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Hooked on Dali Decals (& Giveaways!)

Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things that make us happy. I want to just take a moment to say how much I appreciate each and every one of my blog’s sponsors (you can see who they are right there in my [...]

Hooked on House Portraits (& Giveaways!)

Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things that make us happy. This week I’m hooked on house portraits. You may have seen this photo of the old stucco-and-stone house I grew up in that I have on my “About” page. It was [...]

The Long Island Estate in “Sabrina” (And a Giveaway!)

“Once upon a time, on the north shore of Long Island, not far from New York, there was a very, very large mansion, almost a castle, where there lived a family by the name of Larrabee. There were servants inside the mansion, and servants outside the mansion; boatmen to tend the boats, and six crews [...]

Welcome to My New Place!

By JULIA @ HOOKEDONHOUSES.NET

Welcome to my new blog home! Moving from my site on Wordpress.com to my own domain has taken lots of late nights, frantic e-mails to tech support, and a good deal of Advil, but it’s finally up and running. Hooray!
You’ll have to be patient when viewing old posts (anything published before this [...]

Calling All Fake Family Fotos!

Valorie, from the lovely blog Visual Vamp, had a great idea (no, that’s not her in the hat!). She thinks we should all show our Fake Family Fotos here and have a good laugh. Sounds like fun to me. So here’s what I’m thinking.
We’re going to have a Fake Family Foto Contest!
That’s right. So here’s [...]

Matthew Mead Halloween Tricks & Treats

Have you heard? Matthew Mead dedicated his new Halloween Tricks and Treats magazine to one of my favorite bloggers, Linda of Restyled Home! How cool is that? I’ve never heard of a magazine being dedicated to anyone before, let alone to someone I know. It’s very exciting.
You can see a preview of pages from the [...]

Psst! Wanna Win Something?

This probably isn’t very smart of me because it’ll just hurt my chances of winning, but I had to tell you about a blog called The Delightful Home and the giveaway my blog-friend Ms. Tee is hosting on it this week.
See this pretty table from Hallmark Magazine? She reproduced it at home, and I have [...]

It’s Christmas in July: Giveaway Time!

Here at Hooked on Houses, I have the best, most loyal readers in the world. To thank you, I like to give something away now and then and show my appreciation. I’d hate for you to think I was taking you for granted.
This week I’m sending a copy of Better Homes and Gardens’ New Decorating [...]

And the Winner Is…

The winner of the New Cottage Style decorating book is…
Janet of Housepeepers!
Congratulations, Janet! She’s a long-time reader who has been visiting Hooked on Houses since the beginning. Thanks to everyone who entered–all 135 of you. I wish I could send a copy to everyone!
This week was a lot of fun. It was great to meet [...]

New Cottage Style: Book Giveaway

Better Homes and Gardens’ book New Cottage Style ($19.95) seems like just the thing to read for Spring, so I’m giving a copy away this week as a part of the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival (read about the giveaway here). 
Today also happens to be my 3-month “Blogiversary,” so this is a great way to celebrate all of the [...]

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