Avatar Design Challenge: WINNER #3 and Challenge #4 Theme Post

The results are in for our third challenge (Fall Harvest), and it's a tie! The winners are:

Kasmira

and

Lykaios

Congratulations! They're both lovely. To view all of this months entries, have a look at the Challenge #3 poll.

Since Lykaios won the last challenge, we'll use Kasmira's theme for our next challenge: Winter Reflections. Also, we will have an extended entry period this time around, since people will be busy with Thanksgiving. I'll tentatively set the due date for December 11, as I can't guarantee I'll have good computer access during the holidays. But if people are still finishing up then and it looks OK computerwise, we can extend it further. We can have a longer voting period as well, which should carry us into the New Year.

Anyway, here are the rules:

Avatar Design Challenge Rules

Challenge begins today, October 23, 2007. You do not have to "register" or otherwise state your intent to play, but it's nice if you do so so I can see what kind of response the theme is getting.
The challenge theme will be chosen by the winner of the previous round. Lykaios and Kasmira won the last round, and Kasmira selected Winter Reflections as the theme for this challenge.
Players have eight weeks to submit their design (i.e., until December 11). Please submit your entries by uploading them to an image service such as Photobucket, and then inlining them into a reply to the challenge theme post (use [img] ... [/img]). Also, post your idea for the next month's theme with your entry, so we can keep everything on schedule.
Multiple entries are permitted, but please mark one "preferred" entry, in case there are many entrants and the list gets too unwieldy.
Voting will take place between the end of the challenge and the beginning of the next round. All interested members are encouraged to vote for their favorites. The winner and new theme will be announced on the first day of the next round.
Please review the Avatar Guidelines and be sure your entry meets them. Also, please do not use copyrighted images when making your entry, unless you have permission from the copyright holder.
By participating in the challenge, you are giving other members permission to use your entry as their avatar. Please don't enter avatars that you don't want others to use. Exception: you may enter your own personal avatar if it was made new for the contest.