Little Miss Sunshine - WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

[tbpear16]

No there's one more round after this. And Strangel and Nathan are both working on their entries, and I'm assuming Bitsy is too since she's usually very prompt and she's committed and everything.

I'm excited to see the entries, though. *hint hint*

[Bitsy]

Sorry my mother flew in for a suprise visit on friday and she just went home today. We were expecting my in-laws from friday until today, but throw my mother into the mix and everything went pear shaped! I was planning on having my entry in tommorrow if not tonight none the less. I made sure I at least had the story planned out already. Sorry, I should have posted something warning you guys before this! They are gone now so I'm booting into Sims as we speak.

[tbpear16]

It's really no problem. I guess people have been busy lately! The deadline isn't til Wednesday, so you have some time.

[ChickenSensei]

Eeeee... I don't have any time to work on this today; but tomorrow is the beginning of the weekend, which gives me some time to work on it I have the plotline all planned out, just need to take pics...

[SocialBunny22223]

Ooooh. Today's the deadline.

[PhoebethePreble]

Uh-oh! Looks like you're gonna need to give an extension, tbpear. By the way, I love this competition, and if you do a second season, I would totally enter!

[Strangel]

My pictures are done but I need to know which ones to post. See, she's making a scrapbook. I framed each picture but then I went back and duplicated them to put "glitter", a pencil, pins, paperclips, etc on the images.

This is what they look like:



So.. is this allowed? Because I do have a complete set without any "scrapbook clutter". The glitter is just single bits of metallic confetti in shapes like stars, squares and circles.

[ChickenSensei]

WOO! DOONE!

Okay, I've formatted this entry a bit differently..it consists of an opening narration by May Belle of her vacation and where she goes, then it goes to a bunch of pictures she took over her vacation taped onto her dresser. There aren't any captions for the pictures, just the ones May Belle drew/wrote onto them Anyway, here it is ^^

And here are some clarifications just incase you're interested...her favourite spot is Louisana, United States. However, she spells it Luiseeana, and she pronounces it "Leesiana".
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Hey everyone! It's May Belle again, and this time I just got back from my vacation visiting gramma in 'Leesiana! I love going there, because I get to see my favourite gramma who makes the BESTEST coconut macaroons! Yummy! When I'm in 'Leesiana, I love to go fishing (but I always let the fish go back in the water, since fish like water a lot) and I love to go swimming in gramma's pool, with her super-fun slide and her pool noodles! I also like helping her in her garden, and this year she let me make my VERY OWN GARDEN!!! I can't wait to tell my friends that *MY* gramma has a swimming pool!!

[SocialBunny22223]

Aaah! So cute! I love her spelling .

[tbpear16]

Great entry Nathan! And Strangel- that's fully acceptable. And Bitsy, if you want to do fun photo-editing shtuff too, that's okay.

You're ed, Nathan, and I look forward to seeing Bitsy and Strangel's entries!!

[Strangel]

My Summer Vacation By Sheba Tellerman-Jarvis

This summer we went to a place called Hanalei Bay, Kauai. It's part of Hawaii! It was my first trip away from Pixie World, where we live. We stayed at a hotel and went swimming.



They had a really cool water slide..





And we went to something called a LOO-wow! They buried a whole huge pig in the sand and there were hula girls dancing...



Daddy had a little bit of a problem..



I took this one all by myself!



The End.

I know they said I should only show you six pictures, but I liked these too. But don't worry, you don't have to use them. I just like them and wanted to show you.





(in other words, these last ones aren't part of my entry, they're just "OHHH lookie what I caught!" pictures that didn't make the final cut when deciding which six to post.)

[tbpear16]

Great entry, Strangel! I love all the photo editing... it's just enough to make it look extra special.

You're !

[Bitsy]

I'm really sorry, RL has been crazy recently and I only have half of the pictures done. I will finish the other half first thing tommorrow morning! Sorry for making you all wait and dragging the competition like this.

[tbpear16]

That's okay. I just hope you can get your entry in soon - I can't wait to see it!

[Bitsy]

Alithiel Iirlanth
Please click images to enlarge.

When Aunt Relkaea told me we would be spending the last month of summer in a distant land I thought it would be the best adventure yet! She said it would be a suprise so no matter how many times or how many different ways I tried to ask my aunt and uncle where we were going they always just smiled and shook their head. I figured we would journey for days on end, maybe even to the other side of the world of the Real! I thought we'd get to put our hair in cool 'dos and wear pure white clothing and participate in special rituals of a foreign land. How cool would that be?

Family Shot


Yeah. That didn't happen. It still turned out to be an amazing adventure! What my aunt and uncle didn't tell me was the path back to the world of the Faerie was now safe. The War had ended. They wanted to suprise me and take me back home for a whole month to celebrate the Time of Change from summer to fall. A very sacred time for our people. It was amazing! We arrived at the Sacred Grotto, located just to the other side of the forest of NeverNever, right when the festivities were about to start. The Grotto is a series of stone walls and columns from the days when man walked freely among the elves that is now open to the air and the sun and the elves.

Close Up


It took several days to get there and after that last long days hike I was thirsty! While my aunt and uncle went to greet old friends I snuck over to a fountain that had beautiful cascades of clear, sparkling water and extended my cupped hand for a drink. After taking several mouthfuls I saw my uncle start to look for me. When he came over he looked at the fountain and then back at me kinda worried. He asked me if I had touched the water. When I shook my head no, he said good because the water here in the Sacred Grotto does funny things to people. Uh-oh. I hope I don't get in trouble! I was just so thirsty!

Freestyle


While the adults talked, the kids were gathering around the brush fire. It had been so long since I had been around so many of my kind I was eager to join them. Imagine my suprise when I saw a boy with very light blonde hair! Normally my people have hair that is shades of red. I don't care what color people's hair is normally, but this boy's was so very different. It almost seemed to shimmer in the sunlight, like spun gold. I think I stared at his hair for too long because he got huffy and stomped over to me and asked me if I had a problem. I said no, but he was so touchy about his hair that he seemed to think my no might as well have been a yes. To the delight of all the other kids he challenged me to a Duel. A duel of magic. I'd only read about Duels, I'd certaintly never been in one! But, I wasn't about to let the name Iirlanth down!

Full Body


We squared off against each other on the far side of the Grotto where we were sure the adults wouldn't find us. I took a deep breath and tried my best to relax and focus just like Eralla taught me to. I glared at this boy, whose name I didn't even know! Why did he have to start things like this? I didn't mean anything by it when I looked at his stupid hair! I closed my eyes and gathered my magic to me... and that's when everything went pear shaped.

A loud KA-BOOM went off and all of a sudden jolts of magic started going through me in short bursts. It flowed out of my arms in the form of bolts of electicity that were blue and green, I wasn't the only one having problems, the boy's magic also was flowing out of him the same way. When it locked onto mine it created a never ending flow, Calle would have called it a circuit. Our magic flowed back and forth between us in circles of electricity whose sound became higher and higher pitched as it went. I thought I heard my aunt behind me gasp and my uncle Tylesh shout. Then I blacked out.

Freestyle


When I came to, it was to find out that the boy and I were the talk of the Grotto. Apparently I wasn't the only one who had snuck a drink at one of those beautiful fountains, the boy had too! The elders said they were suprised I had maintained control of so much magic for so long and were impressed when they heard I was being taught by Eralla. They said I still had a lot to learn, and my first lesson was to stay away from the sacred water!

Family Shot


My aunt and uncle said that I was in a lot of trouble. But, that for the duration of the vacation I could stay and celebrate my heritage and hopefully mend bridges with the boy who I had so insulted. Of course, as soon as we got back to Bordertown I was going to be grounded. Big time.

My uncle said he had no idea why I was looking at some boy's hair in the first place. Then my aunt got this sly smile on her face and said she thought she knew. She asked me, didn't that elf from those books I liked so much have blonde hair? What was his name again? Leggless? Oh I was so embarrased. I could see my uncle Tylesh's lips start to twitch and he told me my leaves were burning, then my aunt Relkaea started to giggle. And, I just know some of the other elves heard what they said too! I said I didn't care what color hair that stupid boy had! But, I couldn't be heard over my aunt's and uncle's laughter.

[tbpear16]

Wonderful entry! Haha it made me laugh. Leggless... pretty

All right - ROUND 5 ENDS HERE! Let judging commence!

[avemonster]

I sent my judgings in. Awesome job, everybody!!!

[tbpear16]

Now we're just waiting on seqkat! I'll PM her.

[seqkat]

My judgings are in! Sorry for the slight delay, the last couple of weeks have been hectic.

I just wanted to congratulate all our lovely contestants- the girls are so pretty and their entries are all so unique that it just gets harder to mark anyone down at all!

[tbpear16]

All right! Currently I'm moving into a different room in the house, so I technically shouldn't be on the computer. ><

All judgings/results will be in tonight!! :D