Thank you VERY MUCH to everyone who voted in btvsats20in20 Round 15!  I won Close Crop, Light Texture, and 3rd Place Category Set.  Congratulations to crazycordy, sweet_lyri, midnightisclose!

Congratulations to the winners at whedon_elite Challenge 135 : nadya149, dixon, harlequinss_s, hermionesparkle, heterodynes, sweet_lyri; and for my Banner Maker's Choice Award, teragramm.  Congratulations! The theme this round was "red heads", check out all the winning entries and ( Read more... )

1) For slayerstillness Challenge 60 vote for your favorite icon for the third place position.

BTW, did you vote at btvsats20in20 Round 15 yet?  Good.  Now have you signed up for Round 16 yet?

2) And by the by, did you know that dragonyphoenix posted the artwork she commissioned from me for her excellent Anya/Snap crossover fic, The Letters (84 Charing Cross Road)?  (TTH post here.) But ( Read more... )

A collection of "random" pieces I have loved this year - click images or go to original links to view full size:
(ETA: This was a post that was meant to go on the buffyversetop5 and I hit the send button a couple of minutes too late. *Note to self: learn time management techniques!*)


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And for my very last fandom award and icon challenge of 2015 it's only fitting that the marvelous tempertemper made the banner:


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** Deadline for submissions to slayerstillness Challenge 54 "Roy G Biv" is today Friday Oct 9th midnight at your timezone. For this
    challenge we may submit up to seven icons rather than the usual five, one for each color in the rainbow. There are 31 entries so far and I love
    the theme so I'm expecting a real humdinger of a contest.

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THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who voted for my icons at slayerstillness Challenge 52 ! Wow! Thank you starry_night for the Mod's Choice Award, and congratulations to tempertemper and sweet_lyri!  Banners forthcoming from tempertemper and I can't wait to see what she comes up with. I feel like Pavlov's Dog, slavering eagerly for an impending treat (the banners).  Just call me Fido.  Except unlike poor Fido ( Read more... )

Congratulations again to the winners in btvsats20in20 Round 11, killing_kurare, kwritten, starry_night and yours Truly.  Here are my banners for the winning entries inclung BMC award. This was a fantastic round in terms of quality and artistry, and making banners is a wonderful chance to really appreciate the icons anew.


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VOTE HERE AND NOW AT btvsats20in20 Round 10: THEMES & CHARACTERS .

Remember that each post has 20 choices for you to make. You will in essence be voting on each icon twice (or not, as the case may be.) Last round we had four participants, this time it's eight. (Count 'em! Eight!) Last round I also waited until the last minute to really and truly promote ( Read more... )

When the incredibly talented and generous comlodge put out an open offer to personalize the FFL picspam banner set she made for Round 18 of seasonal_spuffy, I asked if she could put the top two close up images of James' and Sarah's faces into one banner, perhaps with a ghost image of the two of them on the back porch step in the center? And could she please keep that ( Read more... )

kikimay and snogged both celebrated birthdays recently, as have angearia, teragramm, leni_ba (far and away my favorite Bangel(us) author), pocochina, frelling_tralk, comlodge, chic_c, boot_the_grime and quinara and what have I done for any of these wonderful folks? Nothing, nada. I suck as a friend (but if only people would stop being born, please, it's so overwhelming.  ;-P)

This really doesn't make up for any of it, but kikimay has been  ( Read more... )