Saturday 17 December 2011

Festive Prize Draw



Bead of the Day: "Morning Glory"


The heating in the house we are in has decided that it's going to celebrate Christmas by not working. Yesterday the boiler gave up; thank goodness, there is a gas fire in the living room, it's not amazingly hot, but at least it gives out flames - to cheer me up.



On the bead front I've been busy this week sorting out all my beads, old and new, so in the next few weeks I'll be putting strands of 80+ beads on ebay. There are all sorts, as you can see from the photos:




I've got three Tesco's "15 Caramel and Belgian Chocolate Bites" tub-fulls of beads: two of them - beads made on 2.4mm mandrel and one - on 1.4mm mandrel. Now you know what I like to eat from time to time - alas, these three tubs have been empty for a long time (chocolate-wise, I mean:)).

It's this time of year when families get together, we give presents to each other, we celebrate and feel excited for the new year to come and bring us amazing adventures. So I'm announcing a Festive Prize Draw for the followers of my blog: this beautiful and happy bead set of three "Morning Glory" lentils and three etched white donut beads to give away to one lucky follower of my blog! The lentils have my "Morning Glory" design on one side which comprises two pink flowers, several bright yellow and orange "buds" and a variegated vine going around the flowers and buds. The design is raised. The other side of the lentils does not have a raised design, but there are sways of several shades of green glass there. You can make either three pendants out of this set, or a necklace/bracelet. The pix were taken, as is usual with me, in the natural light, so I think the green on the photos is a bit darker than it is in real life - there wasn't much sun today in Derbyshire, just snow!:)




To participate in the draw just send me either a comment on this post or an e-mail - whichever is easier for you. I'll draw the name of the winner on Tuesday, the 20th December, so that, hopefully, the beads reach you before Christmas. Good luck!

2 comments:

  1. They are beautiful Nelli and fab for a giveaway, please put my name in the hat, I would love to win them. I shall look out at your others on Ebay, they look stunning..beading heaven to me! My daughter had her heating off for a week recently ..it was only 7oc in her living room ...eek. I hope you can get yours sorted but in the meantime...put another log on the fire! Take care,
    Jane x

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thank you, Jane, will do! The others, as I mentioned, belong to various periods of my lampworking development process, so some are good and other aren't so amazing, but they all are good quality, and it's time for them to go and be made into something rather than staying here with me. And heating - we'll survive! At least it's not -15 like it would be in Moscow!:)

    ReplyDelete