Thank you for those who came to my blog and read my newest ABS (ART BEAD SCENE) post on Commitments and left a comment. As announced in the post I was having a drawing for these earrings for anyone that left a comment to this post.
I was supposed to make the drawing yesterday but we had a small break in this horrible hot weather we've been having and after a pretty bad storm passed through we took a drive to a new Lake I've discovered and spent the evening until sundown there having our picnic dinner under a young apple tree right on the shore. I'll share more pictures tomorrow.
Now for the winner......................................
Patty Lankinsmith! congratulations Patty, send me your snail mail and I'll get these right out to you! Patty makes Gorgeous lamp-worked beads, a must see at her shop on etsy.
And don't forget about the Bead Soup + Mystery Bead Novel and Mystery surprise Giveaway I am having, only two days left to enter!. See here for details.
Here is one of my entries for the 'Inspired by': Paper Crafting Challenge
Bracelet or Necklace! (click for larger view) Using a Scrap booking buckle covered in Polymer clay and embellished with a fresh baby Nasturtium leaf and an even tinier one. Also I've set it off on each side with a vintage (almost 70 year old) Indian coins that have holes which make them natural link components. I've been saving these for quite some time not knowing what to do with them and then the cut off selvedges of some linen begged not to be thrown away but used and that is what I did. Looping them through the links on the buckle and then tying them to each other. It is worn by wrapping around the wrist several times and clasps with the magnetic buckle. Or it can be worn with the fibers twisted and lays at about collar bone length. Thanks Erin for helping me with one of my UFP's! (unfinished projects) It all came together pretty well I'd say!
Don't forget the Bead Soap Swap reveal is now going on. See my post from yesterday to get a list of the days for each participants reveal date. Mine is Wednesday and I am also having a giveaway just for this event, separate from Mystery Monday. Many of the other Swap participants are having giveaways too so be sure to check them all out!
In case you missed it, yesterday was the beginning of the Bead Soup Party Swap hosted by Lori Anderson ofPretty things who really out did herself with this undertaking! Thanks Lori for all your hard work!
Here's the line up and schedule of each days participant reveal. I'm sorry I don't have anything to show you just yet but that little bit above, but hopefully by Wednesday (my reveal date) I will have my piece completed, so please come back. And for now take a visit of the first two days of beading blogs, you will love the beauties I've discovered! And Don't forget about my Giveaway which I will post with my Bead soup on Wednesday, see the bottom of this post for details!
Next Wednesday I will be premiering my Bead Soup Swap design. This is a long week of partying many blogs to visit, so to entice more of you to come see my ' Main Dish' I am having a little giveaway.
A half a cup of Beads and a recipe for making beads and a Bead Mystery novel! How's that for an incentive? All you have to do is visit my blog and view my 'dish' from the Bead Soup Swap and make a comment, any comment will do and your name will go into a drawing for all the prizes.
Remember me telling you about the Richard Shilling Land Art challenge that Emanda J had on her blog last month? You can read about it here and see my entry. Artemesia's Richard Shilling Challenge
Well this is the special gift that Emanda made and I got just a few days ago~! It is a perfect size to take with me Sketchbook. On it she made a cool sticker with Richards May Day Totem which I used to make a bracelet echoing his organic leaf and twig totem. And even on the spine she has placed a smaller version of the totem and 'Kate's Notebook'. I absolutely love it and will take it with me everywhere. As I told her I have many large sized ones (and they are heavy too) and a very small one that you really can't do much in, but this is the perfect size! Thank you again Emanda!
Richard was thrilled with seeing my entry and even blogged about it here Richard Shilling Land Art BlogHow Cool! Land Art Jewelry!
Then I received another package in the mail, I Didn't remember ordering anything but when I saw the name on the return label I remembered. A few months ago I won a giveaway on Lisa Orams blog. Lisa and I had talked back and forth and we decided she would make me a few crocheted bead pieces. Well this is what I got in the mail, four lovely and long strands that I am having fun deciding what to do with. I have lots of ideas floating around, and am sure to get to it as soon as I get my Bead Soup Swap piece done. Thanks so much Lisa for your generous gift. I will be sure to post it here when I make my final decision!
And more about another giveaway. Next Wednesday I will be premiering my Bead Soup Swap design. This is a long week of partying many blogs to visit, so to entice more of you to come see my ' Main Dish' I am having a little giveaway.
A half a cup of Beads and a recipe for making beads and a Bead Mystery novel! How's that for an incentive? All you have to do is visit my blog and view my 'dish' from the Bead Soup Swap and make a comment, any comment will do and your name will go into a drawing for all the prizes.
So make sure to come back next Wednesday to see what's new. I have been having fun playing with Melissa Memanssoup ingredients she sent me (and congratulations again Melissa for winning theDesigner of the week at ABS! ) and adding what I got at the bead show and some things I had on hand. I've played around with a few designs and now I think I've got a 'bead' on where it's going. Stay tuned, I may be able to post a sneak peek by the weekend! 763
Don't forget get your entry in by midnight tonight (I'll be lenient and give you till tomorrow morning when I wake up) for the May Mystery Monday photo contest.
Read the details and review all the photos for this month on this post here.
Remember there are two prizes this month, one general drawing from all the guesses and another drawing from all correct answers to what all the photos are taken from.
Send me your guess today. I'll announce the winners tomorrow!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I am off to the Bead Show!
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Today's photo is not exactly Memorial Day colors but think of it as the end to a beautiful weekend and this is the sunset! I hope you all have had a wonderful 3 day weekend. We got to spend some wonderful time at the lake, and even saw two red foxes! It must be the time for red foxes to be about because last week I looked out my front window where I sit and write to you from and there was a red fox trotting across the lawn not more than 8 feet from my narrow from porch! I grabbed my camera but only got a chance to snap his back legs and tail but it was a bit startling!
Yesterday I attended a lovely Memorial Day ceremony with my Vietnam Veteran Husband, one of which the likes I've never seen before. It was almost 3 hours long and gave honor to those who have served and to those still serving. It was very inspiring especially today when the veterans are barely a second thought on Memorial Day weekend which usually means shopping and picnics for most.
And today I hope to maybe take advantage of some of these sales once I get my work done in the studio, as we need a new AC, the one we have is so old and it's been in the very high 80's the past few days again.
So here is the last in the series for May. I choose this portion as I love the colors in it and hope it will inspire you to take a bit of time on this long weekend and devote is to art of some sort.
Now this week is a bit different. You will still email my your guess for what this could be. That will be entered into the general drawing. Then for a special drawing of all correct guesses, please send me a separate email (so I don't get them mixed up or miss anybody) with your guess of what all five of these pictures come from. Remember it is a single picture I have cropped into five different sections. Now you have to put them all together and see what you think it is.
Here's a reminder so you won't have to go searching for all the posts:
All correct guesses will be in a special drawing for one of my new spring beads and an assortment of bead soup ingredients to go with it!
You have until June 6th at midnight to make your guesses and the winner(s) will be announced on Monday June 7th.
Remember: This month I have decided to go with a theme. All the pictures will be related. You can send your guess in as usual each week, but for the last week, I will ask you to give me a final answer. As you know all answers get an entry. But for this last week only those correct will be put into a bonus drawing. This is the fifth and last photo. Have Fun!
I hope you have a Happy Memorial Day spent with family and friends or have fun shopping! But remember a vet you may know today and thank Him or Her for their service to our country, it will mean more to them then you could ever image.
Remember: This month I have decided to go with a theme. All the pictures will be related. You can send your guess in as usual each week, but for the last week, I will ask you to give me a final answer. As you know all answers get an entry. But for this last week only those correct will be put into a bonus drawing. This is the third photo. Have Fun!
I apologize to my readers for posting this so late. I hurt both my arms last week and have not been able to keep my regular schedule because of it.
Here is photo 2 in the May series of Mystery Monday Giveaway
Remember: This month I have decided to go with a theme. All the pictures will be related. You can send your guess in as usual each week, but for the last week, I will ask you to give me a final answer. As you know all answers get an entry. But for this last week only those correct will be put into a bonus drawing. So here's the first photo. Have Fun!
Come on guys..............don't ya wanna play anymore? :) I know most of you, if you are like me, are spending more time outside and less on the laptop, but I promised to get this going again so I shall.
Here's a recap of last weeks announcement:
Each Monday a new photo will be posted. Follow the same as before, comment here on the blog that you are participating, and then emailme your guess. Every Monday a new photo will be posted but we will only have one winner per month. All the responses will be put in the drawing, and yes I am still going to put in everyone's name, right or wrong, it'sThat you played that counts! :)
At the end of the month I will draw 1 (one) name from all those who emailed me a guess for all the months photos, (yes you can do one week, two weeks, etc or all!) and the winner will get a special Mystery Monday gift just for them. This way I don't get overwhelmed and no one will get shortchanged. I am doing this because I know it's great to get something just for you because you are special, and my readers are special to me. I found out that this is a world wide feeling when participating in the OWOH event as I choose to make something special for each of my winners. In fact they each got two gifts! So I want to continue this on through out the year which will carry us through to the next OWOH event.
I know many of you have found my blog and become followers through that event but maybe didn't win the giveaway so this is like another chance, or many more! :)
So I hope you all will continue to participate, and don't worry, if you won before, that's ok, please keep playing. If I draw a name of a previous winner I will give you a 'consolation prize' and draw a new winner so you still have a chance too!
So far we only have one guess for last weeks photo, you can still go back and look at it and put in a guess for that to. Here's that photo.
and now for this weeks................................
Hi, and Happy April! Happy Spring (March 20th) and Happy Monday!
We are back with Mystery Monday, New and improved. I told you last month that it was getting a bit much for me to keep up with this plus my other writing schedule and also to have a winner each week, and to come up with something special for each winner. I got behind on this and for that I do apologize. The OWOH event really set me back and I am just catching up on my special gifts for the winners.
I do want to keep doing this as many of you have expressed the fun you have had each Monday coming by and trying to guess the Mystery Photo, so I want to continue. I've just changed the rules a bit.
Each Monday a new photo will be posted. Follow the same as before, comment here that you are participating, and thenemailme your guess. Every Monday a new photo will be posted but we will only have one winner per month. All the responses will be put in the drawing, and yes I am still going to put in everyone's name, right or wrong, it's That you played that counts! :)
So, then at the end of the month I will draw one name from all those who emailed me a guess for all the months photos, (yes you can do one week, two weeks, etc or all!) and the winner will get a special Mystery Monday gift just for them. This way I don't get overwhelmed and no one will get shortchanged. I am doing this because I know it's great to get something just for you because you are special, and my readers are special to me. I found out that this is a world wide feeling when participating in the OWOH event as I choose to make something special for each of my winners. In fact they each got two gifts! So I want to continue this on through out the year which will carry us through to the next OWOH event.
I know many of you have found my blog and become followers through that event but maybe didn't win the giveaway so this is like another chance, or many more! :)
So I hope you all will continue to participate, and don't worry, if you won before, that's ok, please keep playing. If I draw a name of a previous winner I will give you a 'consolation prize' and draw a new winner so you still have a chance too!
So to start us all off for the month ( and there will be 4 Mystery Photos this month with the winner announced on May 3) here is your first Photo.
Photo credit Organic Odysseys
Have Fun!
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I apologize fellow readers, it's been such a weekend, a holiday weekend for me at that! And I couldn't find the time to get back in the swing of blogging until now!
So since you all have been waiting I am going to announce the winner of last weeks Mystery Monday Photo. These were the photos you were shown to guess from. The one on the left is a closeup and the one on the right is a step back so you can get some perspective. As I told you we finally got up to the zoo last Sunday to see if we could see Cosmo. The lake was mostly frozen so I guess we will have to wait a bit longer. But the other animals were out enjoying the beautiful sunshine and the 40 degree temperatures. Some just laying around sunning themselves and others very active. So I think you all knew this was some kind of animal (especially since I'd been to the zoo) and this animal was very active. It was in the same enclosure as the Zebras, and I was so happy to see on this visit that there are now two Zebras again. They started with two about a year and a half ago and the male died. When we finally got to go see them, it was just one and she looked so unhappy and sad and lonely. So now I am glad that there are two of them. Here they are nuzzling one another.
I love Black and White as many of you know and Zebras are one of my favorites. It was still a cold day and I wore my Zebra neck wrap but it didn't seem to impress them any. I tried to snap as many photos of them as I could, feeling a bit inadequate standing next to a woman who had a telephoto lens on her camera almost the length of my arm, but still I think I got some good pics!
But the animal in the Mystery photo was one of two that kept pacing up and down, back and forth right in front of the area and blocking the photo shoot I was trying to have with the Zebras. So I gave in and shot some of them. This one happened to be on the side that has a chain link fence but there is an area with an observation deck that they can't get over.
So what animal was it? Check out this video I shot of the Zebras (the male is the smaller and more flighty of the two) and you will see the camera hog pass by. Also that weird sound you hear is it pacing back and forth.
Now hold on to your seat, not the prettiest thing in the world but interesting nonetheless. Here is a full shot of the beast. You can see where the Mystery pictures came from.
I was surprised myself when I looked at these pics after returning from the zoo. I've seen Ostriches many times and up close too. I only took these three photos because he seemed to be insulted that I wasn't photographing him but instead concentrating on his pen companions ( I shot over 40 pics and videos of the Zebras! :) ) So I took these to pacify him but he wouldn't stand still, always pacing, so these aren't that great but interesting close up. The feathers on his neck do look like a sheeps fleece, even the color is similar. Did you know they have the largest eyes of any land animal?
When most people think of Ostrich feathers, they think of feather dusters or Feather Boas (which many are raised commercially for) because of the loose feathers they have, different from birds of flight, but most don't notice the fuzzy looking feathers on the neck. I'll bet the next time you look at an Ostrich you'll take notice of it's interesting neck! :) ( In many places Ostrich neck stew is a favorite dish! ).
So It seems I've stumped you all again so I am making a drawing from all the guesses. I want to thank those who have joined my blog, and the new players and also thank those who have come by faithfully each week to make a guess, I love and appreciate you all!
In case you were wondering what some of the guesses were we had almost a whole Zoo full! Most of these are at my Zoo but there's a couple more they need to add! :)
The biggest guesses were of Sheep, Llama's and Alpaca's (remember you can guess more than once) We also had Elephant, Camel, Kangaroo and Koala! It really makes you think about these animals and how similar they are when viewed up close, especially since the photo was of a bird but up close could look like all these other animals!
So from the Entries I received, I drew a random number and that number was held by Shirley!
Congratulations Shirley! Please email me your snail mail address and tell me about your favorite art/craft interest and I will get your Surprise package out to you ASAP! I think I could supply you with some nice Fat quarters if you'd like! :)
Now for this weeks' Photo
Title: Zoomed In or Out? The rules are simple, even more so now.
1. View the Mystery Photo 2. Leave a comment on this post saying you are participating 3. Email me with your guess (I allow up to three) before next Monday, but Please DO NOT post your guess in the comments! :) 4. Next Monday I will draw a name from all the guesses and they will win a mystery surprise from me!
Yes Mystery Monday has returned, Thank you my readers for allowing me my trip around the world with OWOH this past week. Next year if Lisa has it again I shall be ready, because you really do need all three weeks to do this, not one! In fact for those of you participating in my One World One Heart giveaways, the Mystery of who my winners are will remain a mystery a bit longer as I was up late trying to visit as many of the other blogs on the journey as I could before the deadline (I actually fell only 10 shy of seeing half of them!). So I haven't drawn my winners yet, but I will contact each and every one of you when I do later today and will post the results. Since you are here you may want to get in on my weekly Mystery Monday giveaway. The rules are simple.
1. View the Mystery Photo 2. Leave a comment on this post saying you are participating 3. Email me with your guess (I allow up to three) before next Monday, but DO NOT post your guess in the comments! :) 4. Next Monday I will draw a name from all the correct guesses and they will win a mystery surprise from me! 5. If you guessed correctly but your name is not drawn and you participate in the next Mystery Monday your name will be added twice, so that's two chances to win! So it pays to keep coming back and guessing, and besides that, it's fun! It's not just guessing what the photo is, but it helps to stretch your eye towards details and if you are an artist in any medium that will help you tremendously in your artwork!
So without furthur ado, I present you with this week's Mystery Monday Photo:
Yes, this one is in Black and White so you have to use your imagination more. Color gives us so much more information than we realize when we look at objects and shapes and wildlife even.
So, Animal , Vegetable or Mineral? I'll let you guess! :)
A couple of weeks back one of the entrants suggested that the mystery picture might be an art supply, which got me to thinking. Why not take a closer look around my studio, plenty of photo opps there! So for this weeks Mystery Photo I give you a tiny peek inside my studio.
The winner will win a Goody box of crafting/jewelry supplies. I loved grab bags as a kid, whenever we traveled and they had grab bags, I always spent my hard earned money on them. I think I was buying more into the anticipation and surprise more than the item itself and it was always exciting. I hope you all feel the same and will take a guess at this weeks Mystery photo.
Remember the rules:
1. Comment on this post that you are participating. 2. Send me your guess at my email organicodysseys@gmail.com please don't post your guess on the blog. You can be as explicit as you want, don't worry about taking a wrong guess, you never know and that is the fun of this! Deadline Monday NOON Feb 8th. 3. If your guess is correct and you are not drawn as the winner and you play again next week your correct guess will count as an extra entry in that weeks drawing. Complete rules here.
So without further ado, here is this weeks Mystery Photo!
Remember to comment that you are participating and then send me your guess in an email! Have fun!
Patty Lankinsmith! congratulations Patty, send me your snail mail and I'll get these right out to you! Patty makes Gorgeous lamp-worked beads, a must see at her shop on etsy.
