Surprise!

Grace has been at my house since last Tuesday...and we have been working on a surprise for you all :) I know it has been a long time since we have posted anything, but we figured this would make up for it. haha.

So yeah. :)

Enjoy your surprise!

Enter: The Wallaby of Death

Hi Holmesians!!

Wow.

It has been a *really* long time, hasn't it?

Summer is flying by so fast, I haven't even had time to sit and figure out a blog post.

So...I just thought I would say...Grace and I didn't die. lol She's away at camp...I'm just insanely busy.

BUT. In August, she's coming to the sunny south to visit me...and there will be sooo many exciting things to blog about then :)

And that contest isn't going anywhere...it will still happen, though when...not sure :P

Old Copies of the Canon...

Hi Everyone!

I hope everyone has had a super blessed week!

I'm sorry about not posting the contest information yet, but Grace is currently away so we haven't had time to finish prepping. It will be up soon, though.

But for now, I have some awesome pictures to share!

My mom and I went on a college tour of Bryan College in Dayon, TN a couple of weeks ago. They had a libary FULL of very old books. I, naturally, wandered to the British Literature section and got my hands on two copies of Sherlock Holmes...one, a copy of the Hound of the Baskervilles from 1902:

And one, a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, dated 1900.

There was also a book with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's picture in it, dated 1896.

They were pretty awesome...all falling apart and such, but it was amazing to hold a book in my hands back from the time Holmes was actually created :)

Anywho, like I said, contest information is on it's way; I shall likely be working on it this very afternoon. Enjoy the pictures, and have a spectacular weekend!

Bre

First Ever DoaH Contest!

First of all, I'm baaack! My tendonitis is gone and I am now free to type as normal again. Thank goodness.

Secondly, I have just emailed Grace in regards to the writing contest she mentioned in the last post. Just so y'all know that it's underway :) I think we will probably have it up within the next week.

And answering Mary's question, you will have plenty of time to plan. I think we'll probably make the deadline a couple of weeks out, to make sure everyone has enough time.

It'll be FUN! Keep on the look out...if all goes as planned, we should have the whole thing put together by next week sometime :)

No Reichenbach

Um, we didn't die, hence the title. We've just been busy/lazy, Bre the former, I the latter.

This is mainly just to let you know that no one pushed us off any cliffs, we didn't take a hiatus and fake that someone pushed us off a cliff, or any such shenanagins.

BUT, be on the lookout; a fun, happy, contest which involves shweet writing shall be underway velly, velly soon.

Holmes Trivia 3 Answers

Alright-y, here are the answers to the Holmes trivia 3! Marian and Amy both got the first two right.

1) The Red-Headed League, Inspector Jones

2) The Man with the Twisted Lip, Neville St. Claire (his beggar name was Boone)

3) The librarian's name is Lomax, from the story "The Illustrious Client." (there is only a brief mention of him)

Holmes Trivia 3

Hey everyone! Thanks for sticking around :)

Amy reminded me of a project I started awhile back...the Holmes Trivia. Heh, I kinda forgot about it until she said something. So...here's round 3!

Remember, no using search engines. Try to answer everything from your own knowledge. If you need to, you may refer to your copy of the canon or other books that might contain information. But yeah...Google and Yahoo! make everything entirely too easy to access. If you need to refresh your memory on the rules, please click here. Again, ONLY use the canon if you absolutely need to.

1) In a case from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Holmes, Watson, a man named Mr. Merryweather and a policeman wait in a bank vault. What is the name of the case and the policeman?

2) In a case from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Holmes goes to the prison to visit a beggar man who was being held there. What is the name of the case and who is the beggar man?

3) What is the name of Watson's librarian friend who helps him to find a book on Chinese pottery?

Good luck! Post your answers in a comment and I will come back within the next few days to post the answers :)