Printing, framing, prize winners and new gadgets

A busy few days... nice busy :)

Gallery prep

The frames arrived today so it's been a good few hours of printing, mounting and framing—mostly framing as I'd already printed and mounted most of them. Even so I'm glad that's done and now it's just a case of delivering them to the Gallery Guest House in the morning.

£5 of each sale will go to the Poppy Appeal, which is very appropriate as the owners are ex-service folks.

October prize winners

Two of the prize winners from my October draw have been in touch, just waiting on the last one now. Where are you, Betty Manousos?

Slew of new gadgets

The Gooogle Friend Connect team have been busy! They've released some cool new gadgets, have introduced a way of making newsletters available and have made wholesale changes to the way you interact with the member / follower gadgets.I'm sure most of you will already have noticed some of these.

It'll take me a few days to get my head around them all before I work out which are most useful for my site and blog. Watch this space!

comments / feedback always welcome :)

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Winners of my October freebie prize draw

[Update: Doh! forgot to change the title from September to October. Done now.]
Did you win? Read on...

Hat of Wonder and Hope

So, who won the three prizes? You'll have to click the image and see!

If your name was one of the three out of the hat, now's the time to claim your prize. Just email me highton.ridley [@] gmail.com and confirm which piccy you'd like to get as a signed mounted print. Don't forget to include the full postal address where you'd like it delivered.

To the unlucky folk—better luck next time!

Watch out for the announcement of the October November [double Doh!] freebie prize draw.

comments / feedback always welcome :)

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Winners of my September freebie prize draw

Did you win? Read on...

Hat of Wonder and Hope

So, who won the three prizes? You'll have to click the image and see!

The first two, Melania and Valerie007 have now been in touch. And imac , the other winner, is now back from his hols and has been in touch. Well done to the winners! Commiserations to the rest!

If your name was one of the three out of the hat and you haven't yet been in touch, now's the time to claim your prize. Just email me highton.ridley [@] gmail.com and confirm which piccy you'd like to get as a signed mounted print. Don't forget to include the full postal address where you'd like it delivered.

To the unlucky folk—better luck next time!

Watch out for the announcement of the October freebie prize draw. Probably tomorrow or Saturday.

comments / feedback always welcome :)

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August freebie prize draw winners

Whew! I'm glad that's done. The rules for September are gonna have to be easier; it's taken me a full day to collate all the comments, recommends and ratings so that 3 names could be selected at random.

The winners...

Without further ado here they are:

• EarthToHolly of Earth To Holly
  
• JamaGenie of Saturdays Child
  
• Kitty of Into My Own
  

Well done you three! I've sent you all an email telling you how to choose and claim your prize.

comments / feedback always welcome :)

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July prize draw update

A quickie update

Two out of three aint bad

I've heard back from James and Galina. Their prizes have been printed, signed, mounted, packed, addressed and will be in the post tomorrow. I'm still waiting to hear from Karie-ann.

• James of Something Sighted chose Barbican Steps, and
• Galina of Palitra chose Walking The Dogs.

Great choices folks!

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July Freebie Prize Draw Winners

The draw is complete and I'm just about to get in touch with the winners to ask them to choose their print.

And the winners are...

With suitable drum roll and fanfare, the random selections from my Hat Of Wonder And Hope were

• James of Something Sighted
  
• Karie-Ann of Pet Portraits and Wildlife Art
  
• Galina Nikolova of Palitra
  

Only followers who are also friends were put in the Hat and then I added another copy of their name for each review, post comment, wall comment and rating that they made.

Well done to the winners! Better luck next time to everyone else.

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Parcelled and ready for posting

Just finished printing and parcelling the signed, mounted prints for my June freebie prize draw winners. They'll be in the post tomorrow.

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June freebie prize draw winners

Two winners this month and one reward for persistence!

And June's Winners are...

• Dusty Lens of northmetro.blogspot.com
• DidbyGraham of didbygraham.blogspot.com

..and one honorary prize for persistence goes to:

• Imac of imac-photosfromthemindseye.blogspot.com

Congratulations you folks!

To let me know which image you'd like to receive, find your favourite one in the Monochrome gallery on my main web site and email me the code and your delivery address.

I'll then prepare your signed, mounted print and pop it in the post.

You could also help me out by filling in a review on the page saying why you want that one. If you click the recommend it button too, you'll vote it up and other peeps will know which above all others you liked.

And it'd be great for you to write a post on your own blog too... ;)

Thanks in advance :) This sort of interaction is very much appreciated (hint, hint to everyone for the July draw!).

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Fathers Day draw prize winners

So here are the names of the lucky winners of my Father's Day freebie prize draw. Each wins a signed, mounted print. Well done folks!

And the winners are...

• Dan Felstead of WoodAndPixels.blogspot.com wins Abstraction Extraction
• Maisy Rocks of MaisyDaisy-MySoCalledLife.blogspot.com wins Teleportation Module
• Danilo of SeeTheWorld-Free.blogspot.com wins An Invitation

Dan and Maisy, you both had lots of copies of your names in the Hat Of Wonder And Hope, so your efforts in commenting etc. were rewarded :) Danilo just got lucky! Congratulations to all three of you, well done!

The rest of you, my google-connected friends, good luck for the end of the month draw—remember, another copy of your name goes in the Hat Of Wonder And Hope when you do any of the following:

• review my work
• vote up an image with the recommend it button
• make general comments on my wall
• comment on my blog posts
  

Lots of ways!

The winners now need to email me with their delivery address to claim their prize: highton.ridley at gmail.com Hurry up and I'll get them in the post asap.

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May prize draw posted...

I'm just back from the Post Office—the winner of my May freebie prize draw, Char, should receive her mounted fine art print within the next week.

Well done for winning, Char!
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If you want to win the next one:

• you must be a follower of my blog (or have joined my site)
  
• I have to have accepted a friend request from you (or you to have accepted one from me)
  —send one by finding my head in the members gadget list, click it and chose 'add as friend'

You can improve your chance of winning:

• Go to my galleries (mono, colour, flora) and rate / review any of my work
• For each one that you do, one more copy of your name will go into the Hat Of Wonder And Hope
  

If you do this, it'll help me a lot, especially if your review doesn't just say "Great!" or similar. A sentence or two on how the piece makes you feel or what it reminds you of would be just fantastic!

And, of course, you get Kudos too because your 'head' will be against the review and people then get the link to your blog. Bonus!

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Winner Announcement - April freebie prize draw

...and the winner is.... Muza-chan

Muza-chan stood a much better chance than everyone else. In April she wrote four brief but thoughtful comments (i.e. reviews) against my work and that meant 5 entries in the Hat of Wonder and Hope.

So dear Muza-chan gets a signed mounted print of Knot A Rope Knot

Well done Muza-chan! ...and good luck to you all for the May freebie draw.

Remember, to be eligible, you must join/follow and be my connected friend. Then, for every thoughtful review made against my work during the month, one extra copy of your name will go in the Hat of Wonder and Hope!

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