In April Wilde Imagination anounced the 6th Annual Poetry Contest. I'm a relative newbie to Wilde Imagination & Tonner, as I bought my first Ellowyne doll in May 2013, so I didn't even know they had poetry contests, until I got an email from them.
http://www.wildeimagination.com/ennui-poetry-contest
Although english isn't my mothertongue, I decided to take up the challenge, and have a go at it.
And I managed to send in my poem the last day of the contest, nothing better than a deadline when it comes to getting productive!
This was my entry:
Every day I try to escape my ennui,
Pru keeps telling me life can be lots of fun for me,
Lizette is like her beautiful exotic birds,
While Rufus joins a club of nerds,
But one look from Amber is all I need,
To make me sigh and let my heart bleed.
A few weeks later Tonner Dolls organised a Story Contest.
http://www.tonnerdoll.com/half-pint-story-contest
Each and every entry will receive the Tonner 20th Anniversary DVD, so again I decided it would be worth a try. This time I got inspired a couple of days before the deadline and wrote a story which was based on some of my mums childhood adventures.
I sent my entry the 2nd of May, and much to my surprise, yesterday I already received my copy of the DVD, so this was really so fast!
The DVD is well worth watching, very interesting and inspiring!
I decided to go to bed early, as I fell on my tail bone a couple of weeks ago. So lying in bed I spent some time on facebook, and when I felt it was time to really go to sleep, my husband came upstairs, and told me there was an email that I had won a 3rd prize in the poetry contest!!!!!!
Well, of course I had to go downstairs and check my email:
Hi sweet lady!
Congrats!! You are one of our 3rd Place
WINNERS in the Ellowyne Poetry Contest...
So many amazing entries, trust me, picking
the winning poems wasn't easy...with placing in the TOP 3 you will receive the
lovely little Ennui Poetry Book, I'll be sending it to your address you provided
below...I'll also be sure to send an email receipt to you too so you know it's
been ordered, going to try to get these in and done this week! (As we are off to
convention next week)
Thanks again, such fun to read and savor
and we had many people "weigh in" on them, ultimately Robert made those final
decisions, so sweet!
THANKS so much!
Enjoy!
Michelle
As you may be able to imagine I had a hard time going to sleep after that! It was so much excitement, a real adrenalin rush pumping through my body!
A huge thank you to Tonner & Wilde Imagination for organising these fun contests!
