Writing Contest Prize Revealed!

I am very pleased to announce the prize for this whole "Heigh-ho" contest! The Grand-Prise winner of the contest will  receive.....

Glory....

Honor....

Homage...

...and their very own, hand-made-by-me "Authoress Hair-Flower"! :)

 

 

 The glory, honor, and homage part comes from the fact that the top three winners (one from each category) will get their entries posted on this blog (as long as they agree to it.) and the Grand Prize Winner will get to do a guest post here on The Inkpen Authoress! :) So keep the entries coming girls! And if you've forgotten all the details, just click on the contest button on the side-bar and read it all where it takes you. :) ~Rachel

Come Gawk At The Prizes! :)

It is the time you have been waiting for... the revealing of the prizes you girls (or guys :P) may win in the Merry Auld England Writing Challenge!!! Now, I still only have one entry, and I *know* you can give me more than that. I hope these fabulous (if I do say so myself) prizes will egg you on to entering if nothing else will! :D

The winner of the Prose Category (short story, sketch, essay, etc.) will receive this beautiful set of tea-stained, hand-illustrated Jane Austen stationary! (contains 6 8x11 sheets of stationary and 3 antiqued envelopes)

 

Perfect for writing an elegant letter to a friend with plenty of space for rambling.

(tiny pages of stationary are a pet-peeve of mine, since I tend to write long letters.)

 

A close-up of the decoration in the corner...and guess what?

It's an original design, and that *is* a glimpse of my handwriting! :P

 

I can read your mind...you want this stationary...you want it badly...so enter the contest! :D

The winner of the Poetry Category wins: A hand-decorated, hand-covered box in a dusty-raspberry color--perfect for hiding away your treasures of poetry, or any other such keepsake. 

  

Isn't it a beauty? I had half a mind to keep it myself, but I thought I'd be generous and put it up as a prize. You'll love it, I know. :)

 

A close-up of the decorations on the lid. Admit it--you love it. ;)

 

And the inside of the box, painted a lover-ly silver. 

And last but not least, the winner of the Drama Category (a play, dialog, skit, etc.) will receive: 

Miss Egglantine Benedict

 

She is a paper-weight, and a companion for your writing corner. I give you full leave to talk to her, and to reprimand her as needed--that smug expression was not painted on there to forebode a quiet personality. ;)

Some of you expressed interest in seeing me as Rosie Cotton--these are not the best pictures, as I wasn't wearing my rose-bud wreath in my hair, nor was I outside as a proper hobbitess should be. But here's the general idea. When my cousin sends me the other pictures, I might post those too. :)

 

Sorry about the lighting...By the by, I made my vest and my skirt, I was given the apron, and the blouse came from a Goodwill--gotta love do-it-yourself! :D

 

I think I make rather a wonderful hobbit--I have the right shape for it. ;)

 

Anyway, there are those pictures for now, so you can get a general idea of what I looked like. I'll get some better ones for you before too long! And, as my little sister would say, "Pretty please with sugars and berries and icecream" enter the contest to win one of these awesome prizes?! Thanks a million! ~Rachel

Bon-Voyage!

Hello girlies! Now, wouldn't you love to find to hear the story behind this painting? I would! :) I love how the first things you notice is the woman, and then the every-helpful captives behind her. ;) I just wanted to let you know that posting on this blog will be erratic this week, since I am off to Warrenton, NC to get my dog's leg amputated. Lovely subject, yes, but she got hit by a car and got her femur/hip-bone shattered. :(

Anyway, this is a fare-thee-well post and a handful of wishes that your writing may thrive and you may not write about something brilliant that I will miss entirely. ;) I've buried my nose in The Oxford History of the French Revolution and am researching for that New Novel as well as continuing to write Puddleby Lane--I had all weekend to leisure, thanks to the hurricane, but I couldn't run our desktop computer so progress on my writing was on hold. :[ Oh well! I still had fun! And please girls, don't forget to enter the Merry Auld England Writing Challenge! Details are on the side-bar, and I have 2 out of the 3 fabulous prizes made! I hope to post the "Things You'll Win" post soon! ;) Have a glorious week!

~Rachel

A Reminder and the Prize Announced

It is incumbent upon me to remind all of my lovely followers that "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" contest will be drawing to a close on June 5th! :) I have the prize chosen, but no picture of it. The winner I choose will receive a set of three handmade bookmarks, made by the yet to be announced Sweet Alyssum Etsy Shop! :) Please, please enter! I promise your entry will not take a long time to write (believe me, 1,000 words or less is *not* long at all!) and I'd love as much participation as I can get! :) -Rachel
P.S. As a side-note, Puddleby Lane is coming along very well in the in-between-farming moments! :)