And The Winner Is...

What a great time I had reading the comments everyone left for the Artbeads.com Email Gift Certificate give away!!!

Lets see...mentioned was Thai beads, brownish beads, Hill Tribe beads, special beads, Czech glass beads, Swarovksi crystals, shiny black beads and the list goes on!

What would I buy...it would have to be silver of some kind, whether it was sterling, Thai or Hill Tribe, what ever caught my eye, but then this isn't about me...:0)

The winner is...Shaiha, she says "Artbeads is my favorite place to shop". Congratulations Shaiha enjoy your shopping spree...

Thank you everyone for taking the time to leave a comment and enter my "give away"...


By the way...if you haven't yet entered Artbeads.com Facebook contest for a $100.00 Gift Certificate you still have time...their contest ends December 20th at midnight...so hurry!!!

The link is here...http://www.facebook.com/artbeads?v=app_28134323652

Thanks again everyone...
Cheers

*FTC compliance disclosure* the Email Gift Certificate and the Gift Card attributed to Artbeads.com in this post are promotional gifts from Artbeads.com provided directly to the winner, in relation to the blogging program. My comments pertaining to both Gift Certificate and Gift Card are my personal opinion, no compensation has been received.

Couldn't Wait!!!

I've been waiting for about a week now for a brighter day, it really does make a tremendous difference in my photos ...unfortunately it has been gloomy and gray! I have two necklaces I want to show you...for today I have just the one because the other necklace is made with Swarovksi crystals and I just couldn't get their sparkle, so that one will wait!!!

Back in September I won three strands each of two different colored African bone beads... I won these on my friend Pearls blog, thebeadinggem.com . The beads were courtesy of For The Love of Beads an online Canadian bead shop.

It took me awhile but I don't like to make something until I "feel" like it...sometimes it just doesn't work. Here you have it...the African bone beads, brown/black agate, crazy lace agate(love this stone) spaced with pewter beads, finished with a butterfly toggle...if you compare the top photo of the beads and the bottom of the necklace you will see what I mean about the quality of the photo...the bead photo was taken on a brighter day and the color is much nicer, more accurate!

I'll have to take another on a brighter day and post it...as this photo doesn't do the necklace justice, if I do say so myself!!! :0)

Cheers