***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.
Shanna says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully still freelancing and maybe another baby…maybe..
Vanessa says
Fifth Me! As long as my loved ones are by my side in five years I am happy. Oh – and hopefully YHL will still be around too!
Jenni says
FIFTH ME! I see myself advancing in my career, probably still tweaking our house (with YHL ideas, of course), and hopefully more well-traveled than I am now!
Tracy says
fifth me! i’d like to be right here!
The Girl @ POS says
FIFTH ME! In five years I expect to be happily married to my now-BF, one (maybe two!) midgets that look like us running around, and working on our third house flip (we are halfway done with our first one now!). But we will see where the winds of life take us!! ;-)
Courtney says
Fifth me!! Looking so very forward to sharing life with a five year old in five years.
Allison says
FIFTH ME! I hope to have a 2nd child and just loving life with my family!!
rachel says
FIFTH ME!!!!
In five years i hope to be married with some babies!:)
domestiCate says
Fifth me! I’m hoping to have another little Bean running around, and to be finishing up an Interior Design degree. Who knows where we’ll be!
Courtney W. says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully, the hubs and I will be in our first home!
Amy says
FIFTH ME! Hopefully, in five years, I’ll be done with school(finally!) and working as a physician’s assistant. That’s the plan…for now, at least.
Angie says
Fifth Me! Wow, in 5 years I will have a 7 year old and 4 year old. Crazy. I see us in a different house, involved in school, and loving our crazy life! Congrats!
Nicole says
Fifth me!
5 years from now, hopefully our family of three will be a family of 4, and we’ll all be living by the beach in California. Hopefully I will have made a career switch and be teaching by then as well!
Sarah says
Fifth Me!
I see myself married to the wonderful man in my life, and God willing, adjusting to life with a little one!
Holly C says
Fifth Me!
In 5 years I hope to be starting our family! Or possibly living in a different state! Maybe both! Who knows! I sure don’t but hopefully whereever I am I will be happy and continue to be as blessed as I am now!
Jackie C says
FIFTH ME!
My babies will be 7 and 5 years old, and maybe we will have a third? I see us in the same house, with many home improvement projects tackled and completed! With some amazing established landscaping! (it’s a blank slate out there right now) :)
Ashley says
FIFTH ME
I see myself having moved back up north after too long living in the south and hopefully married with a lil kiddo running around!
kristin says
Fifth me!! In five years I will be still married, have a five year old (yikes!) and probably a second little… running my own photography business :) big dreams!
Danielle says
FIFTH ME!
In five years I can see myself in a new city, and I would love to start my own business. Only time will tell!
Jen B. says
FIFTH ME! Eek! That’s a really hard question. Hopefully moving closer to family and maybe growing our OWN family!
Cate says
FIFTH ME! Gosh, I have no idea. Maybe a work at home mom with two little kiddos? And renovating a small cottage?
Kristin says
FIFTH ME! Likely same job, same place – but in 5 years I’m sure I will have redecorated my place entirely 5 different times!
Candice says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully moved into a new home with a yard and a little one running around!
Claire says
FIFTH ME! I hope we have a couple of kiddos running around, and that we’re in a bigger house!
Steven A says
FIFTH ME! I see myself married, and hopefully I’ll have my undergraduate completed that I’m working on PT while working FT.
Carol Lynn says
FIFTH ME!
Right now my son is almost 9 months old and we’re waiting to close on our dream house (an outdated split ranch with good bones on great property). My wedding fantasy has always been to have a ceremony at home when my child is old enough to remember being there. I’ve settled on age 5 so in 5 years I hope to be planning my backyard wedding. You’ve provided some inspiration already!
Happy Blogiversary!
Tiffany M says
Fifth me!
Right now we are expecting our first baby in December…a girl. Maybe by 5 years we will be a family of 4? :)
Whitney says
FIFTH ME! In five years, we’ll be a family of five and hopefully be farther along with the renovations on our house!!
Yunia says
I would love to win… FIFTH ME please. As as far as were will i be in five i dont know. i dont know what i’ll do this weekend…in five years somehing fun i hope. anyways hope i win… xoxo :)
Maggie says
FIFTH ME! I’ll maybe have some grandchildren? Perhaps? hehe
Kelly says
FIFTH ME!
5 years…Hopefully with a boy and a girl and a bathroom sink that doesn’t have rust in it.
Anastasia says
Fifth me! I hope to have a house, a couple of kids, a carrier in Dental Hygiene… That kinda stuff. But it’s all up to God’s will really.
Mallory says
FIFTH ME!
In five years, we will be done with dental school and probably have at least one child! Oh I can’t wait!
Kristin says
Fifth Me!
We have #2 on the way, so I hope we’ll be decorating our first home and maybe have little one #3 running around as well!
Katie says
FIFTH ME! I see myself in my little bungalow in Rome, Georgia with my sweet hubby, poodle Trover, and just maybe a little one running around…
GardenFresh says
FIFTH ME!
Gosh, I honestly hope almost everything in my life will be different in 5 years – new city, new house, hopefully married, maybe kids. I’m just finishing a graduate degree and in a really transitional phase, right now I’m both excited and nervous about the possibilities the next few years holds, and a little scared that what I want most won’t happen. But all I can do is my best, which is what I’ll continue to do.
GardenFresh says
Also, I forgot to mention – huge congrats on 5 years! What an amazing journey in a relatively short time. I really look forward to reading your posts every day, and I’m so excited to see where you guys are in 5 years too!
Anna says
FIFTH ME! In five years I hope my husband and I are living in my hometown.
Julie says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years I hope to be almost an empty nest who watches her baby boy’s football games, ushers kid 3 to college, perhaps be helping kid 2 with her first apartment and dare I say it, be watching kid number 1 getting married. We’ll definitely be needing a makeover by then!
jenny says
FIFTH ME! We’ve got a baby on the way, maybe we’ll have 2 by then,and the house we just moved into will actually be comfortable and pretty :)
Emily G says
FIFTH ME. I hope to be in a beautifully decorated home in Richmond where we get to celebrate many special occasions with loved ones.
Danielle S says
FIFTH ME!
In five years, I’d like to be married, with a kid on the way (I’m like Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny: “My biological clock is ticking like this…”), and with a slightly larger house to decorate.
Gabi Barrick says
FIFTH ME!
My oldest started Kinder this Fall. In 5 years, my youngest will pass that milestone and I’ll have a 5th grader, a 2nd grader and a Kindergartner. I plan to be spending as much time as possible doing my favorite thing in my favorite place: loving on my munchkins and hubby in our wonderful home!
Sonia says
FIFTH ME!
I wish I had any clue . . .
Sarah C says
FIFTH ME… hoping to have one more baby by then!
Heather says
FIFTH ME! Maybe in five years we’ll be in a new house.
Kris says
FIFTH ME!
Hopefully in 5 years we’ll have another addition to our family as well as be in a new (to us) home!
Kitty Schaub says
Fifth me!
In five years all my kids will be in school… I can’t even imagine what I’ll be doing!
Sara Smith says
FIFTH ME! In 5 years I will have a high schooler…. Yikes!
Jenn W. says
FIFTH ME!!! In five year’s I hope to have started a family and finished with some projects we have planned for our house we bought this spring :)
Michelle says
FIFTH ME! I hope to have a 2nd (and 3rd???) kiddo… also, while we will have DIYed our current house to “livable,” I’d love to be able to tackle some bigger projects, like knocking down a few walls!