Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
Our daughter and I made our annual visit to Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) last Friday for their Christmas by Candlelight. I have some doors in the gallery from the village itself and from the annual gingerbread house display. OSV is an 1830s village, carefully recreated and well maintained in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Employees and volunteers dressed in period costumes welcome visitors to travel into the past.
The rest of this post is mainly for participants of Thursday Doors and people who might want to participate in the Thursday Doors Badge Contest. So, if you like, skip down to the gallery.
First off, Thursday Doors will be taking a holiday break the next three weeks. I will publish a “placeholder” post, for those people who prefer to include a doors post. The challenge will resume on Thursday, January 11th. There will be no Sunday Recap any of those weeks, but any posts which are linked here will be included in the recap on Sunday, January 14th.
As for the Badge Contest, the complete rules are listed below:
- The badge should mention Thursday Doors and be something that conveys a doors-related message. It can be a photo, a drawing, a collage, or anything else that works.
- The image should be applicable to all seasons, as we will use the badge for a year.
- The badge should be square or a little taller than wide. Otherwise, it’s going to be squished to fit in my sidebar (where it anchors the upcoming URL each week).
- Your entry MUST BE an image you have the rights to share, and you must be willing and able to extend those rights publicly. I will be inviting everyone to use the badge. Note: If you need to include an attribution, add it to your image or send it to me and I’ll include it in the caption.
- You may list your name or your blog URL on the image but try to not go overboard – this is about the doors.
- Post the badge image on YOUR blog and leave a link to that post in a comment below or on Any of My Posts Between December 16th and January 3rd.
- If you do not have a blog, email the image to noFacilities-at-gmail-dot-com (you know how that works).
- You do not have to be a regular Thursday Doors contributor to create a badge, but you should have a nodding acquaintance with the challenge. Regular readers are certainly welcome. However, Only Thursday Doors Participants will be Invited to Vote. They are the people who will be displaying the badge. It’s only fair that they get to choose. There is no required number of posts, if you participated in 2023, you can vote.
- One entry per person. If you submit multiple entries, I will consider the last one submitted as your contest entry.
Timing – Your link must be posted, or your email must be received by 11:59 pm Thursday, January 4th (North American Eastern Time).
Process – I will assemble the images for review and post a survey for voting on Sunday, January 7th. The survey will be open until 6 p.m. EST, on Tuesday, January 9th.
The participant-selected badge will be unveiled on Thursday, January 11th, the day Thursday Doors returns to normal operation after our holiday break. We will formally retire our delightful 2023 badge at that time. Note: If I receive an abundance of entries, I will arbitrarily limit the entries to 10 or perhaps 12, based on the order in which the comments were posted / emails received. I will also discard any images considered inappropriate.
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