Tolkien Month

It's time to party like Hobbits!

(squealing excitedly like little hobbit children is a necessity).

I've always loved The Lord of the Rings-- and then, later, the movies and artwork inspired by the great author Tolkien. September is the birth month of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, so I decided we should celebrate it properly. With a month-long Long Expected Party. I hereby cordially invite you to join in my virtual celebration and indulge in yummy food, laughter, and an entire month of Tolkien-themed blog posts!

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(Use these image links on your blog to join in the fun. Or, share on facebook, twitter, etc.)

I've already planned out many awesome posts and have several guest bloggers to introduce to you this month!

(If you'd like to guest blog-- on any topic that is at least slightly related to Tolkien-- send me an email at shealynnsfaerieshoppe@gmail.com. You don't have to have a blog of your own to write a guest post! I am still looking for people to help out; this is a CRAZY busy school semester for me. Feel free to leave comments to give me ideas, too!).

They'll be a little bit of everything...

craft tutorials
inspirational artists
how Tolkien inspires people
what inspired Tolkien
funny memes
music
photoshoots
a look at the movies
recipies
costumes
...and much more!

You'll be able to find all my blog posts with the Tolkien-month label at this link.

Want to join in the fun? If you have a blog, Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt, or other page where you share anything inspired by The Lord of the Rings or other works by Tolkien, I found a neat tool that lets you share links here on my blog!

Linky rules:

• Please don't link to your homepage. Instead, link to a specific LotR post's URL, or a blog label (for instance, I could link up the URL for the label collection "Tolkien Month 2012").
• Nothing inappropriate! I have the right to remove links that are not family friendly, that are offensive, or that don't relate to Tolkien in some way.
• Please place your link in the appropriate linky, and don't spam. Limit 3 links per person per linky, please!
• You MAY link up other people's blogs, websites, etc, if you think fellow Tolkienites would enjoy them, but please ask their permission first.
• No one but me can see your email address.
• The linkies will remain open until the end of October, so there is plenty of time to join in the fun and you should check back often!

ART LINKY

(I can only make one thumbnail linky with inlinkz, so this is the only one that will include pictures with the links.)

Any artwork related to or inspired by LotR and Tolkien. Pictures with nudity or adult scenes will be immediately removed because this is a family-friendly blog.

CRAFTS AND COSTUMES

Crafts, recipes, costumes, and tutorials! If it's a tutorial please say so in the title so people can more easily find them.

BLOG POSTS AND ROUND-UPS

Any blog posts you have written about anything LotR, along with round-ups (lists of your favorite things) for things like Etsy, Artfire, DeviantArt, Pinterest, etc. Also put fan-fics here. 

And all other miscellaneous odds and ends go here!

Please write a descriptive title so people know what the link will be about!

(movie screencaps used in this post are via)

Linkies

Author's note, 2014: Sorry guys, I haven't had the time to keep up with this page and it is likely outdated.

Featured at:
If you feature something I have made and would like to appear on this list, please leave a comment and let me know. I don't always know when people feature my work. Thanks.

Rivershore Books
My Craftie Life
Lines Across My Face
Running with Glitter
Suzy's Artsy Craftsy Sitcom (feature 1, feature 2)
Decor Hacks
Julie Ann Art
Jewelry Display Ideas
Be-Creative
Craft Blog
onny in a Dress
CanDoodles
Someday Crafts
Kreative Korner
Marvelous Mess






Here is the master list for all the blog linkies I join.

Scroll down for a list of features! and scroll even farther down for links to guest blogging I've done!

I'll try and keep this updated with every link I can.... *wonders if that is possible*
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(These are all of the blog parties I link to, or have ever linked to in the past or want to link to in the future. So, yes, there are a ton. And I'm linking them by the name of their blog, since many parties have similar names.)

Monday

Sew Chatty
Sumo's Sweet Stuff    (crafts and shops)
Colours Decor
Lowercase Letters    (miscellany)
Skip to my Lou
Keeping it Simple
Girl Creative


Tuesday

Vintage Wanna Bee
Hope Studios    (tutorials)
Show me What'cha Got
Tip Junkie

House of Grace   (repurposed)
Ladybug Blessings
Sew Cute   (sewing)
Top Ten   (miscellany)
A Bowl Full of Lemons


Wednesday

Tea Rose
Someday Crafts
Night Owl Crafting
Passionately Artistic
Blue Cricket Design
Wallet Friendly

Sew Much Ado
Gluesticks
My Backyard Eden
Sugar and Spice   (girl-related)
Yesterday on Tuesday



Thursday

Suzy's Sitcom   (crafts and shops)
Fireflies and Jellybeans
A Creative Princess
Somewhat Simple
Frogs and Snails   (boy-related)



Friday

Shabby Nest
Inspire Me
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Chic on a Shoestring
Simply Designing

Saturday

Lovely Crafty Home
Be Different, Act Normal
Tatertots and Jello


Sunday

The Sundae Scoop
Under the Bed and Dreaming
Craft Schooling

Week-long

Sew Many Ways
Etsy Madness


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Other parties/blog hops/challenges I've participated in:

Suzy Sitcom Blog Hop
Aquariann Autumn Blog Hop

Guest Blogged at:

Polish The Stars (Floating Bookshelf)

Blog Awards:

from Aquariann
and Pink Scarf
and Victoria

from Aquariann
and Pink Scarf

First Awards!

The lovely Aquariann passed on these awards to me-- my first ever blog awards! :) Apparently I am a Stylish and Versatile blogger. (Edit: Pink Scarf sent this to me, too!)

I'm now to tag 15 amazing bloggers... This is going to be difficult! I like too many blogs, but I want to tag artsy-craftsy-writing-creative blogs (I tag personal blogs on my own personal blog, which is mostly dead).

And the majority of the craft blogs I follow are the "big blogs" that I'm scared to tag. Heehee. :)

Here goes:

Leia's Boutique   

(a friend of mine discovering jewelry-making! very talented)

Blissful Art   

(ditto!!! and random fact: ElvenMaiden is learning German with me!)

Thyme2Dream
(beautiful fantasy jewelry-- the ones who inspired me to find leaf beads)

Sereina Charise

(pretty photography)

Bramblewood Fashion 

(modest and vintage-y fashion)

AmandaBeth
(a blog about fashion and life)

Elenatintil

(a friend of mine who writes about life, books, movies, and writing)

The Daily Painting

(a blog of daily paintings!)

Sketches and Subcreations

(beautiful artwork)

 Recently discovered blogs:
(I bloghopped around a bit to find some random, creative blogs to tag. Ones I've never heard of before this. It all adds to the fun!)

Waltzing Matilda
(found while searching for a St. Thomas coloring page while babysitting my lil bro. What caught my eye? A LotR-themed birthday party. Eeep!)

A Celtic Cowgirl
(she loves horses, makes jewelry, and draws. 'nough said.)

Artisan of the Shire
(graphics and art, with a blog name to die for)

The Faithful Elven Princess
(another blog title to die for)

Distant Hoofbeats
(got to love the quote on her header! and she love acting, too!)

Ithilwen's Faerietale
(looks quite fantasy-ish!)

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(Tagged blogs: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to jump over exploding piles of dynamite, tag 15 people, and share 7 things about yourself. And eat an ice cream cone. If you can't come up with 15 to tag, that's OK.)

(So I spiced up the instructions.... Still, go eat an ice cream cone, it's yummy.)

Alrighty, I usually don't do many tags, so here goes:

I also get to share 7 random things about myself:

I unicycle.  (Ich bin eine stolze Einradfahrerin!!!)  You already knew that. But what you didn't know is that I got a majorly awesome Nimbus Muni (mountain unicycle/all terrain unicycle) for Christmas. Now for the snow to go away...

Oh, wait... I don't let the snow stop me. It's just the ice...

My feet are very flat and wide. We actually went to a special store to get tennis shoes for me. Men's 9 1/2 6E Wide with orthodics (that's not wide... not double wide... not even quadruple wide... its 6 wide. What is that? Hexa wide? Very wide.). I've had them for two days and they feel funny. Hopefully they'll help. I've never been able to do even half a mile without some kind of cramp or tightness.

I've never been able to wear glamorous shoes. I need a hug. :)

I'm crazy and am doing an intense school curriculum. And I actually like it. Kolbe's Summa. I'm writing a good 2-4 essays a week. Ever wonder why I don't post daily?

I haven't done any paintings for a full year. (Why? We were moving, and my paints make a mess. And I haven't unpacked them yet. There's something called time and it doesn't exist for me.)



When I was little, I used to call my Grandma "That." (or so I've been told)



It drives me bonkers when people gush all over my stuff... I really, really appreciate words of encouragement or *cough* admiration, but I can't stand that oh-my-gosh-you-are-so-amazing-and-I'm-never-going-to-shut-up-about-it-and-hey!-random-person-walking-by-see-what-this-girl-made! *shudder*

I can't sing! Seriously. My range is an octave, if that, and I can't keep a tune. This makes my dreams of acting go waaaaaaay downhill. (I was in Pirates of Penzance once, with the most amazing group on the face of the planet, and I mimed. Yup-- not a peep out of my mouth the entire play long.)

My friend E. (left) and I after the show! My curls died in this picture!