New Blog Challenge New Rules

After some consideration as to how I can boost entries to the current Blog Challenges I've come up with the following strategy to try out:

You can now enter anything created by yourself that fits the theme of the challenge, this might be a photograph, traditional artwork, embroidery, sculpture . . . absolutely anything handmade as long as you can take a photograph of it and email it to me or post a link.

The aim is to creatively interpret the title not just straightforwardly depict it.

There will be a month to submit your entires then a week for voting.

A prize will be awarded to the winner and I reserve the right to award any additional prizes I feel appropriate.

In the event of a tie I will choose the winner.

In order to enter you should make some effort to promote the competition, post a link on your blog, Facebook, Twitter anything you feel helps others to find the Challenge.

There will be a promotion and chat thread on Etsy, which I'd be grateful if you joined in - a link to the thread will be posted with each new Challenge announcement.

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Onto the next Challenge.

The theme is 'Creature Comforts'. Please use this title as a basis for creative interpretation. Post your links on this thread or email me a copy of your entry to amazoncat88[at]googlemail[dot]com

Join in the Creature Comforts chat and promotion thread here please drop in and help promote the competition as well as your own work.

The Challenge will close on the 1st October after which voting will be open for 1 week.

And the Winner is . . .

As we have a tie I will select the winner of this round, I hope that's alright with everybody. As Amie, who is the photographer of #6 won the last round I will award this round to Southern Girl who took #1, I will be in touch with you shortly; well done to you both.

My personal favourite for this round was #2, taken by Kimberly Rose, I love her original take on the theme, not to mention it is a stunningly well taken photograph.

More news and an Undiscovered Artist Feature coming up later in the week.

Party, county show, photography challenge and general update!

So I had a BBQ / Garden party thingy for my 21st birthday yesterday, which is why you haven't had an update for a few days (really busy organising etc.), my birthday isn't actually until Tuesday but in order to have friends from Cambridge and people with young children in attendance it seemed better to hold it at the weekend. All in all not a bad little event and everybody seemed to enjoy it. No photographs I'm afraid partly because I'm rubbish and partly because I was quite busy and didn't have a lot of time to take them. A friend stayed over and we had a polymer clay making session (or two) so there are some new dragons to show you once I've photographed them!

I spent Thursday at the Royal Norfolk Show, which is basically a HUGE agricultural show with lots of things for all the family to do as well as livestock judging, working dog displays and equestrian stuff. I was supposed to be working with the RSPCA in the doggy creche but I found the whole thing rather frustrating (the other volunteers were very enthusiastic but had little practical ability) and got far more out of the general networking I did. Through the show I should now have a dairy placement to add to the work experience list for vet school applications, a placement at a veterinary hospital in Norfolk and I made nice with the Seal and Raptor Trust people who also take in abandoned reptiles so I may do something with them at some point.

PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLEGE 'Hidden'

Please follow the link for more details of how to enter but basically take a photograph that you think fits the theme Hidden and post a link to it. If you can't post a link for any reason leave a message and I'll give you my email address to send it to.

That's it for now but photographs of clay thingies and an Artist Feature coming up tomorrow!

'On the Other Hand' the results

And the winner is:by Amie McCracken of Iamalive on Etsy. Congratulations. I will be in touch shortly to arrange your prize.

Other entries with their artists as I didn't give you this information before:

By SouthernGirl of SouthernGirlFlorals on Etsy

by Dongedy of Dongedyframe on Etsy. This is my personal favourite of the entries if I'm aloud to say that.

by Jen of SedonaShots on Etsy

Well done and thank you to everybody who entered.

Please remember to get your entries in for the next photography challenge on the theme 'Hidden', we only have one entry so far so please post something even if you're not a photographer, you must have something to share. Can we please try to keep all the entries as replies to THAT post as it gets a bit confusing for me if they are all over the place.