“You rarely win,
but sometimes you do.”
~ Harper Lee
I
am a girl who prefers quality over quantity so when two contestants
participated in my Baskets & Caskets competition, I really was overjoyed! This
is not a contest blog so when I have had contests, even I admit that they’ve
been a little weird. Weird but fun! And, I think I have some pretty cool
prizes.
Jade
at Daughter of a Jaded Era
was the first to submit her entry entitled, “Peculiar
Easter tradition of witches.” I absolutely loved it because it includes “odd
traits of the Finns” which I adore because I love learning about other
cultures. She shared a bit about virpominen, which I really hope catches on worldwide
because dressing up like witches or Easter bunnies and going trick-or-treating
sounds amazing! For more details and an adorable picture of Little Jade all dressed
up, check out her post!
Now,
I hate contests where you submit something and a coin is flipped to determine
the winner! Bah! Why put in any effort, right?!? I was going to have judges to
make this official. My original idea was to have my fella be the judge so that
I was not being biased, but my fella was with me the first time I
met Jade in person back in February
2015. To make a long story short, the three of us ended up running through
snowy D.C. streets so that my fella and I could make our train. We’re both
punctual people but we were enjoying our time together when a snowfall completely
took over the city. Cabs stopped; the metro was delayed. It was a mess. We made
our train though and had an amazing adventure with a new friend. Needless to
say, my fella could not be the judge of this contest although he read both
posts.
Madame Mari Mortem made the second post entitled, “Mortem's
Tricks or Treats: Twas The Night Before Easter...” Madame Mari Mortem put
together (as in with her mad sewing skills) the perfect Easter ensemble for a Goth!
I’m still dying over her dress and that over-skirt! Swoon worthy! Not only is
she cute as a button from the eyes of one of those other-worldly Coraline characters but she has the
technical skills to talk the talk and walk the walk!
What
was the Goth Gardener to do with one Gothy Easter basket prize and two amazing
posts?!?
Fortunately
for me, this semester I now have a goth girl student advisee whom I pretty much
want to adopt! I sent her an email explaining my dilemma of needing a judge.
She came to the goth-rescue by reading the blog posts.
And
the winner is….
Madame Mari Mortem, my dear, you had us at that
amazing dress but adding a haiku! You completely spoke to the little black
hearts of this English professor and her English major student! The awesome haiku, that even my fella copied
down for himself, reads:
Pastel gloom
be gone
Hallowe'en
we miss you so
At least
it's raining.
And you know what? It did rain today! And, there are only 197 days until Halloween!
Madame
Mari Mortem, please send your address to me at: gothgardening@gmail.com
But,
everyone is winner in my garden so Jade will be receiving a little something
too!
Thank
you both for participating!
Now that we have another holiday behind us, today we
celebrate
National Bat
Appreciation Day!
^o^
