***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.
SANDRA R. says
WORLD ME!! I love Chicago!! I’ve only been there once and I fell in love!
susan says
WORLD ME – I love all the islands around the Seattle area and would never leave!
Kate H says
WORLD ME!!!! What I would give to win this one. Well, apparently, I’d have to give $400. Either way, we live in Paris, so that’s where I’d get my map!!!! <3 <3 <3
Casey says
WORLD ME! Boston, MA – Not only do I currently live here, but if I had a huge ol’ map, maybe I could FINALLY venture out without getting lost! :)
Maria says
WORLD ME!
Edinburgh, Scotland holds a place dear and near to my heart. It feels like home when I’m there.
Tara S. says
WORLD ME! I have been looking for a map of the birth place of my children….Kaluga, Russia. My boys were both adopted from Kaluga and their “city” holds a special place in my heart! I would love to have a map to display upon their bedroom wall!
Lynsey says
WORLD ME!
Normandy France – I lived there for a bit and I love the history.
Lauren says
WORLD ME!
I would most likely choose Jacksonville, Florida since that is where my husband and I met. We both grew up there without knowing each other and our families still live there. And since we got married there, but live in Atlanta now, I think it’d be so neat to have a map to display in our home!
Joy says
WORLD ME! I’m from Connecticut, as is my husband, and we live in New York now. We got married in Vermont, so all in all, the Northeast area is very special to us.
Kathryn Reinhardt says
WORLD ME!
I am a huge travel buff. I have been to 5 continents and I am looking forward to #6. I love to stare at maps for hours on end and this would be great addition to my baby due this summer. Thank you!
Ashley K says
WORLD ME! South Carolina! I grew up going there every year as a child. Ended up attending college there and loved it. While I didn’t settle down in SC, I still love going. It’s my peaceful place where I go for my moment of zen.
Melissa says
WORLD ME!
Stacy, MN. I grew up in this small town of cold Minnesota. It’s also where I fell in love and got married to my husband!
PK says
WORLD ME! Florence, Italy!
Megan says
WORLD ME!
We are from Chicago and have lived here our whole lives. We love it here!
Jill NN says
World Me!!
I’d love a map of Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Donnamarie carson says
WORLD ME! My favorite place is Long Beach Island Nj……right here in the state I live……when your on the Island all your problems seem so small, the beach is like a religion for me…it is all that is good……our entire family meets there each summer! No doubt that God exists when you look at the ocean :). Donnamarie
Teresa says
WORLD ME!
I’d love a map of Orlando Florida! My husband and I got married at Disney last year and we’ve been back several times since! Plus, this would make a really great first anniversary present for him.
Megan Kaal says
WORLD ME!
The US South region is the most special to me. I’m proud of my Southern heritage.
Although I have no desire to ever again live in the town I grew up in (too small!), I do and always will have a fondness for it. I love visiting.
We honeymooned a unique location that I loved.
Lisa says
WORLD ME! I love Italy!
Amy M says
World Me! NYC – born, raised, met my husband and now currently still live here.
Laura M says
WORLD ME! I live in MA now, but I’m a born and raised NY’er and it will always have a big place in my heart!
Tina says
WORLD ME I would probably do my home state of Minnesota
Claire says
World Me! I’d love a custom map of Cincinnati, Ohio, my hometown!
Anneliese says
WORLD ME! My husband and family would disown me if I didn’t say Norman, OK (I’m Sooner Born and Sooner Bred, and when I Die I’ll Be Sooner Dead).
Licia says
WORLD ME! I am a dreamer of traveling the world and with a baby on the way I hope to teach him of all the places we will show him!
Rachel says
WORLD ME! I went on a medical mission trip to the Amazon Basin in Ecuador, and it changed the way I think about my home, the world, myself, and helping others.
Jillian says
WORLD ME! The west coast will always have a piece of my heart – I’ve done most of my adult, solo traveling out there.
jos says
WORLD ME!
i live by the gertrude stein quote: “america is my country, but paris is my hometown.” i love, love, love paris.
Tori says
World Me! I’d love to have maps of all the cities I’ve lived in – hometown, college, abroad, and post-college! They all have really special places in my heart.
Lisa says
WORLD ME! I love all maps, but I keep Google Earth-ing the small town in France where I spent a month after high school as an exchange student. The experience was so disorienting and surreal that I keep looking at the map remembering the places we walked and the house where I lived and reminding myself that it was real.
Stefanie says
WORLD ME!
That’s such a cool giveaway! I would love to get a map of either Chicago or Seattle… my two mostest favoritest cities ever!
Dawn says
WORLD ME!
Edinburgh — I did a semester abroad and even with the dreary weather and it getting dark at about 3:30 in the afternoon it was still my favorite place I’ve ever lived. Sausage rolls! And it’s normal there to drink a million cups of tea a day (here in my office in NC I think I’m the crazy tea drinking lady).
risa says
world me!
i have to pick one place???
Britt F. says
World me!! Charleston, SC is where my heart lives, even though I just moved 1,000 miles away for the beaut!
Roxanne says
World Me! Sydney, Australia will always remain dear to me. The very beginnings of learning how to stand on my own two feet happened there.
Becca Smith says
World me. :)
Probably Nashville, TN the city I grew up in. But, I also love my current city of Raleigh, NC. They both hold special places in my heart!
Melissa G says
World me! I love Japan – all of it. I’ve been to the northern, central and southern parts and it is all AMAZING!
Danielle says
WORLD ME!
I love Michigan and am a huge fan of Detroit, but if I got the chance, I’d move to Paris in a heartbeat. I’ve only been there a couple times, but I absolutely love it (in spite of my poor French)!
Mary says
World Me!
I would love a map of St. Louis- this is where my husband and I grew up and where we currently live and work.
Elizabeth says
World me!
My husband is military so I’d have to go with the world on this one! In our short 3 years of marriage + 4 years of dating before that we’ve shared 4 zip codes and we have NO idea where we’ll be going next!
Liz says
WORLD ME!
I spent a summer in Italy and will always love the town where I lived and other cities that we travelled to (Cinque Terre is one of my favorites).
Emily says
WORLD ME! While I love traveling and am partial to Western Europe and South America, I would pick my tiny hometown of Rich Fountain, MO as holding the most special place in my heart.
Molly says
World ME!
I love my hometown, although not enough to ever move back!! :)
Audrey says
WORLD ME!
Woohoo, an International giveaway! And what a cool prize, by far the best wallpaper I’ve ever seen, I love it, would be amazing in a kids bedroom, a den or an office!!! I’m living in Dublin, Ireland but am a Galway girl always.
Misty @ 2brokebruces says
WORLD ME! Probably my tiny hometown of High Falls, NC. It’s only a blip on the radar, but it will always hold a special place in my heart!
Jennifer says
WORLD ME!!
Pennsylvania. It’s where I grew up, where my husband grew up, where we met and where we got married. We don’t live there now and you know what they say – distance makes the heart grow fonder. :)
Anne says
WORLD ME! I love my hometown of Washington, DC!
MONICA says
WORLD ME! Washington State, beautiful northwest.
Alyssa says
WORLD ME! So many places are important to me, but like most people on here, I’d have to pick my home as #1 – Boston!
Cheryl says
WORLD ME!!! Charleston, SC. My husband and I have so many fun memories there, and it’s where we found out we were pregnant with our son.