Thank you :) I always feel a little weird bragging around here, but I just don't know where else to put the beautiful banners, and I'm absolutely stoked about the nominations and needed to thank the ones who did it.
(Also, I'm pretty proud of the awards; I'm doing this since...May (?), and I've never done anything art-wise before. I'm still stunned by any vote for one of my icons in challenges...)
Glad to hear you seem to have "easier" students than last year.
Congratulations on your awards* They're all very much deserved! And you did a lot better than I did in the first lims challenge, as my icon was voted the almost-worst of the bunch! Which one was yours, if I may ask? I thought almost all icons in the challenge were very good.
I liked your icon much better than mine (it's the BuffyBot) and was really, really glad that only one maker had to go this time! I thought the not-quite-sharpness of yours together with the not really identifiable shadow in the background gave the icon a dreamy quality, which I really liked!
I think it's a sign of the overall quality of all the icons that people latch onto what can be seen as a fault, which in this case was the lack of sharpness, deliberate or not. It's exactly what I feel right now, trying to decide which one of the new icons to vote out while thinking they are all very, very good. It's nitpicking, and since everybody nitpicks according to their own personal preferences it doesn't really say much about how good an icon really is. Difficult.
I liked your icon much better than mine (it's the BuffyBot)
Thanks! I wasn't very satisfied with my own icon though; it was really bland compared to the others. (And yes, it was deliberately blurry, but I should have been more subtle about applying the blur.) I much preferred yours. I loved the text and the background in combination with the perky Buffybot.
I completely agree with what you say about nitpicking / looking for faults. I am also having a really difficult time selecting two icons to vote out.
'compared to the others' - This is often what happens to me; I'm fairly content with what I did, and then it's displayed between all the others, and suddenly it looks too dark, or too saturated, not sharp enough or too sharp. Or, you know, too bland (and I don't agree with you there, even though I can see why you would think so).
I still love it :) Also, I still love very much this Willow icon (and it's so much better than the one of the same cap from the first challenge (which I voted out). Apart from the other reasons that were mentioned from those who voted it out, none of which applied to your version, yours emphasizes so much better Willows loneliness in that moment! I really love it and it deserved to be mod's choice in that challenge.
It kind of always is busy for me. I think I felt it more during the last weeks because I was really anxious about the new students and how my second son's new class will turn out to be, since he had some difficulties during the last years with his classmates. Fortunately the new ones were all completely unknown to him before, so it was a really fresh start for him which went pretty well :)
Yes, I have four children, three sons and the youngest is a girl. I call her my bonbon, since she wasn't really expected to join the family, but decided otherwise and as a bonus turned out to be a girl after three boys :)
Congrats to the new class. Bad beginnings don't mean that you can't turn things around, but it sure must feel much better to work on positive attitudes that are already there from start. Hope you got everything ready for your new class - and that you still were able to actually relax and enjoy your holidays too. I'm slowly getting more energy now and have started that necessary big cleaning of my home, one project after the other. Things are relatively good at work. And the weather is tropical!!
' it sure must feel much better to work on positive attitudes that are already there from start' - it sure does!!!
I had everything ready, and all the work I did during school break is really paying off now. I'm surprisingly relaxed considering tomorrow starts a new week :)
I'm glad things seem to be good at work (sent you an email...)!! And I guess the weather is the same as it is here, and I love it!!!
Good Luck with your new students - teaching children and being responsible for them is something I could never take on. You Are A Very Special Lady. LOL, just the idea of driving kids around scares me.
Congratulations on your winning icons - I love the Anya Bunny but all are very good.
Thank you :) They are nothing compared to your wonderful art, though...
'teaching children and being responsible for them is something I could never take on ' - well, I think I couldn't do anything else. Sitting in an office every day for eight hours or more for example sounds cruel to me. (And there's really nothing special at all about me.)
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I always feel a little weird bragging around here, but I just don't know where else to put the beautiful banners, and I'm absolutely stoked about the nominations and needed to thank the ones who did it.
(Also, I'm pretty proud of the awards; I'm doing this since...May (?), and I've never done anything art-wise before. I'm still stunned by any vote for one of my icons in challenges...)
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Congratulations on your awards* They're all very much deserved! And you did a lot better than I did in the first lims challenge, as my icon was voted the almost-worst of the bunch! Which one was yours, if I may ask? I thought almost all icons in the challenge were very good.
*ETA: and nomination!
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I think it's a sign of the overall quality of all the icons that people latch onto what can be seen as a fault, which in this case was the lack of sharpness, deliberate or not. It's exactly what I feel right now, trying to decide which one of the new icons to vote out while thinking they are all very, very good. It's nitpicking, and since everybody nitpicks according to their own personal preferences it doesn't really say much about how good an icon really is. Difficult.
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Thanks! I wasn't very satisfied with my own icon though; it was really bland compared to the others. (And yes, it was deliberately blurry, but I should have been more subtle about applying the blur.) I much preferred yours. I loved the text and the background in combination with the perky Buffybot.
I completely agree with what you say about nitpicking / looking for faults. I am also having a really difficult time selecting two icons to vote out.
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I still love it :)
Also, I still love very much this Willow icon (and it's so much better than the one of the same cap from the first challenge (which I voted out). Apart from the other reasons that were mentioned from those who voted it out, none of which applied to your version, yours emphasizes so much better Willows loneliness in that moment! I really love it and it deserved to be mod's choice in that challenge.
There. :)
Good luck for this round's voting!
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It kind of always is busy for me. I think I felt it more during the last weeks because I was really anxious about the new students and how my second son's new class will turn out to be, since he had some difficulties during the last years with his classmates. Fortunately the new ones were all completely unknown to him before, so it was a really fresh start for him which went pretty well :)
Yes, I have four children, three sons and the youngest is a girl. I call her my bonbon, since she wasn't really expected to join the family, but decided otherwise and as a bonus turned out to be a girl after three boys :)
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I had everything ready, and all the work I did during school break is really paying off now. I'm surprisingly relaxed considering tomorrow starts a new week :)
I'm glad things seem to be good at work (sent you an email...)!!
And I guess the weather is the same as it is here, and I love it!!!
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Congratulations on your winning icons - I love the Anya Bunny but all are very good.
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'teaching children and being responsible for them is something I could never take on ' - well, I think I couldn't do anything else. Sitting in an office every day for eight hours or more for example sounds cruel to me.
(And there's really nothing special at all about me.)
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