Once upon a time (about a year ago), in Blogland, there was a challenge issued to design a little house. Lots of people were very excited about this challenge and went all out to create their own little dream space. That annual dollhouse challenge is back this year. Only with a new name, new host, on a new website and this time there are prizes!
Most of us have ideas and plans (and Pinterest boards) for the extravagant dream house we may or may not ever have. That’s what is so fun about building your dream space from scratch. Dreaming of a Smeg fridge? You can have one in your dollhouse, for only a few dollars if you are up for the simple DIY. An ultra modern house maybe?
But this dollhouse contest is not limited to actual houses, either. You can make a little studio, bakery, clothing store (I’m tempted to try that!)…whatever you dream about doing. How about a Japanese teahouse?
You don’t have to purchase an actual house or building either. Here’s a contemporary loft made out of a $13 plastic box from IKEA. Or you could make one out of a shoebox or foam core.
READY TO JOIN?
Here’s what will happen:
- Begin building your dream place in miniature. Link up to the contest anytime between now and May 4, 2013.
- On Sunday, May 5th, you and anyone else who has access to a computer will be able to vote on their favorite mini creations. Each voter gets up to cast up to three votes (only one vote per dollhouse).
- One week later, on May 12th, you will have determined three winners. The first place winner will receive a $100 gift card, the second a $50 gift card and the third a $25 gift card. Read more about the prizes here.
So spread the word, especially if you are participating!
, and get your friends to join in and vote.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
You do not need to have a blog to participate, click here for more details. Wondering if your idea qualifies? Read more here.
Entrants are welcome to display the Undersized Urbanite dollhouse challenge button (available here). While you are not required to display the button, a link back to Little Victorian would be greatly appreciated.Go check out Modern Mini Houses page of all the awesome creations from last year. There is a list of resources (shopping and tutorials) listed on this page. And here, you can see my most current blog posts relating to the contest.
I will be posting highlights of everyone’s progress regularly as blog posts. I will also be pinning some of your best photos to the contests Pinterest board. This board will be collaborative, so if you would like to join in and pin any tutorials or resources you find helpful, send me an email at christina(at)littlevictorian(dot)com.
The official rules are important, please view them here.
Christina
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Very, very cool!! I'll post about it this weekend! Real deadlines. Nice!
ReplyDeleteThank you! You were a big inspiration for me with all the work you put in last year.
DeleteCommented on the other page, but to let you know: I pinned it, and I'll plug it in my next post! I'm psyched to have someone competent behind the wheel this year :)
ReplyDeleteYay! Count me in!
ReplyDeleteWell, I was planning to start a new house in January once the Haunted Heritage is finished...maybe I will join in the fun! :D
ReplyDeleteI hope so, that would be awesome!
DeleteHow fun! I have never participated in a contest before! Just so I understand - I just started re-doing my half scale Chantilly - can I use that as my project?
ReplyDeletehttp://audrasminiatures.blogspot.com/2012/11/chantilly-lace-giveaway-time.html
That would be fine, Audra. It looks like you're just getting started and it's a pretty big remodeling job.
DeleteHi Christine, been trying to the swap page... no luck (is that a future page?) Just checking - no rush!
ReplyDeleteQ
Oh wow, good catch Q! It certainly is a future page, and I didn't realize I posted that already. Stay tuned. :)
DeleteHello, I posted your contest on my blog today (www.universe-in-miniature.blogspot.com). When I figure out how to post the link, it will be there as well. Thank you! I wanted to enter another contest, but for various reasons, I was only able to dry fit my pieces for a 1930s art moderne house last week. My cat destroyed it yesterday, she likes to help, and she just knew that I needed her to test the roof out as a sleeping perch. Unfortunately, I haven't the time or energy needed and I am going to miss that contest's deadline. Then today I read about your contest on Large and Charge's blog.....Thank you, please consider me in!
ReplyDeleteI'm in! Just no clue what I'm going to build yet...LOL. Looking forward to seeing everyone's progress :D
ReplyDeleteRebecca
Just plugged this in my blog, having discovered it through Lola's Mini Homes. Silly question, but is there a scale limit? My projects are all playscale and I'd love to join in.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Nope, no scale limit, as long as it's not life sized. :)
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DeleteFantastic. :) Thanks for the info.
DeleteLove to join in! Will promote it on my blog weekly wrap-up and link it to the Monday Mini Link Party...thanks for a real comp!
ReplyDeleteSo tell me more how this works - when I update my blog to show the progress of my house - do I let you know?how do we share active photos of what we are doing?
ReplyDeleteHi Audra. I will be happily checking all of the participants blogs on a regular basis to see all of your progress. I plan on featuring some of the photos on my blog regularly as well (not sure how often yet).
DeleteTo check out the progress of all the other participants, everyone can just click on each others links. For that reason, it would be helpful if we tagged all of our blog posts that related to the contest with "undersized urbanite" so it would make it easy for us to find them. (If you use tags/labels that is.)
Perfect! I can tag - this will be a lot of work for you - thank you!!
ReplyDeleteGreat contest! Not sure if mine would work b/c of the progress, but there is still A LOT that's going to be done.
ReplyDeleteI wanna play too! I have a roombox that I havent touched and since you posted that it can be a bakery I'm thinking(Im actually thinking about how much work I have ahead of me)it's ok to enter the contest :)
ReplyDeleteLove
Marisa