SIX teenagers, getting ready to start college with some. It will be a crazy, crazy time for us I’m sure….just like everyday at our humble little pad. xoxo
Erin says
FIFTH ME
Hopefully in our second home with two kids.
Casey says
FIFTH ME!
I think (hope) in 5 years I’ll be married. Dunno about a kiddo but I’m 27 now so I have time. Ultimately I just want to be HAPPY!
Erin says
FIFTH ME! Hope to have a new home since we just sold ours and maybe enjoy another little one running around our potential new home.
Emmuh says
Fifth me! Happy 5th bloggy to you!
In five years, I see another little one in our pack. Drew will be in 1st grade. And I think we will be finally selling the house we are in and moving to a smaller house that needs some DIY work.
Adam says
FIFTH ME!
I hope to have much of our home projects complete!
Sarah says
FIFTH ME! Same city, probably another kid or maybe two, hopefully working a little less but loving what I do a little more, and getting close to celebrating 15 years with my husband. Eeps!
Christy says
FIFTH ME! In five years I’ll be edging up nervously to my 70th birthday. Yikes! Reading blogs like yours keeps me grounded in this century, and gives me good ideas about keeping our homes updated. Thanks!