Genea is hosting a pretty awesome giveaway

Look what you can win! Read more at Genea's blog. May the best woman win. And that means me of course ;-)

Isn't it great with generous people

This time it's Heather Powers of HumbleBeads. Head over to her blog to find out more. The beads in this collection are pretty awesome. Wish I will be the lucky winner. Or you!

Crazy Andrew's Crazy GiveAway

Hey! You do like beads, don't you!?! You like art beads extra much? Well, what are you waiting for? Andrew (who obviously has gone just a little bit crazy this time) is having a give-away at his blog. I've already done what is asked for. I do hope I will win. I would be crazy happy.

The goodie bag includes items from: Green Girl Studios, Diane Hawkey, Pam Wynn and Heather Wynn-Millican, Susan Lenart Kazmer, Raven's Journey, Lisa Peters Art, HumbleBeads, Earthenwood Studio, Amazing Porcelain

GOOD LUCK!!!!

Lana is hosting a huge Give-Away

Lana is hosting a huge give-away with lots of awesome things. Head over to her blog to find out more.

Wow Give-Away by Barbara Lewis!

Just the color I am in love with right now. Acidic yellow-green! I wanna win them. If you do too, you should head over to Barbara Lewis's blog Painting With Fire and do what she asks you to. Good luck!

GiveAway at Art Bead Scene

If you haven't been there yet, you have to hurry over to Art Bead Scene and the most amazing giveaway with a chance to win L O A D S and L O A D S of gorgeous Art Beads. The picture above only shows a few ...

What a Give-Away!!!!!!!

A new amazing give away collaboration at Lorelei Eurto's blog. This time it is Kylie Parry who has donated these totally super adorable charms.

Hurry over to Lorelei's blog now if you want to have a chance to win, it's only on for 24 hours.

For your information I myself really really want to win them! But did you even doubt that? I bow myself at Kylie's talent and skill.

Lorelei's Blog: 24 hour giveaway

Look! What a generous give-away arranged by Lorelei Eurto with pendants donated by Jade Scott. ! I loooove Jade Scott's things. Just look at them. I so much wanna win them!

Lorelei's Blog: 24 hour giveaway: "That's right, you have exactly 24 hours from now, 8:14am Wednesday, to leave a comment on this post to win these four lovely handcrafted bez..."

BTW - and a chance to win something

I love to have a large and rich stash of beads and supplements to pick from. The one-holed button by Tracee Dock of ClassicElements and ClassicBeads has such a wonderful colour scheme. And I want to pick up its nuances in the parts around it. The yellowish tint in the ring around the hole was a difficult one. But look at that deer leather ribbon. Smooth and kind of matte in it's structure and so perfect in its colour. It doesn't show too well in this photograph though. The softness is needed with all the chain. I love how the colours and different parts are coming together in this necklace. And the clasp will be a new solution kind of experiment by me. I hope it will work out the way I intend it to. We'll see tomorrow when I will hopefully assemble it all.

This is the rest of my table. Really it is supposed to be a free and empty area for me to easily start working on any idea I get. I know only too well how familiar this looks to so many of you. On the good side at least is that it is not totally messy this time, it's just totally cramped.

There are quite a few art beads there, aren't it. So which art bead makers beads can you identify on my table today? Most correct answers will win something! Write a comment with the names and which beads you mean, and if you are not yet a follower, please become one. Drawing on Friday 21.00 Swedish time (that is 15.00 US eastern time), when I will present the winner and the prize.

All my best, and now I'm off to see Sherlock Holmes with Mark, my husband. The one with Robert Downing Jr, which he rented on DVD today.

Malin

Give-away at Lori Andersson's

Photo by Lori Anderson

Lori Anderson at Pretty Things is hosting a great give-away for a stamping set called ImpressArt letter stamps from PJ Tool & Supply

Click the link below to find out what to do to have a chance to win

http://lorianderson.blogspot.com/2011/01/metal-stamp-giveaway.html

I hope to win them myself of course ... it would be a great way to get into the stamping business. Have never tried it before, but I am a bit keen now. I love what she did on the photo above.

All my best,

Malin

WINNER

Oh, thank you all of you who commented on my Celebration and Give-away post. I got a lot of nice and useful feedback from you all. It is thanks to you I posted another VLOG today ... :-) I don't know yet if you have let a monster loose though ...

Due to some people commenting twice and a couple of comments by myself, the list of commentators was stripped down to 22:

1. Courtney

2. Steufel

3. Heidi

4. Erin S
5. FryeStyle

6. Regina

7. Barbara Lewis

8. Tara P.

9. Birgitta Lejonklou

10. maneki

11. Rebecca

12. Beadroe

13. CraftyHope

14. Öbon

15. Janet

16. moonlitfantaseas

17. Alice

18. Noemi

19. Kristen

20. Maria Nyberg

21. TesoriTrovati

22. Rising Designs

So .....

....

....

... the winner is ALICE!!!

Congratulations! Please send an e-mail to me with the address to where you want me to send the beads.

All my best,

Malin

VLOG - Bead Table Wednesday

Hi,

another Vlog, totally without any manuscript, me just babbling on ... :-) Just to show you my updated studio with a new table. I think I have the BEST BEADING STUDIO IN THE WORLD right now!!!!! (Click the YouTube-link to see the film in better resolution.)

These arrived in the post just after I had filmed this. Wooooooow! I am looking forward to use them.

Later on tonight (21.00 Swedish time = 15.00 east coast US time) I will draw the winner of my give away. See previous post. Don't miss a chance to win some truly beautiful beads.

All my best, and see you later,

Malin

Celebration! And a Give-away! Updated

Updated!

These are the beads in the give away. 100 beads and more. Art beads, gemstones, glass, ceramic, czech, resin, leather button, facetted, round, square and more. Take a chance, write a comment (see green text at the bottom of this post), spread the info about this give-away, become a follower unless you already are one. Drawing will be with a random number generator on Wednesday 21.00 Swedish time (GMT+1).

I've reached 100 followers on my blog!!!!!

I can't believe it. Thank you all of you who are interested in what I have to say, the things I do and what I like. When I started this blog almost a year ago it was from a suggestion by my husband, as a way of showing my jewellery to people who might be interested (and in the end it would hopefully help generating more business, he IS clever isn't he).

The plan/idea behind it has always been very simple:

It is a blog about my jewellery and beading. I show things I have made, things I am working on, ideas and things that inspire me. More imagery than writing. Short texts. Rather frequent updates, at least once a week, but preferably three to four times a week.

I am most often sponanteous about my posts. Don't plan them ahead and my writing style is direct (and therefor sometimes you see bad grammatics or miss-spelling, but I have decided to not worry too much about that).

I want this to be a place like one I would like to visit myself. A fresh mix of this and that, high and low, personal but not private, generous with links and tips (when I have any ...). Visually attractive. I go to other blogs and see wonderful layouts and usage of exciting templates, look at for instance Songbeads or FancifulDevices, and I sometimes think I want to do something similar, coz it makes me happy. But then I realize it just isn't me really. I am after all an Industrial Designer deep down. It became very obvious to me recently when I did the pictures for ABS January challenge, where I added text on the sides, mainly in order to make the actual image square coz it shows up a lot nicer in the post then. In my eyes it looks so typical "industrial design" with a bit of informative text added. And yes, I do like it. It improves my experience when I see things like that.

I don't know though if my jewellery style is clean and informative. I don't think so. I don't even know if I have a style as such. Would be nice to hear what you think. And I would also like to hear which kind of posts you like most, and if there is anything you would like to see more of or less of. Shower me in feedback!!!!!!

It might pay back even. By leaving a feedback comment you will enter my Celebration Give-away for 100 followers. I will put together 100 beads from my own stash. Give me a couple of days to get back and show you a photo of them. And I will use a random number generator to draw the winner. Let's say on Wednesday next week. Please leave a comment even if you happen to not be interested in winning the beads, (I know I have some none-beader followers out there). It means so much to get feedback!

All my best,

Malin

P.S.

I have marked in green the text which is about what you need to do to enter the give-away.

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton: Thursday Giveaway...

Oh, do I wanna win this beautiful lot of beads? YES!!!!! Last time Andrew had a give-away with SueBeads we where asked to go by her site and choose a favourite item. I chose the "Cobalt Sky" lampworked beads, they made me wanna make a necklace for a New Years Eves Party with them in. This was back in August I believe. And ever since then I couldn't stop thinking of those beads. Even blogged about them here. Guess what happened in the end. Yes, I went and ordered them of course. They arrived a few weeks ago, and they are absolutely beautiful. Sue is just an amaziningly skilled lampworker, coz every bead is so perfect in shape. I also love her enameled pieces. I have to advise everyone to participate in this give-away, even though I really wanna win myself.

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton: Thursday Giveaway...: "This week, one lucky winner will claim an assortment of goodies courtesy of Sue Kennedy of SueBeads. She has generously put together a group..."

Magical Musical Mondays - #5

Hey, before the music today I first have to tell you about my incredible luck over the last few days. TWO giveaways I have won! Look! Thank you so much Andrew & Sue, Lori & Barbara.

And here is another give away that Janet McDonald of Singingwoods is having right now. Hurry and go to her blog to find out what you need to do to have a chance to win this big bunch of beauties.

Swedish artist, singer song writer, Timo Raisanen does a cover of Radiohead's Creep.

Floridity Give Away on Pretty Thing's Blog

Can you believe it! Just the other day I was looking at these beads in Floridity's shop on Etsy. I marked them as favourites, to hopefully be able to purchase when I get in to some money. And now Lori Andersson of Pretty Things has a give away for these beauties. Go to Lori's blog and find out what you should do to have a chance to win. Floridity is Barbara Bechtel, and her blog is called Second Surf.