I’m going to take a wild guess that since you’re here you enjoy a good house tour as much as I do. I also love a good blog party and play along whenever possible. So–drumroll!–I’ve decided to host one of my own called “Hooked on House Tours.”
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, August 5th. If you have a blog, I hope you’ll participate! If you don’t have a blog, then all you have to do is show up and look around. I’m imagining this as one giant Open House tour around the blogosphere.
If you want to participate, then all you have to do is host a house tour on your site so I can link to you. It can be a house that’s on the market, a friend’s house you love, pictures you took during a local home tour, or even your own house. Maybe there’s an historic mansion in your town you want to show us. Doesn’t matter. It’s up to you.
Then we’ll all spend the day hopping from one blog to the other, peering into houses and making some new blog friends. What could be more fun than that?
UPDATE: The party has started! Click here to join the fun.
A Few Notes (Pay Attention, Bloggers!):
1. If you plan to participate, please leave a comment on this post so I can get a general idea of who I’ll be linking to Tuesday. If you don’t comment, then I may resort to going to your blog and tracking you down to BEG you, so just make it easy on both of us and volunteer right now. Thanks.
2. E-mail me the link to your post when it’s live and ready to be linked to (try to publish it Monday night if possible so I can include your link early Tuesday morning). Be sure to give me the link to the actual post, not your home page, so that people who may want to see it in days to come don’t have to scroll through searching for it. My e-mail address is jknispel @ cinci.rr.com.
3. Be sure to link back to my party post so that your readers can visit all the other Open Houses that day, too!
Are you up for it? I hope so. Because I don’t want to plan a party and have nobody show up. That would just be sad. Then I’d have to have a Pity Party, and I really don’t think anyone wants to see that. It could get ugly.
I’m giving you plenty of notice so you have time to come up with something. So start thinking about what you’d like to share. I can’t wait to see what you all have to show us! -Julia
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I’ll do it too! I was planning a house post for Wednesday but I’ll just bump it up one day so that I can come to the party! Thanks for inviting me!
Count me in!! I have no idea what I’ll show yet, but I love a good party that I don’t have to get out of my p.j.’s for!!
Linda
Count me in! We have a 108 year-old farmhouse that’s in the process of being de-Victorianized (thanks for all the stripey wallpaper and totally inappropriate changes, previous owners!), so I’m happy to show off some finished, in-progress, and to-be-completed rooms.
I would love to try to be a part of this! Thank you… Roxanne
Hi Julia!
I love your blog–and the name is GREAT!! I just recently found it–being a new blogger–and was hoping to participate in the house tour. Alas and alack, I am unable to as I have been tending to my dear mother-in-law after some surgery she had.
I am really bummed about it and was wondering if there were a smattering of other ladies eager but unable to participate like me on Tuesday–if there were any chance of you hosting another house tour party??
Blessings!
Myrna
More Than Heirlooms
myrna1958@yahoo.com
I just found out about your house tour, through Rodrigivitz Style – and having just helped a friend move into a gorgeous house, I’d love to join in!
Looking forward to a fun, ‘Looky-Loo’ Open House Tour!
Though my home is not as fancy as most, I’d love to show what I ‘ve done on a shoe-string budget.
This looks like fun. I’m joining in.
I will have my post up and running in just a few minutes. Thanks for letting me play along!!
~Blessings,
Jan
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