HUGE Giveaway and Group Sale

Please join in our huge sale and giveaway!

Start entering for this huge giveaway right away ~

here are the details

You can grab extra entries by:

• A comment on this post
• Comments on each participating designer's blog (one entry per blog)
• Share this event on your blog and link back to this post -leave a comment here that you shared
• Share this event on your facebook fan or personal page and link back to this post -leave another
• comment here that you shared
• Tweet this event and share this url - leave another comment here that you shared

So you see...if you visit all the participating sites, leave a comment on each

and share on your social sites you can get up to 10 entries...this gives you great odds! 

The following Saturday morning,

Melinda will go through all of the participating blogs & assign a # to each qualifying comment.

Using random.org she will choose a winner ~

Be sure to stop back here Saturday to see if you've won!

Here are the prizes~

Metalworking Package Value $200

from Melinda Orr Designs

1.5mm Metal Hole Punch

Wooden Forming Dapping Block

Jeweler's Chasing Hammer

Deluxe Riveting Hammer

Flower Metal Stamp

Vintaj Metal Shears

8" x 5" Copper Sheet 24g

10 Pair Solid Copper Earwires

10 Solid Copper Bead Caps

30 Asst Flat Head Rivets

An assortment of metal blanks & shapes

An Array of Wonderful Handmade Ceramic Components

by Karen Totten at the

Starry Road Studio

value $100

Gorgeous handmade copper and glass earrings

by Kristi Bowman Design

Value $50

Assorted beautiful handmade ceramics

from Marla's Mud

(pic coming soon)

And more as those donation pictures come in!

Stay tuned ~

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My giveaway (Staci L.) is pictured below.  Leave a comment, share and leave a second comment to qualify.  You know the drill, MUST have an email linked to your blog or in the comment to be entered.  Commenting below also enters you in Melinda's Huge Metal Working package giveaway!

Artisan Accents by Staci Louise giveaway includes two bronze charms, one handmade clasp, one sea thing pendant, one garnet donut bead and one copper with silver solder sea glass bezel- plus three recycled sari silk ribbons

If you are a component designer and would like to join in....

please link in to our event & I'll get the details to you right away!

More details on the Sale tomorrow!

Artisan Clay Fall Fashion Show

ILO having the traditional Artisan Clay design team this month, Krisite is having a fashion show.  Everyone can show off their designs created with Artisan Clay beads, new and old!  Invite friends, shout it to everyone, all they have to do is blog their works on Friday October 28th and link up on the Artisan Clay blog that morning, and start hopping!  Lets show Kristie how much we love her work and appreciate being a part of her design team.

Black Hole Sun~ Artisan Clay Design Team Reveal!!!!

Whew!  I love Kristies beads, she know's I am a big fan.  The only part where we differ is she LOVES primary colors, and I, well, I just don't know what to do with them.  So I think she was really stretching my creativity when I got a little charm set in YELLOW and black.  But, stretching is good, usually.

(I got that black set second from the left)
(If you are not familiar with Artisan Clay work, I encourage you to check it out.  Her style varies to fit so many people, and I LOVE that she uses recycled glass in her bright and fancy charms and donuts).

So- I had these charms sitting here and sitting here and sitting here.  I also, don't do many pendant or charm sort of focals.  Whew.  More head scratching.  So, I knew this had to involve metal.  Ok, now some ideas were forming.  I thought of pie crusting some sort of leaf or eye like form around it, since it makes me think of a cats eye or something.  Problem being, I haven't tried pie crusting yet, and it looks pretty hard to get just that right result.

Then it hit me.  Black Hole Sun, you know that song, right, by Soundgarden?  It had to be a sun.  While all these ideas were playing around my head, Izzy Winterhart won the monthly Love My Art Jewelry Challenge with her amazing cuff bracelet.  She bezels in some amazing way using rivets????  And I remembered seeing some sort of tutorial long ago on something like that.  So, I did what any artist would do, and I winged it.  I am not really happy with it.  Its bigger then I had wanted it to be.  I wish I would have used brass for the background ILO copper on both layers.  Oh well.  The best part is is the charm, and I guess thats what counts.  I didn't get to make the other one into something, but I will.  When I do, I will post it.  I promise.
So here it is, Black Hole Sun.

So- thanks to Izzy, for the inspiration.  If you haven't checked her work out, please do.  She has some really amazing designs, and makes copper classy!!!









Have a great weekend!  I hope you all have lots of sunshine and smiles!





Thanks to Kristie for allowing me to be a part of her design team!  I love it, and I loved the challenge that this month presented for me.  It pushed to try something new.

Also- I am listing in my Artisan Accents Shop.  Please use coupon code SLO10 to receive 10% off your order.  Good until June 4th!

Here are some pictures of my new items!!!!

Artisan Clay Design Team

So, my good friend Kristie Roeder, of Artisan Clay decided to make a design team.  I am so happy that I got picked to be on it!
Kristie is VERY talented and creative, and never stops bringing new ideas to life in her beads and jewelry.  I think this is a great idea, not only is it fun, but we get to network with new artists, and we all get to use some of Kristies beads (which you can buy here) each month.  Awesome!

Here are a few things I have made with her beads in the past.  I look forward to many more to come!

Kristie makes many styles, she is the kind of artist who can stay true to her style, yet truly create something for everyone!  So stay tuned for more fun with Artisan Clay beads!