2010 Photo Contest
Learning to Roll Over Can Be Hazardous . . .
. . . especially when mom’s cooking and not paying close attention to you!
Isn’t he adorable? My friend, Michelle, made the sweet blanket. The cowboy print is one of our favorites, and it’s the perfect size for a floor blanket, except for maybe when the little guy playing on it, grabs it and then rolls over and over and over . . .
The deadline for entries into this week’s random drawing is 10 central tonight. Keep commenting and posting! Just a reminder, you don’t have to enter a photo to enter the random drawing, just comment on Monday’s post or blog about my contest or giveaway and send me the link.
And, keep the Photo Contest Entries coming! I’ll be posting a few fun photos that preview my next pattern release tomorrow.
Prizes for Baby Steps and Week One Giveaway!
We have a few photo entries already! I’m looking forward to lots more coming in over the next three weeks. Click here for all the details on the Fishsticks Designs photo contest. The prizes for each category are awesome. Each Friday during the contest, I’ll list prizes and offer up a random-drawing giveaway. Today’s prize listing is for the Baby Steps category, check back next Friday to see the prizes for the On My Own category. Read all the way to the bottom for this week’s random-drawing giveaway.
The winner of the Baby Steps category in the Fishsticks Designs Photo Contest will receive four prizes. First up is a beautiful custom-made minky diaper donated by Melanie at Canadian Cloth.
Second is a set of 10 adorable Mama Made tags for sewing into your handmade items.
Next, from Alison at Avi & Tali, your choice of one of her individual sewing or knitting patterns.
Finally, from me, a $10 Gift Certificate to SewZanne’s Fabrics.
This week’s random-drawing giveaway is for a set of 10 Mama Made tags and one of Avi & Tali’s patterns. There are several ways to enter. The first way is to enter a photo in the contest–each photograph will earn one entry. The second way to earn an entry is to leave a comment on any post this week. The final way to enter is to blog about this giveaway or the photo contest (just drop me an email with the link to your blog post). All entries must be made by 10 p. m. central time on Thursday, July 15. The winner will be announced on Friday morning, July 16.
The 2010 Fishsticks Designs Photo Contest
Are you ready to get started? I’m so excited about this contest! I hope you will all submit lots of pictures! We’ve had fun snapping pictures the last few weeks on our vacation and here at home.
I’ve had lots of great prizes donated by some amazing work-at-home moms . . . fabric, tags, handmade soap, patterns, even a custom-made cloth diaper. There will be prizes for several category winners that will be voted on by readers, as well as weekly randomly-drawn prizes.
I’ve set up a flickr group for you to add your pictures of the clothing and bags that you’ve made with Fishsticks Designs patterns: Flickr Group. You can start adding pictures right away, and you can add any pictures that you’d like of your creations to the group. Please give your picture a title before adding it to the group, ie A Kiss for Baby Brother orPeek-a-boo in the Walnut Tree. If you’d like for your photograph to be included in the contest, post to the flickr group, then send me an email at fishsticksdesigns@gmail.com. By submitting your photo and emailing me, you agree to allow me to publish your picture on my blog, my website and/or my store.
Pictures should include at least one item sewn from a Fishsticks Designs pattern. Alterations to the pattern are acceptable, as long as the item is still recognizeable as the original. The item does not have to be sewn by you in order to enter, but if another sewist made the item, please let me know in your email. Please limit submissions to two pictures of the same sewn item. (Except for the total entry limit, there’s no limit on how many pictures you can submit of one child, just pick your favorite two of each outfit.) Items should be modeled, but faces do not have to be shown. Each entrant may submit a total of six photographs.
Pictures must be your original work. You must obtain and submit to me written permission to use the image of any child who is not your own. For the protection of the children in the photographs, modeled pictures of the Little Fishies Undies pattern will be discluded.
I’m looking more for good quality, gorgeous photographs that show creativity than for perfect sewing skills. Composition of the photograph is important. Try following your children around with the camera while they play rather than posing them against a wall.
Winners will be chosen in three separate categories: Baby Steps (pictures of little ones age 12 months and younger), On My Own (individual shots of children over 1 year) and Friends & Family (group photographs). Finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges. Winners will be chosen by popular vote.
Submissions will be accepted through July 31st. Finalists will be posted and voting will take place during Photo Contest Week August 1-7, 2010. Random prize drawings will be held once a week during the contest period beginning this Friday, July 9.
