And the winners are...

Yesterday's Christmas Open House was a great success. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces. Thank you so much for stopping by. I'd also like to thank my creative friends who joined me for the day selling their lovely creation. They were all so nice to offer an item of theirs for the door prize and here are the winners of those prizes.

The print by Bruni was won by Diane Stump

Sandra Grew won the necklace by Dragonfly Dreamers.

Steve Meincke won the Sheila Cain-Sample print

The socks by Sharon are going to Gaitane Archibald.

Gabry Roads Stocking was won by Peggy Smyth

And this soap(not quite as seen) and a body scrub will by keeping Wendy Baldwin nice and clean for a while.

Well another year's Open House is over and my mind is already pondering the next. But for now on to the next show. I will be at the Goulbourn Museum's Old Fashion Christmas on December 1 from 10am to 4 pm. Hope to see you there.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Monday Tag Giveaway.

Okay I know I missed a week but I'm going to pretend I didn't. What can I say it's December and my body decided to take a much needed physical break so my blogging didn't happen. Enough said on that, on to the good stuff.

Since it is December now I thought I'd get into the Christmas tags for my giveaway. We've had a few snow flurries here but nothing that stayed for long yet. I'm one of those that is happy if we just get a little snow for Christmas. I can dream can't I?!! Any who, to enter to win this snowy tag leave a comment anytime this week and I'll pick the winner next Monday.

The last tag giveaway winner is Peggy. Congratulations Peggy I'll send the tag out to you as soon as I get your info.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Handmade books and winner

 Last weekend I was able to find a little time to stop by a local show, something I don't get to do as much as I use to and I miss it. And of course I couldn't resist some of the handmade goodness.  You may remember last year I picked up a few of Mary Kritz's books (you can see them here).  This year she had an even more wonderful array of books to entice me. It was hard to choose but I went with the books that spoke to me first.

This is a Japanese stab binding book. The art work on the front just mesmerized me and I kept coming back to it.

Then when I looked inside and saw this lovely Japanese marbled paper that she had embossed gold trees onto I knew it had to come home with me.

 With so much of my own work, texture plays a huge roll, so when I come across something as textured as this book I could not pass it up. This is made with Lokta paper. I hadn't heard of this paper before but was intrigued to find out it is made from a bush from the Himalayan mountains. 

Here is a little bit closer view of the texture. To see more of Mary's amazing creations and to learn of an upcoming exhibition she doing check out her blog.

This weeks tag giveaway winner is Jennifer. Congratulations Jennifer I'll get that mailed out to you shortly.

Each year I think about and try to make and buy some handmade goodness for my Christmas giving and this year is no exception. There is so much wonderful talent out there I think we should support them more. So this year I've decided to do some sharing here on my blog. Along with giving away a tag each Monday I'm going to share some of my favourite handmade goodness that I've come across on line. 
See you Monday with this new feature.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

The writings on the wall and a winner.

It's time to draw for Monday's Tag winner. Drum roll please....the winner is Juniper Goods. Congratulations, I'll mail that out to you as soon as I get your info. Thanks for playing along. Well actually I've decided to have two winners this week since last weeks tag winner never responded to her win and I only had two comments(see sad face on me) this week I'm going to give last weeks tag to Jennifer from Adventures in Mixed Media. Congratulations Jennifer I'll get that to you shortly. Come on back on Monday for the next tag giveaway and please spread the word.

So how did your week go? Again my main focus is jewelry making for upcoming shows. Above is a new design I finished this week. I don't often name my jewelry but I decided this is going to be "The writings on the wall". What do you think? Do you name your art creations?

This is another accomplishment I had this week. I finished 50 pairs of earrings for the swag bags for Handmade Harvest. So if you want a pair for free you need to get to the show early Sunday Nov. 4th to be one of first 50 people to get in and get free swag bags. And I mean early, people line up before the show starts to get these! If you want to see some of the other things going into these swag bags, check out their face book page, better yet 'like' it so you're up on the latest about the show.

Here's all about the show:

Handmade Harvest

Nov. 3, 9am to 3pm

and 4, 10am to 3 pm (different vendors each day, hint I'm there on Sunday)

Almonte Old Town Hall

14 Bridge St. Almonte, ON.

Well I better get back at the jewelry making.

Have a great weekend and keep creating!

Wendy

And the winner is...

I seem to have lost a day. Sorry I was suppose to draw the winner for Monday's tag giveaway yesterday. OH well better late than never. 

So the winner of this weeks tag is NZescapes. Congratulations I'll send that out to you as soon as I get your mailing information.

Well another week has gone by.  It's getting that time of year again when Christmas shows are about to start, so a lot of my time is being spent preparing for them. I know I should work all year to have enough inventory for them but it doesn't seem to work that way. My head has been spinning with new designs and new techniques I want to try but that is not necessarily a good thing at this time. So I will try to give myself a little time for exploring but mostly stick to tried and true designs or variations of them from the past. Ya like I have control!!? Oh well I need to tell myself these thing anyway.

 These two necklaces are variations of past ones. I've been working a lot with horizontal rectangles either etched or textured. These are both etched and then elements are riveted on. I think it's the first time I've used a fairy on a necklace and these flowers are different variations of ones I've done in the past. I've also been playing around with different ways to hang the pendants instead of just a chain. The first one has a combination of Adventuring and seed beads, while the second has a combination of seed beads and a fine brass chain. I've used this chain and bead combination a few times. It's a great way to add some extra colour to a piece.

Well I better get back to creating jewelry.

Happy Creating!

Wendy

Winner and first workshop

Another week has gone by so that means it time for the Monday's tag winner. This weeks winner is Regina. Congratulations Regina, I'll get that sent out to you as soon as I get your snail mail info.

I'm excited to be having my first workshop tomorrow in my new studio. I've been pulling out all kind of letters as you can see above, for the Word Canvas workshop. I love making and teaching this project. I'll try to remember to get some photo's of my students finished work.

Have a great weekend and be creative!

Wendy

And the winner is...

 We've made it to the end of the week of my first tag give away! My winners jar didn't fill up this week, so those that commented have good odds at winner this time. And the winner is, drum roll please...

Sheila!

Congratulations Sheila!. For everyone else come on back Monday for another chance at a tag.

Have a great weekend and Happy Creating.
Wendy

And the winner is...

Sorry I've been busy and time just got away from me again. So this is just a quick post to let Lori know that she is the winner of her choice of cards.

 Lori said...

They're all awesome! But, if I had to choose, I'd go with the dragonfly card. Love it!

I'll get that sent to you as soon as I get your snail mail address Lori.

Thanks you everyone for your wonderful comments. It's so nice to get some feed back on some of my creations.

I'm working on some new jewelry pieces and hope to get some finished soon. I'll share them as soon as I do.

Have a great day!

No winners but everyone's a winner.

Sorry ladies but neither of you got it right. But thanks for playing with me. I'll get a tag to both of you.

So I won't keep you in suspense any longer. Here is what the Tin man found for me. Lots and lots of clock parts. We went to a garage sale of a man who was a retired clock repair man. Whoo hoo look at all my wheels and gears and cogs and brass...

He spent the rest of the day taking apart a few of the clock. My mind is spinning with ideas.

Quiet Sunday morning and I'm a winner.

Well I'm having a quiet Sunday morning while the Tin Man is off having his monthly Massage Therapy. So I thought I'd have a productive time and get some tweeting, blogging and Etsy listing done. So far I'm 2 for 3 on the to do list. Just need to finish this blog and I've been a good girl for a Sunday morning!

My new Etsy listing is for one of the Key necklaces I showed you a few weeks ago. It's my favourite one with the nest and bird. I was going to keep it myself but thought I'd see how it does and make a new one for myself.

I wanted to share my winning necklace with you today. This is from the One Heart One World give away. I received it in the mail the other day and it's a beautiful as the picture on her blog over at CreativSpirit. What an interesting way to use an optical lens. I have a few I've been debating about what to do with and this has given me some inspiration to get them out and try something new.

Time for the draw!

Well the magic carpet ride is over and it's time to see who has won. I've used the Random Number Generator to pick the winners and they are as follows:

#138 Knerten ...Bracelet
#31 Bee ...Earrings
#67 Kathy L. ...Tag
#193 Kathy ...Tag
#166 Ae-lyn ...Tag

All the winners have been contacted and have till Friday to claim their prizes, after which time I will redraw numbers for any unclaimed prizes.

Thank you to everyone who commented. I had a wonderful time riding the magic carpet. I met many wonderful bloggers along the way that I will continue to follow and look forward to doing it again next year.