Blog giveaway winner

And the winner was.....

Congratulations to Sarah. She has won a $30.00 voucher to spend in my Etsy shop.

** Sarah - please contact me asap to let me know what you would like **

200 Etsy Sales! Time for a Blog Giveaway!

At the weekend I was very excited to have made my 200th sale on Etsy... and to celebrate I thought I would have a long overdue giveaway. In the past, I have given away a specific piece of jewellery or an offer of a custom made item. However, this time I am going to giveaway a...

$30.00 voucher

This voucher can be spent on any item or items in my Etsy shop. With $30.00 you could get all my tutorials for free (Tutorial Package x 5) and still have $10.00 left towards something else... or you could get a free pair of Hammered Circle Earrings... or you could put the $30.00 towards the cost of a more expensive item. It's your choice.

All you need to do is leave a comment below this post, leave me your details and say what you might spend your voucher on.

I will draw a name of one lucky winner on Monday 20th September. Good luck and thanks for stopping by.

We have a winner!

Thank you to everyone who entered my latest blog giveaway for this Fine Silver Butterfly Pendant. In total, including extra entries for following my blog and blogging about my giveaway, I put over 100 names in my box!

The lucky winner is....

.... Jo (from the blog entitled 'Given to distracting others')

Congratulations Jo - please can you contact me with your details of where to send your prize.

Blog Giveaway - 100 Etsy Sales!

At the end of last year I celebrated lots of things, including my Blogiversary (a year since I started blogging). Now I am delighted to announce I have another thing to celebrate... my 100th sale in my Etsy shop! So to mark this occasion I have decided to have another giveaway.

One lucky winner will receive this Fine Silver Butterfly Pendant from my new Bug range of fine silver handmade charms and jewellery.



To enter this giveaway - simply leave a comment on this post with your details
To double your chances - be a follower of my blog
To triple your chances - blog about this giveaway and send me the link

The winner's name will be drawn on Friday 15th January 2010 - please remember to check back to see if it's you!

Good luck!

Orange Littles - blog giveaway winner's choice

Carol Ann (one of my latest blog giveaway winners) told me her favourite colour was orange. Here are her custom made pair of my Littles Earrings with shades of carnelian.

Orange Littles - Carnelian Coiled Jewel Fine Silver Hammered Circle Earrings

This pair is winging their way to her as I type (although a UK postal strike has just been announced!). I have also listed these earrings in my Etsy and Folksy shops as a 'made to order' item. I will, of course, take custom orders if you have a different colour in mind - just ask!

Blog giveaway - not one but TWO winners!

I have been blown away by the reponse to my latest blog giveaway which resulted in 78 entries (including all the extra entries given for being a follower or blogging about my giveaway). My usual little pot couldn't cope with all the pieces of paper, so I had to find a bigger receptacle before I could do the draw.

I am so grateful for all the lovely feedback and the extra exposure I got from this giveaway that I have decided to have TWO winners.


The two names out the box were: 'Carol Anne' and 'Lazy Daisy Glass'. Congratulations to these two readers - please could you contact me (using the E-mail link top right) and you will each get a custom made pair of my 'Littles' earrings in the colours of your choice.

Thank you to everyone for entering. I shall be having another giveaway next month.

Time for a blog giveaway – Littles Earrings

Listed in my Folksy and Etsy shops today are some new earrings I have just made:

LILAC LITTLES

Amethyst Coiled Jewel Fine Silver Hammered Circle Earrings

It’s been a while, so I thought it was time for me to do another blog giveaway. Here is your chance to get hold of a CUSTOM MADE pair of my ‘Littles’ earrings in your favourite colour (I have a variety of different gemstones, so hopefully I can find some colours that suit you).

Questions?.....

Q. What do I have to do?
A. Leave your details and a comment here telling me your favourite colour or which colour you would choose for your custom made Littles earrings and your name will go in my pot.

Q. Can I DOUBLE my chances to win?
A. Yes, be a ‘Follower’ of my blog and I will put your name in again.

Q. Can I TRIPLE my chances to win?
A. Yes, blog about this giveaway on your blog and I will put your name in again.

Q. When will I know if I’ve won?
A. I will be pulling a name out of my pot on Monday 12th October and the name of the winner will be announced on my blog. Please remember to check back to see it it’s you.

Best of luck
Kristin :)

I know I should share but....

I am always telling my kids and the children I work with that they should share but this time I’m not going to! Look at these gorgeous midnight boro swirl beads I won from lovely Becky of Chameleon Designs in her latest blog giveaway. I am so lucky!

The beads are truly spectacular and they’re mine... all mine!

I will of course ‘share’ the photos of whatever I make for myself with them - see, I'm not really that selfish!

You must go and browse round the Chameleon Designs website and look at Becky's glorious beads and jewellery. You have to be quick though when she makes new beads as they are sold in an instant.

We have a winner

After a very busy day today, I did the draw for my blog giveaway of a pair of Amethyst Shades Earrings just after midnight. The lucky winner drawn from my little pot was....

Silver Moss Jewellery - please can you contact me with your address and I will send your earrings a.s.a.p. Thank you everyone for entering. I shall be doing another blog giveaway next month.

Designer challenge - Tuscan Bead Coiled Bangle Bracelet

At the beginning of this month I blogged about the Tuscan Bead Set I won from Jenn at Kanna Glass. She challenged me and another lucky winner to design something from a similar set of beads. The beads said 'bracelet' to me and here is my Tuscan Bead Coiled Bangle Bracelet.

This is the first kind of coiled bangle I have ever made and I have to say my coiling is not perfect. This technique will certainly take practice. I did make a trial version with silver plated wire but with finer wire for the coiling. I used thicker sterling silver wire for the final piece which has certainly made it more sturdy (and more expensive!). The best thing about this kind of bangle bracelet is that it sits nicely on your wrist and doesn't swivel round.

Thank you to Jenn for the lovely beads and the challenge. It was great fun and certainly helped my inspiration to come back.

Blog giveaway

Today I saw that I have 100 followers of my blog (and 101 hearts of my Etsy shop). So to celebrate this, I have decided to have a giveaway of a pair of my Amethyst Shades Earrings (beautiful faceted rondelles of different shades of amethyst sitting together in pairs).

If you would like to win a pair of the above earrings just leave me a comment below with your details. I will draw the name of a winner on Monday 13th July so please check back to see you if you have won.

Good luck and thanks for reading.

You must check out Kanna Glass Studios

Ooo... it's been a while since I blogged. June/July are always very busy months for me with lots going on including many birthdays, family holidays and last weekend was Glastonbury Festival. My tenth year of going and this year was one of the best for me. We had the obligatory rain/mud but it soon dried out and I still managed to come home with a suntan having seen and done so much.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you about Jenn from Kanna Glass Studios and urge you to check her out. Back in April I won her blog giveaway of some beautiful green swirl beads from which I made teardrop earrings and a teardrop pendant. I loved these beads so much I immediately commissioned her to make me more in different colours and here's what arrived.

Her packaging and attention to detail is outstanding. It felt like my birthday as I opened up the beautiful little pillow boxes to find the lovely beads inside.

Then, very soon after that, I won another of her giveaways with a twist. To fit in with her Blooming in June theme, she sent me and another lucky winner a set of similar beads and has challenged us to create something with them and post our creation. I won this stunning Tuscan Bead Set with a fab swirly flower.


The colours are HOT, HOT, HOT (just like the weather here today) and the bead collection says 'bracelet' to me (might even manage a pair of earrings too). I have a few ideas swimming around in my head but I'm not sure whether they will work.

Thank you so much Jenn for all the goodies. I think you have helped me find my inspiration (it's been such a long time, I was thinking it had gone for good!). Watch this space...

Teardrops and raindrops

Regular readers of my blog will remember the gorgeous green swirly beads I won from lovely Jenn of Kanna Glass last month. Yesterday I decided I had been looking at the beads for long enough and was ready to make something with them. I knew I wanted to design something quite simple as the beads would be the main focus but I also wanted to feel there was a bit of 'me' in the design. Here are my Teardrop Earrings.



I took the above photo in my garden but believe me it wasn't easy as the weather has been very changeable today and I was running in and out of the house trying to dodge the raindrops! Then whilst I was waiting for the rain to stop I made this matching Teardrop Pendant.




Both earrings and pendant are now for sale in my Etsy shop.

Doubly lucky

What a lucky girl I am, I can't believe it - I won not one but TWO giveaways at the weekend!

My first win was this beautiful pink ribbon heart pendant I blogged about a while ago from Mel of Kookie Designs. And my second lucky win was this lovely Lilac Chain Maille Bracelet from Jo of Jolicious.

Thank you so much to both designers. I will wear your jewellery with pride (and if I feel brave enough, I might even post a photo of me doing so).

From the pictures they look like they will go very well together so it must have been fate that helped me win or maybe I'm having a lucky streak..... I'm off to buy a lottery ticket tomorrow!

We have a winner!

I have just done the draw to find a winner for my Spiral Loop Circular Pendant and the winning name pulled out of my pot was BeadyPool. Congratulations to you (please can you contact me and send me your details).




Thank you to everyone else who entered and for your feedback on my jewellery, I really do appreciate it. I will be doing another blog giveaway next month so please stop by my blog again soon.

Kookie Designs giveaway

Here is another fantastic blog giveaway I just have to tell you about. Mel Poxon of Kookie Designs is offering to give away this really pretty pink ribbon heart pendant. Follow this link for more details: http://kookiedesigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/kookie-give-away.html

Mel has just updated her Kookie Designs website and I recommend you take a look at the beauties on offer. She has an assortment of gorgeous jewellery for sale at very reasonable prices.

Murano Silver - great giveaway

Nic from Murano Silver creates beautiful and unique jewellery and is doing a superb blog giveaway with an amazing 3 choices of prizes.

Follow this link: http://muranosilver.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-giveaway-for-england-st-george.html to see details.

Hooray - I'm a winner! Kanna Glass Studios

Yay, I won a blog giveaway and I am delighted. Here are the beautiful beads I won from Jenn at Kanna Glass Studios.

I am SO lucky - they look fantastic in her picture. This is what Jenn says about the beads:

"this is a really nice set of 18 (yes, eighteen) small beads. They range in size from 7-9mm by 4-5 mm. Kiwi is a delightful bright, green transparent. It fooled me the first time I used it because it's transparent sheathed in opaque. But that combo creates the above deliciously swirled green beadberries. There are enough to create a beautiful necklace and earrings...and if you space them just right you could stretch the beads into a bracelet as well!

Quality assurance: These are my first-rate beads! I quality check them to make sure they are well-balanced, have proper dimples, are round, and no smokey or scummed glass. I spin them, touch them, and look at them carefully. Any that don't past muster are sent to the seconds jar. I also guarantee my beads...if any don't pass your muster, I will fix it!"

Jenn has recently launched her own website at http://www.kannaglassstudios.com/ which has links to her blog , her Artfire shop and her Flickr pages where you can see some of her beautiful handmade lampwork beads and the lovely pieces of jewellery she has made using her designs. (I only hope I can do her beads justice when I receive them).

Blog giveaway - Spiral Loop Circular Pendant

This Sterling Silver Spiral Loop Circular Pendant is the latest piece from my developing 'Spiral Loop' range of jewellery...

... and here is your chance to win it in my second blog giveaway.

All you need to do is take a look at my Etsy store and leave a comment below this post to tell me which is your favourite item. I will randomly draw the winner's name from my pot a week from today (that's Monday 27th April) and post it on my blog. Please remember to check back to see if you won.

If you want to double your chances of winning - please put a post on your blog about my giveaway (send me a link to your post) and I will put your name in twice.

Good luck

Kristin :)

The winner's earrings

Here are the winner's earrings - Turquoise Hammered Circle Earrings (very textured).