FQCB #69 Theme is Nocturnal Animals starts 28 Feb 2025 + #69 Barnraiser Brags

 Howdy! Welcome to FQCB #69 Nocturnal Animals Theme!

Your location can be any forest/woods/meadows/farm/ranch/rural setting around the world. What inspires you about nocturnal animals? Animals that are night-time active include skunks, opossums, owls, raccoons, badgers, deer and several more.

NEW longer time format: February 28, 2025--> March 27, 2025 with start and end times at 12:00am CT/Chicago or 6:00am UK for time references.

NEW submission limit per challenge: with the timeframe increased to a month, each participant can submit 5 themed projects per challenge!!! 

Bragging rights are possible. Skip to the bottom of the post for #68 results. Best Barnraiser is a new honor that is offered a Guest DT invite. Barnraisers Top 3 Picks are for 1-40 entries. Top 5 Picks are for 41+ entries. 

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The design team crew has done their stash quests and prepared these terrific projects:

DT member Nana Connie= 

 #68 theme elements = owl

and

DT/owner Becca= 

#69 theme elements = raccoon

PLUS

new barnraiser brag honorees=

Best Barnraiser

with Guest DT Invite from January 2025==>sharing in March 2025 is GDT honoree Jolanda!

#69 theme element: owl

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Best Barnraiser

with Guest DT Invite from December 2024==>sharing in February 2025 is GDT honoree Heather!

#69 theme element = badger

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 badge for Jolanda and Heather:

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Farm-tastic design team inspiration charmers to get folks excited about FQCB #69!

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Show us your outdoorsy-woodsy night active animal(s) interpretations for theme #69 badge!

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PARTICIPANTS FOR #69 =

Future participants: use the following Inlinkz tool address to submit your 1-5 nocturnal animals- themed projects for #69. Deadline is March 27, 2025 at 12:00am CT/Chicago. Bragging rights are possible. We have tiers of recognition based on volume of submissions: Top 3 for 1-40 entries, Top 5 for 41+ entries plus a new Best Barnraiser with Guest DT Invite honor. 

LINK= 

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/b51e18086c8048319616046645a4b17e

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See you later. Fare thee well. Come back often for more of our country charm!

FarmQuest design team: NanaConnie and owner Becca

Guest DT Invite honorees = Heather H. and Jolanda

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SKIP OVER for the #68 Brag honors and mentions

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DT Call:

We would love to have 2 more artisans (bloggers and/or IG) who don't mind linking up/networking in other challenge blogs and/or Facebook crafting groups, YouTube video tutorials, Instagram, etc. If you love farm/country/outdoor/rural topics and creating themed projects before each 14th and 28th, then email message FQCB owner Becca Sadler =

heartsquestbybecca@gmail.com

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AND

#68 BRAGGING RIGHTS ANNOUNCEMENT:

8 entries

"Best Barnraiser" with a Guest DT invite

#68 (hibernating theme) Best Barnraiser is entry #7 by Indy! Congrats! (if accepting Guest DT invite for challenge #70 on March 28, 2025 ===> please email me/Becca at heartsquestbybecca@gmail.com)

Congratulations to Indy with her brown bear card!

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plus

Bragging rights for Top 3 Barnraisers mentions:

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The Barnraisers picks were decided by owner Becca S.  

in order of entry:

#1 by Pauline C = hedgehogs

and

#3 by Bonnie Lynn = polar bears

and

#4 by Jolanda = brown bear 

Congrats to these wonderful artisans for creating these hibernating animal-focused projects!

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**See ya soon at FarmQuest!**

***remember the time length of the challenge is extended to 30 days (except February) and instead of 3 project limit per person, it's upped to 5 themed projects.