Pepita's Butterfly Birthday Blog Hop and Giveaway

Alenka of Pepita Handmade blog asked for people to help celebrate her birthday by making something with butterflies whether that would be a piece of jewelry, an ornament, or something else.

 

I had the intention of making crystal butterfly earrings but time got away from me.  So I decided I would showcase a necklace I made a while ago.  I think JoAnn's was either having a sale or closing out some of their Swarovski components.  I picked out the butterfly that is in this necklace.  I usually do not tend to pick out silver components but I really liked the colors.

 

  

I added some crystals in Violet, Jet Black, and clear colored Crystal.  I added a lobster claw clasp at the back making the butterfly offset to the side.

 

 

Please join me in wishing Alenka "Happy Birthday".  Her birthday was actually March 28th but that date had several blog hops already scheduled and Alenka rescheduled so that the blog hop would not get lost among all the others.

 

Be sure to visit her blog and leave a comment for a chance to win a pair of earrings that she has made. 

 

Please visit the other participants to see what everyone made.

 

 

1. Alenka (Pepita) - hostess --> http://pepita-handmade.blogspot.com

2. Monique (A Half-Baked Notion) --> http://ahalfbakednotion.blogspot.com

3. Beti Horvath --> http://stringingfool.blogspot.com  

4. Kathy Lindemer --> http://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com

5. Kepi --> http://kepirasmussen.blogspot.com

6. Christine Altmiller --> http://onekisscreations.blogspot.com

7. Amy S. --> http://blogspot.amybeads.com

8. Dini Bruinsma --> http://angazabychanges.blogspot.com

9. Cynthia (Antiquity Travelers) --> http://antiquitytravelers.blogspot.com

10. Alicia --> http://www.allprettythings.ca

11. sheilaposter --> http://catswithbeads.blogspot.com

12. Therese Frank --> http://theresestreasures59.blogspot.com

13. Rebecca White --> http://morganafeycreations.121hub.com

14. Rachel Mallis --> http://www.mintmonarch.com/#!blog/c1jlz

15. Liz E --> http://beadcontagion.blogspot.com

16. Ana (ACBeads) --> http://acbeads.blogspot.com

17. Jasvanti Patel --> http://jewelrybyjasvanti.blogspot.com

18. Carolyn --> http://carolynscreationswa.blogspot.com   You are here.

19. Nan Smith --> http://wirednan.blogspot.com

 

Thank you for stopping by.  Be sure to visit my other blog posting for the Artisan Component Marketplace Blog Hop.

 

Carolyn

Pine Ridge Treasures Clay and Metal Blog Hop reveal - Part 2

Today is the reveal for Lisa Lodge's Pine Ridge Treasures Clay and Metal Blog Hop reveal.

This will be a reveal sorta. It will have to be a reveal in two parts because I have before pictures (if I can get to them, camera is not being cooperative) but no after pictures. The finished pieces are over at my beading partners' house and I won't be able to get them until later today. I was just looking at my camera to see what pictures I have and only found the two before pictures I remembered to get before I completed the pieces that I made.

I just love the clay pieces that Sharyl McMillian-Nelson makes and sells in her three shops. Everytime she has a sale I manage to find a couple of more pieces to add to my collection.

I received three pieces clay pieces, one a large pendant and two smaller charms, made by Sharyl and some clear beads from Lisa's stash.

Part 2 - the actual pictures.  I was never able to get the before pictures off my camera.  Will have to do some tinkering I guess.
 

I used white pearls from my stash, the blue matte finish bows and hearts from my friend and beading partner, Evelyn, and clear beads that I got from Lisa to make a necklace.  I wanted to keep the piece light so I stayed away from any large sized beads.

I used the two small charms as earrings adding some pearls so that they coordinated but did not match the necklace perfectly.  Aren't the earrings with their snowflakes cute?  What do you think?

I am going to try for some better pictures and see what I can come up with.  I need to really show-off Sharyl's components.  So there might be a part 3 reveal in the next day or two.
 

Be sure to visit the other designers that worked with Sharyl's beautiful pieces and stop by our hostess' website for a giveaway. 
 

Your hostess:Lisa Lodge, A Grateful Artist

Melissa Trudinger, Bead Recipes

Jo-Ann Woolverton, It's a Beadiful Creation

Carolyn Lawson, Carolyn's Creations you are here

Shaiha Williams,Shaiha's Ramblings

ToltecJewels, Jewel School Friends

Heather Richter, Desert Jewelry Designs

Marybeth Rich, A Few Words from within the Pines

Kim Dworak, Cianci Blue

Karen Grosset Grange, Ginkgo et Coquelicot

Ann Schroeder, Bead Love

Lisa Prewitt Knappenberger, LiRaysa Designs

Carol Briody, A Beads Life

Miranda Ackerley, MirandAck

Kari Asbury, Hippie Chick Design

Susan Anderson, La Main Tresor

LeAnne Loftus, First Impression Design

Leithleach Seodra, Alainn Jewelry

The Gossping Goddess is having a giveaway

One of the blogs that I follow, The Gossiping Goddess, is having a giveaway.  Leslie is trying to build a mailing list of followers so that she can notify them of upcoming sales, new product releases, and special events that she is participating in. 

From The Gossiping Goddess website

To win £30 GBP and free shipping to spend in either of her shops THEA Elements or THEA Jewellery follow this link to her blog post:  http://thegossipinggoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/time-for-giveaway.html#comment-form and follow the directions.  You just have to sign up for the mailing list and then comment on her blog.  She makes the most beautiful pieces to use to make jewelry as you can see from the picture shown above.  She also sells finished jewelry.

Drawing will be on June 1.

Also, I will be participating in the Waxed Linen Blog Hop on Saturday.  Be sure to stop by and see what I have made.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Carolyn

Grow Your Blog winner

If you are looking for the Winter Sparkle Blog Hop reveal, please click here:  winter-sparkle-blog-hop-reveal

I was finally able to draw the winner of my giveaway for a pair of earrings or some beads.  Annmarie from Wisconsin has been notified that she is the lucky person.  As soon as she contacts me with her preference and her address, they will be in the mail to her.

Thanks to everyone that stopped by and signed up to follow my blog.  I grew by half so I appreciate it.

I have signed up the the A-Z Challenge in April where you post every day but Sunday.  Your topic is the letter of the alphabet that is assigned for that day.  I have already started making my list.  There are some holes and I may be asking for some suggestions.  I thought I would talk about different gemstones and beading subjects. 

I hope to learn things about the different subjects and pass on what I have learned.  Please try and stop back by in the month of April.  I do intend to do some blogging in between then and now.

I have signed up for Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party and a couple of the blog hop challenges that Lisa Lodge is hosting.  I have a patina challenge for Friday, February 28th and Erin's Challenge of Music Blog Hop is the same day.  I hope to get both done this weekend.

Stop back by and see if I managed to complete both challenges.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Grow Your Blog

My name is Carolyn and I have joined Vicki of 2 Bags Full and 595 other bloggers in this yearly event that Vicki has started as a way to "grow your blog".  Please join the rest of us as we visit each other's blogs and find new blogs to follow thus "growing our blogs".

Again, my name is Carolyn and I live in the Pacific Northwest where I reside with my chow mix dog Hank.  We live in a nice residential area where we take lots of walks even in the rain and snow.

I blog because I design and make jewelry and the blogging allows me to enter blog challenges where we receive beads and design jewelry from the beads received along with beads from our own stash.

I try to blog at least once a week but it has been hard going as the computer is in one room of the house and by the time I relax enough to want to blog it is time for bed.  I got a tablet for Christmas and I haven't figured out how to use Blogger on it.  Any suggestions are welcome.

I will be having a giveaway along with some of the other participants on February 15th.  I haven't made a final decision on what it will be.  Please leave your name and email address along with whether you would like to win beads or a pair of earrings.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you consider following my blog.

Carolyn

Vovs Jewellery Blog Christmas Giveaway

Vovs Jewellery Blog is having a Christmas Giveaway to celebrate her blog's first Christmas.  You can read more details here:  http://vovsjewellery.blogspot.com/2013/11/christmas-giveaway.html

She is giving away a selection of glass beads (from seed beads to large glass beads) in a Christmas color scheme along with a silver-plated engraved bookmark.



Don't they look great.  Putting my name in for the draw.

Siobhan Keogh is a British jewellery maker who has been published in several of their magazines (Making Jewellery, Beads and Beyond, and Make Jewellery) and makes some beautiful jewelery.  Just looking at what she has made has given me some ideas of what I could also make.

Please stop by her blog, follow her for some great tutorials, and sign up for the giveaway.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Tree Wings Studio giveaway

Tree Wings Studio is having a giveaway of three of her new Queen Anne Lace pendants. 

Www.treewingsstudio.com/2013/10/fall-sale-giveaway.html

Please stop by and enter her giveaway.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Millenium Moment Giveaway

Pips from Pips Jewellery is having a giveaway (a-millenium-moment-calls-for-giveaway) to celebrate having 1000 likes on her Facebook page. 

Pips is a polymer clay bead artist from Bath, United Kingdom.  She is giving away of some of her newly designed polymer clay beads.  She has pictures of some of her current beads on her giveaway blog page that are so beautiful.  Here are a couple of beads from her web page that I like.

Remember leaves

Clemetis bud

I am looking forward to seeing what the new beads look like and would love to win some.

If you would like a chance to win some free beads, please visit the link above and find out how to enter the giveaway.

Thanks for stopping by.

Be sure to come back on Saturday, August 31, to see what I made for Erin's Travel Staycation Challenge.  See you then if not before.

Carolyn

Sleepy Critter giveaway

Tree Wing Studios is having a giveaway on the cutest little critter beads, owls, foxes, and fawns that she makes.  Which one would you like to win?

Sleepy Critters by Tree Wing Studios

You can visit her blog http://www.treewingsstudio.com/2013/08/sleepy-critter-guessing-game-giveaway.html to enter.

Thank you for stopping by.

Carolyn

Comments are always welcome.

Alenka's blog anniversary blog hop

The day has finally come for Alenka's blog anniversary blog hop.  As I wrote in my previous post, I responded to Alenka's post for people to participate in her blog hop.  I received a blue to purple colored polymer clay bar that she made herself. 

I had thought about a bracelet with the bar as the center piece but it is a straight bar with no curve to it.  As I thought about it, I gathered together some beads that I thought would go well with it. 

Crystals shaded from blue to purple

I found some crystals that I thought followed the colors in the bar and decided to make a necklace with the bar as the centerpiece with some dangles at the bottom.

Here is a look at the entire necklace but I have close-ups of the bar and dangles.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to visit it the other designers in the blog hop:

Ginger Bishop           

Susan Kennedy         

Becky Pancake          

Debbie(Kepi) Rasmussen   

Evelyn Shelby 

Dini Bruinsma           

Monique Urquhart   

Jo-Ann Woolverton  

Penny May     

Carolyn Lawson       You are here

Ana Cravidao                        

Dolores Raml                        

Cynthia Machata

Your comments are always welcome.

Carolyn

Melissa Meman Earring Giveaway!!

Melissa Meman is recreating the earrings she made for her Bead Soup challenge and is giving them away.  Aren't they lovely!  Would certainly like to win them.

 

You can enter the giveaway by visiting the Earrings Everyday blog and leaving a comment.

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope to see you again soon.

 

Carolyn

Heather Powell Nature-themed Retreat and Giveaway!!!!

 

Heather Powell is having a weekend retreat inspired by nature this October 26-28.  It will be held at a location along the Black River in South Haven, Michigan. 

 

It includes three classes: Resin Forest Treasures, Leaves & Berries, Metal Sketches, Birch Trees Duo, and Beaded Flora.  Erin Prais-Hintz is the guest instructor and will offer design principles to breathe life into old jewelry.

 

All materials for the classes are included in the price of the retreat along with your meals. Lodging is not included in the price of the retreat. Check out the link above for more information.  This sounds like it will be a fun get-together.  Just wish I could be going. 

To give you a head start on your creativity, Lori Anderson has a giveaway from Heather for a $30 gift certificate to Heather's shop.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Carolyn

Pretty Things giveaway

Lori Anderson of the Pretty Things blog is having a BIG giveaway.  Here is a link to her blog entry:  five-bead-and-button-bead giveaway.

She is giving away 1) a goodie bag of things that she got at the Bead 'n Button Show in June, 2) a copy of her first book, Bead Soup, 3) a copy of her eBook on blogging, 4) a "Bead Souper" tote bag in your choice of color and 5) a Bead Soup mix that she will create especially for you.  I want all of the goodies but I need to choose only one, not sure which one I will choose.

Go on over to Lori's blog and enter to win one of goodies that she is giving away.

Hope to have some goodies to show you tomorrow or Saturday of what I find at the Puget Sound Bead Festival.  If you happen to go on Friday, I am the one with the orange rolling backpack, be sure to stop me and say Hi!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Carolyn

Creative Chaos giveaway

Skye over at Creative Chaos is giving away butterflies this month.  Skye sponsors a giveaway each month and this month is lots and lots of butterflies.  Wooden ones, crystal ones, metal ones, turquoise one, acrylic ones, and butterfly ribbon.  What to make with all those butterflies.  Any suggestions would be welcome.

Here is a link to the giveaway page: freebie-friday-3  Please mention that you saw this on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Mardi Gras beads giveaway from Happy Mango Beads

Win the beautiful beads shown below.  Click on the link below the picture and leave a comment for a chance to win these beautiul beads from Happy Mango Beads.

win-the-mardi-gras-beads

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Skye's giveaway

Skye over at Creative Chaos is giving away a geode 

or 2 sets of earrings
both pictured here:  Skye's giveaway.  Stop by her blog and enter.  You have multiple chances to win. 

I am undecided to what I would like if I were to win.  I always like earrings but a chance to do something with a geode is tempting also.

Yesterday was bowling and I made my 400 series by 2 pins.  I was going great the first game (144), lost the momentum the second game (111), and just barely made a comeback on the third game (147).

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Necklace Giveaway

I have been reading this neat blog (http://jeanawells.blogspot.com/) by jewelry maker Jean A Wells.  She has kindly donated one of her necklaces to Love My Art Jewelry for a giveaway for Valentine's Day. 




Here is a link to the post:  http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2012/02/heart-me-necklace-giveaway.html  

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn