Samhain Homesite Decorating Contest

Hold onto your brooms. The Samhain Home Decorating Contest winners will be announced at midnight tonight!

2007 Samhain Home Decorating Contest

Time to dust off the cobwebs, drag the skeletons out of the closet and decorate your homes. Click HERE to sign up!

Categories:

Funny Ha Ha!

Very Scary

Traditional Samhain

Contest Rules:

1. Sign up on the contest page to be eligible for a prize.

2. Homesite must reflect one of the three themes.

3. At least 2 rooms must be decorated.

4. As always, Scribes and Demis may enter the contest but may not receive prizes.

5. All images must be credited on the same page, even the ones you made yourself.

6. No breaking the copyright rules or any other rule in the Code of Conduct. Anyone who does will be instantly disqualified (and possibly banished to the Otherworld).

7. The contest closes on October 31st.

8. The winning homes will be chosen by popular vote. The poll booth opens on Noveber 1 and closes at midnight on November 3. Winners will be announced on this thread.

9. Finally: no whining! It is mandatory that all contestants have fun decorating and not be sore losers if they don't win.

Prizes

FUNNY	SCARY	TRADITIONAL SAMHAIN	PARTICIPANTS
3,000 stcs	3,000 stcs	3,000 stcs	150 stcs

Click on the plaque to take the tour

Credits

Main graphic and award plaques by Asenath Amenhotep

Tour plaque and award icon by Laurels Curius

Poll booths set up by Bridgette Cormac

Thread design by Fedelm Cruithni based on design by Aynara MorningStar

Samhain Homesite Decorating Contest sponsored by Arachne's Web.

Traditional Samhain!!? Whazzat?

Samhain is the great Celtic bonfire festival in celebration of the summer's end. Many of our Halloween customs have their roots in Samhain. For instance, the early Celts carved turnips and bobbed for apples, and young lads called "guisers" dressed up and went door to door playing tricks and demanding treats.

According to the early Celtic tales, Samhain is a transitional time when the veil between this world and the Otherworld is at its thinnest and all manner of creature walks the earth.

One of the most famous Otherworld portals in the Irish tales is the Cave of Cruachu, the famous sidhe mound from which werewolves, monstrous pigs and cats and other nasty critters emerge on the eve of November 1.

To learn more about the lore and customs of this ancient Celtic seasonal celebration, read Fenian's article on Traditional Samhain.