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Prize 1 starts off with a $50 gift certificate to Clockwork Couture, the first and best clothier devoted exclusively to steampunk fashion, where you can purchase countless gorgeous costuming elements for ladies and gents.
The first prize also comes with one bottle of a perfume oil blend from the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Phoenix Steamworks collection, a series of scents designed to represent the steampunker within us even when we’re in jeans and a t-shirt. The crucial question: do you want to smell more like The Antikythera Mechanism or The Obsidian Widow?
Prize 2 is two passes to the The Steampunk World’s Fair, which will be held on the weekend of May 14th, 2010, in Piscataway, New Jersey. The World’s Fair is the first major steampunk convention in the Northeast and promises an absurd array of retrofuturistic delights, including a Chrononaut’s Jubilee Ball, the Cup of Brown Joy Tea Party, a Murder Mystery Dinner, a Cabaret, a Gentleman’s Duel, a Mad Science Fair, and maybe even a Steampunk Rock Opera.
The winner of Prize 2 will also get a 5ml bottle of Phoenix Steamworks perfume.
Prize 3 is a ridiculously gorgeous “gold” Victorian/Steampunk-style watch. It has a filigree front; a clear back, so you can see the gears at work; and a glow-in-the-dark face to illuminate your nefarious business.
And—you guessed it—the winner of Prize 3 will also get a bottle of Phoenix Steamworks perfume.
And what about us honorable mentions? Each person who receives an honorable mention will also get a scent of their choice from the Phoenix Steamworks perfume line.
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All three entries were really neat, and I couldn't decide between them, so I chose at random. abdoggett and her fudge-stealing dog have won the Chocolate Covered Kindle Contest!Thanks for playing, and for the blog readers, thanks for reading!
abdoggett , message me you snail mail for your prize. :)http://spiziks.livejournal.com/160712.ht
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It's summer! Time to indulge! Indulge in lazy afternoons. Indulge in luscious summer reading. Indulge in yummy treats. Like chocolate.
To celebrate summer, chocolate, and the release of the Silent Empire books on the Kindle, I'm holding the Chocolate Covered Kindle Contest.
To enter:
1. Post your favorite true anecdote involving chocolate.
2. The anecdote can be sensual, romantic, cute, heart-tugging, funny, anything you like--but it must be true. (No sex stories, please! That's a contest of a different kind.)
3. Entries will be judged on how interesting they are and how full of chocolatey goodness they are.
4. Deadline is Tuesday, June 30 at 5:00 p.m.
5. The winner will receive an autographed copy of a Silent Empire book of his or her choice--and a bar of delicious chocolate.
As an example: When Aran was three, I baked a batch of chocolate brownies and put them on the counter to cool. Aran looked at them longingly, but I told him they were too hot to eat yet, so he shouldn't touch them. Then I took him out into the back yard, where I had yard work to finish. A few minutes later, I heard Aran crying inside the house. I ran inside and found him in the kitchen wearing a pair of oven mitts. The mitts and his face were smeared with chocolate. He had snuck back into the house, but he remembered that the brownies were too hot, so he put on the oven mitts. But then he discovered he couldn't get at the brownies with his hands covered. I felt awful--I didn't know how much the brownies meant to him. I cut him one and gave him a fork, and he was so very happy. [This falls into the "cute" category.]
What can you share with us?
And be sure to check out DREAMER http://www.amazon.com/Dreamer-Novel-Sile
I have to say this contest really took me back to the various dangerous things I did as a kid, some condoned and some not. And it's incredible that anyone manages to reach adulthood! :) Or maybe it's incredible how frightened we've become as a society. Are merry-go-rounds and teeter-totters really so dangerous? How many neighborhoods really are so unsafe that kids can't be allowed to roam? Is it possible, or even desirable, to eliminate all danger from kids' lives?
At any rate, it was impossible to choose a single winner out of the fifty-odd responses, so I was forced to choose the top three. (Even that was difficult.) Winners were based on 1) how closely it came to the requirements of the original question (the dangerous activity had to be condoned by society Back Then but outlawed now) and 2) how hair-raising the activity was in purely my opinion.
I did sort-of disqualify people who I see FTF, since they can have a copy of one of my books anytime they like. :)
TOP THREE (IN THE ORDER THEY WERE POSTED)
(Anonymous) (205.188.117.134) wrote:
Jan. 17th, 2009 03:02 pm (UTC)
The summer camp I attended from ages 12 - 14 specialized in outdoorsmanship, and we went hiking all over the Adirondacks. To get from the camp to the trailheads, we'd ride in ex-Army deuce-and-half trucks, the classic "canvas-top" kind with two longitudinal benches down each side. We'd cram onto the benches, with all our packs heaped in the center space (no seat-belts, and the gear not strapped down) and go bouncing over mountain roads, around hairpin turns with sheer drops. The only thing keeping anyone from falling out the back was a low tailgate and a chain (the counselors sat on the end seats for "safety.").
My response: Yikes! Made my stomach lurch just reading about it. An accident, a sudden stop, or even a huge bump, and you'd have camper stew.
(Anonymous) (141.157.75.146) wrote:
Jan. 17th, 2009 03:11 pm (UTC)
Danger...
I once caught some scorpions that were on my parents bedroom wall, put them in a glass jelly jar and took them to school. I got in trouble--not for bringing the scorpions--but because they were in a GLASS jar and kids might get cut if it broke.
annycook67@yahoo.com
My response: Of course it was the jar that was the problem. This is a SCHOOL, after all . . .
[info]sartorias (75.80.116.146) wrote:
Jan. 17th, 2009 04:47 pm (UTC)
Kids used to put quarters into the x-ray machines at Innes Shoes to see their own bones. (We didn't because my mom wouldn't let us--not with three kids, which meant almost an entire dollar wasted. I remember how bitterly we whined, especially when we saw other kids getting their school shoes who got to put in quarter after quarter.)
My response: And today the x-ray tech dives behind a lead-lined wall before dosing a patient with any type of x-ray. Who knew radiation could cause so much trouble?
Anonymous, Anny, and Sartorias, please drop me a note either here at LiveJournal or at spiziks-atsign-sff-dot-net . Let me know which book you'd like, who to sign it to, and where to send it.
This was fun, everyone!
--Steven
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So the question is:
Back in the Old Days, what did you routinely do, or were you allowed to do, that would be outlawed today as Totally Unsafe?
Post your answers here. Whichever one I judge the most hair-raising by Wednesday, January 21 will win an autographed copy of GHOST WHISPERER: PLAGUE ROOM or BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: UNITY or STAR TREK VOYAGER: THE NANOTECH WAR, winner's choice.
The post must be true, and it must be something that our society used to think was fine but now finds unsafe. (Jumping off the garage roof into a patch of poison ivy was still frowned on fifty years ago, even though kids may have tried it.)
For example, when I was a kid, my parents owned a pickup truck with a single bench seat. There wasn't quite enough room for everyone to sit, so I usually stood in the little gap behind the seat and the rear wall of the cab. An accident would have sent me straight through the glass. And none of us wore seatbelts anyway, so my family would probably have joined me.
What did you do?
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