***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.
Cheryl B. says
WORLD ME! Hawaii, specically the town of Volcano, where I spent my honeymoon and babymoon
Taylor says
WORLD ME! The little town of Valdosta, Georgia is most special to me. It’s where I met the love of my life, where I spent 4 years of my life, and where I received my Bachelor’s degree!
mara says
WORLD ME!
I grew up and live in Vienna, Austria so that’s dear to my heart :)
Corrie M says
WORLD ME!
I grew up in Higgins Lake, MI. One of the most beautiful lakes in the world! It’ll always be “home”.
Hannah Y says
WORLD ME!
I grew up in Toronto and lived on one street my whole life, I live in Ottawa now but my family still lives in “the t.o” and I’m probably too attached to the city!
Anna says
WORLD ME!
Edinburgh. Lived it, loved it.
Jennifer Holland says
WORLD ME! Born and raised in our nation’s capital, Washington DC is the most fantabulous city!
Jill says
WORLD ME!!
Even though I grew up in a small town in the States, one place that means the world to me is Oxford, in the UK. The hubs and I spent the first two years of our marriage there!
Kara says
WORLD ME! I would choose either Charlottesville, VA or Richmond VA. Both have special memories for my husband and me! Or maybe we’d want the whole world to capture all the places we’ve been and where we still want to go!
Thalie F says
WORLD ME! My hometown Montreal is for me like no place with a unique fusion of American and French Cultures.
Shiloah says
World Me!
Ainsley says
WORLD ME!
Sydney Australia – first home away from home
Jordan says
World Me! Born and raised in Arkansas. Love this Natural State , but also have a special place in my heart for Nashville, TN.
SMM says
WORLD ME!!
I’m from WI, LOVED living in Chicago for five years, and LOVE LOVE LOVE the Caribbean and Fiji.
Tanja Raith says
WORLD ME! Hawaii and New York, so very different but so special!
Diane says
WORLD ME!!
I’d love to have a world map on my wall! I made myself learn all the countries of the world in the last few years and I’d love the daily reinforcement!
Heather says
WORLD ME! Louisville, KY baby!
Katie says
World Me! I think I will have always have a fondness for the tow nwe lived in for 10 years and just recently left, but it’s where all the memories we have of our kids being little are. I love the map *trend* and would love to have some on my walls. Ihave 2 geographers in my house; one is my husband who does planning, and one is my 8 yo son who loves looking at maps and atlases and spouting out random facts.
Maria Carolina Costa says
World Meeeeeeeee!
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but the apple of my eyes (pun intended!) is NYC! We lived there for 4 years, and that’s where my son was born!
Fatime says
WORLD ME! A map of the world to my hubby… :-)
Meredith B says
WORLD ME! While I really love Virginia as well as the rest of our great country, there will always be a special place in my heart for South Africa. I traveled there solo in college and volunteered on a baboon sanctuary in Phalaborwa SA and it was awesome. I saw a show on Animal Planet and decided I wanted to do it! Crazy, I know. It was such a different way of life and culture there. I would love to go back!
Karalee Tuck says
WORLD ME! It’s a tie between my hometown of Elverson, PA and where I went to college and met my husband in Indiana, PA.
Diane says
WORLD ME!! Possibly the Syracuse, NY area and all the finger lake region.
Taylor A. says
WORLD ME! I love my home state (Georgia), but I would LOVE to live in Charleston. I spent many summers here growing up (and even now I try to get there once a year) and I just love its history, beauty, and southern charm!
Laura D. says
World me! I love Detroit!
Katie says
World me!
Austin, TX, will always hold my heart.
Annie says
WORLD ME! Please and thank you!
Rachel Ochoa says
WORLD ME! I love Florence Italy, that would be my choice!
Melissa @ Renovations & Relationships says
WORLD ME!
I’m pretty into my new home in Charlottesville, VA! :)
Ashley says
WORLD ME! I would love a map of southwestern Virginia. Go Hokies! (Sorry, John.)
Jenni says
World me!
Has to be London. Where we live and where we fell in love. It would be such a great reminder of all the wonderful times we have had here as we are moving this year.
Christie says
WORLD ME! Red Lake Falls where me and my husband met!
Jill says
WORLD ME!!
I grew up in a tiny town in NC, as did my husband – so having maps of them both would be pretty cool!
Amelia Woodford says
WORLD ME!
Good ol’ Washington, D.C.
that’s where my husband and i met, where we married, where we had our daughter, and where we live.
Susan C says
WORLD ME!
And Chicago is the greatest city in the world. Hands down.
Olivia says
WORLD ME!
There’s a special place in my heart that will always be occupied by Columbus, Ohio. While, not my hometown, it was the nearest big city when growing up. More importantly, it is where I currently live and where my fiance and myself have watched our relationship blossom from a casual friendship into a very intentional partnership that neither of us want to live without :)
Laura says
WORLD ME! I have been wanting a huge map on the wall for a while now! I have lived in the St. Louis, MO area my whole life and so has my husband so I would love a map to hang on the wall.
Liz says
WORLD ME! Fayetteville Arkansas will always be special to me. I went to college, met my husband, and started my family there.
Jen T. says
World me!! Definitely Austin TX, my fave city!
valerie says
WORLD ME!
Baltimore (home of my first flat) will always have a special place in my heart.
Katie M says
WORLD ME! No matter how many years I’ve lived away, Minnesota will always be home!
Bethany says
WORLD ME! My husband and I are from a small town in Maine, we currently live in another city but love the entire state so much that we’d probably want a map of the whole state if possible
Katherine S says
World Me!
The place most special to me is probably the summer camp where I spent my formative summers. I will always remember that place with fondness, young love, and a little embarrassment. haha
Katherine
Claire says
WORLD ME!
I’d have to choose Cardiff, UK for several reasons – firstly it’s where I was living when I first met my husband and where I did my postgraduate, but also because I worked for several years in the Planning Department. I’ve stared at maps of the city so many times, and yet I still love trying to pronounce the Welsh names of streets and admire all the green space that weaves through the city. What is it about the allure of maps!?!
Kate says
WORLD ME!
Would have to choose Clemson, SC – where I met my hubs and where we got engaged!
Jen says
WORLD ME!! We are a military family and I would love a world map to mark all of the places we have lived!
susan says
WORLD ME I have loved maps for years and long to put that big world map on the wall of my family room.
Kelly says
WORLD ME!
I love Hanalei, HI, on the island of Hawaii. Going to retire there someday.
Nikki says
“WORLD ME!” Santa Barbara, California is the most special place in the world to me (and then Disneyland).
Thirkellgirl says
Oh my goodness WORLD ME! My daughter lives in northern Wisconsin, far from home, in an area with lots of beautiful little lakes. My husband is a cartographer (which these days is mostly being a computer geek) and I would LOVE to have a map of where my baby lives as wallpaper in her (now empty) bedroom!