Part 2 - Challenge! Presidents' Day International

[kiavonne]

Thank you, DanF and Adalwolfa13! You both made it in before the deadline!

[kiavonne]

PART TWO OF THE PRESIDENTS' DAY INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE IS NOW COMPLETE!

NO FURTHER ENTRIES WILL BE CONSIDERED!

 

I WILL REVIEW ALL THE ENTRIES SUBMITTED AND WILL ANNOUNCE THE CHALLENGE CHAMPION AND WINNER OF THE $250 PRIZE PACKAGE THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 2014, AT APPROXIMATELY 6:00 P.M. MOUNTAIN TIME (I'M IN COLORADO, USA).

 

THANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!

[kiavonne]

Well, I'm ready a little bit early. How about you?

 

I don’t know about you all, but I had a ton of fun with this challenge!

 

I spent a lot of time writing interesting and difficult practice sentences, and I spent a lot of time debating the final outcome. Trust me, this was not easy! All of the entries were fun and creative!

 

But, in the end, there can be only one (so the Highlander claims)…

 

MY CHAMPION AND THE WINNER OF THE PRESIDENTS’ DAY INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE IS:

 

the flexistentialist!

 

 

Congratulations, the flexistentialist!

 

Please PM me with your name, full mailing address, and a valid email address within 2 weeks max (today is fine, too ), and I will then share with you how to claim your grand prize of Edison Pen and gift certificate from the Goulet Pen Company ($250 total value), and I will explain how arrangements were made to pay your shipping costs!

 

Well done!

 

 

But wait…

 

I AM NOT DONE, YET!

 

(…and, no, I did not know this was coming either - it wasn’t planned, it was impulsively done when the challenge officially ended and champion chosen)

 

This really was a challenge for me to pick the champion out of so many wonderful entries. Although I cannot match the grand prize for everyone else, nor can I pick up the shipping costs for everyone else, each of the remaining persons who submitted practice sentence entries in Part 2 of the challenge will also receive a small thank you from me in the form of a $35 gift certificate from the Goulet Pen Company for having participated in my quest. The resulting sentences/ stories/poems are fanciful, thoughtful and intriguing, to say the least, and all were a joy for me to see (and write).

 

So, congratulations and a $35 gift certificate is awarded to each of these seven runners up: Apprenti, MINItron, bokchoy, DanF, attika89, kingcobradude, and Adalwolfa13!

 

Please PM me with your names, full mailing addresses, and valid email addresses within 2 weeks, and I will share with you how to claim your gift certificates!

 

Finally, in parting, I will post all of the entries submitted in a new thread called “Difficult Words Practice Sentences” and link to the difficult words list for all to enjoy in the future. I hope everyone will visit it often and add more sentences and practice stories for everyone to share and discuss over fun and creativity for improving our writing. Never mind the sentences are not perfect grammatically or even with perfect flow, they are there to challenge us and help us improve in areas that are difficult for us when we write.

 

Thank you, everyone!

 

Kimy

 

A special thanks also goes out to Brian Gray of Edison Pen Company and Brian Goulet of Goulet Pen Company for allowing me to use their products and services, respectively, for my challenge.

[the flexistentialist]

That is so incredibly generous! I can't say how fantastic this experience has been. Thank you so very much!!!!!!!!!! My month has been totally made! I shall be visiting the new thread often – looking for more inspiration. Consider me "a watcher."

 

Thank you again,

Th flexinstentialiist

[bokchoy]

Oh my goodness, that's beyond generous of you! Thank-you so much! I'll definitely be participating in the difficult sentence thread!

[Adalwolfa13]

Thank you so much for creating such a fun contest and being so very generous with the prizes. This was just what I needed to break me out of my shell and get me to start participating on this wonderful site.

[MINItron]

I am so happy for the generous prizes. I have already made my order. A new Noodler's Nib Creaper, some spare o-rings, a spare nib, and a bunch of ink samples.

[attika89]

Huge congrats flexistentialist!

 

Kimy, you are amazingly generous!
It makes me really happy! Thank you very much for creating this challenge!

[kingcobradude]

Thank you Kimy for your generosity. I have already placed my order as well. Bottle of Noodler's bulletproof black, R&K Verdura, and a Rhodia dot pad. this site is really dragging me on the path of too many pens and inks.

Edited February 18, 2014 by kingcobradude

[Apprenti]

Thank you Flexistentialist for the fantastic practice sentences! The prize couldn't have gone to a more deserving individual, and I'm so happy you won

 

And thank you Kimy for the gift all the runners up are receiving! That's very generous of you and I'm sure everyone else is as grateful to you as I am

 

Thanks,

Joe

[DanF]

Thanks Kimy for this fun contest and very generous extension of prizes. Congrats to the Flexist'

 

Dan

[GouletPens]

Wow, Kimy, that is so awesome of you! Honest to goodness everyone, she completely decided to do this on her own, she actually didn't tell me about the additional winners until after she'd already posted about it here. Kimy, you are definitely special, and I feel honored that you'd include me in such a fun and exciting contest here (and that you'd support my store in this way).

[MINItron]

The goodies are here! I feel truly blessed by your generosity. This Noodler's Nib Creaper is an even better pen, straight out of the box than my very nice Ahab. I think there may be a full bottle of J. Herbin Rouge Hematite in my future. No bleed or feather even when flexes on my cheap Mead notebook.

[the flexistentialist]

That is lovely! And so very fast! I'm eagerly awaiting the Edison Premiere in pearlized purple (who doesn't love a pen with alliteration built right in?) and some Lamy Safaris to use at work. As soon as the package gets here, I'll be practicing at lunch with fine nibs instead of pencils. Can't wait!

 

Thanks so much!!!!!!

the flexistentialist

[Apprenti]

Awesome, it's so nice to see you won't be stuck using pencils anymore!