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Giveaway: Win a Signed Copy of Free Decorating

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The holidays are just around the corner and the pressure is on. You’ve got people to entertain, gifts to buy, and memories to make.

But is your home ready?

I bet it’s in better shape than you think, but a little refresh can’t hurt. The good news is you can makeover your space without spending and save all your money to shower your friends and family with gifts.

The game changing decorating philosophy I shared in my book Free Decorating was born out of holiday decorating necessity. It all started when I left my corporate career and we officially became a one income family.

Although money was tight, I still wanted to create a beautiful home for the holidays and beyond. What I learned about spending less and holding out for home decor I truly love changed the way I decorated forever.

Today I’m giving away two amazing Free Decorating prize packages.

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Two winners will each receive a signed paperback copy of my first book Free Decorating: How to Shop Smart, Save Money, and Love Your Home Decor.

Giveaway: Free Decorating by Jackie Hernandez

Win everything you see here.

I may have had a little too much fun packaging up the book for the winners. Blame it on my cover designer Kelsey and her recent post on creating gift packages.

I love everything included so much I secretly want to keep these prizes for myself.

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I tried to think of everything that would enhance the reading experience for the two lucky winners…

  • A retractable highlighter to mark your favorite tips.
  • Sticky notes to jot down ah-ha moments.
  • A Moleskine “cashier’s notebook” to start your home wish list.
  • The beautiful white picture frame and decorative gold key are just for fun. (I did buy one of each of those to keep for myself.)

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To enter the giveaway follow the prompts on the Raffelcopter widget below. The giveaway ends Tuesday, Nov. 3 and the winners will be announced here and contacted via email.

Giveaway: Free Decorating by Jackie Hernandez

Win: Signed Copy of Free Decorating • 2 x 3 picture frame • small Moleskine notebook • sticky notes • rectractable highlighter • decorative gold metal key with leather strap

Want me to send one of these Free Decorating gift packages to your doorstep? Enter below for a chance to win.

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Comments

  2. You can make it out to me, the sole decorator of the house. Now if this mom just had a decorating budget for my house I grew up in and have lived in for 40 years!

  3. Make it out to me, please, as I am the decorator of the family, but I will share with my adult daughters and my friends too! :)

  5. We are updating our house with you as our guide. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful ideas with us!

  6. What a fun giveaway! Just make it out to Stephanie…I would love to win a signed copy of your book. Thanks!!!

  7. Should I win, it would be a great enhancement to what you share with us on your blog. Vicki

  10. Hi, Jackee! I so enjoy your blog. I am seriously decor and finance challenged but like you want a comfortable beautiful home. It makes all the difference when you walk in from a hard day’s work as well as when you can be pleased with your home when company comes over. Thanks! Jenny

  11. If I win I would read the book to learn how to shop and stay on or below budget when decorating my home. I would also pass it down to all my girlfriends who have the decorating spirit. Not long ago I purchased my home and most of my money goes to spending on the home. It can be scary sometimes at the register when I see the amount. A little help (like this gift) will be beneficial.

  12. Thanks for the great blog! I am moving to a new home at the end of November and would love to win! Keeping my fingers crossed… please make it out to Shannon :)

  13. I am new to your blog,but I love everything about home decor.This would be nice to win.Thank you.

  15. I learned a lot taking your styling secrets class and reading your mini workbook. I would love to get a copy of the book to learn more strategies. If I win please sign it to Jenny.

  18. Love all the helpful advice, fun to try and adapt to my new home…let’s see if my husband notices!

  19. My house needs serious updating and you are so far from me (I’m from Australia)so the book would be a good start. Thank you for sending it to me.

  21. After living in our home for almost 15 years, it’s time for an update! I would love to put your ideas to good use.

  22. Am slowly decorating my home – love your blog and your ‘formulas’ for making things look great. This prize looks fun!

  23. I always enjoy reading your posts and watching your videos. I often think of your advice to wait on making purchases until they fit the chosen decorating scheme.
    Thanks, Jackie.
    Diane

  26. I would love to win a copy of your book (if I win, please make it out to me). I love all of your helpful posts, and your prize package is adorable.

  27. We love your website. It has been very helpful trying to really budget for and decorate with pieces that we truly love. Our budget is very tight, as we just purchased a new home, so your site has been very helpful and I would love this package! Thank you!

  28. Being an accountant, your way of explaining decorating by formulas really speaks to me. It’s great for left and right brained people! After building our house 3 years ago, I still am too unsure to do anything. We finally hung some pictures just this weekend and my house still needs everything. I have a bedroom with no headboard or furniture, a bar in the kitchen with no bar stools, and on and on. It’s very empty. If I win, please make it out to Debbie. Thank you!

  29. Hmmm…my gut says I should be giving, but I also know that I REALLY need decorating help. I would probably ask you to make the book out generically, like “Fellow Decorator” or something like that while I make up my mind. ;)

  32. Nice giveaway! Could you make out the book to me? I’m building a new home and need some confidence in decorating it. Thank you!

  33. I would love to display this book for the Holidays so you can autograph my newest coffee table book to me :)

  37. I always wish I was better at decorating. I tend to be too scared of wasting money to do anything. This book would help so much! Make it out to me & then when I love it I can give them to all my friends for Christmas!

  44. I am a widow with no family that comes around, I live in 3br house and am visually impaired. Since I have to do most projects myself and it takes a lot of time, I need all the help I can get with tips tricks and how to’s. Please and thank you for your help with the mini course

  45. So generous, Jackie! I look forward to your inspiring emails and blog posts. You help keep me creative at home!

    – Nicole

  46. Please make it out to me, the decorating-challenged sole decorator of this house. What a great giveaway. Thanks so much for the chance to win!

  47. I so desperately need this. I have so many projects to complete and my husband keeps pointing out that I’m loosing focus (and he’s right, aargh). Plus, it’s taking so much money to get things done. I need to make sure I know how to use what I have before buying more! So, make it out to Ana (stay focused), Director of Home Design, Director of Home Purchases, Director of Organization (hopefully).

  48. Make it out to Angela…I totally need your help decorating our home! I would love to win one of these prizes!

  50. I love your blog! Thanks for the easy inspiration…I’m really working on making a home more of a reflection of my family.

  52. My five children grew up in our home of 25 years. Now we are almost empty nesters (last one in college)and needing to adjust our home for this new phase of our lives. Needing help in incorporating our precious memories but building a comfortable place for our children, their spouses and our grandchildren to come to for, hopefully, another 25 years of memory building! Kathy

  64. Love your easy step by step decorating to inspire the less brave among us to give it a try!
    Amy

  65. I am always looking for inexpensive ways to update and improve our decor. Your insightful explanations are clear and easy to follow. I would love to have the book made out to me, Kirsti.

  68. Make it out to me! I read your book on Kindle and wish I had a hard copy. ‘Looove all the other goodies too.

  73. Thirty eight years ago, we built our dream home on a small lake. We were the only house on the lake. The last few years, several new houses have been built around us and our “dream house” is now the outdated house. I still love my home but it needs updating. I would love to update our decor but I don’t know how. I need help!!

  74. What a wonderful prize! It would be my first decorating book I own should I win. Thank you for the chance!

  76. Would love to get some help in decorating without spending a fortune. Just make it out to Lori.

  77. I’m a single 60 years young widow, just downsized and need help in decorating my smaller home!

  80. Jackie, you’ve already given me “the key” to decorating my home but I’ve got just the spot for the awesome gold key you are giving away! Thanks for all you do for your “students”.

  82. I have boxes of cool stuff but don’t know where to start. would love this book…made out to Lea ;)

  87. Working on getting the house “holiday ready” and could use all the tips I can get! Make it out to Michelle if I win. :-)

  93. I would love to win this package….my birthday is about a month away and I would be happy to get a package like this. You could make it out to Amy. Thanks for the chance to win!!

  94. I have been reading your blog since you posted about the discontinuation of Martha Stewart’s paint at Home Depot. I think your tips are so great, and I’d love a copy of your book!

  95. wow! the book was enough for me but the rest of the prizes look fantastic. I’m in love with the key and the picture frame! Crossing my fingers to win. :)

  97. Your idea of choosing a color palette for the whole home is brilliant! Would be thrilled with your book. Please make it out to Marthe!

  105. Please make it out to Jessie. I rent right now but am desperate to have our space reflect us as much as possible without painting, or breaking the budget. I’d love to win this – part of our house savings for someday when we buy is going to be School of Decorating tuition :o), so we can get it right the first time!

  108. I’m so happy to have found this contest this morning! Gosh, do I want to win!! A friend directed me to your “7 Steps to Create Your Whole House Palette” a few weeks ago and I’ve read it again and again, as I try to figure out how we want to proceed here. :) We’ve been in our house eight years and I’ve been stuck trying to figure out colors and also how to make it ours with a tight budget. So, yeah, I’d really love to win! :)

  110. Would love this! On ththe pathway to building our house from scratch so as you can imagine this would be a great help to our budget! Natalie

  111. Oh Oh Oh I want and need your book. Maybe you can help me find a name for my decorating techs. Please I want to win this book. Thanks for the chance. If I am lucky enough to win just make it out to JANIS

  112. What a great giveaway, pick me please! If I get lucky and win, please make it out to Steph! Thanks for putting it together. <3 ~Steph

  116. I have been living in this home for 11 months with a sofa and a tv sitting on the floor. The small dining room which leads to the living room is empty. I am so confused about what to buy and actually frightened to buy some furniture incase it doesn’t look right or I may not like it when I get it home. I am so fed up eating of a tray in the living room sitting on the floor. My main floor is like a shoe box – kitchen, then small dinning room and living room. All these are in a narrow row. There is only light at the narrow ends of this shoe box. I need to win this to help me move on with my life and love my home.

  117. You can teach an old horse new tricks! I have never been able to tie my style into a cohesive flow. The first time I read your blog about not trying to recreate pottery barn but identify what you like…..I was a changed woman. Sharing this blog nearly everyday.

  118. Me, Sarah. We are looking at down sizing in a couple of years and well, we need to get rid of a lot of things and start over with a fresh new chapter in our lives. Thank you for the chance to try to win your book and goodies.

  122. Moved in to my dream house. I thought it would be so easy to decorate with better “bones.” Still so much I need to learn! Please make your book out to me!

  123. Yes I would love to have this prize package! I need to redecorate our 40 year old home.

  125. In the process of buying my first home and getting ready to decorate a whole house for the first time, so this would be so helpful. I loved your post on creating a whole house paint palette.

  127. I would love this! We just bought our first home and I loving your classes and all your awesome tips!!

  128. We will be moving in December to a larger place. I’ll be decorating the new home and decorating for free would come in very handy.

  129. You have thought of everything! This would be incredibly helpfull to me. What I see in my head and what I end up doing rarely are the same thing! I need some much help pulling it all togehter! I would be honored and inspired if you made it out to me! Thank you for all you do and the humor you do it with!

  132. I am so glad I found you Jackie. There is no place like your blog and School of Decorating, which give you formula how to decorate your own home now and again and again. You teach rules that work. Which are timeless. You encourage to discover my own taste. Not to follow enybody but stay unique. Real. And do this all without rouining home budget.

  133. I just bought my first house and we have painted it gray! I have a blank canvas and am struggling between country shabby chic or timeless classic country …. excited about the book regardless! Congratulations :)

  134. I’ve been married for 10+ years. With the ups and downs of our relationship I feel that our house has definitely shown the struggles. Unfinished rooms and mosh posh of nothings fills my home. Since my marriage is scaling some positive slopes I want my house to reflect it. I want my husband to be proud of what we are becoming by transforming my home to reflect that. Even though I may or may not win this cool prize I want to thank you Jackie for being in an integral part to this journey. You are most definitely appreciated! Hats off to you my friend!

  135. Hi Jackie! You can make it out to me! I would love to hang that key in my newly decorated office, too! It would be perfect! Great swag!!

  138. I keep pinning your book, to come back and purchase it, but I always run out of money – so I DEFINITELY want to try to win this SUPER-CUTE prize pack!!!
    If I win, you could sign mine to “My BFF Julie” ;-) LOL!!!

  141. Just got a nice home and a new office-could really use some help with decorating! I have never been able to decorate and have to count on friends to help me or do it for me. Thank you.

  144. Please make it out to me. I need help with my home, I am not in the least bit creative or crafty

  145. My husband and I just bought our first home and in so excited to get to put some of these ideas to use! We bought a fixer upper duplex with so much work needed in the physicality of the house, there’s not much left over for decorating – with my creativity and your ideas, the place will be ready in no time! And, with the potential that Christmas will be held at our home this year, I’m even more excited to started!

  146. Make it out to me, please! I am working with a professional organizer to make sense of having combined the households of my recently widowed mother and my own under one roof. These prizes would be perfect timing!

  147. I can’t wait to redecorate so send this prize my way.
    My home will be styling and I will be smiling “cause Jackie made my day!!!

  151. i would really love to have the book, as i am trying every day to find new and money saving tips to make my home more beautiful and welcoming. thank you

  152. I am feeling lucky!!!! Really trying to find the time in my day to make my home lovely and on a budget!

  153. Been in my house for 5 years now and I still don’t feel like it’s mine. Decorating help really need. Such a unique and fun prize package!

  154. Been in my house for 5 years now and I still don’t feel like it’s mine. Decorating help really need. Such a unique and fun prize package! Thanks for the chance to win.

  156. What a great give away !! Would love to win this..so desperately need help decorating & maybe I would l learn to work with a budget …

  157. We are getting ready to move. It’s been a while since I set up a new home. I’m looking forward to your tips and recommendations.

  158. I’m a 79 year old who still likes to make changes on the decro in my house. I just learned chalk painting. I did one piece, but now I don’t know how to incorporate it with
    the other things I have.
    I wanted to take your class, but at my age, living on a fixed income, I couldn’t afford it.
    Need your book badly. Make it out to Norma

  159. Keep buying beautiful things in a million styles taking them back the next day, like you said making no decision is the worst decision, great eye for detail but blind to the big picture, started using your techniques to tie decor together and found them really helpful in my home which is still mainly untouched after 4 years of living in, would love to learn more from your book.

  161. I have not changed my living room furniture in 16 years and feeling overwhelmed with what to do and how to do it. What would look good and what would not. I would love a copy of your book so I can educate myself and educate college age daughter so she can feel confident in her decisions.

  162. I have benefitted so much from your blog so far. You do such a great job breaking everything down and keeping it simple. My house has improved already from what I’ve learned from you. I am currently in the process of updating my 10 year old décor to get my home ready to sell and would love your tips.

    Keep up the great work!

  163. What a wonderful giveaway. I really like the frame and the unique key. Not to mention the lovely book which would make a good complement to my Home Project book.

I believe you are the best person to decorate your home. You just need a dash of courage and a dose of decorating know-how. That's why I created School of Decorating.

I know how frustrating it is to feel like failure at home. I also know how amazing it feels when decorating finally makes sense and your home reflects you. I want to share what I've learned so you can create a home you love without years of trial and error.

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