I can't believe it. Thank you sooooo much Goldfest judges!! Jasmine will be pleased. :) She's such a purrfectionist in that nothing but winning is good enough. Typical for a cat. Well, Jasmine anyway. *sigh*

She doesn't even recognise my input for the design, taking the photos or anything. All she wants is her anchovies when she gets put to bed at night. Oh well. I'll just have to settle for a bottle of bubbly instead.

Thank you again :D

Samhain decorating!! Not that we celebrate it here in Oz (not as much as the US anyway), I took a couple of days to finish it. It was easy as we are in stocktake mode and it's BORING!!! Nothing to do as all the counting has been finished. Just waiting on the Auditors. I spent all day doing personal Photoshop stuff and it was brilliant! Boss couldn't say anything coz he was as bored as I was! LOL I think he surfed the internet all day.

If you want to make your own haunted house, just find a photo of a decrepit old building, add a few filters in photoshop to make it spooky (I used cutout and then adjusted the curves to darken the pic). Add a few touches of your own (lightning, ghosts, etc) and voila!

You can get ample brushes and custom shapes at the Adobe exchange (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/). You do need to register but it's well worth it as the amount of freebies in there is unbeliveable! My brushes folder for Photoshop has over 100 brushes in it now. I use them for everything. If you can't find something in there to use then you are truly picky! *G*

Enjoy Samhain! :D

is finally up in time for Bast Fest. Jasmine's looking forward to that! ;D

Plus a couple of Egyptian scenes I've been working on. You can see one in my "courtyard" or "Sailing on the Nile" room. Anyway, it's a start...

Quite frankly, this type of behaviour is NOT acceptable. There are no rules about posting in any world as long as people follow the Code of Conduct.

If anyone is subjected to grams or messages on their boards saying that they can't post in other worlds (and even contacted outside AW), they are to report it to a Demi or Scribe and it will be followed up straightaway.

Don't forget to come back as I'm constantly updating it and will be updating it until the "last minute".

If you forget, there is a plaque in my entrance. Click on the Goldfest plaque and it will take you straight to it!

I hope you enjoy Goldfest 06!

Disclamer:

Goldfest is proudly brought to you by the Demi's/Scribes and volunteers of each world. All events are subject to participation and no correspondence will be entered into if you don't win.

Prizes are not redeemable for cash (only site currency where specified).

Competitions are open to all AW residents (daylings, citizens, novices and patrons) except Demi's, Scribe's and all alternate persona of the aforementioned. However, they are allowed to participate but are ineligible for prizes.

Goldfest starts 20th October 9am @ AW time and concludes October 28th midnight (or thereabouts).

Apologies for making this journal entry last soooo looooong on the main board message page. *G*

Just make sure you have fun and everything after that is a bonus. :D

Enjoy!