and the winner is . . .

Maura W!!!

She totally dominated the competition by entering three different ways!

Thanks for entering and

congratulations!

I feel a contest comin' on . . .

I have been working feverishly on adding new pages to my website. Which for me means it makes me get a fever, not that I'm working super hard. HTML and CSS are still a stretch for me after all this time.

Anyway, I've added pages for selling the art that's available, for selling cards and, TA-DA, the newest page, selling double matted prints.

So to keep you interested despite my lack of art to share, I decided to have a little contest to
win an 8x10 print of your choice
(even if it's not on the print page yet - I'm sure I've forgotten something)
along with a small token of my affection.

There are several ways to enter:

• comment here
• tweet about it
• share it on facebook mentioning
• comment on the post on my facebook page
Be sure you use the @ to mention me on facebook & twitter so I can find your entries.

Deadline is Saturday, July 30th at midnight (CST) and I'll post the winner next Monday.
Thanks for playing.  Hopefully now that I've finished these pages I can actually finish some art.  Tho I do want to do a calendar page and one about my workshops so . . .

and the winner is . . .

Brittany

1 kristen
2 joella
3 susan
4 sharon
5 carmen
6 brittany
7 brittany
8 brittany
9 nancy
10 linda
11 joella
12 diane
13 suzanne
14 creative beast
15 joella
16 tawny
17 carmen

Congrats Brittany!

I'll email you so you can make your selection.

Disclosure: Brittany happens to be my daughter's bestie.
Thank you to everyone who entered.
I hope you know how much I appreciate that you take the time to comment and follow.
I love the blogosphere!

100 POSTS!!!

WOW!!!
100 posts?!?!?!?!

I just popped in to tell you I finally have my "about me" page done (click on the little piece of masking tape above) and I see that I'm at post 100!

Well, I am totally unprepared.  Nothing amazingly clever to say.  Nothing insiteful to discuss.

So I think I better run a little giveaway.

How about a domino bracelet? You'll choose from one of these styles:
Asain
Floral 1
Floral 2
Ladies
Now, cuz they're hand-made, what you get won't look exactly like these. 

To enter, leave a comment.
To enter again, follow.
To enter again, use one of those little buttons below to tell others about my blog - just tell me you did in your comment.

Good luck - and thanks for reading.

OOPS!  forgot to mention that I'll draw the winner Sunday at 9pm central

Nancy's Prize

I finally finished the prize for my first giveaway.

Major apologies to Nancy for this taking so incredibly long.
There were MANY challenges with this (all fork related). And I've learned a few lessons (more on that later).

This is a sterling fork charm pendant on a velvet ribbon. Nancy can wear it short or long on the ribbon or put it on a chain.


Here are some details of the individual charms:

The center large charm is a Rumikub game piece. The other two charms were stamped on shrink plastic.

I think this is the first jewelry I've posted here on the blog. Click here if you'd like to see more.

Things I learned or was reminded of:

• Make the prize BEFORE running the contest OR
• Don't make something I've never made before!
• Forks are difficult to bend, cut & drill
• My husband is VERY helpful
• I need a smaller tip for my new solder iron (Weller 100 - boy does it work GREAT!)
• I need to practice, practice, practice with my soldering
• I love my dremel
• I need to bring my vise inside

Hope you like it ~ especially Nancy ~ Sherry

linked to the week 24 challenge at Lots To Do and
the color green challenge at Thursday Challenge

Winner of my first Giveaway

AND THE WINNER IS

(drumroll please)

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NANCY LEFKO!!!

Congratulations Nancy!! I'll contact you tonite so you can let me know what theme you want for your charms and mailing info, etc.

Better luck next time everyone else - I can't thank you enough for commenting and following. I'll post a picture of the "prize" when it's complete.

Thanks again ~ Sherry

Thank You for Commenting & Following

Halfway to the drawing!! I'm so excited to have three new followers - even one I don't personally know! And I really want to thank everyone who left comments.

If you haven't entered the giveaway, please click here, read the post and leave a comment. To enter twice, become a follower too!

Thank you for "talking" to me ~ Sherry

My First Giveaway

I woke up this morning thinking about two things - a pendant that's been dancing around in my head for awhile and that in two weeks I begin tax season.

Then I thought about my blog. Then about the gorgeous earrings I won at Starving Artist Designs. One thought lead to another and soon I hopped out of bed (for those of you who don't know me, that is seriously out of character) and started trying to figure out how to implement my plan:

MY FIRST GIVEAWAY
You will receive a charm pendant made for you featuring the new idea in my head and three charms (found objects and/or hand-crafted) in a theme of your choice.

To enter, just leave a comment on the blog within the next ten days.
To enter twice, do that AND become a follower of the blog (there's a follow button on the very top near the left).
I will need to know how to contact you so anonymous comments/followers won't work.
There's a program out there somewhere that randomly selects winners which I will find again and use.
The winner will be posted on January 15th.
Thanks ~ Sherry

Just FYI, bloggers LOVE comments and followers - it lets us know we're not just talking to ourselves!