***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.
Allison says
World Me! I think Chicago. I was born in the midwest and just feel so at home when I visit. It’s the best city to me.
Lindsay says
WORLD ME!
I have moved around/traveled a lot in my life, so I have many places of great interest to me. The place most dear to my heart would have to be my birth place: Houston, TX.
Jen says
WORLD ME! I studied abroad in Granada, Spain, and love it there.
Carole says
World me- Love the Florida beaches-many special family vacation memories.
Rackers says
WORLD ME! Bristol, UK: home of the tremendous Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Ashley R says
World Me! Wisconsin girl here-you just have to love the extreme seasons we get. -10 today, 95 in the summer:)
Sarah says
World Me! Gotta love Paris!
Deb says
WORLD ME!
We live right next door the Mt. Vernon. It’s pretty cool having George and Martha as neighbors!
Ashleigh says
WORLD ME!!
It will be a hard decision. But one of my favorite cities, maybe we will draw it out of a hat? Paris, London, San Fran…
Jenny says
world me!
definitely green bay, wisconsin – go pack go!
Lauren says
WORLD ME! DC holds a special place in my heart.
Mary Lou says
WORLD ME! My husband and I bought some land in beautiful West Virginia with the plan to one day build our dream cabin in the woods. I would love to have a wall map of this area.
Amber says
World me!
I love Hawaii. We honeymooned on Kauai and would love a map of the islands.
Melissa says
World me! I’m from Colorado, which holds a special place in my heart and now I’m in Wisconsin and I love it!
Molly says
WORLD ME!
Love my hometown of Chattanooga, TN. Think it would be a great stop in the book tour :)
Grace says
WORLD ME!
I will always hold a special place in my heart for the crazy twisty-turny layout of my hometown, but I am also incredibly drawn the the huge, population dense cities like Seoul and Paris.
Kate says
WORLD ME!
Kim says
WORLD ME! The most special place to me is Maryland. I’ve lived all over the world and traveled widely, yet I keep coming back to Maryland. :)
Cinda says
World Me!
England- semester abroad while in school!
Sara R. says
World me!! My husband and I just returned from a year trip around the world inspired by a framed map on our wall. We would love to have a room with an entire wall covered with a map!
Kelly Rychetsly says
World me! College Station, TX. It’s where I went to school, where I met my husband, where I had my 3 kids, and where we live now.
Lauren says
World me! Baltimore, through and through.
Carolina says
WORLD ME!!!
I’D LOVE TO HAVE A MAP OF THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY IN MY OFFICE! I DON’T LIVE THERE ANYMORE BUT NYC WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART!
Lindsey says
World Me! I would love one of the Alabama Gulf Coast. We live right on Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico! It’s beautiful….. Of Course one of Paris would be amazing as well.
Robyn R. says
WORLD ME! I grew up in England and London has a special place in my heart – we even named our son after the city!
Charmaine says
World Me! My home town, Pensacola, FL has the most beautiful beaches in the world.
Erika says
WORLD ME!
My husband and I currently live in NJ kind of close to Sherry’s old stumping grounds, actually. We’re big vagabonds. Between the 2 of us we lived in 5 countries and 12 cities. We met in Barcelona.
Katy says
WORLD ME! I grew up in a town with a population of 83, so it’s special. (Actually, they just took our post office/zipcode, so it’s technically now a “village.”)
sarah says
WORLD ME!! Paris or Rome.
2 of my favorite cities in the World. Wish I was in either one of them right now!
Lisa says
World me! I grew up in Taiwan and have so many happy memories of my childhood.
Tonya says
WORLD ME! We adopted our son for Tomsk, Russia.
Kelley P says
WORLD ME!
Galway Ireland all the way. My grandparents are from there, I spent a year there in College and in my opinion is one of the happiest places on earth!
Sara says
WORLD ME!
There are so many possibilities, but I’m currently loving the city I’m in now–Madison, WI.
Robyn says
WORLD ME!!
I had an opportunity to spend a season in Antarctica – it will always have a special place in my heart…
Amy says
World Me! One of my favorite places is Washington, DC!
Amanda S. says
WORLD ME!!
Virginia holds a special place in my heart because it’s where I grew up, met my husband, and went to college. I’m dying to move back one day (currently in PA) and raise kids there!
Alicia says
World me! Charleston, SC!
megan says
WORLD ME! bali, indonesia was where i first learned to pour orange juice from a pitcher, had breakfast with an orangutan, and found my favorite sea shell as a kid, so that place will always be special to me.
Germaine says
WORLD ME! I love my hometown of Atlantic Highlands, NJ which is still recovering from Superstorm Sandy. Jersey Strong!
Angela says
WORLD ME! I will have a fondness for NYC forever. It’s where I met my wife. I will always love it even though we now live in the midwest to raise our daughters near family.
Amanda Storey says
WORLD ME!
Bruges, Belgium. My husband and I spent some time there on our first European holiday together and it was such a special treat being able to introduce it to him.
Austin says
“WORLD ME!”
Scotland, the home of my ancestors, and a place I was able to vacation in for a mere three days as a late teen. So want to go back.
Meg says
WORLD ME!
i’ve only been to NYC 3 times but I love it and can’t wait to go back.
Ashley T says
WORLD ME! One of my favorite places is Vancouver. If I can’t go again I can dreamily look at a big map of it, right??
Mae says
WORLD ME!! I live in Philadelphia right now which I love but still have a special place in my heart for my college town of Blacksburg, VA.
Bekka says
World Me! We live in Philly and love it, so I think that would be my pick!
Lin says
WORLD ME! We’ll always have Paris.
Vidya says
WORLD ME!
Too hard to decide which place I would choose…
Marisa says
World me! I love maps of London – we lived there for two years (pre-kiddo) and the streets are so tight and winding, it’s fun to find where we lived, worked, our favorite pub, parks, etc. We actually finally hung up a framed map of Central London from 1927 in our first/new home this weekend – it was a piece of wrapping paper we found on Amazon, along with a map/wrapping paper of the London Tube system from the 1950s. The shipping was more than the maps themselves, I think $28 total!
Marissa says
WORLD ME!
I met my husband while detailed to the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, so it will always hold a special place in my heart!