Echoes Writing Challenge Winner

Well, I've received some wonderful responses to the writing challenge I issued.  To choose a winner, I used an online random number generator.  And the winner is ...

#11 - Andrea Cumming from Leschenault, Western Australia!  She won a $5 discount from our AuthorOne online bookstore.  Congrats Andrea!!!

The FMQ Challenge will be done in a couple days.  Those of you who have completed the 14 day continuous FMQing, let me or Joanne know by leaving a comment.  Two lucky winners will be chosen sometime this week.

For my bits of FMQ over the past (4 - really?) days, I worked a small bit everyday on the Star Table topper.  I finished the last two corners and then put feathers in one of the big wedges.  I still have a bit of background work to do there.  That was three days, actually.  The fourth day, I took a break and fooled around with an old sample I had.  It was one of the first FMQ things I did (you can tell by the funny shaped feather petals).  I wanted to see if I could make something ugly into something decent.  I did okay.  If I go liberated or artsy with the rest of this piece, I think it'll work.  I can also add embellishments to it to hide what ugly is still there.  I liked working with this because it enabled me to see how far I'd come.  Just look at that echoing!!!  I'm not fantastic now, but I'm loads better than that!  I think I'll try some alternate coloring in the echoes to see if I can get that better looking.

As far as my writing, I've been hard at work on the Grand Falls photo book.  I'm happy to report that I think it's finished.  We'll see when the next proof copies come.