What a lovely nostalgic week it was with our childhood themes! After much deliberating, guest judge Nikki Hernan of Brown Paper Lemon has chosen @claireturfrey as the overall winner.
“I’ve gone through all the entries a million times,” she says (it’s no easy task!). “Claire has themed her work beautifully and it’s a cohesive grid.”
This month (June starts tomorrow, can you believe it?!) we’ve partnered with Nikki Hernan from Brown Paper Lemon, a regular participant in 7 Vignettes herself and someone who knows a thing or two about a good looking insta-feed!
Brown Paper Lemon’s seahorse decalsThis month’s themes, by Nikki
Nikki says: “It’s such an honour to be this month’s 7 Vignettes guest judge. Brown Paper Lemon was born to inspire little ones to nurture nature and love the space they call their own. So this month is all about nurseries and children’s rooms. I’ve created childhood-inspired prompts to challenge and celebrate these very special rooms. Inspiration could be drawn from your children or grandchildren or revisiting your own childhood memories and the space you grew up in. I cannot wait to see all the love in your entries!”
Brown Paper Lemon sperm whale pillowcase
Gold Coast illustration studio Brown Paper Lemon offers a range of home decor to inspire children to recognise and appreciate the world’s threatened creatures. “I envisage the more awareness and love created for them will protect and ensure these endangered species are here for many generations to come,” Nikki says. $1 from every product sold is donated to WWF Australia.
Brown Paper Lemon turtle decal
One winner each day will get a wall decal of their choice and the overall winner will receive a $100 Brown Paper Lemon voucher, a print of their choice from @onetinytribe and a @PrettyTidy_Roshnee grey dipped grid sack.
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!
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!”
Theme: mint
Cassie wins a $500 Life Interiors voucher (please contact us with your address and telephone number to claim your prize).
Theme: natural
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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
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!
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’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:
Feel free to share with your networks!
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.
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.
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.
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
“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 tooFlyn’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.
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Flyn, please contact us with your telephone number and address to claim your prize.
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!
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!
“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!”
Please share these themes with your friends and followers
You could put your winnings towards a mexsii bedhead!
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…
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.
Image: keeki
“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.
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.
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.
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’
Our seven daily winners, who each get $100 vouchers were:
I can’t think of a better New Year’s creative resolution than to have a go at your first 7 Vignettes challenge! Or if you’re a regular already, there’s no better way to kick off 1 January than by getting your stylist on via Instagram, right? If you needed further incentive, I’m hoping the chance to win a $500 Kip and Co voucher and completely make over your bedroom for 2015 might be good enough!
Kip and Co linen
To keep things simple, as we hope lots of newbies will take part, the themes are all colour-based. Sparkle and rainbow are of course legitimate colours!
The challenge starts on 1 January 2015 and you must tag @interiorsaddict and @kipandco and use the hashtag #7vignettes. All the instructions can be found here if you’re new to it, and if you have questions, please pop them in the comments below and we will get back to you straight away!
The winner of 7 Vignettes May 2014, as chosen by guest judge and our editorial assistant, Olivia Shead, is @vintagefox_, who took part for the full week for the first time. Beginner’s luck? Beautiful photos and a great choice by Olivia, don’t you agree?
Olivia said: “Teneille’s collection was extremely impressive, especially considering it was her first time completing a full 7 Vignettes. I loved the vintage feel and how she wasn’t afraid to use some colour. Simple but beautiful.”
Teneille (Eldering) admitted on instagram she found the challenge quite daunting but loved the support from the community. She wins a Silk Express e-styling service from Silk Home Staging & Styling for a room in her home. Please contact us to claim your prize.
The next round of 7 Vignettes starts a week today on April 1 and we have a fabulous prize from Aussie lifestyle brand Once Was Lost, who specialise in ethically handmade goods. I love their simple aesthetic and am delighted founder Laura Wortlock is not only guest judging but has also come up with the themes for this challenge (so don’t blame me when it’s too hard, okay?!)
This month’s themes
If you can’t read the handwriting, the themes are as follows:
1.Natural | 2. Simple things | 3. Adventure | 4. Handmade | 5. Wise words | 6. Found | 7. Thankful
I think we may have had a couple of these before but I just love how they work together as a collective and didn’t want to mess with them!
And here’s the beautiful prize, appropriately arranged in its own little vignette, from Queensland-based Once Was Lost, worth almost $300:
It comprises a Once Was Lost Studio limited edition silk screen print, a Kebo Scarf in Ash, a Once Was Lost Signature Bag and Once Was Lost Essentials Pouch.
The fun starts on Instagram on Tuesday 1 April 2014. Find out how to play (including video interview with The Block judge Darren Palmer) here.
It’s 7 Vignettes time again this Saturday and here’s the themes list. Our prize is a basket of Valentines-themed treats from Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn and Pottery Kids to spoil yourself or the special person in your life!
The themes (above) are love (for obvious, valentines, reasons!), purple (because February’s birthstone is amethyst and birth flower is violet), water (for February’s water signs Pisces and Aquarius), handwritten (like a love letter perhaps), American (like our prize sponsor), local (at the suggestion of a 7 Vignettes fan, Bonnie, in the UK) and heart (need I say more?).
Well, I can’t quite believe it’s been a full year since I came up with idea for 7 Vignettes or that our Instagram community has been participating and making it bigger and better each month this entire time. We’ve shared almost 30,ooo images on the hashtag and it really blows my mind!
The January birthday edition starts on New Year’s Day and you can find the themes list above. Our guest judges next month are The Block twins Alisa and Lysandra Fraser, who will be appearing on the next Fans vs. Favourites series, rumoured to be starting at the end of January. The former Interiors Addict guest bloggers have generously offered a $250 voucher for their new online homewares store, Alisa & Lysandra Collections, as the prize.
It was my first time judging for a long time (let’s face it, having a guest judge is just copping out of what is always a very hard decision!) but this month, despite the many amazing entries, I felt Michelle Cann (thecinnamonfox) really did stand out.
The sandcastles and smashed pomegranate really did it for me!
It’s 7 Vignettes time again this Sunday (1 December) and, it’s been a while, but I’ve decided to be the judge this month. I see it as a real treat!
Here’s the themes list (above) with all of them suggested by you, the reader, as requested last month. You may notice a subtle festive flavour!
And I have a great prize too, thanks to Lujo: two indoor beanbag chairs in your choice of colour, delivered to your door in time for Christmas (and who doesn’t need extra seats at Christmas?!) worth almost $600!
