**CONTEST CLOSED** Thank you to everyone who participated in voting and entering photos in our #EpochSummer contest, and congratulations to Miranda for winning the $500 Epoch Design shopping spree! Stick around for more contests and giveaways in the future, and let us know what you thought about this one!

Thank you to everyone for participating in the #EpochSummer contest, and giving us such a warm welcome to Instagram! We appreciate all the participation from our fans through Instagram, and had a great time looking through your entries. All of the entries we received for this contest were amazing– picking our top 5 was nearly impossible! We had so much fun scrolling through all your summer traditions! Your entries were hilarious, adorable, and most of all creative! Now for the moment you've all been waiting for… here are our five finalists! You'll have the chance to vote on the winner by telling us who you think has the best summer celebration!

Click on each photo below to see the entire photo, and vote for a winner.

Congratulations finalists! All of your entries were amazing, but these five stood out the most to us as some fun summer traditions.  Of course, no worries if you didn't make the finalists this time– just make sure to keep an eye on our blog for more contests and giveaways in the future. Whether you made our final round of voting or not, we'd really love it if you helped us choose our winner, and thank you for participating.

To participate in voting, simply look through our finalist's photos in their corresponding blog post, and like/share the page using the features in the top right corner. Feel free to share with us in the comments your favorite part of their entries as well! Here's an example of where to vote and how we will count the votes —

Good luck to all, and thank you once again!

Voting will begin Monday, August 19th at 12:00 am (PST) and end Monday, August 26th at 12:00 am (PST).