Hey, everyone. I'm taking this community off official hiatus and I'm going to be running it one woman until shadowshamrock, open_embrace, andatomic89 all come back from the harrowing RL.

Challenge 79 has now officially been extended to Monday, August 11, so get those icons in!

Ok, I'm just going to make this official, seeing as we all know nothing is getting done :P

padanistillness will be on a mini-hiatus of sorts. Shouldn't be for long, but shadowshamrock and I are both flat out right now, so we're likely not going to be able to get the challenge moving as we should.

In this case, the current challenge is still up and yes, its still active. Keep making those entries until you see a post warning that we're back online and will be closing the challenge. I will do that as soon as life settles down again. At the mo we only have 9 entries, so please do enter if you haven't already.

May the Force be with you...

Hey everyone! Have I apologized for leaving the last post up too long? If not I really am sorry. You know how life gets. Anyway here's a few community updates.

Affiliates
I flushed out most of the dead communities. We have three new ones.
leiastillness anakin_icontest and sw_rumble


I really hope you all sign up for the rumble (and say I sent you teehee). Its like a lims, but none of that voting off or negative comments aspect. Its a point system and looks really interesting. ^_^ Its just starting out too.

Mod Update
Please welcome arti_chan13 and atomic89 to the family! :D

Banner Maker
Since I plan to have four moderators, I like the idea of having four banner makers as well. We have laury_kos and sith_romantic at the moment. They're doing a lovely job, but I know life can get pretty hectic. ^_^ So having a two more would be great as well.
<b>Name:</b> <b>Username:</b> <b>Have you ever made banners before?</b> <b>Do you make banners anywhere else?</b> <b>I would prefer banners to be done Friday or Saturday by the latest, is this going to be a problem?</b> <b>Please show at least three[3] examples [if you have never made them before then please just take winners from the most recent challenge and make sample banners from those.]</b>

I am going to try and keep these updates up at least once a month ^_^

There's going to be 3 mods, I figure there should be 3 banner makers. :) Please fill out the form below in a comment.

Banner Makers:
Please keep in mind I do ask that you have them done in a timely manner

<b>Name:</b> <b>Username:</b> <b>Have you ever made banners before?</b> <b>Do you make banners anywhere else?</b> <b>I would prefer banners to be done Friday or Saturday by the latest, is this going to be a problem?</b> <b>Please show at least three[3] examples [if you have never made them before then please just take winners from the most recent challenge and make sample banners from those.]</b>

Moderator:

Please keep in mind I do ask that you have them done in a timely manner

<b>Name:</b> <b>Username:</b> <b>Have you ever moderated an icontest community before?</b> <b>Which ones?</b> <b>Do you still moderate them?</b> <b>What timezone are you in?</b>

Hey everyone,

I don't love the idea of saying this, but it needs to be clarified.

The rules of a lyrical challenge state that you must use three consecutive words from the provided lyrics.

In the current challenge there are a few icons that don't obey this rule because the iconers have edited the lyrics. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. It does mean you are breaking a rule and that you should be disqualified. You should be able to just copy and paste the lyrics in.

Please do not pluralise, change tense, add words, change POV etc. You may delete or add punctuation marks, space the words out over lines etc... just please don't edit the lyrics.

Those people who broke this rule for challenge 73, you have one week to adjust the text on your entries. If you resubmit them we'll accept them, coz truth be told they are all gorgeous. But in future we'll have to count it as breaking a rule and disqualify any icons with edited lyrics...

Any questions, feel free to comment. Sorry to be all rantalicious here...

And bring on the entries for Challenge 73! Remember, its been extended, so you still have lots of time to get your icons in!

♥  Lyradi

Hey there everyone.

I hope y'all had a great xmas/new year. Just thought I'd pop by to let you know that we aren't dead and that we'll be back here with more padani love asap.

In the meantime, we're looking for some new bannermakers, since both shadowshamrock and I are too flat out to really be making banners as well as moderating. So if you'd like to pick up the job, leave us a comment here, k?

Hope 2008 is treating everyone well!

-Lyr

Okay so 2008 has come along and the challenge has been up forever. I know, I deeply apologize. We'll be going on a mini-hiatus until I get fully settled at work (this shouldn't be all that long) There's so much I had to do this year for the holidays as a mom that kind of went BOO! for me. Hehe no excuses I know, but I hope you all understand. Its like preparing for finals at the last minute in a way. :)

So we'll be back soon ^_^

PS.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

and belated holiday wishes ^_^

P.P.S.
Voting will be posted tomorrow. ;)

right. i am not going to say what i think of LJ right now.

sorry guys, but having just spent two hours or so trying to post the ruddy voting for challenge 70, i'm incapable of trying any more. voting will be up asap, after i have slept. sorry for the inconvenience, please bear with me...