***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.
Abby says
Fifth Me!
In five years I’ll hopefully still be reading your blog!
Cassi says
FIFTH ME!!
In 5 years, I will have a daughter about to graduate high school, and a daughter entering Kindergarden! Yikes! ;)
Valerie says
Fifth Me!!
5 years? I don’t plan that far in advance but maybe and new house or job……..though in five years my kids will be in high school…that’s scary!!
Marsha says
Fifth Me!!! 5 years from now I will have a seven year old…YIKES!!! and happily living in my dream forever home filled to the brim with love, laughter and puppy dog fur :)
Congrats on the five year! Love your blog!
Callie says
Fifth Me!
In five years I see myself settling in to my first home after having paid off all of my student loan debt!
Donita says
“FIFTH ME!” Congratulations on five years guys!!! I LOVE your blog and look for your posts every day. :-)
In five years, my dream, to have our own ranch style house *I have always loved that style home*, have it all renovated and just loving it, relaxing and entertaining family and friends.
Phoebe says
Fifth me!
In five years I hope to be making over my own home instead of being a renter!
Sandra T says
Fifth me! Geez, in 5 years my baby will have graduated from college, and hopefully I will be back in NC (my motherland) from NJ (my husband’s motherland)!
Lisa says
Fifth Me!
In 5 years I plan to be registered as an architect and working for our design/build company. Possibly in a home designed by me…
laura says
FIFTH ME…Still fixing up my house!
Sarah says
“FIFTH ME” In 5 years I hope to be upgrading to a custom-built house…. no plans now, but a girl can dream!
Sarah says
FIFTH ME!
Hooray for five years!
I’ve been living in the same city and working at the same job for about 10 years so I’m ready to move! In five years I’m hoping to be living some place completely different.
Kerry says
Fith me!
Gosh, that is an interesting question! I hope in 5 years my husband and I are sharing our life with a child and that we have as much fun as we are having now!
Emily says
Fifth Me!
Beth says
FIFTH ME!!
In five years, I hope my family would’ve added one more, which would leave us with 3 kids in school, 8th grader, 1st grader, kindergarten and a 4-ish year old. Gosh, I can’t imagine what it would be like without a house full of kids in diapers…..scary, and sad. I think that’s about all the thought I’ll give to it for now, because it’s making me emotional. Maybe that’ll help me to be more patient with my kids today…..they’ll only be little once!
Sharon Flasche says
FIFTH ME, I am retiring soon and would love to redo my home, now I will finally have time to decorate. In 5 years I hope to have finished most of the DIY furniture projects I have planned, lol.
Rachel says
Fifth Me!!!
Yikes, I’m at a big of a crossroad right now and have no clue where five years will take me!
Jenn M says
Fifth me!
In five years I’d love to have a few more kidlets and be the vice-principal or principal at a local school (right now I’m teaching, but I just finished my masters and I’m hoping to move up at some point!) while continuing to work on DIY projects at my house with my hubby.
Congrats on five years you two!
Jill says
Fifth me!
Empty nest, maybe building our forever house in the country, maybe a puppy?
Madly in love with my sweetheart, regardless.
Katie says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully We can afford our “dream house” by then.
Katie says
FIFTH ME!!
My husband and I just beginning our search for our first house so in five years I hope to have it completely decorated including (hopefully!) a nursery for our first!!!
Beth says
FIFTH ME! I’m engaged (The big day is October 12, 2013!) so in 5 years, I hope to have a family, where I can be a stay at home mom. :D
Tracy says
FIFTH ME! 5 years seems like a long way away but the time will fly by. I hope in 5 years my daughter has a sibling and my husband and I will be on our way to buying our first house.
Sara says
FIFTH me!! I am an RN and one of the great things about being a nurse is that I can go anywhere and do any type of nursing! Needless to say, I have NO idea where I’ll be in 5 years!
Julie says
FIFTH ME!
Congratulations on 5 years, I love reading your blog!
In 5 years we will be out of our apartment and into a new home. Can’t wait to be able to paint the walls, haha
Jo says
Fifth Me!
I’ll still be working on house projects. It’s my idea of fun.
MacKenzie says
FIFTH ME! I am currently shopping for a house that needs some TLC. In five years I hope to be settled in my own home with a few big home improvement projects under my belt.
Catherine says
FIFTH ME!
Congratulations on your blogiversary! In five years I see myself owning a beautiful house instead of living in the boring tiny apartments I have been living in since college! And my boyfriend and I will paint and decorate it according to our tastes instead of living with plain old white walls!
Kelly V says
FIFTH ME. Mother of 3, new city, new house, booming freelance business!
Leah says
FIFTH ME! My boyfriend and I just moved into our first NYC apartment together. In 5 years we hope to be married, ready to buy our first home, and thinking of adding our own bean!
Stephanie says
FIFTH ME!
In five years I plan on being in the same house (we purchased it this year) with my husband (now fiance) and hopefully a little one to join our family!
Scott says
FIFTH ME!
In five years, I see myself with two more kids in the house and hopefully every interior project is finished (we have a kitchen & 1.75 baths left to remodel).
Sarah S says
Fifth Me! And happy 5th to you two (really 3, well really 4)! Can you imagine how Clara will have grown in 5 years?!
If I have the same job in 5 years, I will immediately quit. Wait, make that 1 year…
Kathy Kasheta says
Fifth Me….hopefully in five years I’ll have finished
every home project I’ve started and relax and enjoy the
fruits of my “diy” labor!
Debbie says
Fifth me!
Congrats to you guys!!
Big dreams for 5 years down the road…just bought and moved into our new (very old) house and are planning on updating it in the next few years. also, i have dreams to finally break free from working for the man and start my own graphic design studio! and then kids, another pup…you know, the works.
Amy says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years, my kitchen hopefully will be renovated finally and I will be the Mom to a teenager and 2 pre-teens (yikes!).
Becky says
Fifth Me! Hmm… In five years I can see my husband add I in Romania possibly with a little baby of our own. But who knows! anything can happen ;)
Sara says
FIFTH ME!!
My goodness, in 5 years. Seems like big changes for us in the next 5 years. We (my husband and our dogs, and I!) plan to move from Colorado to my home state of Texas. We’d like to be in a new home by then, hopefully we’ll be working on our custom home. And we’d like to start a family by then, too! Oh, and I would love to start a blog – but don’t know if I have enough to write about.
Thanks for all the inspiration and thanks for hosting this giveaway! What a huge gift.
Mary says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years I would like to have my second child, a Master degree and a new home to live in for the next 25 years!
Martha says
Fifth me! In five years I hope we still own our current home, but may or may not be living in it depending on if I get an expat assignment… its probably time for a kiddo sometime in the next five year too :)
Shelley @ Green Eggs and Hamlet says
FIFTH ME!
In five years my brand new husband and I will have been married five years and two weeks so I think a trip to Hawaii will be in order! Hopefully we’ll also have a child or two by then. Our house will be totally remodeled (kitchen, bathrooms, I mean you!) and our backyard will have gone from the dried out brown mess it is now to a perfect oasis. Here’s hoping, anyway! :)
Lindsay says
Fifth me! In 5 years I can see us (me & Mr. Lindsay) with many of our large scale home projects for our almost-100-year-old home complete and chasing around a toddler.
Congrats on your blogaversary!!
Gray says
Fifth me!
New job, new home, new state, who knows but probably all of the above.
Melody says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully, in 5 years I will be working as a nurse and raising a child with my new husband!
Tim S. says
FIFTH ME!
In 5 years I see myself with a small family and an updated, larger home to do small projects on.
Stephanie says
“FIFTH ME”
I will be 5 years closer to retiring!!!
Jennifer says
FIFTH ME!!! In five years I see my now fiance and I married, in a house (both of those in the next 12 months!!!) and then probably with some kiddos running around!!!
Sheri G says
Fifth me!
In 5 years I hope to be in a job that I can say I truly enjoy and I would also love to be living back down in Maryland where all of my family and my husband’s family lives :)
Megan G. says
Fifth Me! In five years, I see myself living intentionally with my husband and pup (and hopefully a kid or two) to have the best life at that moment. Everything else is just a bonus!
laura says
FIFTH ME! I think my life will be very different in 5 years – I will be starting a new job in a new city soon, so that’s just a start to many changes I see coming my way!