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Based in Northampton, UK, I live with my husband Adam, our Cocker Spaniel Bruno and Deeley the Bengal cat. I work full time as a Creative Artist / 3D Designer and part-time with my creative endeavours. I hope you'll enjoy reading about my work and other random ramblings, from the satisfying successes to the catastrophic failures! Still, it's all good fun, which is kind of the whole point really...

Monday 18 August 2014

Fell Mare and Foal Naming Competition!

Hi guys!

I'm going to be completely honest - I'm running out of time so copy/pasted this from Facebook but you can enter on THIS BLOG POST if you would like to and prefer to avoid Facebook.  I'm holding the now-traditional, annual competition to name my latest models; the Fell Mare and Foal:



Here's the bumf on how you can enter - enter by commenting on THIS blog post (or Facebook) only:

Right guys - now, I've met a slight glitch on these two as I have some names in mind for them, however I need help completing their names, so this year's competition is going to be a bit different:

I'm getting you started:
The Mare's name includes the word Heather
The Foal's name includes the word Dale

But I like my models to have two names each (Dancing Daisy, Union Jack, Sweet Lullaby, Fly Fishing etc...), so I'm looking to you to give me names for these that include the words Heather and Dale.

For instance: "Hearty Heather and Dingle Dale"....or "Heather Mist and Dale Dusk" - ok those are bad examples, but your entry MUST include the names Heather and Dale and MUST be exactly two names for each (3+ word name suggestions won't count).  I'm looking for names inspired by the Fell pony breed ideally, but you can try anything that you feel fits.

RULES: You can enter a MAXIMUM of five times for the mare and five times for the foal - all in one comment or in five/ten separate comments, either is fine but after your first five entries for each, no more will count.  You can go back and edit your comment later (before the deadline) if a better idea pops up but you can only have a maximum of five entries total.  I'll be deleting any I see with more than that, so you've been warned!

DEADLINE: It's short (as I have to order their COA cards pronto) so you've got until 7pm TOMORROW!  That's 7pm on Tuesday 19th August - 25 hours from this post, then I'll be choosing a winner.

PRIZES: I have a clean set of these models (worth £73 in total) to give away! The winning entries will receive the model they named, so the mare will go to the person who gave the best mare name and the foal to the best foal name, if you give the best of both, you'll receive them both as prizes.  Postage is NOT included I'm afraid, so please don't enter unless you are happy to pay the postage for them.  As an idea, UK postage will be about £3 and the maximum postage (Australia etc) will be around £5.

The winner(s) will be announced as soon as possible, it may take me a few moments, or a few days to choose so you'll need to watch out for the announcement, it will be posted here and on Facebook, I will do my best to track down the winner(s).

Good luck everyone, I look forward to reading your suggestions! :D


Here's some more photos of the pair - these copies were expertly brought to life by UK finishwork Artist, Anne Healion:










2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My name ideas are inspired by the naming convention of real Fell Ponies, which tend to combine a farm name with a unique humanesque name (in this case Heather and Dale). I borrowed some terms from real Fell farms and others from Cumbrian place names. I made a point to choose easily pronouncable and spellable names.

Highmoor Heather
Hilltop Heather
Mountainrose Heather
Highbridge Heather
Halfpenny Heather

Dovenby Dale
Rowan Dale
Allenwood Dale
Summerlands Dale
Tristan Dale

~Leah

Clare said...

I am going to go for 'Heavenly Heather' and 'Devlish Dale' it keeps them somewhat linked too. Who knows what that foal could get up to?! :-)