Mare while we liked your entries they came in way too late in the contest (2 hours before it ended??? was WAY too close to the end for us to be comfortable with starting a discussion with you based on time zones and our requests for color changes and a pure white background (as noted in our request) - we'd been working with several designers who had showed up earlier in the process - we wanted to give you an honorable place with the one we did enjoy the most nonetheless. You are creative and talented! Our best to you in your future contests!!
thank you so much - you surprised me with a reply despite that the contest got over - but then may be you were not aware that you could take a whole week in judging mode to decide and again take another week after the final files are uploaded - you can always ask for changes till you are finally and fully satisfied; guess you concluded that you need to finalize a winner sooner than the finish of the countdown - color change and background are done in a jiffy - may be there was an urgency for you to decide a logo. I usually enter the contest the last hour and so do most - thanks anyway for taking your time to message me.