Author: newtonpens

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.

Thanks to everybody who participated – and a huge thanks to the two very kind folks who contributed $400 total!  Thanks so much!

Remember – half of the money brought in from will go to prom to help my juniors pay for prom this year.

Two pen winners, a bottle of ink, and two really awesome mechanical pencils.

And the winners are….

Custom pen number one – #27

Custom pen number two – #3

First choice of ink or pencils – #46

Second choice – #37

And last but not least – #21

Thanks so much everybody!

Hi Everybody!

This has been a very busy week for me and most of it has been spent recovering from donkey basketball.  I don’t know if you’ve ever played basketball on a donkey, but I wouldn’t recommend it.  Some of them don’t care to be ridden.  At least the donkey that I was given didn’t.  A couple of the players had no problems at all.  Their donkeys were like little horses: happy to please.  “You wanna ride over here?  Sure thing.  Let’s go.”  Mine?  No no – mine were angry, terrible beasts.  One stepped on my foot.  They both bucked and kicked as soon as they thought I would be jumping on.  The second donkey I had ran the entire time and all I did was hold on for the ride.  A terrible ride.

So terrible that I’m still hurting from the whole ordeal.
There are videos too – somewhere on facebook – of me almost on a donkey and then being thrown off, landing on my side.  I got up quick, but it hurt… every time…  🙂

Last night I took my family to a small circus – a first for my kids and my wife.  🙂  And it was so much fun!  Dancing tigers, dogs and llamas, elephants, jugglers, all sorts of performers… just really glad there were no donkeys.  The kids’ favorite part was the finale: the fire breather!  Corbin said he wants to do that when he grows up.  The hardest part for me to watch was the aerial ribbon dancing and high trapeze act.  No nets!

So Spring Break is over – back to school on Monday – and a drawing tonight!  If you haven’t got in yet, now is your chance.  There will be two pens this month given away – one for the scholarship fund, and another to help my junior class with prom, along with a few other smaller prizes.  I’ll pick winners tonight around 9pm.

Thanks!