How To Enter Homemade Holidays: Holiday Decorations

Once again, the time has come to deck the halls with holiday cheer.

Depending on your particular holiday and personal style, this may mean making and arranging ornaments, covering all horizontal surfaces with candles, greenery, and fake snow, or stringing up enough lights to ensure that your house can be seen from outer space. It's all about how you choose to celebrate the holidays.

Whatever you make, build, or arrange, we need you to show us how you accentuate your home with holiday spirit. So, break out the glue gun, clear up some garage space and for the love of all that's good, keep grandpa off the roof! Just do something awesome to prepare for the holidays, take pictures, and share your mad decorating skills on Instructables.

But wait, there's more! All of the entries in the Homemade Holidays contests will be eligible to win cool prizes, like a sewing machine from Singer, when all of the contests finish up in January.

Prizes

First Prize:
Dremel MultiPro 7.2-Volt 20,000 RPM Two-Speed Rotary Tool with 50 Accessories and an Instructables T-shirt, patch, and sticker. One prize determined by user vote and two others will be judges' choice.

Runner Up:
A T-shirt featuring the Instructables Robot, an Instructables patch and stickers.

Open to enter: Dec. 1, 2008 12:01 AM PST
Deadline for entries: Dec. 28, 2008 11:59 PM PST

View Contest now!

Step 1 Official Rules

1. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. No purchases are necessary; void where prohibited by law.

2. Participants agree to abide by all decisions of Instructables, contest co-sponsors, and judges, which shall be final and binding with respect to all issues relating to this contest.

3. Prize is not transferable and no cash alternative or prize substitution is available. Instructables and contest co-sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value if the prize listed is unavailable for any reason. All potential winners are subject to verification at the discretion of Instructables and contest co-sponsors.

4. Winner agrees that prizes are being provided "as is", and Instructables and contest co-sponsors make no warranty, representation or guarantee regarding the prize, including but not limited to its quality, condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Instructables and contest co-sponsors are not responsible for problems including (but not limited to) damaged, incorrect, inaccurate, lost, delayed, or defective entries, or for injury or damage to any computer resulting from participation in this contest. Entries that have been tampered with or altered are void.

6. Instructables reserves the right to modify, cancel, postpone or end the contest at any time as necessary, at its sole discretion, or to disqualify any participant or winner, at its sole discretion, deemed to have cheated, destroyed, obstructed, or otherwise acted illegally or in bad faith in relation to this contest.

7. Instructables reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of the Terms of Service; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

8. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you represent and warrant that: you are over the age of 18, or entering with the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian (subject to verification), and that the entry does not contain or incorporate the intellectual property and/or confidential information of any third party.

9. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you hereby grant Instructables a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty free right to publish and distribute your entry for their promotional purposes.

10. Governing Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the official rules, or the rights of entrants, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the substance laws of the State of California and any applicable laws and regulations of the United States.

Comments

[kcli]

Only 4 runner-ups are shown but it states there are 10...how do we see the other 6. Plus which entry won "the people's choice award"?

[fungus amungus]

The text was a bug. It's been fixed. The prize info got edited elsewhere in the site and was reflected on this contest page.

[eclipsed]

What happened with the dates? Originally it said voting was on the 29th, judging was on the 30th, winners would be announced on the 31st. Now voting is open again?

[randofo]

It has been extended.

[DuctTapeRules!]

I just saw this competition when I had an idea with an old chocolate box... problem is that I only have about 1-2 weeks to finish it; good thing that it's the last week of school :D

[kcli]

...just wanna confirm that voting will take a full year?

[randofo]

No it will not. It has been fixed to comply with reality.

[dunnos]

i know x-actly what i am going to do

[CameronSS]

I was hoping for something like this, I need an excuse to finish a project.

[CameronSS]

Drat, a quick search turned up exactly what I was going to do...

[Bartboy]

YES! I can enter a knex ible in this! I have on in the making!....

[Kiteman]

Is this one open to entries from outside the US?

[Bartboy]

Arn't they all? Well they should all be legal in Canada at least....

[randofo]

Indeed it is.

[Kiteman]

:-)