We have a winner !

Congratulations to KJ of KJ's Beadacious Beads she is the lucky winner of my Making Room for a Bead Giveaway! This pile of beads grew from 3 pounds to FIVE pounds, I sure hope your mailman is strong! Thanks everyone who entered and left a comment, I loved hearing what your favorite flea market find was, there were some really great finds! KJ, be sure to get in touch with me so I can send your goodies out.

Number 352

 I've been hard at work in my studio, (at least that is what I tell my husband when he comes home from work!) there is nothing hard about doing what you love. Anyway...as I was saying I have created a few pieces and I wanted to share them with you, they have evolved out of the treasure pile I shared with you yesterday.

 Number 352 on Etsy

This great watch face, which by the way is 44mm, was given to me my one of the vendors The Cheeky Mare at the Big Red Barn in Round Top Texas. I was perusing in a wooden bowl filled with watch faces and chose a few to purchase as well as some old tags. He told me folks were buying the watch faces to make jewelry from, I told him  I was going to do that as well, so he actually gave them to me and asked me to send him pictures of the finished product. How nice was that! I just finished sending him pictures and I hope he likes the finished piece.

Master Lock dangle earrings on Etsy

Industrial Chic Earrings on Etsy

If you have not already done so be sure to enter my Making Room Bead Giveaway, I am adding to the pile everyday! You can read about it HERE.

Making Room for a Bead Giveaway

 Since yesterday I have been putting away all of my little found treasures from Texas, trying to organize it into a space that is already lacking good storage. So to make room I have cleaned out some of my containers and have made roughly a 3 pound pile of beads to give away.

 No junk in this pile! There are some vintage beads, pendants, gemstone and glass beads lots of beady goodness for you!

 Just leave me a comment telling me what is the best treasure you purchased at a garage sale, flea market or antique shop. I love to know what folks are buying! If you want to share this giveaway go ahead and let me know you did and your name goes in the proverbial hat twice. Giveaway will end on Friday Oct. 7th with one lucky winner. 

Here are more of my new treasures,wonderful vintage religious medals in all sizes.

 tons of great rosaries

 old hardware, buttons, keys, game pieces...

clock faces, tags, monopoly game pieces, cuff links...

These trinkets are my passion, what's yours?

Vintage Button Earrings

I could not resist working with these vintage glass buttons, even though the buttons seem a bit like spring, I think the earrings would pair nicely with warmer fall clothes.

The red Czech glass beads are so deep in color and I especially love the picasso finish on them.

You can find these on Etsy

Is anyone else having issues with blogger? It has become very fustrating. I still am having a problem posting comments and can not access blogger from Moxilla Firefox. uggghhh!

I am having a super giveaway this week a $25 certificate for printing at Vistaprint.

 Be sure to enter here!

$25 Vistaprint Giveaway

As a special thanks to all of my wonderful blog followers I have a great giveaway for you! Something that will come in handy for many of you, a $25 gift voucher to use on printed materials at Vistaprint. It is a perfect time to restock those business cards or get some postcards for advertising your fall shows!

Enter HERE

Get Carried Away Vistaprint Giveaway!

lets get carried away...

As a special thanks to all of my wonderful blog followers I have a great giveaway for you! Something that will come in handy for many of you, a $25 gift voucher to use on printed materials at Vistaprint. It is a perfect time to restock those business cards or get some postcards for advertising your fall shows!

#1.To enter please leave a comment and tell me your favorite show to attend or exhibit in. It will be fun to hear about different shows around the country.

#2.For an additional entry share this post on your blog, facebook or twitter.

#3. If you become a new follower of JudithBDesigns on facebook or my blog you also get another entry.

and now for the fine print....very important!

~Just be sure to tell me what you did and leave me your email address so that I may contact the winner. This giveaway will end on Monday September 12th at noon.

~the vistaprint offer is not valid in the following states, NY, NC, CT, IL, CA, or outside of the US.

~No cash value/cash back

~Tax and gratuity are not included

~Entire value must be used in one visit

~Cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion

~gift ceritficate must be used by November 10, 2011

you can find this piece on Etsy

Good Luck!

Giveaway Winners!

Congrats to Lana of Something Unique and Jenna of Redshadow for winning my blog giveaway.  Please send me your addresses so that I may send you your winnings! 

 It seems that the consensus is that we ladies do not leave the house without earrings on, I know I feel naked without mine.

Thanks to all who entered and for your comments. I hope y'all have a great weekend!

Bead Trends Giveaway

 I just received my package from Bead Trends and was wowed by the cover...the turquoise pail and sand are perfect for July and the lampwork earrings by Tracy Gonzales just gorgeous! There are so many great projects in this issue especially the crochet necklace by Sharon Borsavage...this is really just wonderful and so creative. You also do not want to miss The designer highlight who is Cherrie Fick, she shares her love of nature in all of her wonderful designs. Don't you just want this issue? Well.... Seeing that I just love to share I would like to give a way a July issue of Bead Trends to one lucky blog reader and to another lucky person the pair of earrings "Midnight Dance" that  I have on page 41. Yes, that's right two winners! 

 Ok, now to all the fine print...(1) Become a follower of this blog and leave me a comment telling me what type of jewelry you wear everyday. Is there something you just can not leave the house without? 

(2) Hop on over to my JudithBDesigns Facebook Fan page and be one of my friends. Your name will go in the proverbial hat for each entry, just let me know what you did.  Giveaway ends on Saturday at 12noon. 

Ok dokey...good luck!

Look what I got today and we got a Button Winner!

Yeah we gots a winner! QuiltingJewel39...Yay! Send me an email with your shipping address and I will send out these lovely buttons asap!

These gorgeous beads from Pam of Ferrariorignalbeads arrived today and are just stunning! I think I see earrings in their future. These were packed so nicely and she tucked in an additional two beads, that was such a pleasant surprise! Thanks Pam, I love everything!

Bud's a new man!

I started this post three days ago and my hard drive died...I am back in business thanks to my son Nick. Luckily I was able to salvage the most important things but did loose the rest.

I have been busy getting my display props ready for my first show of the season.  I had purchased this vintage store display I call "Bud" about a month ago. You may remember him from this post. Well Bud finally got his makeover.

 I started with decoupaging vintage sheet music to his fiberglass form,

and then put a white wash of acrylic paint all over the paper. Thanks so much Renate for that suggestion. I am very pleased with the simple look.

Although Bud is still a little "manly" I think he will work great displaying my long necklaces. 

Prior to the demise of my hard drive I posted about a giveaway I am having. I am extending the giveaway until Tuesday May 24th. Y'all still have plenty of time to enter to win these fabulous antique mother of pearl buttons.

Hop on over HERE to enter!

Friendship and a MOP Button Giveaway

I teased y'all about my button stash a few posts backed, but since have decided to share a few pictures of the gargantuan carved mother of pearl buttons I have. These beauties measure a whopping 2 inches across, surely the largest I have ever seen! 

These are sure nice to look at and hold in your hand. Each one is unique with its carvings and irregularity that only mother of pearl can have. 

"BEE A GOOD FRIEND"

Was created from some small mother of pearl buttons, used as dangles on a vintage chain along with old glass beads.  I also used a brass medallion that was once used on an old dresser, this piece is the platform for another button and silver bee. A vintage dictionary definition is forever preserved in resin dangles below and gently reminds us what a friend is.  

When you move this piece the sound is like seashells rolling in with the tide...so fitting for the old shell buttons. 

You can find Bee a good friend here.   

 So tell me what does it mean to be a good friend? Has someone been a really good friend to you? Or have you been a true friend to someone...pat yourself on the back and tell us about it. Good friendships are inspirational. Share!

By sharing your story your name will be entered to win some of my fabulous buttons....post to Facebook and tell me about it and you get another entry, the same with Twitter and so on. Share the love and so will I!! 

Giveaway will end  on May 25th and the lucky winner will be posted on Wednesday May 26th.
(I changed the original end date,due to computer issues)

Here's the loot you can win!!

The largest button measures 1 1/2" across.

Share your stories with us!