I wanted to thank you all earlier, but I was waiting until I heard from Better Homes & Gardens…
We WON! Making it Lovely received the most votes in the 48-Hour Challenge at BHG.com and we’ll be the recipient of a $5000 bonus! We’re so excited, and we’re eager to get started on a few new projects around the house that will now be possible. And obviously, we couldn’t have won without your tremendous support. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Yay!!!
congrats!!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations!!! You really do deserve it. I thought yours was the most creative and colourful, you’ve inspired me. :-)
YAY! Your design was the best by far! Can’t wait to see you completed projects… so inspirational!
I completely understand waiting until they contacted you, but congratulations! I am definitely keeping that hanging divider tutorial in my “ideas” book for when I get my house. Great idea!
Congratulations! Your painted floor was and is definently a show stopper! :) So happy for you!
yay!! congratulations. I love your porch and I am happy that you won!!! now I can’t wait to see what you do:)
Congratulations!!! You both deserved it =)
Yaaaay! Congratulations!!!!!!
Yea! You, Brandon and Eleanor totally deserved this. You went above and beyond the other contestants. Your porch is classy, sassy and a reflection of your style. Congratulations!! :)
congrats!!!
Woohoo!!!
Congrats! Glad you won – it was well deserved!
Congrats. I have been voting daily. To do all that work while pregnant you deserve WAY more. All I could do while I was pregnant was make cheesecake and twinkies disappear. I LOVE what you did to your porch….and on a budget that we could all work with.
Congrats! I really love the painted rug – it’s truly inspired and lovely. Can’t wait to see the new projects as you update us with their progress.
You certain deserve the win and therefore, I committed to voting for you daily. Can’t wait to see what you will do with it!
AWESOME! Congrats! It was very interesting to see how everyone used their money. You did a great job with the painted prorch, that really did it for me.
Congratulations. So happy you won. You get double points for painting that porch at 9 months pregnant. I couldn’t even do up my shoes.
WOOT!! A huge congratulations, Nicole – your design was fabulous :)
YAY Congrats!!!
Woooooooo! Congratulations! I voted for you.
Congratulations!!! I’m so excited to see the money put to creative use. Well done!
Now all you have to do is dance around singing “We got five thousand dollars. We got five thousand dollars.” Like Wayne and Garth.
Congratulations! You did a great job on the porch.
Well-deserved! Congratulations!!! :D
I hope to see pics of your 5000 dollar-projects! :D
Congratultions! You really are the deserving winners.
Congratulations!!! I really love the painted rug… I committed to voting for you daily. So happy you won.
Congrats on winning! You did a wonderful job with it so it’s very well deserved!
Woo hoo! Congrats :) I guess I can delete the voting page from my favorites now. :P
YAY! I voted daily and sent my friends and family emails and twitters to make sure that they voted for you too! That way you’d have some good old fashioned midwestern support! xoxo!
YAY! congrats! you most definitely deserved it!
Yayy!! Congratulations Nicole and Brandon!! Look forward for the upcoming project!
Yeah Congrats! $5000 is a wonderful prize…that I am sure you will put to good use.
Yahoo! You did a beautiful job on your porch! I’m so glad you won!
Congratulations! I was hoping you would get it! You deserve it and I can’t wait to see what project is next.
Congrats! They should give you an extra $1K for doing it while you were pregnant!
Woohoo! Congratulations! And I agree with Jayme on the extra moolah! :)
Yay, congratulations! I voted for you almost every day and am so happy you won!
Goodness Gracious GREAT BALLS OF FIRE – COURSE YOU DID – NOW will you be doing everything that you blogged about before?
Nicole~
Congrats, Nicole! The win is well deserved and we couldn’t think of a better project or family to lose to. Can’t wait to see how you enjoy your dinero!
-John
Congrats Nicole. Im so happy you won! Well deserved. Cant wait to see more projects!
Congratulations… I can’t wait to get started on my front porch!
That’s awesome that you guys won! I love the painted rug. It pops and looks lovely. Hope to see the start of projects soon.
you totally deserve it! your project had pizzazz…especially compared to some of those snoozers… :)
So happy for you. You deserved to win. It blew the others away. Congrats:)
Congrats! Now we can look forward to see more projects!
Congratulations, you deserve it!
Take care,
Lisa
Wow, congratulations! That is truly amazing and well deserved! I can’t wait to see what you do!
Congratulations on a well-deserved win! Hopefully you’ll spend a little bit of that money on yourself. You certainly deserve a break. Looking forward to seeing any projects you may move forward on with the rest of it, though. Hooray for all four of you.
yay! it was a nail biter!