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June 7 Vignettes with Brown Paper Lemon

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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 decals
Brown Paper Lemon’s seahorse decals
This month's themes, by Nikki
This 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!”

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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
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.

The fun starts tomorrow (Wednesday) for seven days. You need to tag @interiorsaddict and @brownpaperlemon and use the hashtag #7vignettes. All guidelines here. Please ask any questions in the comments.

Good luck and, most importantly, have fun!

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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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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 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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Christmas 7 Vignettes with Domayne starts a week today

Who else is excited about Christmas?! Love it. This year, I’m going all out with a real tree and everything. Bring it on! So it’s just a week until our last 7 Vignettes for the year starts and I’m delighted to announce our sponsor, Domayne, who have come up with some fab festive themes. There’s also, in a first, going to be a prize every day so there’s an incentive to try consistently hard across the whole week! Oh, and an overall winner and prize too.

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Feel free to share this list on Instagram or any other social media!

So you have a whole week to prepare now. You can take these themes as literally as you like. They don’t have to have a festive feel as well; that’s totally up to you. Each day, one winner, chosen by Domayne, will win a $50 Domayne voucher. And at the end of the week, one overall winner will be crowned and they’ll receive a $200 voucher.

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If you haven’t played before, this is the perfect time to give it a go, even if just for fun and Christmas cheer! Experience our friendly Insta-community for yourself, it’s a warm and fuzzy place to be! Find out how it all works here. This month, make sure you tag @domayne_australia and @interiorsaddict and use the hashtag #7vignettes.

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If you have any questions, please comment below. Check out Domayne online.

Coming soon: News of an exciting new beautiful product to help you get organised with your vignette inspiration. Stay tuned!

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April 7 Vignettes with Once Was Lost

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?!)

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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!

Please make sure you tag @interiorsaddict and @ONCEWASLOST_ and use hashtag #7vignettes.

And here’s the beautiful prize, appropriately arranged in its own little vignette, from Queensland-based Once Was Lost, worth almost $300:

once was lost 7 vignettes prize

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.