CONTEST: Win airfare, hotel and registration to Boston '07 by designing a dala horse

In addition to pleading with your boss or writing a check, you now have a unique way to get your airfare, hotel AND registration covered for the SND Boston 2007. SND-Scandinavia is hosting a contest at their annual conference next year. Just decorate the best dala horse -- a traditional wooden Swedish horse -- and submit it. Check out the directions for entering your dala horse. Good luck, all you dala cowboys and dala cowgirls!

Much kudos to Anna Ostlund, SNDS president and Stockholm site chair, who came up with the contest idea and is sporting a wicked cool dala horse-styled overcoat today. Look for her if you want details or decorating tips.

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Meanwhile, check out these wild dala horse T-shirts as modeled by the SND-S Stockholm organizing committee, John Hallstrom, Anders Tapola, Lars Andersson and Lars Jansson. (Ostlund is also on the committee.)

You can download a video about the contest here, and about the Stockholm conference here.