Ancient Modern Polymer Clay Design Challenge
Deadline: June 5, 2009

To celebrate the publication of the new book Ancient Modern by Ronna Sarvas Weltman, Beading Daily is hosting a design challenge.  To enter, design one original polymer clay bead (any size, shape, or color) using any technique and send BD a photo.

You must be a member of BD to enter the contest, but it’s free to sign up, so what are you waiting for? 

More information and submission forms

Image: Interweave

Beverly Ash Gilbert, our profiled artist from yesterday, is having a Bead Soup giveaway on her blog…check it out!

***FREE STUFF ALERT***

Elements of Style
by Rosemary Hill

Make wearable pieces of art with the clever techniques and unique designs ideas in Elements of Style. It’s all about the mix in this creative approach to making fabulous jewelry.

These seventeen modern wire, bead, and fiber jewelry designs using knit, crochet, and felting techniques will appeal to jewelry makers of all levels. Get familiar with materials, tools, and techniques—crafters will use basic wireworking, beading, knitting and crochet for most projects.

And now you have a chance to win a free copy of this fun fun fun book! All you have to do is leave me a comment and let me know that you would love to have this book, and on Friday, Jan 30, I’ll be randomly picking a winner. This giveaway is a part of The Bloggy Giveaway promotion, so make sure you visit the site to see what else you might like to enter to win! Also, please visit my other three sites to see what’s up for grabs there!

Layers Upon Layers
Busy Family Meals
Cooking Gadgets

What’s Up Wednesday!

500 Found-Object Works
Juror: Suzie Millions
Editor: Suzanne Tourtillott

Entry deadline: March 15, 2009

Lark Books seeks one-of-a-kind images of found-object art to publish in a juried collection representing the most creative examples in this exciting genre. While material options are endless (recycled/repurposed wood, paper, plastics, electronics and the like), we will accept only professional quality photography. Due to trademark considerations, very few works featuring recognizable brand names or logos will be accepted. This publication is scheduled for release in Fall 2010. There is no entry fee.

Download an entry form here.

You’re sitting at the computer, feeling all cozy while drinking a cup of hot cocoa and staring at the wildlife outside.

What would make it more perfect? Entering to win free gifts!

Peggy at Lively Women put this round-up together, even though she doesn’t have a contest going on at the moment.  Thank you, Peggy!  Several of the blogs mentioned have multiple giveaways going on. Be sure to visit the home pages and scroll down to see what else is up.

Grounded Fitness is helping you be all sporty. Stop by to enter to win a Danskin Puffer Hooded Vest.

Healthbolt is having a whole month of giveaways. Right now, enter to win a Rhythms Starter Pack Dance Exercise Program.

Kids Health Notes has tons of giveaways in progress. Check out HappyGreenBee Giveaway for an organic cotton blanket.

Weighting Line has a Sansa slotMusic Don’t Quit! fitness bundle.

A Child Chosen is giving away My First Shades and much more.

One Book Two Book has ECO Baby Organic Playdough and several other fun giveaways.

Tree Hugging Family is offering copies of Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2009.

Play Library is helping you win LoudEnough Ear Phones for kids by Ultimate Ears and lots of other stuff.

Babylune has Scooterbees for you.

Pet Lovers: You have a couple of days left to enter to win Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats at Couture Critters!

From Mother’s Earth Garden, win Vaseline Clinical Therapy Lotion.

At Jewelry and Beading, enter to win a Blue Moon Beads necklace inspired by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Good luck! 

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Blue Moon Beads necklace inspired by Sarah Jessica Parker!

You do not want to miss this! If you miss this, you will cry. There’s no crying in beading, and all that rot, so don’t delay…get in on this fabulous giveaway NOW!!

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The generous folks at the Craft & Hobby Association want you to have a crack at a necklace made famous by none other than Sarah Jessica Parker! This gorgeous version of her piece was designed by Blue Moon Beads, and while SJP’s original cost $7,500, the Blue Moon version is $30 retail. But just look at it! It’s much more opulent-looking than that

To win the necklace at the top, inspired by the necklace at the bottom, just leave me a comment sometime this week on this post.  Tell me what you’d wear it with, or to what occasion you’d wear it.  Here’s the REALLY GREAT PART: There are FIVE of these necklaces that are going to be sent to lucky winners!!  Wow.  Gasp!  I’m hyperventilating just thinking about it!

Next Monday, I will be picking winners, using the random number generator, so make sure you leave your comment now!

Images: craftplace.org

Lucky #87 is the winner of the fabulous medallion by Amy Fraser! Way to go, Paul! Thanks to everyone for entering the Bloggy Giveaways this quarter!

The b5media Lifestyles Channel is excited to announce our Second Annual Channel Wide Blogtoberfest!

Blogtoberfest will run an entire two weeks throughout our channel beginning Monday, October 6th and wrapping up Friday, October 17th.

Here’s how it will work:

Each day select blogs within the channel will post as usual, the only difference is, they’ll post our beautiful Blogtoberfest button (shown above) and a special note letting you know that it is a sponsored post. That particular post will have a secret prize assigned to it from our list of awesome prizes that will be announced prior to opening day.

All you have to do to enter to win that prize is leave a comment! That’s it! All prizes will be available to the U.S. and Canada unless otherwise noted. We do have some goodies for our global friends too!

Within a few days of leaving your comment, check back with that blog to see what the prize is and if you’re the lucky winner as well as instructions on just how to claim your prize.

Our objective is to reward our loyal readers and subscribers. Loyal readers will know when to comment, if they’ve won and how to get their prize! Pretty good, huh?

Does that sound like you? Do you want that to sound like you?

If you would like to become a loyal reader, visit our channel blogs - add them to your favorites, subscribing to their feeds and checking back are the only ways to win.

And well, with the holidays just around the corner, it’s a great way to kick off your holiday shopping! For Free!

We do hope you’ll come celebrate Blogtoberfest with us! Happy Fall Y’all

Kim is the winner of the free issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry magazine!  She claimed that she was sitting there shaking and waving her hand around so that the random number generator would notice her…and this time it worked!

Thanks so much to all who entered.  I’ve got a list which I copied and pasted from all of your suggestions for blog post topics.  I can’t wait to start working my way through the list!

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I’ve got an issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry to give away to one reader! It’s the Spring issue from this year, and it’s packed with everything from wire work projects, to crochet, to stone setting, polymer clay, and lots of alternative materials. If you’ve seen BA Jewelry magazine before, you know that this quarterly publication isn’t really tied to a particular season, so don’t decide not to enter the drawing just because it’s the spring issue. I believe that the Autumn issue is set to be released very soon, if it isn’t already on the newsstands.

So here’s the deal: simply leave me a comment below, telling me what’s the next technique on your wish list that you’d like to learn. This will help me to focus my blog posts towards what you want, and it just might win you a free magazine! I’ll be having the random number generator pick a winner next Monday! Good luck all