Author: newtonpens

#69 won it!  Congrats to Ray!

Thanks everybody for contributing to the scholarship.  You raised enough this month for one kid to get a $1000 scholarship.  Let’s keep it up.  🙂

Starting next month the way we raise money will change.  Instead of , I’m going to have some post cards made up with student art on the front.  Buying a pack of post cards will automatically enter you into the .  If you don’t want to buy any postcards, you can send a self addressed, stamped envelope to me and I’ll send you back a number.  This way the giveaway is a free, no purchase required deal.  If any of you have any suggestions I’m all ears, but I think this will be okay.

Thanks,
Shawn

I’m going to be at the Washington DC Pen Show in August!  Arriving the 7th, at a table the 8th, 9th, and 10th.  I’ve bought tickets and booked a room and everything.  It’s official!

Holy cow I’m nervous.  I’m going to get as much made as I can and bring it all with me.  I’ll also be bringing a few rods with me for show-n-tell.  Is there anything in particular you would like to see?

I’ll be sharing a table with Vanness Pen, working double duty.

Also a huge shout out of thanks to Vanness for donating a Rhodia pad and some inks to one of the kids who got a pen from me a month or so ago.
http://vanness1938.com/
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They donated a huge Rhodia blank pad for the girl who got this pen. (click link)  They also donated a couple bottles of ink for scholarship recipients as well.

This was for one of my students when I taught at Centerpoint (my first two years teaching) who always impressed me with her talent and work ethic.  I contacted her current art teacher and was told nothing but good things.  So she got a pen.  When I asked to buy a notebook from Vanness for one of my old students, they GAVE it to me.  Thanks so much for your support of my program and for giving to my kids.  I really really appreciate it.

I also got a couple pics from scholarship recipients over the last couple of days.

One asked for a Shinboi and a bottle of black ink (thanks Vanness!).

From Tosha…

And from Maddisyn…

 

Thanks everybody for all you’ve done to support the scholarship and to help get these kids some help with college expenses.

The current is open until June 28th if you want to get in on it.

Thanks,
Shawn

Hope you’re all having a good summer so far.  I’m enjoying all this shop time.  🙂

I thought now would be a good time to start raising money again for next year’s scholarships.

We all raised just over $6000 and have helped 6 kids out with $1000 scholarships.  I wish I was better with words, but it means so much to me to be able to help out like this, and I wouldn’t be able to do it without all of you.

So let’s get started.  🙂

One winner – one pen.

All you have to do to enter is send $10 via paypal to [email protected] and I’ll respond with a number according to what order you got in.  If you’re the 3rd person, you’ll be #3, if you’re the 33rd person, you’ll be #33.  Simple right?  At the end of the two weeks I’ll use a random number picker and the first number picked will get a prize!

What prize?  Any pen made by me you can dream of.  Includes any nib grind.

You may buy as many as you like, all at once or spread out over several days.  It’s up to you.  Purchase not tax deductible.

So if all that sounds good then you can buy as many pen as you want payable through paypal to newtonpensscholarships@gmail.com.  Be sure not to send payment to my other email address as it may get lost.

Drawing will run from Wednesday, June 11, through Saturday, June 28, 2014.

If you have any questions please ask.  If I forgot anything please let me know!  🙂

Here’s a load of cool materials that I have available, plus lots more in the shop, for that lucky pen winner.

Hi Everybody!

Scholarships went out!  Six students were selected based on the essays they wrote, and each one will be getting a $1000 scholarship.

Congrats to you kids at Mountain Pine, Cutter Morning Star, Benton, and Lakeside!

And thank you to my volunteers.  Thank you so much!  This would have been so much more difficult without your help.

I have the video from graduation and will get it put up as soon as possible.

Next – I wanted to share a couple boxes my awesome box making friend has put together for me.  He showed them to me this morning and my jaw fell to the floor.

They’re both made from Arkansas Black Walnut, one with Padauk and the other with Leopard Wood accents.  Just incredible.

Aaaaaaaand it’s SUMMER TIME!  I’ll finally get the shop time I want!  🙂  So if you have a pen in the queue, expect it a bit sooner than I originally told you.

 

Thanks!  Have a great summer!

Shawn Newton

A bit of work, a bit of fun, and a really good dinner.

First Happy Mother’s Day!  We had a great day today walking downtown and then Chinese for dinner.  Downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas is beautiful.  Here are some shots…

And the winner of the Pen Drawing?

Well, 65 were sold this time, and in all for the entire year raised $6123!  That’s amazing!  Thank you all so much!  I can give away 6 $1000 scholarships!

And the winner is…
He came in at the very last moment.  Just a couple minutes before 9.  The very last entrant.

#65!!!

Congrats!

Who will win the batch of Indian pens?

#41!

Congrats to you, too!

Thank you all so much.  I’ll post a video of the graduation ceremony as soon as I can.

So close! Ends tomorrow night and the fund is at $5961 and I just received an email from an absolute saint who said that if I don’t meet my goal, he’d donate the money to help me reach it!  I’m so incredibly grateful for this and all the other donations that have been given.  You all have no idea what it means to me.  I can’t wait to announce these at graduation this year.  I think there will be two or three given at Mountain Pine and a couple at other schools from around the state.  I’m so excited about this!

I could actually use another volunteer or two to go over essays and help score them.  😉

Thanks so much everybody!

 

38 sold! . Email me if you have any questions – [email protected] and I’ll be so glad to answer. All of this money will go towards helping send graduating seniors to college. So far we’ve raised $5386 plus the $380 (minus paypal fees) from this current . Let’s shoot for $6000!

Check out some of the cool materials available to the winner. 🙂

Here it is – the last for the school year.  Whatever money is raised over the next two weeks will be included with this year’s scholarships, which by the way, are being read and scores tallied.  I should know who will be getting scholarships in a couple of weeks.  🙂

This month – let’s keep it simple – just two winners.  First winner will get a custom pen of their choice from Newton Pens.

The second winner will get a couple of pens that were donated to me just for the , and another from me.  The two donated pens are a Ratnamson 302 and a baby mini, both e/d fill..  The pen donated by me is a Camlin e/d.

All you have to do to enter is send $10 via paypal to [email protected] and I’ll respond with a number according to what order you got in.  If you’re the 3rd person, you’ll be #3, if you’re the 33rd person, you’ll be #33.  Simple right?  At the end of the two weeks I’ll use a random number picker and the first two numbers picked will get a prize!

 

 

will run from Monday April 28 until Sunday May 11, 2014.

If you have any questions please ask.  If I forgot anything please let me know!  🙂

Here’s a load of cool materials that I have available, plus lots more in the shop, for that lucky winner.