Bringing the Festivities to a Close

Hello again, Den of Angels!

Alas, all good things must come to an end! So comes the closing of our 9th Anniversary celebration. Just like the rest of our ninth year, it has been quite a show!

The Mod Team organized an unprecedented number of contests this year, inspired by our first opportunity to visibly give something back to the community and by the incredibly generous and abundant donations we received. We were very impressed by the stellar, positive, community-building attitudes shown in our events this year. Not only did members create some amazing works of art in all mediums, but they also contributed in lasting ways to the forum by creating tutorials and making additions to the DoA wiki.

We hope that you enjoyed the celebrations whether as a contest participant, a voter or a spectator. It is unlikely that next year's festivities will be quite so extravagant. It was a more complex operation than we anticipated and it required more planning than we actually had time for so there were a few hiccups along the way. We have learned a lot, and we appreciate that most of you were patient with our mistakes.

In addition to simply not having the staff levels to handle something on this scale again, next year Den of Angels will be co-sponsoring the very first Dollism US convention in September. This means that much of our time will be devoted to the convention, but we will do our best to provide something fun for our membership who will not be able to attend our ten year anniversary bash in person.

We would like once more to express our thanks to all of those who donated prizes to Den of Angels this year. Your amazing generosity inspired some fantastic competitions!
Batchix
DollClans
Little Monica
Mint on Card
MuisjePop
Sadol
SoulDoll
Switch
RaMcube
and moderators: idrisfynn, hobbywhelmed, sakuraharu

Please take a look at the wonderful contest winners shown below.

It is also time to bid farewell to Brigadoon for the year, so go check those book recommendations, recipe ideas and tumblr links before it disappears at midnight!

Thank you, and good night!

 

The Great Triathlon Reconstructed

First Place and the winner of a One-Off Sadol Yena is MissEmily alias: Jerrica Benton








Second Place and the winner of an Angel Fantasy Dylan is Shulamite alias: honeybadger








Third Place and the winner of a DollClans Vezeto head is thegashlycrumb alias: Clusterfluff

 

The Tailoring Contest: A Multitude of Muslins

The winner of a Souldoll Zenith Shiva is: BlanchingQueen with entry #13


The Photography Contest: Reconstructed Photo Mosaic

The winner of a DollClans Kien is: skyealloway with entry #2


The Photography Contest: Tableau Vivant!
The winner of a Batchix Mini-Machina is: ara* with entry #24


The Wig Elaboration Contest
The winner of a Little Harmony Bear is: MacaronTea with entry #7


The Customizing Contest: Deconstructed Face-Up
The winner of a MigiDoll Sad Noel head is: Icchaeyo with entry #7


The Photostory Contest: Nine Lives
The winner of a RaMcube Silver Tiger Wei is: NY_Kitty with entry #2

Complete story HERE.

The Spoonflower Contest: Photo Backdrop
The winner of an ElfDoll Mir head is: WhiteWitch with "Futuristic Dream"


The Visual Concepts Contests
The winner of an Angel Studio Kana head is patchworkpunk for the Elf Maiden with a Sweet Smile for $300 Concept


The winner of a DollZone Louis head is The Raven for the Sexy Vampire with a Cute Hobby for $700 Concept


The winner of a Muisje Wilhem head is Tide N Thyme for the Futuristic Hero and Diminutive Sidekick for $1000 Concept


The winner of an OceanMoon Shou-Ryu head is mysti_blue for the Playboy Prince and His Longsuffering Manservant for $2000 Concept


The winner of a Doll Family Chitang is gypsydale for the DoA Mascot Concept


The Wiki Construction Contest
The creator of the most new wiki entries and the winner of a Fantasy Doll Tobias is: Ougi