Celebrate our Blogiversary With $100 in Prizes!

Strange as it may seem, it's almost here: our one-year birthday on December 10th. Time really does fly! In just under one year, 155 posts, 79 comments and 7500 unique visitors - pretty impressive in my opinion, considering I thought I'd be blogging for just myself and my friends!

What better way is there to celebrate, of course, than with contests! Everyone likes to win stuff. Thanks to a great partnership with Jena from Modish, Try This at Home proudly announces two individual contests, for both our readership bases! (And yes, you can enter and win both of them!)

Try This Tutorial Contest

If you're crafty, this one should be a breeze! All you have to do is write and email me ( trythisathome [at] gmail.com )na tutorial for any kind of craft project you're interested in, and the more unique, the better. Because we don't want people taking other people's tutorials and claiming this as their own, this tutorial should not have been posted elsewhere, even if you can prove it's your own (I'd rather spend time judging between amazing entries than verifying entrant's identities!).

The Grand Prize for this entry is a $50 gift certificate to Modishoppe and one month's worth of advertising for ONE site on Try This at Home, which includes a sponsor write-up. Four runner-up tutorials will also be posted, which will get advertising for the writer's site within their post.

Judging will be based on the following:

• Originality
• Quality of Writing (you don't have to be Hemingway, just keep your capitalization in line and avoid Internet-speak!)
• Photography (not required, but it earns bonus points based on its quality)
• Supplier Sources (also not required, but bonus points for listing sources for required supplies)

For our requested format, please see the style in which we've written our own tutorials. Due date is December 1, 2007. Winner will be announced December 10, 2007.

Spread the Love Contest

Another easy one. If you've got a blog or website, you're golden. Between now and December 1, post about Try This at Home on your blog, or link it on your website, then comment back on this post as to the location of where the link or post is visible. I'll check the links periodically between the date of your comment post and December 10th to ensure it's still there to keep you qualified. Qualified entrants will be entered into a database and one name will be selected at random to win the prize. Based on the style of link post and the length of time it's up, entrants have the opportunity of having multiple chances of winning the raffle through extra points scoring. Forum spam will not be permitted.

The Grand Prize for this entry is a $50 gift certificate to Modishoppe and two weeks of advertising for ONE site on Try This at Home.

Scoring will be based on the following:

• Length of post: any entries received by November 16th will qualify for an additional raffle entry.
• Type of post: any blog posts receive two base raffle entries; text/image links receive one.

Last date for comments is December 1, 2007. Winner will be announced December 10, 2007.

Comments

[jessee m]

i added you to my blog list here:

http://www.artschooldropout.net/index.php?main_page=page&id=9&chapter=0

[aurora fox]

hi--I just posted a link to your blog in my blog list (the sidebar)
love your site!

[Paper Treasure]

Hello! I added your link on my blog and wrote you up. It can be found here:

http://www.papertreasure.blogspot.com

[Paper Treasure]

Hello! I added your link on my blog and wrote you up. It can be found here:

http://www.papertreasure.blogspot.com