Tag - You're it!!!

Let's play - but before we get too caught up in the game, I think that I should make clear the difference in how we can play the 2023 Christmas Event over the 2023 Juried Shows.  

As mentioned before, the Juried Show entries should be on the QT (Slang as Used in the expression on the Q.T., meaning secretly or in confidence), because the juried shows are judged by our own judges and we want to play fair there.  That means not to put your doll information out on social media so as to not possibly influence the judges.

BUT --- did you know that doesn't apply to our Christmas Event!!!  This year's theme is "Magical Memories of Christmas" and the more I have thought on this and after hearing the voices of some of our members... I didn't realize how freeing this show truly will be.

Let me explain.  First of all, because the theme is magical memories, this can be anything you want as long as you explain how it supports the Event theme.  It doesn't have to be just about Santa and elves.  For myself one of my very first Christmas toys was a pink stuffed rabbit.  Now if the rabbit follows our registry guidelines which is:

• Fantasy animals Anthropomorphic dolls (animals acting as humans with human characteristics).  Anthropomorphic dolls would be dolls that are upright, presumed to be talking, dressed as humans, or acting as if human.

​then by creating a rabbit doll and dressing it, the rabbit can be in the Event as one of my 'Magical Memories of Christmas'.   So the sky is the limit as long as it stays within our rules and theme if you are wanting to be judged for the Event's competition. AND... if you want to participate... you can make whatever you want... no limitations except... and there is always an exception... no gore.  See previous blog for more information on that.

​Now here is where we begin to play!  Because this event is chosen by the people we don't have to be on the QT about it.  In fact I encourage people to be sharing their works in progress for this event!  We can even get together and maybe do some brainstorming - zoom events about it.  The more you post, the more people know about what we are doing.

The more people know about the your doll, the bigger the interest of people that might come to vote.  Remember - voters don't have to be members of IADR.  This is where you get to call in those "favors" of your aunt, cousins, and siblings to come vote for you.  It's never to soon to start giving them peeks *smiling*.   ​

Now this is where we also play TAG - YOUR IT!  Because if you tag me in your posts regarding anything you want to have me share to our three IADR pages/groups, I am more than willing to do that.  So, if you post on your own personal timeline and tag me, then I know I can share it to everyone in the IADR.  

But... (there is always a but... *smiling*), if your post is important to read then post it to the public IADR and the private Facebook sites, because when I share your posts the verbiage gets shrunk to the next level down.  To TAG me or not is up to you, but know I am willing to share your images because the more places you can post - the more you can be seen.  Again, when you are posting out there remember to include the IADR (except for current juried show entries before they are judged) because the more activity we get... again, the more your art is seen.​

​There will be further updates about the Christmas Event coming out in the near future, but I wanted to get more information out to the IADR members for this new event.  This is your one Freebie event where you can make (within the thin guidelines) your vision - so have fun with it.  I can't wait to see what magic starts happening!