Giveaway Winner!

I should be writing a real post, I’ve been so quiet here of late.  Seems like the time is just flying with the day to day comings and goings.  There was much celebrating of Averleigh turning 4 and my ongoing spring clean out that I hope to be done before spring 2015 is still going on.  I have found it is lots of fun to give away all these things we no longer need or want, while simultaneously meeting my neighbours by using a Buy Nothing Project group.  I let William Morris be my guide:

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

Style and smarts, guy was the total package!
It’s time to get to a winner though. Thank you all for your very sweet comments and visiting. It is unfortunate I have not heard from my partner as to if she will be posting, I sure hope someday she does….I really wanted to see that focal shine.  I can appreciate that stuff happens so better late than never is another cliché I can toss in here.


Truly though, the real joy of the exchange is the challenge to stretch and create in ways I normally wouldn’t.  Then, lovely comments like Cassi Renee’s really put it over the top.

“Your designs are all gorgeous, but that last necklace with the flowers is absolutely a work of art. It's amazing!”

Thanks everyone, and Cassi Renee I will be in touch

We have a winner!

Let me start by thanking you all sincerely for your comments, enthusiasm and participation in my giveaway post.  I’d be creating all the same if not a single soul were watching…but I think it’s better by far to let more voices in on the process.  Your comments have sparked many new directions with this one little bead. Your kind compliments, fed the muse’s delicate ego.

Having a giveaway was a way to set myself an end date of when I would get these babies in my shop and, hopefully soon, out into the world (plus it’s a lot of fun!)  I’m happy to announce that as of today my shop has a new section: Polymer Roundabout Beads.  Here’s the starting line up! Thanks to all your ideas, many more iterations will follow.



I’m not terribly surprised that wordsmith Erin Prais-Hintz was the one to suggest “roundabout”.  I so enjoyed reading all the wonderfully creative names you all offered up, but kept returning to this idea of a roundabout.  Picturing it from above with many lanes, it goes off in many directions and at any time could be filled with a wide variety of colourful cars and trucks (or I suppose, in some parts of the world, scooters, bicycles and livestock). Oh yes, what bounty of ideas could spring from such a name.  I must think of creative way to thank Erin for this thought.

Today though, this thank you gift needs a new home…


The winner is lucky number 33! That’s Sherri Stokey, who said:

“Love the beads - I'd love to try these in a macrame necklace!”

 

Oh I so hope she does! Thanks so much everyone and Sherri I’ll drop you a line for your mailing address.

A Winner!

Welcome new followers! It’s lovely to have you here along with all the friends already following.  I really appreciate everyone taking the time to comment and chat with me.  It’s awesome to be able to have feedback from around the world here at my own little slice of the internet.  Ok, enough, you want to hear who won the $25 gift certificate right?

Luck number 34! (off to count – be right back) that entry belongs to

 Kathy Lindemer

Thank you all again for playing along!  This was my first giveaway and it won't be the last.  Kathy, I’ll be in touch.