I entered my painting of my little girl walking the pram down the brick path into the pastel society's members encouragement monthly awards last night ( 1/9/08) and won 2nd prize, so was thrilled to win that. To get votes from your peers is a real buzz. My friend from my art class- Kay won first with her asian children which was lovely and colourful. I'm sure my lovely art teacher would be rapt to know that two of her students took out the awards last night.