soap-making

I've just created a twitter microblog to which updates to this group will (or at least should) automatically post. If you upload a photo to the pool or submit a comment to the discussion board, there should automatically be a tweet resulting from that and, I hope, a little added exposure for your work, which is what this group should be about.

At present, the twitter is decorated with a standard icon I use as a signature.  That icon says me, when really, what's there should about you, hence this contest, if anybody is open to taking part. You submit a small, square picture of your soap - yes, a G rated picture - and we run this for - does three months sound good? At the end of that, assuming that I have a nice assortment of good submissions, which the quality of the work suggests I might, I'll choose one and, with the artist's approval, use it as the new icon for the group Twitter.

There is no money in this, as I am appallingly broke, however there is a prize. The artist will be publicly credited, either in the group description or on the group homepage, with a link being given to his own homepage or his space on Flickr. I'm leaning toward saying that it's up to the winner which of these she (or he) gets, but please keep in mind that I am using a free website host, so any site I link my own to has to be relatively family friendly and non-commercial. I imagine that most of yours will be, but thought I'd better mention that up front so that there will be no misunderstandings.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with, and hope that at least two of you will take part. Let's have a real contest.