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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.)

Tags: free stuff, jane austen, pride and prejudice

Lately I have seen a lot of Christian young ladies, particularly homeschooled ones, who are very enthusiastic, you might say, about Regency style fashions. I’ve been wondering if this style is really modest or not. Obviously most of the original gowns of the period were not, being very (very) low necked, but most girls these days are making them with higher necklines. But is the shape of the gown modest?

This is not going to be a long post about my opinion since I am still rather undecided myself. I have a poll up, and I would love it if you would vote and afterward, comment on this post with WHY you voted that way (why you think it is/isn’t modest).