***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!***
And the lucky / randomly selected / soon to be quite worldly person is… Briana (who says “London, Ontario is special to me. That’s where I first lived on my own, went to University, met my husband, and I just loved that city. Plus, it has the best spaghetti restaurant ever, Spageddy Eddy’s!”). Congrats! And for everyone else, scroll down to the contest entry details for a sweet little discount the Wallpapered folks added for everyone.
One look at Pinterest and I don’t feel quite so alone in my fascination with maps. So to everyone else out there who digs a little cartography in their design, hold on to your seats. This week the people behind Wallpapered are giving one of you a nice big 8ft x 5ft world map wallpaper kit so that you can add a map-tastic mural to your home. As much as I love the various world map styles they offer, the coolest feature (at least to me) is that you can also get custom area map wallpaper that basically zooms into a postal code of your choosing. So you could order custom wallpaper showcasing your favorite big city – or even the small town that you grew up in.
- PRIZE: Any world map or custom area map wallpaper up to 8ft x 5ft from Wallpapered (a $400+ value!)
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “WORLD ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: …what town / city / state / country / other geographic area is most special to you? Will you always have a fondness for the town you grew up in? Are you most enamored with the place where you honeymooned? Or are you just bursting with pride over the area where you currently live?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, January 23rd at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: Wahoo, this giveaway is available worldwide!
- DISCOUNT: Get 10% off your custom map order with code YHL2013
- 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…
- ***COMMENT ISSUES? If you’re trying to enter but keep getting a “duplicate comment” warning, click here to see how to solve it!
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 Wallpapered.
Clare says
World Me!
I would totally zoom in our little suburb. Our street names all have a ‘space’ theme – galaxy way, solar way, star street, planet street, apollo street etc
I love that little quirk in our suburb :)
Sara says
World Me! Anchorage, Alaska will always hold a special place in my heart. My daughter was born here.
Carly says
World me!
All I want to do is see the Eiffel Tower!! So Paris is always on my mind :)
Krystal C. says
World me! I will always love my home state! 603 REPRESENT (NH)!
Sheila O says
World Me!
Rockaway Beach NYC!
Abby Jones says
World me! I’m a Texas girl, but Utah’s mountains definitely have a claim on me too :)
Emma says
WORLD ME!
Wow what a lot of entries! The place that is most special to me is in Brazil – a ranch in the Pantanal. Sure, there are mosquitoes and caiman and all kinds of insects you could never imagine, but it’s just the most amazing place, like a city filled with nothing but wildlife. It is both the most tranquil place ever, and the busiest!
Sarah says
WORLD ME!
The tiny coastal town in Western Australia that I grew up in will always be so very special to me! But soon as I’m done with Uni I will hopefully be traveling and finding special places all over the world!
Silke Vynckier says
WORLD ME !
I am so stoked at the international giveaway that I would want a map of the whole world for my living room wall (in the middle of a big ass renovation of the house I bought with my fiancee) and we are almost up to the decoration part. So this is wonderful. Thank you for a chance to win !
Lovely greetings from Belgium,
Silke
Ibi says
WORLD ME! Anywhere where there is snow – really miss it!
Tracey H says
WORLD ME! I’m a Cape Town (South Africa) girl, born and bred, and it’ll always hold a special place in my heart. Second choice would have to be beautiful Budapest though – the best holiday destination I’ve been to so far :)
Shifra says
World me!
And my favorite place would be the place I am in right now on vacation :) :) :) Israel!
MN says
World Me! Sundsvall, Sweden where I grew up.
Jennifer says
World Me!
London, or Paris or …… the possibilities…… priceless
Harlie says
WORLD ME!
We have a thing for NYC & Boston (engaged in Central Park and honeymooned while eating tons of local lobster). San Francisco is where we currently live and we love it, too. Our little man was born here, so that makes it extra special. We’d have a tough time choosing just one!
Talia says
WORLD ME!
My french in laws have a little house on an island off the coast of Brittany, France. It’s the coolest place ever where you feel like you’re in another world–people even still know how to do Celtic folk dancing there, random huh?
Kelly says
WORLD ME!
I’d love a map of Vancouver Island, Canada where I met, fell in love with and married my husband <3 We live in NZ now so a giant map of our Canadian Home would mean the world to both of us!
Kismet says
World me!
I would focus on Oaxaca, Mexico where my daughter is a Missionary midwife with her family.
Sophia says
WORLD ME!
London, always London.
“Tired of London, tired of life.” :)
Stephanie says
WORLD ME!
My husband and I both have a fondness for the towns we grew up in – our childhood homes were a mere 5 miles from one another, and yet it took us 30 years to meet.
Amanda says
WORLD ME!
I would love a wall map since I love travel and would enjoy something so unique in our home, totally my style.
There are a few places very special to me. In short: Prague, Dublin, and Washington State. I have no fondness for the town I grew up in, Houston, it’s an unattractive sea of concrete.
We still have not honeymooned, but I am enamored with the above places as well as mountains, mountains mountains! I’m certainly NOT bursting with pride about where I currently live, Arkansas, and can’t wait to get out of here and back to WA!
I just found your site last week and spent hours and hours on it on my first discovery of it, ya’ll rock! This will be so helpful :-)
CrayolaJW says
WORLD ME!
Kent, UK because it is the garden of England
Deborah says
WORLD ME!
A map of the Annapolis MD area where I live would be great!
Amy P says
WORLD ME!
Atlanta GA holds a special place in my heart!
Nardia Sheriff says
WORLD ME!!! We did a huge world trip for our honeymoon and one of our favourite places was Tennessee.
As an Aussie, we think our own country is pretty spectacular, but the lushness of the Tenneesee mountains took our breath away… we visited Memphis, Nashville and Lynchburg and we’d go back to Tennessee in a heartbeat :)
Morgan says
WORLD ME! The place I hold most special to me would be the small town where I grew up. It is my main tie to memories of my father, who grew up there as well, and passed away when I was 18.
Rebekah says
World Me! Orange County, CA!
Kim says
WORLD ME! I am fairly obsessed with maps as well, and have pinned all sorts of ideas on ways to use them. Two years ago we helped my MIL clear out her he and move into a retirement village. We found boxes of maps (they saved EVERYTHING) and although it wasn’t possible to take them all, we did ack up about 10-15 lbs worth and bring back to Argentina with us :) We really like the idea of papering a wall one day with some of them. Would dearly love to win this giveaway!!!!!!!!!
We’ve lived in 4 U.S. states and on 3 continents so it would be hard to pick one special place, although our year in Uganda caused us to fall in love with the place and the people.
Mina says
WORLD ME!
That’s a though one. I grew up in Aarhus, Denmark but I am currently living in Barcelona and before here I was living in Paris.
But I am going to go with Barcelona. That is my home now, right? :)
Beth says
WORLD ME! The small city I was born in, and now live in again is the place I love most. I also have a special place in my heart the small town my Grandma still lives in, as I grew up visiting my Grandparents there every summer (and many holidays).
Violeta Stevanova says
World me!
Lelistef says
WORLD ME! Reunion Island (a part of France in Indian ocean) is my favorite spot.
Thanks for the chance to win
Tracey says
World Me!
Oh my giddy gosh, this is THE dream giveaway for me! We would love to put an awesome map of our homeland of Oz (Australia) on our (currently in utero) sons room!
Callie Dunn says
WORLD ME! I spent my school holidays in Mozambique – beautiful scenery and amazing people!
Saskia says
WORLD ME!!! since i moved abroad 11 years ago, any maps or photos of my hometown gives me fond memories!
Saskia says
just see that my previous entery got accepted (as i got duplicate error) so im afraid i now entered twice :(
Danielle says
WORLD ME!
I would love a map of Paris, France because I went there on a family holiday when I was 10 years old and have been waiting to return.
Erika Brennan says
World Me….I would love a map of Charleston, SC which is where my husband was born and the place of so many memories while we were dating!
Aoife says
WORLD ME! Dublin, Ireland. Best place in the world
Rachel says
WORLD ME! Boston, I am relocating from RVA to there next month!
Slava P says
“WORLD ME!”
Oahu, I love that island!
Corien says
WORLD ME! I love Boma, a small village in the jungle of Papua. You could only come there by Cessna (or walking), and we lived there with our four boys (a toddler and triplet babies…) in a house without electricity.
Emily parry-harries says
World me… We have just moved to a new area and the house needs colour. A map centred on our postcode would be fantastic – interior decor and a way to get to know the area better.
Annelies says
WORLD ME !
Avignon, France is lovely… and I get to live there :)
Abigail says
World me! Definitely Berlin, Germany, where I met my boyfriend!
María says
WORLD ME!
My favorite places are the Faroe Islands where I was born and Reykjavík, Iceland where I live now.
Lucy S says
“WORLD ME!” and tell us…
BONUS QUESTION: The most special place to me is Nebraska–where I was born and raised. BUT, I also have to say this give-away really excites me because I’d love to have a visual display of all the places we have been!
Caroline says
World me! Asheville, NC will always be home in my heart – we don’t live there anymore, but I still miss the mountains!
Carro says
Brighton in the UK! Lived there for a while, such a great place!
Carro says
Opps forgot to WORLD ME – Brighton UK, lived there and loved it!
aminah khairazan says
WORLD ME! the whole wide world!
Lindsay says
WORLD ME!
I am from Ohio, moved to Colorado, California, and now… SEOUL, S. Korea, which is my most FAVORITE place! It is such a gorgeous city with amazing historical culture, a proud people, and it has opened it’s arms to this not-so-Asian Caucasian blonde. The world is a stunning place;)