When you are settled, I hope you’ll give a ball.
Oh, yes, my dear, do!
Would a ball be well received?
Well, perhaps a ball might not be the best proposal online, but a tour, I should think, will be plenty well-received! Do you not think so, Miss Austen? Yes, here at Feelin’ Feminine we have decided to host a 2010 Jane Austen tour and have invited anyone who wishes to attend to join us! What is a tour, you may ask?
TOUR, n.
1. Literally, a going round; hence, a journey in a circuit; as the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
2. A turn; a revolution; as the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Not now in use.]
3. A turn; as a tour of duty; a military use of the word.
4. A tress or circular border of hair on the head, worn sometimes by both sexes.
5. A tower. [Not in use.]
While we shall not be touring the lakeside or the country of Derbyshire on our tour we will be doing plenty of site-seeing! The idea of the tour is to re-visit Jane Austen’s era and novels by re-creating fashions, depictions, foods, crafts, etc. on your own blog and then enter them into the appropriate category for judging. At the end of the event our panel of judges will chose what they consider the best, most creative, most original, etc entry, and we will announce the three-top choices, for each category. When those winners are announced our readers will have a chance to vote on a grand-prize winner.
Why Jane Austen? I have seen several re-creation events of different popular novels, and thought it would be fun to do my own! Jane Austen instantly came to mind as the perfect theme for this event! Her novels are so widely known, loved, and do exhibit a distinction between ladylike and less than ladylike behaviour.
The event will officially begin on July 19th so start getting ready!
Please read these pages and leave a comment if you’re going to participate :
- Official Rules and Guidelines
- Panel of Judges – to be posted!
- Entry Categories (click to view categories and submit entries)
- JA Tour Banners
- Prizes
About The Author
Post topics: announcements, fashion, fun, history, jane austen, photos, recipes, regency
*squeals*
I am SO glad you are doing this, i am SO excited!!!!
I am definately going to participate =D. {BIG GRIN}
LOL
R.
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Dear miss Jocelyn.
What an absolute coincidence. I live in Spain, as you must know by now, but before I was married my hometown was attached to the very place where Jane Austen used to live, Chawton, in Hampshire. When I was a small girl my family went around her house in a guided visit. I played with her tortoises,and run around a maze she had in the back garden. Right across the lane to her house there is a tea room where you can buy scones and cream and home made jam and have a hot cup of tea!!
I will be following your ‘tour’, for sure, as it will remind me of the green, green grass of home!
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Aw that is wonderful! If you have any photos, I should like to see them! :)
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W.O.W.!!! HOW FUN, Jocelyn! What a neat idea! Okay, I am totally ‘in’ on this! :) *haha*
If you need another judge, I would be more than willing to volunteer! You have my e-mail so…we can talk over more of the details. ;)
Thank you so much for this fun opportunity, dear!
Blessings,
~Miss Raquel
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank you! I can’t wait to see how many participate!
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Oooo, I am so excited! I just love Jane Austen!!! Keep up the good work, girls!
May the Lord Bless!!!
Grace
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I like to visit the place where she lived :) That part of the country is awesome! I live quite close.
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I just realized the other day that i can’t participate. My camera just broke.
*sniff*
LOL
R.
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I would love to do this! Is it OK if I only do it for some of the days? For during the last week of July I will be leaving on a vacation with my family.
In Christ,
~Ashley
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Yes, that is fine Ashley. You can do it whenever!
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I’d love to do this! But I haven’t the slightest idea how to put the button thingy on my blog…
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
lol Just hightlight/copy the code for which banner you want and then paste into your html (or widgets) on your blog. ;)
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Natalie's reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Oh, ok! Thanks!
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Sounds like fun! Do you need anymore judges?
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Hi Dear Jocelyn,
I loved the idea. Let me see if I understood welk, I can participate, trying to create that novel (food, clothing, etc) then take pictures and post in my blog? If it is like this I will tell my friend she also loves Jane Austen´s novels, she would be very excited! Me and her could do it together :)
Blessings and hugs to you^^
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 20th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Yes dear, you understand!
Glad you may participate! :)
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O.k. even though I only found out about this today, (missing the first day) I’m going to try to jump in and participate. After all, I love Jane Austen!
~Leila
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I would love to participate. Am I allowed to use a post that I made last week?? Or does it have to be something completely new this week? The reason I ask is I just attended the Jane Austen Festival in Kentucky, and I have some really wonderful tutorials, food, costumes, etc. that I’ve recently blogged about.
I will go ahead and post a banner on my blog just in case you accept these.
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 20th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Yes! That is completely fine! :)
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This sounds like it will be delightful! I probably will not be able to participate, but I will certainly enjoy following along. Jane Austen is one of my FAVORITE authors!
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Thank you! I’ve rehashed all of the posts I’ve done on Austen era things. I hope you enjoy them!
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Jenni,
There was a Jane Austen festival in Kentucky?? When was it?
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Jenni's reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Brooke, It’s annually in Louisville. This year it was July 10th and 11th. It’s amazing, and so much fun. You can get the details at http://www.jasnalouisville.com
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My daughter and I are going to work on something together. Not sure what, but we are going to participate in some way! We are fans to be certain! What a great idea to break summer monotony!
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This will be fun !
I have some old Jane Austen posts that I can use too.
Can’t wait to see all the posts.
~Rosie
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Where do we submit the articles for the JA Tour? I didn’t see a Link Box so I wasn’t sure how you sent them in. thanks! Beth
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Miss Jocelyn Tzahala's reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Click on the categories link at the bottom and that will take you to a list of categories with links to enter.
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Hi Miss Jocelyn,
I’m trying to find when the deadline for submissions is, and I can’t find it… is there a date we have to have entries in by?
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Miss Kathryn's reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Oops, nevermind… I was just looking in the wrong place! I see it now on the graphics. :-)
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