I’m working with my jeweler on a really cool spider and web overlay right now.  Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

Here’s a really cool project I’m working on with my jeweler right now.  I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

 

Hi Everybody!  It’s time to announce a winner from last month’s drawing – and we had a busy month with 60 entries (that includes multiple entries, too).

We raised $645 with the sale of postcards and notebooks in September.  Thank you all so much!

Using random.org to pick a winner from all 60 entries last month, #44 wins!  Congrats to Hazel L., who wins a $225 credit with free grind and shipping as thanks for participating and supporting the scholarships!  I’ll send you an email soon.

If you haven’t seen yet we are now selling little pocket notebooks to raise money for the scholarships alongside the postcards.

You can look at all of those here-
Pocket Notebooks!
Buy Scholarship Postcards

All the money raised from sales and donations will go to high school kids to help pay for college – whether it’s books, tuition, groceries or gasoline.

If you want to know how it works the rules are here –
Rules

Please keep on sending in those donations and buying postcards and notebooks.  Every dollar counts!

As always, if you have any questions please ask – [email protected]

Thanks!
Shawn

Hi Everybody,

The pocket notebooks are here!  I have 5 different styles available.  These are the top 5 designs you voted on last month.

The 1st place winner, Robots by Jamison O., is the smallest of the group at almost 3 1/2 x 5 1/5 inches and is filled with Tomoe River paper.  These were made for me by Curnow Bookbinding and Leatherwork.  Thanks Steve!

The other 4 are filled with HP laser paper and are 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches.  These were made for me by a local printer, Bill Hall Printers.  Thanks!

And thanks so much to the artists who submitted the work that was voted on.  Vines by Miriam C., Dragon by Kelly D., Owl by Ged A., and Bottles and Nibs by Attila S.

   

To purchase any of these books and help support the Newton Pens Scholarships and high school kids going into college, click here.

Thanks!
Shawn

Hi everybody!  First thank you all so much for participating and voting in the notebook cover contest.  We had a lot of really great artwork submitted.

Voting is all done and the numbers have been, uhm, counted.  🙂

First place, and winner of a custom fountain pen – Jamison O. with Robots

Second place – Vines by Miriam C.

Third place – Owl by Ged A.

Fourth place – Dragon by Kelly D.

Fifth place – Nibs and Bottles by Attila S.

Thanks!!  Keep your eyes open for our new notebooks!

 

It’s time to vote for your favorite notebook cover! These will be sold to raise money for the Newton Pens Scholarships! Winner of the contest gets a pen, too!

Voting ends August 22nd.  So you all have a week.

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=57b30659e4b0b6263ce829c7#.V7MHqFLUi4I.facebook

Hi Everybody –

We here at Newton Pens Scholarships are wanting to add a little inventory to the scholarship fundraising line.  We want to add small custom cover notebooks – about 5 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ – to the lineup of postcards we already sell.

So my idea is this – art contest.  There are lots of awesome artists out there making lots of awesome art.  I’d love for you all to come up with a cool cover design, that will be voted on later, that we’ll use on the cover of these little notebooks.  We don’t have any money to pay for the art – but I’d like to make a pen for the winner.  No wait.  Custom pen just for you.  Basically a credit of $225 with free grind and shipping, just like the scholarship pen winners get.

OH OH OH! Change in size. Image can be the whole cover. 3.5 x 5.5
The image needs to be black and white (cheaper to print one color) and about 2″ wide by 4.5″ tall if we use the size above.  So about 75% of the cover size.

Oh!  Also – limit to 2 entries per artist.  

EDIT:  OH yeah!   Theme is open – something with wide ranging appeal – and it needs to say Newton Pens Scholarships in it somehow – clean – hidden – bold – whatever you like.  If you already have some cool image you’d like to submit that would be cool.  I can take any format you have – .jpg, .png, whatever.  If you have any questions just shoot me a note.  [email protected]

No logos.   Not even mine.   I want some cool artwork rather than a remake of my logo.  This isn’t about me or the pen company,  but about the scholarships.  The artwork can be anything!   Be creative.

TIMELINE: So I think middle of next month, August 15th let’s say, for art submission deadline.  A few days after I organize everything I’ll put up some sort of voting thing so you can all vote for your favorite cover image.  🙂

All submissions to [email protected]

Let me know if I forgot anything else!  🙂  Thanks!

We have printers to make the little notebooks.  🙂

We need some help with this notebook thing though – I’m talking to a few places about cost and quantity, but if any of you know of some people who could help us out with making little notebooks we’d really appreciate it.  Depending on who we use for the notebooks the image requirements may change.

You can always shoot me an email to [email protected].

Thanks!