The winner is….. Martha Reese!!!! Congratulations Martha! You’ve won the bracelet pictured below!
Thank you to all who entered the giveaway. I appreciate each person who visits my blog and hope you will continue to do so. Hugs!
Linda Landig Jewelry
We’ve been in our new home for a month now. It’s smaller than our old house, but very nice. We’ve unpacked all our boxes, and put nearly everything away. Tomorrow I plan to haul all the cardboard boxes back to the moving company so someone else can reuse them. It still doesn’t seem like home yet. I wonder how long that will take? It feels kind of like we’re house sitting someone else’s place.
I promised you a studio tour and a giveaway. The studio tour comes first. Hang on till the end and you’ll find out how to enter the giveaway for a free artisan bracelet!
My studio isn’t 100% moved into yet. There are a few small boxes on the floor, the closet is a mess and not all the pictures have been hung. But I decided not to wait any longer to share some pictures. I can always do an update later.
We’ll start at the door of the studio. See that guy there? He just sort of followed me to this new house, helped me install a whole wall of shelving and even gave me the “Jeweler Parking Only” sign. I think he’s a keeper. 😉
To the right of the door are some IKEA spice racks that are the perfect size for my ceramic glazes. The white box on the far right is a photo cube, which helps diffuse light and reduce shadows on my jewelry photographs. Next to the photo cube is my desk. I didn’t take any pictures of it, because it’s become the surface on which I’ve laid all the stuff I’ve unpacked, but haven’t found a space for yet.
Here’s a closer view of the “spice racks”. Small bottles fit two deep and pint jars fit nicely, too.
My orchids are happy in their new home on my studio window sill.
The next picture is the best part of the new studio. As I mentioned in my last post, we took most of the shelving that had been in our previous living room and moved it into my new studio. It is a dream come true to have a place for all my metalsmithing equipment, polymer clay supplies, enameling, beading and ceramic supplies. It’s not a big room, but the wall of shelves makes it all possible!
The wooden boxes are from IKEA, as are the shelving units. I keep all my beads, except my art beads, in these boxes, sorted by color. The white, plastic 5 drawer units hold all my metal supplies, such as brass beads, copper wire, silver chain, etc. The other shelf of plastic units holds some of my clay supplies. The wooden earring rack was made by Kristi Bowman’s husband. It folds up flat and is super handy to bring to shows.
The last picture shows the wall behind the door, where I hung up some certificates of appreciation from my 30 teaching career The wall looked kind of bare, so I also hung up a fused glass wall hanging and a collage with lovely calligraphy about the value of friends. Both these are handmade. Just around the corner, to the left, is a handmade ceramic wall vase by Marsha Neal Minutella.
So now you’ve had the tour and it is time for the giveaway. I’m thinking of this as a kind of reverse house-warming gift. Lots of neighborhood people brought us gifts when we moved in, so now I’m turning the tables and giving this bracelet away, as a gift, in celebration of our new home and this new chapter in our lives.
The focal bead is handmade lampwork by Paradise Beads. The tab shaped purple flower bead is by Sue Beads and is also lampwork glass. The lilac colored bead is handmade ceramic by White Clover Kiln. There are also a sprinkling of top-drilled pearls, 2 Lepidolite beads and Czech glass bird beads.
Here’s how to be entered for my house-warming giveaway:
There are new handmade (by yours truly) ceramic components in my Etsy shop now and I’ll be continuing to build up more inventory. You can find my jewelry and my ceramic and polymer clay components here: Linda Landig Jewelry.
Shop Update
In addition to this blog, I also write for the Art Jewelry Elements blog and I am hosting a giveaway there. Three lucky readers will be winning one of my new ceramic jewelry components, (pictured below). It could be you! Check out the giveaway here: Art Jewelry Elements
Art Jewelry Elements Giveaway
I was honored, this week, to be interviewed by the awesome Jean Yates. Jean won a pair of my earrings in a giveaway hosted by Earrings Everyday. Having connected through this giveaway, Jean then asked if she could interview me on her blog.
Heart earrings that Jean won.
Jean is a well known author, bead magazine columnist, freelance reviewer, frequently published jewelry designer and illustrator. Her book, Links, was already a part of my beading library.
Links, by Jean Yates
Jean has been very positive and encouraging to me. She asked good, thought provoking questions in the interview and posted lots of pictures of my recent jewelry designs. She also posted a school photo of me (I was a teacher, remember) from about 5 years ago. My hair is about 8 inches longer now and a bit grayer, but it still looks like me. 😉
I hope you’ll go check out the interview. I feel really honored to have this interview included with the interviews she has done with so many of the outstanding designers in this field. Here’s the link: Snap out of it Jean! There’s beading to be done!
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And, by the way…. I just added these earrings to my Etsy shop. I titled them Spring Fever! I wonder why??? Are you itching for spring too?
Spring Fever earrings
I am always delighted to read your comments! Hope to hear from you.
Welcome to (Tuesday)Wednesday News Day; the day for jewelry updates and other relevant or possibly irrelevant news.
Everything in my Etsy shop and my ArtFire shop is 15% off until the end of 2012. Help me make room for 2013’s new jewelry. Just use the coupon code: ENDOFYEAR2012
I just want to say thank you to everyone for making 2012 the best year ever!
Chochi
My daughter, her boyfriend and my father joined us for Christmas. Following German tradition, we always open our gifts on Christmas eve. Chochi was exhausted after all the festivities! And yes, Santa visited Chochi, too!
Chochi
Christmas eve, after the gifts were opened
-Linda
Welcome to Tuesday News Day; the day for jewelry updates and other relevant or possibly irrelevant news.
I’m in bed with a miserable head cold, so today’s post will be brief. I’d just like to share these new earrings, made with lampwork glass by Beads and Botanicals and ceramic snowflake charms by Bo Hulley Beads.
“Let It Snow” Earrings
I love how the lampwork beads have so many soft colors in them. The colors are not only beautiful, but they makes these earrings so versatile. They will look great paired with blues, green, lilac and all neutrals.
“Let It Snow” Earrings
I came across a link to beautiful, macro photos of snowflakes that I wanted to share with you. These really are amazing! http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/andrew-osokin-macro-snowflake-ice-photographs
I’ve got a blog hop coming up soon and other bits of news, but I’m going to sign off here and just work on getting well for a day or two. Take care.
-Linda
Welcome to Tuesday News Day; the day for jewelry updates and other relevant or possibly irrelevant news.
First off I want to sincerely thank everyone who helped make this Thanksgiving weekend a success. This includes shoppers, people who shared my promotions in their social media and the jewelry groups I belong to! Thank you so much!
The coupon code AWHOLIDAY is still valid in my Etsy shop and my ArtFire shop through the end of the month! Soooo, if you missed out on the shopping frenzy this weekend, brew yourself a nice cup of tea and shop without frenzy, through November 30th. Enter AWHOLIDAY in the coupon code box at checkout and receive 20% off your order. Sweet, huh?
My earring giveaway runs through Nov. 30th also. You can enter to win here.
Snow Day Necklace
I added the Snow Day necklace to my Etsy shop a day or two ago. This is perfect for the holidays! Here’s what I especially like about this necklace: It looks awesome for Christmas, but because there are no Santas or other Christmas-y stuff on it, it is perfect for the whole winter season. Go ahead and wear it with green for Christmas, but it looks smashing on blue, black, neutrals and non-Christmas-y greens too. I sized it longer (26.5 inches) so it can fit with a collar or over a sweater.
Snow Day Necklace
Today is Small Business Saturday, and that’s definitely me. CEO of Linda Landig Jewelry. Employee: One. Me. Doesn’t get much smaller than that!
Its a good to stop and think today about who or what you are supporting with your dollars. When you shop at small businesses, whether online or locally you are supporting real people, not giant corporations, that often syphon off much of the profits for those at the top.
When you support small businesses you can know the people behind the purchase. And in the case of the arts, you know the hands that formed the gift and the mind that designed it.
So I’d encourage you to think a bit about supporting small businesses this holiday season and year ’round.
I am a part of several wonderful online communities of folks who design beads and components for jewelry and/or design finished jewelry. One of those groups, Art Jewelry Elements, hosted a Holiday Open House yesterday. As a team effort, we published 29 posts in one day! We shared recipes, folklore, wine recommendations, and even a bit of humor. Please visit the AJE blog , and check out some of our posts. Each post includes a link to our team members’ shops, with discount codes through Cyber Monday.
Pink Rose Earrings
I’m also part of a large and growing group called Artisan Whimsy. They are running a huge sale through next Friday, Nov. 30th. All the participating artists are offering online discounts in their shops, using the discount code AWHOLIDAY. And many of these artists are also hosting giveaways on their blogs.
I will be giving away the Pink Rose Earrings pictured here. These lovely earrings are designed with lampwork glass, peridot and sterling silver.
To enter to win these earrings, all you have to do is visit my ArtFire shop or my Etsy shop, find one item that you like, then come back here and leave a comment with the name or link to that item. If you share this post on Facebook or your blog, those will give you additional entries. Please include your email addy so I can contact the winner easily. Each entry must have a separate comment, because I will count up the comments and use a number randomizer to determine the winner. If you group your shares and favorite jewelry pieces in one comment, it will only be counted as one entry.
To summarize:
You have 4 chances to win –
1. Choose a favorite item from my ArtFire shop and comment on it, on THIS POST. Include the item title or link.
2. Choose a favorite item from my Etsyshop and comment on it, on THIS POST. Include the item title or link.
3. Share the link to this giveaway on Facebook. Leave a comment on THIS POST letting me know that you shared.
4. Share the link to this giveaway on your blog. Leave a comment on THIS POST letting me know that you shared.
The winner will be chosen Friday evening, Nov. 30th. I’ll need your email in order to contact the winner.
Use the coupon code AWHOLIDAY from now until Nov. 30th and receive 20% off in both of my shops
For those of you who are beaders yourself, I want to share news of a great giveaway by Outwest. They are giving away this set of beads to one lucky winner–maybe you or hopefully me! lol!
Outwest Bead Giveaway
I love everything from this talented lampwork artist. Here’s one of my bracelets, which features a Outwest Bead as well as a copper component from Kristi Bowman Designs.
The Outwest bead is the large bead to the left of Kristi’s ammonite focal piece.
Its time for another I Heart Macro Sunday! And we also have a winner for the giveaway!!! But first the macro shots. (If you just want to skip to the winners (he-he), scroll down about half way)!
We live in a beautiful woodsy area in western Washington state. Dry, almost hair-like lichen is a common sight here, Sometimes it hangs off the forest branches like a veil. Lichen does not flourish in areas with a great deal of pollution, so it is a sign of a healthy environment to find it so abundantly here.
lichen
According to Backyard Nature:
Lichens are not plants. They are “composite organisms” made up of two, or maybe three, completely different kinds of organisms. It’s as if you combined an animal such as a dog with a plant such as an oak, maybe with a fungus thrown in as well, and ended up with something very different from animal, plant or fungus. Something that was its own thing, with its own identity and manner of being.
Every lichen species is part fungus. Usually the other species is a photosynthesizing alga, but sometimes it can be a photosynthesizing bacterium known as a cyanobacterium. Sometimes all three kinds of organisms are found in one lichen.
Pacific Northwest Lichen
A scientist who studies lichens is called a lichenologist. I never even knew such a field existed – did you?
Pacific Northwest Lichen
According to Lichen Biology and the Environment:
Lichens grow in the leftover spots of the natural world that are too harsh or limited for most other organisms. They are pioneers on bare rock, desert sand, cleared soil , dead wood, animal bones, rusty metal, and living bark. Able to shut down metabolically during periods of unfavorable conditions, they can survive extremes of heat, cold, and drought.
Lichen in my backyard
Most lichens grow very, very slowly, often less than a millimeter per year, and some lichens are thought to be among the oldest living things on Earth. Lichens with known, slow growth rates, like Rhizocarpon geographicum, have been used to estimate the dates of geological events such as the retreat of glaciers.
Lichen in my backyard
A big thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway! Also a warm welcome goes out to everyone who liked my Facebook jewelry page, as part of this giveaway! I had a lot of fun reading your comments!
source: Pinterest
The first part of the giveaway is for everyone who left a comment about the copper, lampwork and sari silk earrings.
So Sari Earrings
There were 115 entries for this giveaway! And the winner is (drum roll please): # 73 – Shannon Hollahan
The second part of the giveaway was for people who shared the link to the giveaway on their Facebook pages, on their blog or on Google+.
These people were eligible to win their choice of a pair of beautiful Athena Ancient Patina Copper Charms by Melinda Orr Designs or…..
Athena Ancient Patina Copper Charms
…a hand-woven bracelet by me.
There were 62 entries for this part of the Giveaway. The winner is: # 16 – Sarah Lyons
(note: I tried to paste a screen shot of the random number generator here, but I was unable to do so successfully – computer klutz that I am…)
Congratulations to the winners! Please contact me through Facebook or by clicking on the contact button on the right side margin on my blog!
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Lori of Studio Waterstone hosts a weekly blog hop of close-up photos.
Visit Lori to get links to more great macro shots.
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