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It’s a dark gloomy day here in Vancouver. I need to be cheered up by hearing about some of your wins! Tell me about the contests you have entered and what you won. Don’t be shy … any win will help lift my spirits!
First click on the Cheer me up title … then enter your comment into the box. Your email address will NOT be published.
I am really LOOKING FORWARD to hearing about your wins! Maybe it will help the sun shine through!
Melanie
Written by guru on October 20th, 2006 with 17 comments.
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This is a very unusual contest. If you are a designer you may want to give this design challenge a try.
The contest challenge is to design a unique FONT for the “Creating Keepsakes Message Board.”
Entries will be accepted through Friday, October 20. We’ll narrow down the entries to 5 finalists, and then it’s your turn to vote on the winner! Voting will take place October 27- November 3. The winning font will be called CK Message Board, and the winner will receive $200 and a $50 gift certificate to scrapnfonts.com.
All participants will receive a coupon good for 30% off one purchase at http://www.scrapnfonts.com/.
Deadline: October 20, 2006
Eligibility: USA and Canada
Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols
Written by guru on October 14th, 2006 with no comments.
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What does this have to do with contests? NOTHING! Be sure to add YOUR laws to the list.
LAWS OF THE NATURAL UNIVERSE
Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease,
your nose will begin to itch or you’ll have to pee.
Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least
accessible corner.
Law of Probability: The probability of being watched is directly
proportional to the stupidity of your act.
Law of the Telephone: If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy
signal.
Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were
in will start to move faster than the one you are in now (works every
time).
Law of the Bath: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone
rings.
Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know
increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t
work, it will.
Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional
to the reach.
Law of the Theatre: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest
from the aisle arrive last.
Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss
will ask you to do something, which will last until the coffee is cold.
Murphy’s Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room,
they will have adjacent lockers.
Law of Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing
face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and
cost of the carpet/rug.
Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.
Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you
are talking about.
Brown’s Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.
Wilson ’s Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they
will stop making it.
Here’s MY addition …
Murphy’s Law of the Movie Theater:
If you are sitting in a perfectly empty theatre, two bonehead, noisy teenagers will come and sit DIRECTLY in front of you.
Enjoy your encounter with “the laws”
Melanie
Written by guru on August 31st, 2006 with 1 comment.
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At the bottom of the posts (individual display pages) there is this:
[+] Digg: Feature this article
[+] Del.icio.us: Bookmark this article
[+] Furl: Bookmark this article
I know I’m displaying my complete ignorance out in public for everyone to witness. Here’s the deal, I’m working with a new wordpress template and it has all these nifty things built in. Problem is I haven’t got the slightest idea what they are.
Can anyone tell me what to do with them, because I am SURE if you click on them NOTHING will happen. OH and while you are telling me what I need to do with them, can you tell me why I need to do it?
Oh second thought I really haven’t clicked on the links, cause I’m afraid something might blow up.
Sheesh. TOO much to learn.
Melanie
The CONTEST guru … not the BLOGGING Guru (yet … but I’ll probably get there someday).
Written by guru on August 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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I am looking for several volunteers to help out with the blog. If you have a special interest area … writing … poetry … photography … cooking … fr.ee stuff … and would like to make posts in the blog once a week or so, let me know. I’ll be asking volunteers to write a few sample posts and then I’ll have to choose and create permissions for posting.
If you want to be a volunteer blogger, please enter a comment letting me know what area of contesting you are interested in. Be sure to put your correct email address so I can get back to you. Your email address will NOT show up on the blog.
Looking forward to talking to you!
Melanie Rockett
THE contest GURU!
Written by guru on August 26th, 2006 with 8 comments.
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All the contests listing are at the Proof Positive.com site. That’s were they started out and that’s where they will be for a few more months.
I tried one database program here at Contest Guru but is was so hard to use I gave up. I am going to experiment with two different programs at the proofpositive.com site … and I’ll let YOU decide which one you like the best.
Once you’ve voted … I’ll move the database over here.
If you scroll down and look at the FAVORITE SITES section on the side panel … there are links to each of the contest lists. Be sure to bookmark your favorites … or just bookmark this site and keep on coming back here.
Here’s the list:
Cooking Contests with Deadlines
Cooking Contests — Ongoing
Photo Contests — Deadline
Photo Contests — Ongoing
Writing and Poetry Contests With Deadlines
Written by guru on August 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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Welcome to Contest Guru’s NEWS. This blog is all about … duh … contests. We focus on contests of skill and daring do … vs sweepstakes types of contests. So if you are a writer, a poet, a photographer, a designer, a cook or anyone who likes to get their creative genes into play … you are in the right place.
I’ll have articles and contest notices for you. I’ll try and feature the really cool contests I find and some of the ones that really make me mad.
Do feel free to particpate. Tell us about contests that aren’t listed in the contest database … and tell us when you’ve won something so we can go and take a peek at your winning entry.
YES … all comments are moderated so forget about slimeing up the blog with spam.
Have a really fabulous day!
WIN SOMETHING and tell us about it.
Melanie Rockett
THE Contest Guru
Written by guru on August 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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