In the Mood with Jane Austen

ICONS
Several months ago this blog featured a post on Jane Austen mood list icons.

Here's another site, which features the mood icons sitting on the right. If you use these icons, the creator asks that you attribute them to Carmelo Icons and to not hotlink to the images.

QUIZ
Have you ever wondered "Who's Your Jane Austen Mother?" Hurry over to this link to take a quiz. I scored Lady Russell, which was a bit of a surprise, for my mom would never try to influence my decision. Whose mom did you score?


Posted by Vic, Jane Austen's World

Iconmania: Find Mansfield Park Icons

• Find some wonderful icons of Mansfield Park and Persuasion by stars and spires.

• Heather Ingenuous created a beautiful group of icons of Billie Piper and Blake Ritson
  

• Curst Shrew created 3 Mansfield icons, and offers a slew of Jane Austen and Regency Miss icons as well.

• The Glinted Brush Takes You Through an Icon Tutorial using a Mansfield Park image.

• Find Mansfield Park Icons at Good Austen Icons

• Banner for the Three Nails at Live Journal
  

More Darcy/Firth Sites

Two sites designed for Darcy-Firth maniacs provide tons of icons, graphics, and information. Neither is new, but they are loaded with information.

No, No, The Green One: Darcy's Favorite Graphics Journal offers icons like these.


And Firthness.com is a simply amazing site, or major as Posh Spice would say, with fan fiction, fan forums, and a number of links leading to social customs in the Regency world (I must amend this: the old site led to social customs, the new site has not yet developed this links). The only catch to this site is that you must log in to view the contents.

Oh, and as a reminder: Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

And the Winner is ....

Jane V with the Two Mr. Darcys, winning with 38% of the vote.
Lana, whose brother helped design the Jane Austen icon, gave Jane V a run for her money.

But the closest race was between the icons running for 3rd place. Kayla's Proud Mr. Darcy squeaked ahead of Lois' Colonel Brandon by two votes. I almost hated to see one icon win over the other.
Below are the results for the week. As you can see, this 7-day contest received around 100 votes per day. Thank you all for participating. This was fun! Winners, please email your mailing address to me, and I will make sure to send your prizes.

Icons Fixed

I apologize to those who could not see five of the icons for several days and for the inconvenience of not being able to vote for them. I could not get to the Internet during that time. Voting will still end at midnight on Sunday. The race is close for first and second place, and there are five icons vying for 3rd place. Amazing! Keep voting if you have a favorite. In my book, they are all winners.

Here are a few more samples I made while learning the ins and outs of icon making, pixels, coloration, and composition.

Click here to vote for the icons in the competition. (See sidebar for details.)

Kayla Loves Jane and Tom Becomingly

Are these the last of the icons for the contest? We'll see.

You Pierce My Soul: Animated Icon

Do you love Captain Wentworth and his Anne? Click here to see Diane's animated icon titled, You Pierce My Soul. It's guaranteed you'll like it.

Another Icon

There's a cute story behind this icon, submitted by Lana. Her 19-year old brother helped to create it! Jane would have approved of such brotherly devotion.

Two More Icons From Jane V

Aren't they lovely? You have 14 hours before voting begins! Keep the icons coming.

Hero Icons from Lois

Lois sent in some fabulous icons. I noticed that a majority are of JA heroes and quite a few are NOT Mr. Darcy! Bring 'em on! You have until midnight tomorrow until the icon contest closes.

Emma

Persuasion

Sense And Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice

Last but not least, I just HAD to add this icon of Jerry Butler as the Phantom of the Opera. He's not part of the contest, but, oh, be still my beating heart. Yummylicious!