The raffle has closed, the deed is done. We have a winner of the Gardening Porter RAPS. I raffled it off a few minutes ago, and randompicker Lady Luck pulled talented fan artist Rachel Burns/@racheburn as the winner. Congratulations!!! 🎉 For those of you who do not know Rachel, may I take the opportunity and link back to some of her amazing art?! Rachel really has a rare talent and hand draws stunningly accurate portraits such as this:
#pencil #drawing #guyofgisborne #smirk 😏 pic.twitter.com/6qf9MEPWie
— Rachel Burns (@racheburn) February 12, 2016
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She also likes to craft and has played with foam rubber to produce such cute once-offs such as this darling Valentine’s ornament of Mr Thornton and Margaret:
#HappyValentinesDay #NorthAndSouth #Thornton #Hale ❤💜❤ pic.twitter.com/vUMXYF4c4d
— Rachel Burns (@racheburn) February 14, 2016
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And she is known for portraying plushies…
Thank you @racheburn for the beautiful portrait of the best looking Plushie in the world 😘 pic.twitter.com/l3WOfEgNtq
— Plushie_Richie (@plushie_richie) April 25, 2016
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And for Valentine’s Day she created a hand-drawn colouring book for Sinnamin which you can see in the collage that illustrates my post on the #RichieValentineSwap.
This, incidentally, is the first RAPS to stay in Ireland – which I am delighted about 😊. Anyway, I hope Rachel enjoys her garden helper. He looks as if he is ready to dig in ⛏
And to those of you who have come away empty-handed: Stay tuned! Two new shrines left the hallowed halls of RAPS Inc. today and will be revealed and raffled soon!
PS: Here’s the draw protocol:
Guylty Pleasure 
Congratulations to Rachel! Wonderful RAPS! I’m a huuuuge Porter fan (see my avi)! You can never have enough Porter!
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Porter is really a man for all missions. Outdoors and indoors. He has really grown on me!
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Well done Rachel! And your art is wonderful 😃 A worthy winner indeed (and great that a RAPS gets to stay in Ireland for a change).
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She makes really cool stuff, doesn’t she?
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I am sure Porter will love his home in Ireland where his green thumb will match the scenery. Rachel’s luck matches her talent. No wonder she won. Congratulations! I would write more but I can’t see to type through my tears of disappointment.
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*hehehe* I hope you didn’t suffer water damage on your device because of the tears 🙂
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Nice art Rachel and congratulations for winning the RAPS, I hope you’ll love it! xx
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Sooo disappointed… Maybe next time! Congratulations Rachel. Wonderful art work.
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Hehe, “next time” has already been released 🙂
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Congratulations, Rachel! And can I just say how much I love that Valentine’s Day Mr Thornton & Margaret ornament?
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Congrats, Rachel! 😀 Don’t force him to work too much 😛
Oh, and Guy’s smirk…. *goes to twitter to hit ‘follow’ button*
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Yay – you won’t regret following Rachel – she posts great stuff!
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