2010 Article Contest

[flhiker]

Thanks to the efforts of one of our member's we were able to get Erin Pottery to donated 3 of there beautiful pots as prize's for 1st 2nd and 3rd place article's. Check out there website to see what awesome pots they sell.

Thanks Erin's Pottery you rock!!!!

[cb977]

We're going to have to make some adjustments behind the scenes, Dave

I have HUGE news from Oak Hill

[flhiker]

Originally Posted by cb977

We're going to have to make some adjustments behind the scenes, Dave

I have HUGE news from Oak Hill

[cb977]

Hi everybody!

First... a big : to Dave for all he's done!

We've been working on the expansion of his contest idea and we have some super-generous donations from some of our favorite vendors

So generous, in fact, that Dave and I had to come up with a way of fairly distributing them

This is what we have so far...I'm still waiting for a couple of replies:

Are you ready for this???

Vic at Erin Pottery has graciously offered THREE of their fantastic handmade pots as 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in the contest!

Erin Pottery


Next extraordinary donation comes from Greg at Oak Hill Gardens...a $100 Gift Certifcate as the 1st place prize!!!

Oak Hill Gardens


and what a great anonymous donation from one of our own OB members...a $25 Gift Certificate to Andy's Orchids!

Andy's Orchids - Orchid Species - Orchids - Species Specialist - Orchids on a stick


Once I get responses from the other vendors I contacted we'll know if the OB member's donation will be either the 2nd or 3rd place prize


Now comes the hard part! How do we divide these most generous donations so that our European and other worldwide friends can also participate?

After long thought...and a sleepless night , I think we've devised a way to make it fair to all... YAY!! (udb)

The prizes will be distributed as follows:

In the U.S. only

We will have 3 winners and the three very generous gift certificates will be distributed to those U.S. winners.

All other locations

We will have 3 winners from locations outside the U.S. and those three prizes will be the wonderful pots from Erin Pottery.

So...in reality, there will be 2 polls listed at the end of the contest. One will be for the U.S. contigent and the other will be for all other locations...for a total of SIX WINNERS!!!

Our member articles in the past have been really informative and it was extremely hard to choose a "winner". In my opinion, anybody that takes the time and effort to write an informative article to share with everybody is a winner!

Read through the rules in Dave's original post for all the details...

On your mark, get set...

GO!!!

[cb977]

I've copied the prize information from my last post to the first post in this thread.

The thread is now also a "sticky" which means it will stay at the top of the Contests forum until the contest is completed.

[Blueszz]

This sounds like fun and I really look forword to the contributions!
I love OB for obvious reasons :-)

Nicole

[flhiker]

With nearly 12,000 members I'm thinking there are a few hundred talented writer's out there. Also looking forward to reading them.

[cb977]

There's gonna be a LOT of reading ahead for the OB admin folks

BUT...

this is going to be fantastic! I remember how hard it was to vote in the last article contest

[johnblagg]

I have a question Please .....

I am not a writer by any means and my grammer is atrocious to say the least and my punctuation and spelling probably worse .... sooooo

If I did write a article of some sort say on using rice hulls as a medium for growing Phals which I do and do fairly well with too.Would it be allowed to have someons like my cousin who is much better with words help me with the grammer and spelling ...ect with credit of course for the contribution.It would be a joint efforet so we would be co winners I suppose but she could half the prize with me.

[cb977]

You can have somebody help you if you'd like.

The stipulation is that nobody sees an article written by somebody else on the internet and claims it as their own

I will also be going over the entries. So I don't go blind, I need everybody to at least make an effort and use spell check. I will correct any wrong spellings but other than that nothing will be changed by the OB Admin.