A contest!

That's right girls, the time is upon us! 

I've just glanced at the polls and it seems at least 2 of the prospective contest participants want me to announce three different genre's for them to pick from but 3 would rather I allow them to draw whatever, so since that's what one out that's is what we'll do! However I am a terrible judge when I have to pick between a beautiful portrait of a person or one of an animal to be the best..so maybe we should limit this to people only? I feel like you can't judge them the same since they're different genre's.

So everyone okay with that?

RULES

. Only one drawing per person 

. Must post on your blog and link to this post 

. Must leave the link to your post in the comments of this one

. Brownie points for color! (it's not actually a rule, but I do LOVE colors)

. Must turn in your submissions before or by May 3'rd 

OKAY now that we've settled that pull out your pencils, pens, and colors 

The Winning Drawings will be judged by me :) of course, and anyone may enter as long as they follow the previously stated rules. 

Finally Have Fun :D

Best of 2013

So my sweet sister Liz decided to help me out and color a few of my drawings for me :) she did an awesome job :D While coloring she got the idea to have a sort of contest thing...she said I should put all my art from 2013 up on here and have you guys vote for your favorites (I'm just putting up the colored ones though) 

all in all there are 14 to choose from I'll explain more of how this is going to work after I show the pieces

*all the ones that say, "Sarah and Liz" are drawn by me and colored by her..oh, yeah there wasn't room to sign the first two sooo yeah those are drawn by me and colored by her too*

 (the ones that just say Sarah are completely done by me)

 colored by Liz

Alight so, here's how the voting works in comments rate each picture in  order of favorite to least favorite example: 

1. Pernisia 

2. Lady Elf 

3. Flowerband

4. Sierra

5. Boating (it's the second drawing)

6. Brookeside nap (first drawing)

7. Brittney

8. Hope

ect....

rate all 14 (because this is the only way I can get a somewhat accurate conclusion) 

If this is going to work I'm going to need more than one voter (commentator)...so please do vote, I'd be really grateful :D

I'll try to have a working button on here later if you want to help me get some more voters :) and we'll see what's the best of 2013! Thanks in advance 

Sarah Signing off

In Which I Randomly Ramble On

I can't say that this is going to be a very organized post...but then I don't always know what I'm going to post when I press the 'new post' icon sometimes I get stuck deciding what to write . If it was just art I could have endless posts but art isn't exactly what you guys like to see everyday on here right? And if...I were to convert The Author's Club into an art blog...would you guys follow?

Anyways back on topic, I....have one weight off my shoulders and that is the contest results for The make a postcard and Book cover contest I had...in the Summer, sorry for being so late on it! And you guys remember the header contest thingy I had going up earlier this year....I'm sorry I had to call that one off do to not to many entries and total extreme busyness, I feel pretty bad about the unreliable way I've been lately I feel pretty bad...The poetry contest....I think I'll have to drop that one off too, I haven't had a single entry for it and I've decided if I don't get at least one by Monday I'm going to pull it off...if you want to enter here's the link ---> http://poetic-meditations.blogspot.com/2013/08/3-year-blog-o-versary-mark-your-books.html

Now I know you guys love the "My Life Posts" and the reason I haven't been posting them as much is because my life has slowed considerably to a rather uninteresting pace that I didn't think it worth writing to you about but...I figure letting you guys know whats been going on down here will clear up a bit of why I haven't been posting so much.

So here it is...We've been so busy with painting, and all those other Home fixing good stuff that I haven't gotten out as much and we still have the whole upstairs to finish painting plus we have to paint the outside of the house (it's sorely in need of it!) and not getting out means not so inspired and while I have been on the computer quite often and made several attempts to post something I never feel like it's....well inspired, it felt dry and uncreative and I deleted at least 40% of the ones I started and another 50% was nothing at all so that leaves the 10% which was the stuff that actually made on my blog. 

Hmm not quite interesting is it? 

Well now you're probably wondering why I never said anything about my vacations...truth is once they were over...I was so mentally and physically exhausted that I never got around to putting the pictures on the computer or taking the time to post about it and by the time I was back to my usual, perky writing self it was long past the time we'd been gone and the vacation was no longer fresh in my mind.

The one you guys know most about took place in gorgeous South Dakota! I haven't been there in ages since it's such a long time to get there, we hiked up Mount Harney (Which I promptly dubbed Mt. Hernia before even hiking...because they said it would take three hours...I was both exited and unsure...of what to feel, I mean three hours is a lot of time to be hiking!) My first reaction upon arriving was sheer awe...the gorgeous tall tree's, the hills and mountains, the shimmering lakes! It was breath taking!

(Pictures by Ani)

She took a lot more later on (these are just the first day) but she never got them on the computer. 

I believe when we were first driving up threw Custer Park I said, "It's so beautiful I could cry!" and I was just staring out in awe drinking it all in whilst my ears were popping from high altitudes. 

Of course we had to see Mt Rushmore and all those other wonderful sites and we tried to do everything we could in the time we had it was fantastic...well except for towards the end of the trip I got sick...sour throat, headache, dizziness, cough, that sort of thing and mom was sick too but we didn't let it get us down...too bad... :) it was fun!

Soooo, we got home, we recovered we got back into routine and two weeks later... *BAM*Church Retreat! And wow was it the warmest and funnest one ever, I got to know some of the people from our church better and work my way ever so slightly a little more out of my shyness, I mean those girls I was with the whole time were so nice and easy to talk to, M was the sweetest and kindest, and Katie, well Katie's awesome! Bella continued to be a wonderful true friend and was there to talk to me when I was by myself, I must say I have some pretty great friends and I thank the Lord for them. 

God has really been working in my life lately and thinking about him makes me so happy I could sing, he's constantly there and I feel him in my life, I am learning things I didn't know before, understanding in a way that is so different from before. 

So there you go a very long post to make up for the lack of other posts :)

P.S. If you have any suggestions for drawings I'd appreciate it a lot...and if you;d like me to do a commission for you I'd be very happy,  also check out Abilaine's new Art Blog if you haven't already it's full of great drawings! ---> http://artsy-abilaine.blogspot.com/

And The Winners Are....

And the winners of the

Are.....

Postcard Contest 

inmysaviorsarms@http://aslwonders.wordpress.com

and

Book Cover Contest

 Brittney Ann@http://mycontestentries.blogspot.com

Congrats girls! 

You can pick from the following

1.Pick a favorite character from one of my stories for me to draw for you

Stories also include the off blog story Emotion Doors (see on Storytellers blog)

2. A Header and button designed by me.

3. Have your Button placed on the side of my blog





P.S. If you are the winner of a contest and haven't yet received your award please let me know...Autumn, I remember  your award...sorry it's so overdo but I promise the next chapter of Cathrine Weatherbane will have you in it.

3 Year Blog-O-Versary, Mark Your Books!

Hello once again, I'm here with an extra special post for an extra special day as it says above we are now celebrating the 3 Year  Blog-O-Versary of Poetic Meditations {pause for applause}-{just kidding} 

but yep 3 years today maybe not the exact time because that was on a Saturday and pretty...wait I actually remember what day of the week it was?! Without checking?! Yeah I guess I do hmm guess I'm meticulous with dates and never even new it, {just joking here, it wasn't hard to remember considering} anyways to celebrate I'm going to do a bunch of really fun cool things that you guys like!

That's right....Poetry,Contests,Stories,, .....and Art because I like it :) 

So let's get started shall we :)art

Dreams #2

When you think of dreams, What  comes to mind?

Wispy, lovely, slip through your fingers 

Humorous, Dangerous, Superhero singers?!

Running, Leaping, Getting away,

Flying, Dancing, Lovely array.

Beautiful story you long to recall,

The enemy standing intimidating, tall.

The chivalrous hero, The princess, Ordinary girl,

For some reason the palace is made of chocolate swirl?

What kind of dreams do you remember I wonder?

The contest shall be that of the poetry kind so sharpen your pencils...or your um...polish your keyboard? 

Rules:

1. You must post the poem on your blog and put the link comments 

2.Only one entry per participant!

3. Put the contest button on the side of your blog 

Awards:

1. Poem, topic of your choice dedicated to you
2. Appearance in my new book Rion Drayden
3. Header and button designed by me
4. Suggest my next art piece.

Due Date:

9/23/13

Rion Draden preview {this story will be making it's appearance on The Authors Club}

"16 year old Rion Drayden, was the second son of Lord Garrick Drayden. When his father announced he was going abroad for a year and didn't wish to be called back before under any circumstances except death he decided he'd take a little vacation of his own incognito to the far away village of Bernshire to try and find his childhood friend Ellen but, but finding her isn't as easy as he'd thought, after running into countless problems and troubles will he find her?"

Here's my final piece thanks for reading :)

It would have been longer but.....I have to go out and mow before it gets to hot, 91  degree's seriously that's warmer than it's been all Summer...