My Cottage Charm Giveaway - A Buttercup Cottage Dollhouse Kit

5/29 Update: AND THE WINNER IS....Jenny Lake! Jenny wrote:

"My heart stopped when I stumbled across this giveaway. I have always dearly wanted a dollhouse but my father never had the patience to build me one as a child. Now it's time for me to do this for myself! Thank you so much for this generous gift.

If I were to win, I would build a little spinner's cottage because that's my other dream--to live on a sheep farm and spin wool into yarn.

Fingers crossed
Jennifer"

Congratulations, Jenny! You can contact me with your address and I'll have this darling dollhouse kit shipped to you. And thanks SO very much to everyone who stopped by Twice Remembered this month to enter to win this giveaway. I wish I could send a kit to all of you! You all had wonderful ideas as to how you would use the dollhouse if you won and if I had to decide who won based on the loveliest idea, I wouldn't have been able to choose, that's for sure! {I used a Random Number Generator instead...} Have a beautiful rest of the weekend and we'll "see" you all again soon!


Well, finally, a week after the 5th Annual Cottage Charm Giveaway began, I'm ready to post my own giveaway! As you may {or may not} know, the Cottage Charm giveaway event is an annual month long, multi-blog cottage style themed giveaway party. Bloggers are invited to post giveaways on their blogs and then link back to them here. Winners for all the giveaways will be announced on all participating blogs on May 29th. So much fun! We've had as of the time of this posting 33 bloggers to enter their giveaways for the party - and I think that's just divine! Last year we had 68 giveaways... and wouldn't it be wonderful if we had even more this year? There are plenty of days left in May, so feel free to join us, and of course, make sure you check out all the new cottage themed giveaways added daily to enter to win the ones that strike your fancy!


The giveaway I am posting this year is very close to my heart. It was inspired by one of my new passions - doll house miniatures. I'm having so much fun with the old miniature farmhouse that I'm remodeling and the 'built from the ground up' house/patisserie that I'm working on as well. I've found it to be so relaxing and therapeutic - a great way to break away from full scale real life for a while and just dream in miniature. I've read from your comments that many of you have a desire to have a miniature house or to get into miniatures because you are just as fascinated with the hobby as I am. Buying the first kit can be tough, however. Questions such as "which one?" and "can I really do this?" are enough to scare new ones away... or, for those who are experienced doll house builders, deciding which kit to do next can be just as hard and maybe the old "do I really need to buy another doll house kit" thought haunts you.

So I'm really hoping that whatever the case may be with you personally, my Cottage Charm giveaway this year will help you out, because I'm giving away a Buttercup Cottage dollhouse kit!

Here is a perfect description of what you will get with the Buttercup Cottage Dollhouse Kit:

Delightful, charming, enchanting, adorable. That's the Buttercup - the ideal little house to create any type of shop, cottage, or even just a room setting. The bay window, silk-screened windows, gingerbread trim, and window boxes add to every decor. The Buttercup provides the setting, your imagination will provide the rest!

The all-wood dollhouse goes together with tab and slot construction that requires only glue to complete assembly. Unpainted and unfinished, you can decorate, paint, wallpaper, and furnish this heirloom-to-be with your own personal taste and style.
Features include:

True miniature scale
1 inch = 1 foot
Open-back design
Tab/slot assembly
Unfinished wood

Assembled Dollhouse Dimensions:
17 W x 11” D x 18” H

The photo below is how the little cottage will look complete. Of course, just like a real house, you get to choose all the finishing touches, colors, and decor inside and out...



Here is a Buttercup Cottage finished in Tudor cottage style. You see the front door was changed out, trim and brick work was added, and it looks like what could be a stucco exterior. {It's hard to tell from this photo, but I've seen many dollhouses in this style with stucco exteriors.} Cute!


And I am so impressed at Jen's interpretation of the Buttercup Cottage. She added siding and changed the door as well. I love all the red! {Click here to see more photos in Jen's blog entries on her Buttercup Cottage - I just can't get enough of her sweet little house!}





Oh the sweetness! And oh how a dollhouse can get your imagination cranking! Please don't worry if you've never built a dollhouse from a kit before... if you can read instructions, you can do this!

So if you are up to a new fun and exciting challenge, just leave a comment and a way for me to contact you below to enter to win this Buttercup Dollhouse kit. And while you're waiting for the winner to be announced on May 29th, think about how you would finish out the Buttercup Cottage and just how you would like to use it. Would it be a little house? A bakery? A flower or gift shop? If you'd like, tell me about it down below. Also, check out some great miniature sites like Miniatures.com to whet your appetite. SO many adorable little things - and you can order a free catalog from there as well. {No, this isn't a paid advertisement.... I just really love ordering from this site and wanted to pass along a great resource!} The Greenleaf Dollhouse Community forums have also been an invaluable source of information for me personally - and their member photo gallery is very inspiring to say the least.

Ok, so here we go! But first, a little fine print...

*Please just one entry per person
*Unfortunately, I can only ship this dollhouse kit to those within the United States due to handling fees that are applied to International shipments. However, if you live outside of the US but would really love to have an opportunity to win this dollhouse, I would be more than happy to provide you with a gift certificate from the Miniatures.com website for you to order it yourself if you win. You would be responsible for the shipping costs, unfortunately, but still.... the dollhouse kit would be a gift. Just an option for my dear international readers who would really love an opportunity to win this charming little kit. :)

Have fun, and goodness, I hope you win!