Now is your chance to win a $50 gift card by showing us what you created with your vintage finds from FOUND.
For 5 years creative people have been walking though our doors and carrying home an odd assortment of vintage "treasures". I get a big kick out of knowing that I can bring in dozens of clock parts or rusty old springs or faucet handles or creepy antique doll heads or tattered books...just because I think they're neat...and someone who has an "upcycling" idea will come up the stairs and buy them. What do you guys DO with this stuff???
Thoughout May, we're having a contest and we hope you'll submit photos of things you've done with the vintage stuff you've found at FOUND during the past 5 years.
The grand prize will be a $50 gift card, plus a bucket of junk (uhh, good stuff) to make more things out of. To unscientifically determine the winner, my favorite employees and I will narrow all the entries down to 10 finalists, then randomly select the winner by drawing a name from those 10 out of an old blue mason jar. The other 9 finalists will each get a $5 gift card and some cool vintage do-dads.
All entries must contain: 1.) photo 2) a short description of your creation or unique re-use of something you bought here 3) your name and how to contact you if you win
Submit your entry in one of 5 ways: It's easy! 1) email it to me : mary@ foundgallery.com 2) use the comment section below, including a link to your photo 3) write on our Facebook fan page wall www.facebook.com/foundgallery 4) come on over to Kerrytown and give it to us 5) mail your submission to FOUND, 407 N. 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Some of you have bought a lot of strange stuff here over the years and we're really curious about what you did with it, so we'll allow up to 5 entries per person.
By entering, you agree to let us share your photos. Even if you work for FOUND, you can enter (but you can't be a judge if you are in the contest). Contest ends May 31st. Winner announced shortly thereafter on this blog. Need not be present to win.
Let the contest begin!
Mary
p.s. if the stuff you were going to make something out of is still in a pile in your studio or garage, get crackin' and make something NOW, so you can maybe win!