My Birthday Giveaway

Pretty little egg beads in a shiny silver nest.

Today is my birthday, another year goes by and boy oh boy did it go quickly. I feel so grateful to all of you my blogger friends, some of whom in this last year I have become very close to. You all bring me much joy and pleasure, you lift me up when I am down, you inspire me in so many ways, and give me so much love. Thank you for a wonderful year :)

I decided to have a little giveaway with you to celebrate, so I am offering you all a chance to win this sweet bird nest pendant. It is a larger size than others I have shown you and the wire is a non tarnish silver tone in a heavier gauge so it is much stronger. I just love these blue glass egg beads don't you? Too bad I couldn't find more, there were just a few left.

Just leave a comment on this post making sure if you do not have an email reply on your comments that I have a way to contact you. I will draw the winners name on Monday July 19th.
If you don't have a blog but don't want to leave your email in the comment field you can always contact me on my profile.

Miss Iowa, if you are there. I can't respond to you because your profile is private, but I did want to thank you for visiting and leaving me lovely comments, just know that I would reply if I could :)

Ok, I am off to start my day, have a good one,
Lynn

Janee sent me a surprise :)

Janee from Blinkles Boulevard creates these charming little wish bottles and she sent me one, woo hooooooo, doing a happy dance :) It came in a little gold organza bag with the darling little certificate.

You can see below the instructions on how to use it....

Inside is a tiny bead charm, this is what I focus on when I make a wish...

She also sent me a beautiful hand made card.....

AND one of her miniature nests made from real acorns, look how delicate this is, hung on a golden wire with a tiny charm which says "dream"
(oops, sorry, it's turned the wrong way so you can't see the words)

I love all the tiny details and the hanger she created for it, and of course, if you know me I love anything to do with nature.

I am so happy with my surprise gift, I think these are the sweetest, most precious little gifts and I will treasure them always sweet lady, I know you have so much going on, so it was very very thoughtful of you to take the time for me :)


You can purchase from Janee at her Etsy shop too, and she also has her line of wish bottles in a private little boutique in her area, and if I remember correctly will do custom orders.

Thanks again my friend :)

Wire Nest Charms can be addicting

Thanks to Patty who inspired me with this post to try some wire bird nest charms. She shares a link to a tutorial on you tube, so off I went and it sounded pretty easy, so I dug out some wire I had from the dollar store and some beads from the same place. I was happy with them at first, but would never post them on my blog, tee hee... just not good enough. I think because they were kinda flat too, I didn't like them, so I started looping the wire more.

I finally went shopping for a few supplies and picked up some better quality wire and the pretty blue pearls. I wish I could have found an egg shape pearl in that color, but nothing at that time. I couldn't find an egg shaped bead of any kind actually. So I broke down and used some Vintage beads I have been saving, and I made a nest and put it on a chain with a lovely key I had already.

I added a couple of tiny charms to one, and then I tried a gold wire nest because I have lot's of gold color charms. I think it looks so pretty. I made this one really loopy didn't I? That's the thing about these nests, no two look the same, they always come out different.



Today I recieved 2 giveaways that I won in the OWOH event, funny how they are from different parts of the world and arrived on exactly the same day :)

Below is an intial soldered charm from Xela in Germany . I was drawn to her blog right away because I just love the style of what she creates. Take a minute and visit her at Cottage Dreams

Thank you Xela for this sweet gift, look what I have done with it........
It makes a nice addition to my new charm necklace :) Wonder if I will wear it much, I am really not a jewelry person, I love to look at it and have it but I don't often wear it. I really should deck myself out more even if I do stay home a lot.

The other giveaway I won is from Cia at Briarwood Miniatures. This talented lady creates miniature furniture, accessories, houses, you name it, lookie what I won.

All hand made by Cia , are they adorable or what? They will be going in our doll house. It is packed up right now, but one of these days I will show it to you.

Thanks so much Cia, I am so happy, and I especially love the tiny bee skep, which was a lovely surprise :)

Guess what I did today? I was outside cleaning up the front garden for a while, I even had to take off my sweater. I had a t shirt underneath of course. It was so warm in the sun. I realized after twenty minutes how out of shape I am after the winter, so I left more work for another day. Ohhhhhhhh it was so nice to be out in the sun and in the dirt, especially after 4 days dark gloomy weather. Hope it stays like this for a while.

Take care peeps,
Lynn