The Girlhood Gazette

Miss Jocelyn over at Feelin’ Feminine is hosting a fun Jane Austen blog “tour” and giving away some great prizes! As you’ll see from that button there, it ends today… so I’m participating rather last minute. Ah well, better late than never, right?! (Click the button to see more details).

The premise of the “tour” is to create a Jane Austen related post(s) on your blog and enter them into one of the several categories listed on Feelin’ Feminine. I decided to go with the Digital Art category since that was the easiest for me, being that I am a graphic designer. I created a wallpaper for your desktop, featuring Jane and Elizabeth Bennett (from Pride & Prejudice of course!).

One reason I went with Jane & Lizzy is because everyone seems to focus so much on Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, and everything revolves around them in most graphics, pictures, etc. But one of the things our family most enjoys about Pride & Prejudice is the relationship between the two sisters. They are obviously very close and they are each other’s confidantes and – gasp – they actually…. like each other! Which is something of a foreign concept in today’s society.

You are welcome to download the wallpaper for your own personal use; I just ask that you respect my copyright of the design and do not sell or distribute it (if you want your friends to have one too, just send them the link to this post). Please comment and let me know if you use it! Unfortunately those were the largest images I could find and so they are a little pixelated – my apologies for that!

How to download: Click on the image. It will open up in a larger size. Right click on it again (Mac users hold Control while clicking) and select “Save Image As…” Save it to your computer and apply as you would any other desktop wallpaper.

(Credit for photos: Eras of Elegance. In addition, images in this graphic are displayed in good faith as a fair use under 17 U.S.C. 107. Any copyright infringement is unintentional, and will be remedied immediately.)

Designed by www.PrairieRoseDesigns.com

Miss R.J. at VirtuousGirlhood.com is having her very first blog giveaway from Cover Your Hair! CYH carries cute hats, scarves, headbands, and more hair accessories. I personally like the berets and headbands with tails!

Check out THIS LINK and find out how to be entered to win a free headband!

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P.S. I just realized it is May and I still haven’t announced any details on this year’s writing contest. I can tell you one thing – I am thinking it will be another essay contest. I know many of you wanted a poetry contest, but here are my reasons: I am just better at writing essays myself, and feel I can judge it more fairly. I prefer rhyming poetry, which is not fair to those who write free verse. So… I promise, there WILL be a writing contest some time this year. Thanks for your patience!

Well, there are just chances for you to win stuff all over the place! This time it’s a DVD of Ken Ham giving a message titled “Top 10 questions about Genesis and Creation.”

This giveaway ends on Monday, May 11th. Hop over to Quiet-Mom.com to get the details and enter for your chance to win!

Oh, and the graphic giveaway on PrairieRoseDesigns.com ends at midnight tonight (May 8th).

Hope you win!!

April from Once Upon a Qpon interviewed me about Maidens of Virtue and at her blog you have a chance to win a free copy of The Hope Chest Record Book!

Check it out!

I just started a new website for graphic design, making custom headers, banners and buttons. I haven’t opened up for paid business yet because I need more experience working with people and doing what they want, instead of just me picturing something and making it.

So I am having a giveaway, and am giving away a free graphic – your choice. To be entered in the drawing, go to www.PrairieRoseDesigns.com and enter your name, email and website/blog (whatever site you would use the graphic for). You can get more entries when you tell your friends and they enter and mention your name.

I’ll announce a winner probably sometime in early May… exact date is not decided yet!

Miss Jocelyn over at A Pondering Heart is having a fabulous giveaway! She just posted week two of the giveaways and you have two days left to enter the week one giveaways. There are a ton of great prizes to be won; head on over and check it out!

Click here for the complete giveaway info!