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The winner of 7 Vignettes November 2015 with Domayne

The winner is @stanadesigns! Congratulations!

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Rebecca Meier, Domayne’s digital and social media coordinator, said: “We were overwhelmed with the effort of the entries in the November 7 Vignettes competition! Some clever were people even creating things from scratch to participate. Wow! We had lots of fun monitoring the daily entries. It was extremely difficult to narrow it down to one daily winner as there were so many good vignettes.”

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In the end, they did chose @Stanadesigns though. “After a group discussion over text on Sunday, we came to an agreement. We loved her styling and the way she has managed to create each theme in such a beautiful way! Knowing styling, we know how much effort would have gone into those vignettes, even though they looked so brilliantly effortless. Congratulations @Stanadesigns – we hope you enjoy your $200 Domayne gift voucher and homewares pack. Congratulations to the seven daily winners too, you all did a fab job!

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“It’s lovely to be involved in a fun, friendly and uplifting week. It’s not very often social media is filled with those things. Thanks Jen and the 7 Vignetters for a fun week!”

Thanks so much to Domayne for sponsoring our contest for the second time and to everyone who takes part, shares beautiful images and encourages others’ efforts!

Any winners yet to give us their address details for prizes, please contact us now.

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October 7 Vignettes with The Vignette Room

I’m delighted to announce that the next round of 7 Vignettes, starting a week today (yes, already!), is being sponsored by the very aptly named Sydney (and online) store, The Vignette Room! They’ve chosen some fantastic themes which I think you’re going to love!

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The Vignette Room (featured on the blog here) have generously donated a $500 voucher for the overall winner and seven daily theme prizes of $100. Jennifer Brown, the daughter half of the mother/daughter duo behind this beautiful shop, says: “We love that 7 Vignettes is always such a visual treat and that it allows people to showcase their creativity. We love watching it unfold every month and seeing how people’s personalities come out in the vignettes they create. We especially love how there are so many wildly different interpretations of the themes and that it’s such an individual expression of what the themes mean to them.”

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Jennifer Brown and Tracey Kennedy outside The Vignette Room

The Vignette Room truly is a visual feast and we thoroughly recommend a visit if you’re in Sydney. It’s a great example of why it’s still great to shop in bricks and mortar stores and meet the people curating their wares.

The ladies recently had this ‘manifesto’ hand painted onto the shop wall

Jennifer adds: “We first played along in December last year when Domayne sponsored and we had the most amazingly fun couple of days creating our visual interpretations of the themes. We’re so excited to sponsor 7 Vignettes so we can give people a little bit of an insight into who we are as a mother/daughter team and as an interior lifestyle store and what makes us tick through our themes. Plus, then we have an excuse to play along again and spend all day on Instagram and chalk it up to ‘working’!”

We like her style!

The fun starts on 1 October on Instagram. All details of how to play here or ask any questions in the comments below. Enjoy!

The Vignette Room is at 42 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW 2021.

 

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Winner of September 7 Vignettes + 10% off at Life Interiors

Well, our little Instagram contest certainly has its groove back! This last week has seen some truly stunning and clever entries. I’m delighted to announce this month’s winner, chosen by our sponsor Life Interiors, as @cassieeeesmith. Congratulations!

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Nicole Arvela, showroom and creative manager for Life Interiors, said: “After much deliberation I chose hers. I thought that every picture was so beautifully composed and I just LOVED her series as a whole!”

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Theme: mint

Cassie wins a $500 Life Interiors voucher (please contact us with your address and telephone number to claim your prize).

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Theme: natural

10% off everything at Life Interiors for the next week!

Our brilliant second time sponsors Life Interiors are offering you all 10% off everything until midnight on Wednesday 16 September 2015 using the promo code INTERIORSADDICT10OFF online or mentioning this offer in person.

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If you won one of the daily themes and have yet to contact us, please do as soon as possible to claim your $100 vouchers!

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Life Interiors back to sponsor 7 Vignettes for a second time!

It was so wonderful to have 7 Vignettes back in August, with everyone refreshed from a month’s break! Also making a comeback for September is previous sponsor and guest judge Life Interiors, and we’re so delighted to have them on board again. They’ve generously offered an overall prize of a $500 voucher and daily theme prizes of $100 vouchers!

The Life Interiors showroom
The Life Interiors showroom

Nicole Arvela, showroom and creative manager for Life Interiors, says: “We hosted 7 Vignettes in April this year and we loved the experience so much that we wanted to host again next month. September is personally one of my favourite months as it’s the start of Spring and you can start to feel the warmth in the air! The themes that we have selected definitely have a Spring theme, and we have really focused on colours and materials, so we hope you enjoy the list. Can’t wait to see all the beautiful imagery come through!”

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Please share this graphic with your networks!

Life Interiors is currently importing lots of beautiful new original furniture products as well as focusing on boutique homegrown Australian brands such as Hunting For George, Armadillo & Co, Jennifer and Smith, Ivy Muse, Kip & Co, Kate & Kate, Mexsii bedheads,  Middle of Nowhere, Milk & Sugar and Urban Couture. There are come serious Interiors Addict favourites in that list!

The Life Interiors showroom
The Life Interiors showroom

For all our all-new revised guidelines on how to take part, go here. The fun starts next Tuesday 1 September 2015. Enjoy!

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The Life Interiors showroom
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The winner of August 7 Vignettes with Officeworks

The winner of August 7 Vignettes as judged by our sponsor Officeworks is @emotivelightphoto. Congratulations! What a lovely series of images they were! While Sarah is a professional photographer it’s not a given that she’d be a styling whizz as well, so she is obviously multi-talented!

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Theme: On the go

Sarah wins a $500 Officeworks voucher, many stationery lovers’ idea of heaven!

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Officeworks’ Carla Carafa said: “We loved working with Interiors Addict on #7Vignettes. The daily themes tied in perfectly with our brand and we were overwhelmed with what the followers came up with.”

It was such a great week and so nice to be back after a break in July. If you haven’t seen our new guidelines and how-to for the competition, please have a read here.

We had some great daily theme winners too, who all get Moleskine notebooks. Here are just a few of them:

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Inspired by @rarepearstudio
Workspace by @redagape_styleanddesign
Workspace by @redagape_styleanddesign
Light by @brownpaperlemon
Light by @brownpaperlemon

Any winners who are yet to get in touch with their shipping address for prizes, please contact me ASAP.

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August 7 Vignettes with Officeworks: win $500

We hope you’re all rested and raring to go after last month’s little holiday from 7 Vignettes (its first in more than two years!). Please take a read of our new guidelines. While we haven’t made any major changes to the monthly challenge we hope we have spelled out how to take part, what’s allowed and what’s not a little clearer. If you have feedback, you can always contact us.

Next month, Officeworks are our guest judge and sponsor, providing a generous $500 voucher for the overall winner and daily theme prizes of a set of three Moleskine Cahier Large Plain Notebooks. Hoorah! “Officeworks is all about supporting big ideas, so we love following #7vignettes on Instagram with Interiors Addict,” a spokesman said. “We can’t wait to be inspired by your creativity with this month’s challenge!”

Here are some Officeworks products you might like to spend your voucher on if you win…

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Mira desk lamp | High Linen storage drawers | Martha Stewart adhesive bookplates | Indiana desk

And here are the themes…

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So next month, please tag @interiorsaddict and @officeworks. Happy prepping and I look forward to seeing you all on Instagram again next Saturday 1 August!

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Why there’ll be no 7 Vignettes for July

The last few weeks, in my haze of new mum-ness, I became aware of a lot of discussion and debate happening on Instagram about what constitutes a vignette, whether standards had slipped in 7 Vignettes entries and whether every previous winner had stuck to the “rules”. I must admit I found it all a bit negative and took it personally (this Instagram challenge is another of my babies after all). Sleep deprivation will do that to you too. But do you know what? I’m kind of happy people care enough to have that debate!

Winning vignettes by Angela Steyn

Next week, when 7 Vignettes should start on 1 July, it’s my birthday, my bestie is here visiting from the UK and, after 2.5 years, I want a breather. I’m using this time out to invite you all to send in your suggestions for creating a set of guidelines for the competition going forward. And to tell me what you do/don’t like directly.

Winning vignettes by Mel Salaris
Winning vignettes by Mel Salaris

You can’t please all of the people all of the time. Not everyone will always agree with who is picked as the winner. And the judge’s choice will always be subjective. But if a set of guidelines makes people happy then let’s do this! And who better to contribute than the people who take part? So if you’re one of those who have voiced your opinion on Instagram, please voice it directly to me here or by email and let’s have some constructive feedback.

Above all though, let’s not lose sight of this being something fun, a place to ‘meet’ like-minded people and build each other up with encouragement, support and praise of each others efforts. The ‘real life’ events and meet-ups will also continue when baby Sebastian is a bit older.

7 Vignettes will be back on 1 August with the themes announced towards the end of July. I hope we can all come back refreshed, enthused and positive!

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Jen

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Winners of June 7 Vignettes + 20% off everything at Retrojan

Well, thank goodness for guest judges is all I can say! Keeping up with the sheer volume of 7 Vignettes images when you have a newborn is tough! A big thank you to this month’s sponsors, Retrojan, who came up with the popular themes and have picked the daily and overall winners, which we’re sharing today.

The overall winner,  @mesalaris gets a $500 Retrojan voucher. Congratulations Melanie! What a pretty, colourful collection! Annaliese Loriot, social media manager for Retrojan, said: “Melanie has produced seven days of fun, beautiful and consistent vignettes. Each image has had a lot of thought put into the theme behind it and always made us excited to see her next vignette! Congratulations on a week of stunning images!”

The daily theme winners, who get $75 vouchers, are as follows:

Day 1 – White on white: @whiteroomcollective


Day 2 – Minimal: @angelasteynandco (last month’s overall winner is on a roll!)


Day 3 – Romantic: @englishgirl14


Day 4 – Colour: @blossomandlace


Day 5 – Bright: @alittlepartoftheworld


Day 6 – Timber: @natfee


Day 7 – Texture: @redagape_styleanddesign

All our winners should email [email protected] to claim their vouchers.

READER OFFER

Retrojan are offering our readers 20% off everything until the end of the week. Simply enter the promo code INTERIORSADDICT20 at checkout or mention it while shopping at their Melbourne showroom and store. Valid 09/06/15 to 15/06/15 on full priced items only and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

Go shopping!

 

 

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7 Vignettes June with Retrojan

The countdown is on to June 2015’s 7 Vignettes, starting a week today on 1 June and sponsored by Retrojan. They’re generously putting up a $500 voucher for the overall winner with $75 voucher daily theme prizes also up for grabs. So start preparing now to be in with a chance!

Retrojan furniture. Image courtesy of Real Living
Retrojan furniture. Image courtesy of Real Living

Retrojan’s social media manager, Annaliese Loriot, says: “Retrojan proudly supports Interiors Addict’s 7 Vignettes as it’s a platform where design lovers can come together, share their own style and be creative, all within a fun and friendly community.

“Like Retrojan furniture, 7 Vignettes allows design lovers to put their own interpretation to a certain style or look which is what really inspires us!”

Here are next month’s themes, as chosen by Retrojan:

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Retrojan is an Australian owned furniture brand, taking inspiration from legendary styles of the past, and producing their own modern take on them. Their no middlemen, direct from the manufacturer model promises you great value with a 14-day no-questions-asked money back guarantee and 12-month manufacturer’s warranty on everything and over 4000 happy customers. You may have seen their products on The Block, Renovation Rumble and House Rules.

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Image courtesy of Real Living. Camille console, $469

This month, make sure you tag @retrojan and @interiorsaddict and use the hashtag #7vignettes. This challenge starts next Monday 1 June 2015. All the details of how to play are available here.

Good luck!

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The winner of 7 Vignettes May with Interiors Addict Shop

The winner of this month’s 7 Vignettes is Angela Steyn for this beautiful collection of images. She wins a selection of goodies from Interiors Addict Shop.

Guest judge Naomi Findlay, who runs Silk Home and the International Institute of Home Staging and is my partner in the online store, loved Angela’s images and how they included the gorgeous little hands of her sons! They also worked so well together as a seven.

Angela previously won 7 Vignettes in July last year and is one of four people who have won twice over the 29 challenges so far.

Angela, please contact us with your address so we can send you your prizes!

If you’re new to 7 Vignettes, find out how to take part next month here. If you have any questions, please write them in the comments below and we’ll get back to you.

Naomi’s International Institute of Home Staging (IIHS) and the American Home Staging and Redesign Association (HSRA) are teaming up to host a home staging summit in Sydney in July. If this is a career which interests you, find out more and book your ticket here.

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7 Vignettes May with Interiors Addict Shop

Next month’s vignette fest is fast approaching and we’re giving you the chance to win a great copper and white prize pack from our online store. The guest judge is Naomi Findlay, the stylist I’ve partnered with on Interiors Addict Shop and one of our resident experts on sister site Reno Addict. The winner will receive a set of geometric vases, a copper and white decorative bowl, a copper tealight holder and a set of two monochrome flower bowls!

Here are the themes:

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And the prizes…

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The fun starts on 1 May 2015 for seven days. This month, you must tag @interiorsaddict and @naomifindlaydart and use the hashtag #7vignettes. Good luck!

Newbies can check out how it all works here.

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The winner of April 7 Vignettes with Life Interiors

I’m so excited to announce the winner of this month’s 7 Vignettes, not just because it’s our biggest prize ever (a $1,000 voucher for Life Interiors) but because it was such a gorgeous seven days of creativity, stretching over the long Easter weekend. Sigh…

But there can only be one winner and the guest judges from our sponsors Life Interiors have had the tough job of choosing @design_social, aka Flyn Roberts. Congratulations! And if you had your eye on some goodies from Life Interiors, read on for your special reader discount.

Flyn's winning series of vignettes
Flyn’s winning series of vignettes

“We loved the way her vignettes came together,” said Nicole Arvela from Life Interiors. “We loved the simplicity, colours and composition of the seven as a whole.”

Flyn's blush vignette which was one of my favourites too
Flyn’s blush vignette which was one of my favourites too
Flyn's light vignette
Flyn’s light vignette

A huge thank you to Life Interiors, not just for the generous prizes but for getting so involved in the contest and Nicole even styling beautiful images for each daily theme.

READER DISCOUNT

Life Interiors are offering all our readers 10% off everything until next Friday 17 April using the promo code INTERIORSADDICT10OFF Shop online.

Flyn, please contact us with your telephone number and address to claim your prize.

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Win $1,000 from Life Interiors in April 7 Vignettes!

It’s our biggest 7 Vignettes prize ever: thanks to next month’s sponsor, Life Interiors, the overall winner of our monthly Instagram competition will win a $1,000 voucher to spend with them in store or online. Not only that, but each day, someone will win a $100 voucher for the entry judged the best. So even if you don’t manage all seven, you could still win something.  I think you’re probably running out of reasons not to take part!

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Life Interiors sell some of our favourite Australian brands — including Kip & Co, mexsii and Kate & Kate — and a fantastic range of Australian made and imported furniture and homewares. These new gold and copper pieces recently caught my eye. Gorgeous!

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“We are extremely excited to sponsor 7 Vignettes for the month of April,” said Life Interiors’ Nicole Arvela, who will be the guest judge. “We love the competition and the way it inspires individuals to be creative and to share their style within the 7 Vignettes community. We can’t wait to see what everybody will create out of this month’s themes!”
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You could put your winnings towards a mexsii bedhead!
Plenty of goodies you could blow $1,000 on at Life Interiors!
Plenty of goodies you could blow $1,000 on at Life Interiors!

If you’re new to the challenge, find out how to take part here. And if you need inspiration, or are not quite sure what a vignette is, simply check out the #7vignettes hashtag, where you’ll find more than 55,000 images!

Don’t forget to tag us (@interiorsaddict) and @lifeinteriors. The fun starts a week today on Wednesday 1 April 2015. We regret that only Australian residents are eligible to win prizes but welcome your entries from all over the world!

Life Interiors is at Unit A3, 35-39 Bourke Rd (entrance via 46-62 Maddox Street) Alexandria, NSW 2015. We recommend you hop over to The Grounds for a coffee or something yummy after you’ve shopped up a storm…

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7 Vignettes March with keekï

How it can be almost March already I just DO NOT KNOW. But on the plus side, it’s a month closer to meeting our baby and almost time for another round of 7 Vignettes! Next month, our sponsor and guest judge are the lovely people at Melbourne homewares and furniture retailer keekï. The prize is a $500 voucher (to spend in store or online) and there’ll also be daily prizes of $30 vouchers for each theme.

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“The keekï team love to see what the 7 Vignettes community produce and are excited to support this fantastic creative space,” says  visual merchandising manager Stephanie Butler. “To see what the talented and creativity members come up with each month is inspiring and exciting. We know it is going to be a great challenge to select an overall winner, so have decided to give away $30 vouchers as daily prizes too.”

Here are the March themes. Day two has two options; just in case you don’t have a coffee table, we hope you’ll have a shelf of some sort you can photograph! And day four, you can go crazy and take whatever inspiration you like. Hopefully you won’t be paralysed by choice! Feel free to share the below graphic with your networks and encourage them to join in the fun.

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Please make sure you tag @interiorsaddict and @keeki_mystyle. Prizes are open to Australian residents only but everyone is welcome to take part, just for fun!

keekï, with two stores in Chadstone Home Plus Homemaker Centre and in Dandenong South, know a thing or two about creating beautiful displays. Designed to inspire your ideal interior, they display and accessorise their furniture collection in a series of room settings so you can visualise how specific items may look in your space. By mixing professional ideas with your own imagination, they can help you arrive at a place that truly feels like home. And if you’re not in Victoria, don’t worry, you can shop online.

If you’re new to the photo challenge, read all about how to take part here or comment with your questions below.

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The winner of February 7 Vignettes with OZ Design Furniture

Congratulations to this month’s overall winner Lauren Storey, as chosen by our sponsor and guest judge OZ Design Furniture! You win a $500 voucher and we can see why.

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Group marketing manager Iarni Harvey says: “Congratulations to the February 7 Vignettes overall winner. We selected Lauren as her daily vignettes were styled to perfection with a fresh take on each day’s theme. Here at OZ Design Furniture, we have throughly enjoyed reviewing all the creative entries and sponsoring such a fabulous initiative.”

Lauren's entry for 'living'
Lauren’s entry for ‘living’

Our seven daily winners, who each get $100 vouchers were:

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emcrokes

richellezara

emotivelightphoto

meandmygirl

sarahshanahan_lifestyle

mozsas

All well worth a follow!

Lauren's entry for 'neutral'
Lauren’s entry for ‘neutral’

Keep in the loop with all that is happening at OZ Design Furniture at www.ozdesignfurniture.com.au or on Instagram.

Want to be first to know about next month’s themes? Make sure you sign up to our newsletter (and get our free eBook as a bonus!).

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February 7 Vignettes with OZ Design Furniture

This month’s 7 Vignettes round on Instagram was something special with loads of you starting the New Year by having a go for the first time and doing brilliantly! So we’re really looking forward to the February round, starting on Sunday and sponsored by our guest judges OZ Design Furniture. They have generously donated a $500 voucher for the overall winner but we’ll keep things interesting with daily $100 voucher prizes too! So even if you don’t do all seven, you could still win a daily prize! Here are the themes.

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Please feel free to share the above list image with your networks and get more people on board!

Iarni Harvey, OZ Design Furniture’s group marketing manager, says: “We love watching the creativity and sense of community on 7 Vignettes each month and were very keen to support it. We will be noting all our favourites for the daily and overall prizes and know how tough the judging is with so much great talent! Good luck to everyone and our advice is to just have a go, enjoy it and not over think it too much.” We couldn’t agree more!

January 2014 winner @picturedthoughts. Click for details
January 2014 winner @picturedthoughts. Click for details

This month, you must tag all your images #7vignettes and tag @interiorsaddict and @ozdesignfurniture.

For all the details of how to take part, go here, and please feel free to ask any questions in the comments below and we’ll get back to you. There are no silly questions! If you’re doubting yourself, read this post.

See you on Instagram!

Please note, only Australian reisdents can win prizes but everyone is welcome to take part just for fun!

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The winner of January 2015 7 Vignettes with Kip and Co

The winner, as chosen by the lovely ladies at Kip and Co, Kate, Alex and Hayley, is Jessie Brakenridge, a graphic designer from Adelaide. Congratulations @jessiebrakenridge, you win a $500 Kip and Co voucher which we’re sure will add some style, colour and fun to your bedroom!

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Kate said: “Her images are really stunning and the colour in each is balanced beautifully. Cute use of all these amazing treasures! And like here at Kip where we try to use colours in fun ways, Jessie has nailed it! Really ace job and obviously a very talented still life stylist!”

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As usual, the guest judges were bowled over by the number of great entries and found it hard to pick just one winner. The girls have kindly decided to give two runner-up prizes of $50 vouchers to @design_salt and @pastelpeppermint. “We love @pastelpeppermint for how she has combined colour with something she loves — her two gorgeous cats Tortilla and Pinto. What ace names and great pics!

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“And @design_salt because her very stylish photos were just really beautiful and how could we go past a jelly banana with chia on the ends? Genius!”

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Here’s my thoughts on why you should get involved with 7 Vignettes next month if you haven’t before! Did you hear? We passed 50,000 images on the #7vignettes hashtag this month! How cool is that?!

Winners, please contact me so we can pass your email address into Kip and Co. Thanks to our gorgeous guest judges and sponsors, we couldn’t think of a better brand to support our colourful themes this month!

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7 Vignettes tops 50,000 photos!

Something really cool happened this week, in the middle of 7 Vignettes’ January challenge. We passed the magic 50k mark on the #7vignettes hashtag. Quite the milestone! It comes two years after I started the Instagram photo challenge. Seems bonkers to think it has been 24 months. And it’s still going as strong as ever if not stronger. I am so happy!

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Now, I have always been a big fan of social media and the positives it can bring. I have met some of my now closest friends via Twitter and my husband and I first starting chatting on Facebook after being introduced by a mutual friend! 7 Vignettes is one of those social media things that keeps on giving, month after month, year after year!

Something special happened this month, other than reaching the big 50k. There’s always a great feeling of friendship and positivity around the challenge but this month, probably partly because of it being New Year and partly because I made a concerted effort to encourage newbies to give it a go, we had a lot of first-timers on board and boy, did they love it! And I loved seeing them loving it.

I even wrote this blog post yesterday to try and encourage more people to stop being scared and just have a go and have fun and stop being self-doubters. I hope it may encourage you too!

The January challenge finished yesterday (I’ll be announcing the winner tomorrow) and I always feel a little sad when I wake up the next morning and there’s no new pix (for another three weeks anyway!). See you all on 1 February, I hope! Make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter to get sent the themes first!

Still asking yourself what is 7 Vignettes?! Read all about it here with a fun video interview with The Block’s Darren Palmer on why it’s awesome.