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Post by shedandy on Sept 2, 2014 9:25:14 GMT -6
I was thinking we could have a theme section. Every thread posted would be a theme and members could post their creations that suit the theme in response. I did something similar with Annas I love Dreads page. So themes being Winter, Autumn, Pirate, The Sea, Pastels, ect. No hurry but I thought it could be a great source of motivation and inspiration for us all. I thought it might be a good way to get more traffic to the forum as well because we could post in the facebook groups to encourage people to post their creations in each theme thread.
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Post by Pallidity on Sept 2, 2014 15:23:34 GMT -6
I'm not sure how well that would work out for showoffs, but it could definitely make for some fun competitions...
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Post by elli on Sept 3, 2014 5:42:19 GMT -6
I like the idea very much :-)
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Post by EmilyBuff on Sept 3, 2014 17:29:09 GMT -6
I could see doing it maybe one theme per month in the ShowOff area. Then we could all comment and ooh n aah over hair even more!
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Post by EmilyBuff on Sept 3, 2014 21:09:45 GMT -6
Each month we will do a theme. This month's theme is Autumn. Let's brainstorm some other ideas. I'm thinking Halloween for October, no idea for November, Holiday for December, Icey for January, Black/Dark for February, March no idea, Pastel for April, May no idea, Neon for June, Movie/TV character for July, Beach for August. If you have better/more/awesome suggestions let's hear them. None of this is firm yet except Autumn for September.
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Post by EmilyBuff on Sept 3, 2014 21:09:55 GMT -6
Each month we will do a theme. This month's theme is Autumn. Let's brainstorm some other ideas. I'm thinking Halloween for October, no idea for November, Holiday for December, Icey for January, Black/Dark for February, March no idea, Pastel for April, May no idea, Neon for June, Movie/TV character for July, Beach for August. If you have better/more/awesome suggestions let's hear them. None of this is firm yet except Autumn for September.
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Post by simplypetal on Sept 3, 2014 22:34:53 GMT -6
I love this idea!
Earthy/harvesty or Tribal for November might be nice. And and intergalactic theme somewhere could be fun!
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Post by EmilyBuff on Sept 4, 2014 7:05:54 GMT -6
Ohh, how about Forest for November? May could be Galaxy. March could be Animal themed.
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Post by shedandy on Sept 4, 2014 7:24:20 GMT -6
These were the vague brainstormed ideas I had for the I Love dreads page. Mind you mine were less about just inspiration to make so you can contribute but also about have a library/collection of examples and inspiration. Also somewhere you could send clients to for inspiration that actually give the creators credit sort of thing. So some of them are kinda plain or basic ideas. Winter Autumn Peacock Pastel Neon Rainbow Galaxy Bright Fire/flames Post Apocalyptic Cyber punk Steam punk Harry Potter At Sea (mermaid pirates the ocean the beach) Zombie Lolita Egyptian Wool (focus on textures) Blue purple pink Tribal/barbarian Animal print/print on dreads Wavy Dreads Curly Dreads Examples of partial installs Transitional Double Transitional Dread wigs Game of thrones Dread bling Angelina fiber rhinestones glitter anything shiney Dreads with beads Alice in wonderland Valentine days
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Post by simplypetal on Sept 4, 2014 12:42:52 GMT -6
(That list has me foaming at the mouth with things I want to make...)
Um... perhaps this idea could bleed over into a monthly contest?
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Post by simplypetal on Sept 4, 2014 12:42:56 GMT -6
Just for funsies...
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Post by elli on Sept 4, 2014 14:46:12 GMT -6
Oo so many great themes that will be super :-) What`s about a flower theme? or summer? rainbows or a theme just for how we are wearing synthetic dreads? I could imagine, that`s very inspiring to see how others style their synthetic dreads.
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Post by EmilyBuff on Sept 4, 2014 17:33:44 GMT -6
What would the prize be for a "competition"? Who would judge? Just keep the themes coming. I'll create a doc and save them for later dates.
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Post by simplypetal on Sept 4, 2014 20:04:27 GMT -6
I have noooooo idea just throwing stuff out in the early hours of the morning!
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Post by shedandy on Sept 4, 2014 21:42:29 GMT -6
Just to clarify I actually meant having a themes section under The main show-off heading. So its the homepage and under the Heading "Hair extension show-off" There would be (1)Show off section, (2)the Gallery of Makers (3) the Gallery of themed show off's. Its certainly still good as it is but it might help to have a separate Library of themes type of thing if its not overly complicated to do on the proboards? I know you guys are all pretty busy and Emily has been producing awesome things like wildfire, so I don't want to be a nuisance. Honestly I am happy just to have this forum. Its really motivating me to get all my s--t done because you are all making me want to make dreads and I'm not allowed to until I get stuff done. Ohww and love Autumn as the first theme, its one of my favourite themes. As for prizes for a competition, we could all promise to share the winners picture of choice on facebook as a reward? If that is allowed. Or anyone who is looking to promote themselves with a comp on facebook could kind of hijack the comp. Like I mean it would encourage advertisement of that person and be named for eg "This Months Vixen Sings Black Autumn theme comp" Although I suppose that does sound confusing. Maybe have "this months Autumn theme win fabulous Vixen sings black Dreads as prize! and have an add for that person up the top? Just brainstorming ideas here. I also figure this idea would be more for when/if it picks up a lot of speed so as to be worth it for the "sponsors". Hell the prize could just be the winning itself, you know that feeling of Yaaaay my dreads won I am awesome-town. I'd be happy to donate some Dread beads as prizes or hair bows or something I can make that wont cost a lot of postage. Maybe like 2 super deluxe dreads, if I get time to pre-make them? As for the judges, either the moderators or we could do a waiting list of volunteers? Or a poll I suppose if it doesn't get complicated with too many entries? I suppose the issue with all these ideas is I might need to simplify and streamline them a lot so its not a huge amount of maintenance. Just throwing ideas around to see what you guys think though.
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