Well we Have a Winner...now what

WooHoo...my first contest is finished...I placed all the names in a hat today, and my husband drew out a name....SANDRINE.....so congratulations. But now my dilemna is...she/he has her BLOG profile set to not allow public access...so I have no website, no access to her/him at all....:)

So I will give it a couple of days and SANDRINE...if you are out there or reading this...leave me a comment....you are the winner of the 15.00 GIFT CERTIFICATE to my etsy store.

The sun is shining and you can see Spring is in the air...perhaps I will go and buy some plants today and try and dress up my garden.

Hope you all have a wonderful day and SANDRINE...get a hold of me!!!!!!!!!!!

Win a 15.00 Gift Certificate to my etsy store

So if you take a minute to fill out my survey (above) and leave me a comment here that you did...I will put your name in a draw for a 15.00 gift certificate to my store. All entries must be in by March 22nd. Thanks and Good Luck.

Amanda

My dream vacation...March 14th

So I had one of those 'off' days today. It has been about 5 weeks since I quit smoking and today I wanted one SOOOOOOOO badly...I have been fidgety and grumpy all day. But it is almost over and I can crawl into bed and make it through another day as a non-smoker.

But with that having been said...I did not feel like making beads today or anything that would be considered productive...so I started searching Flickr pictures and websites for the BEST vacation spots. I have decided when and if I ever have enough money to go somewhere hot (before I am in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank, no offence intended) that I want to go to BORA BORA...OMG....it is gorgeous. I have never seen water like that and how cool to stay in a raised thatched hut on the oceans edge. Is that gorgeous or what. So I have decided to start a fund..forget the credit card debts, forget the extra spending money...I am going to attempt to put a good amount of money away each week so that in 39 weeks (mid december) I can go there.....well I can dream can't I!!! :)

anyway back to my last post...I said I was making licorice allsort beads for a lovely lady in Australia...well they did not turn out the way I wanted...but she was very kind and bought them anyway. Well she turned them into the most lovely jewelry pieces...she is a really talented designer and you can see her etsy shop here and this is a picture of the set she made. Thanks so much Leanne for making my beads look good....so glad your mum was pleased!!!

Anyway 'nuff said...I am off to dream my dreams of Bora Bora and maybe one day I will be posting the pictures here of my holiday!!!

'nite all.

Interviewed for radio blogspot yesterday....

Well I had so much yesterday morning doing a blog spot interview with a wonderful lady who has a great website called beloved-creations, she is a talented embroiderer and jewelry designer. We met because she entered a draw on Wickedly Chic, another one of my favorite Indie sites and Janet won a 30.00 gift certificate to my store. Well she really liked my beads and asked if I would like to be on her Wednesday lunch brunch radio blogspot. I am not one for interviews, but she was so relaxed I felt like I was talking to my best friend. Anyway thanks Janet...it was fun.

Well things are picking up in the store...lots of custom orders of handmade lampwork glass beads. A lady in Australia has asked if I can make some licorice allsort beads for a gift for her mom for Mothers Day. That should be fun. I will post some pics if and when I actually manage to make them.

I have a very cool new set of lampwork glass beads in my etsy store. They were made as an example for a custom order but these were not what she was looking for, so I have some more for her in my kiln and these ones are now up for grabs.

Anyway have a great long weekend, and enjoy the radio spot if you happen to hear it. Also take a minute to check out Janets' site...it is lovely.

All for now.
Amanda

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY....SOON

Well my friend sent me this hilarious JIB JAB valentines day card so I had to sign up with the site. This is the card I have sent to family and friends...pretty morbid but V-Day is not one of my favorite holidays...never has been.

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Hope you all had a great weekend and I will have some new sets up on etsy soon.

Amanda

Giants Won!!

Not that I am a huge giants fan...but since the 'hawks were done for I decided to cheer for Eli. We had our annual superbowl party at my house...lots of good food and drink was had by all including a great finish to the game.

We are having a contest called HAVE A HEART ON FOR HANDMADE..you can see the details on etsy glass artists blog here....basically you vote for your favorite hearts and get a chance to have your name drawn to choose one of them.

I sponsored a contest on WickedlyChic last week and Janet was the winner of a 30.00 gift certificate to my store. You should check out her website here...she is a very talented jewelry designer. Now the cool news is she has offered to interview me for her blog radio cast on the 13th of this month...how fun is that.

Anyway hope you are all well...and those that have had to deal with those horrific tornadoes, we are thinking of you and your families and hoping you are well.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE...

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Ours was relatively quiet. Got some cool presents and spoiled my husband rotten to congratulate him on 5 months NO SMOKING. We bought him a new HDTV so yesterday the whole day was spent in his new room watching the games. Unfortunately I started smoking again, but will give another attempt soon. Here are a couple of new pics. This is my daughter and her friend going to their tolo dance. My daughter and her friend up 4 x 4'ing in the mountains and a picture of Rufus with a hat I tried to crochet that probably would not even fit a dolls head.. :) Oh well, still learning.