Enchanted Adornments Giveaway No.4: HEARTS


Cynthia Thornton, of Green Girl Studios, has written an amazing book called Enchanted Adornments: Creating Mixed-Media Jewelry with Metal, Clay, Wire, Resin & More, and it will be released on November 1, 2009! I am really excited about the release of this book because Cynthia and her family, are all amazingly talented and this book will totally rock the hizzouse. But not only that, I contributed a piece of jewelry for the Gallery section of the book, and am really super excited for all of you to see it!

The Green Girl Studios team, graciously donated 8 small packages of beads to be randomly given away, in honor of the big book release, to my little blog! How cool is that! This week will be the first of the 8 givaways. This FOURTH package of beads contains 7 pewter beads/pendants, all in the HEART THEME! There are many hearts so these have been broken up into 2 heart packs. this is the first of the 2. (Each giveaway will have a different theme!)


Answer this question when leaving your comment:

Look amongst your dragon hoard of beads, and tell me- what is your most prized bead?

All you have to do to enter yourself to win, is leave a comment on this post!
I invite you to Please pass the word along on your blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or any other online venue of your choice, however, you will ONLY BE ENTERED ONCE by leaving a comment, on this post only.
Please try to only leave one comment, or the counting will be way off!
1 comment per person will be counted. if you forget and leave 2 comments, one of your comments will be disqualified. (as long as I can keep up with that)
I will draw a random winner using the Random Integer Generator, on Monday Sept. 14th!

Please keep in mind, you CAN NOT WIN if you leave an anonymous comment.
you need to let me know who you are so that I can contact you if your comment is picked!

Good luck to everyone!!
Check out the sidebar for the Calendar of Enchanted Adornments giveaways!

Comments

  1. With a store name of tinyleaves, this is a simple answer: Czech glass leaf beads

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  2. Anonymous9/07/2009

    Little 4mm Swarovski clear AB bicones. Can't keep them in stock.

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  3. I make glass beads, each of them is like a little son/daughter.... I love them all!
    Thanks for the game!!!

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  4. I'm a bit new to the collecting and using of beads, but I have a beautiful blue glass bead that looks like it would have come up from the depths of the ocean...and I love it! I also am always looking for face beads!

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  5. My Lucite crystal matte black floral beads. I love them they have an elegance to them.

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  6. My Aqua and lime greenlampwork beads.

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  7. Ohhhh, I could really use some hearts! I think my favorite bead is my Anne Choi owl!

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  8. It is not fair to make me choose only one. It changes as my mood does.
    Today i think it is my ancient roman eye bead.

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  9. Anonymous9/07/2009

    My favorite bead is a little bird bead that I won from Heather of Humblebeads. It's so darn cute. I love your work Lorelei. It just keeps getting better and better. I think the way you do asymmetry is just wonderful.

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  10. My favorite and most loved bead is one little glass bead with the image of my two little "amores de mi vida", my two children. The image is a gift from a friend, Esther, Lillibulle. I made a pendant with it.

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  11. Ohhhh this is a hard one! I have 2 actually! Its a Green girl bat I just bought he is so precious peeking out from his wings The other one is a blue bird I recently bought from Heather Powers @ humblebeads! Thanks for this chance!

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  12. whatever bead I am making is my current fav, but I did have a pendant that was an abstract human figure made from a very white translucent porcelain clay, Southern Ice, and glazed with a temmoku glaze. The rich variation of colors was wonderful. Too bad I dropped it and broke it.....

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  13. I love all my beads, but the 2mm bicone clear crystals are my favorite to add that special sparkle to a pair of earrings.

    Emanda
    artemisiaStudio.etsy.com

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  14. It has to be a lovely purple lampwork bead with white flowers all over it, picked up by my dad in Japan years ago. I love how he chose something that I would just love.

    Thanks for a super fantastic giveaway L!!

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  15. My kayak paddle lampwork bead made by Nancy Tobey!

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  16. Even though I make glass beads, I love to collect others' - I would have to say my collection of glass beads are my favorites!

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  17. i've always wanted to make a heart themed piece...these hearts in your giveaway are beautiful...
    my most prized bead would have to be a lampwork focal that i purchased a long time ago before i ever considered learning the technique myself...

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  18. Good quesion! I don't think that I have a favorite, because whatever I am working with at the moment is my favorite. But I have an adrable hedgie bead from Heather at Humblebeads, Lori Greenburg lampwork that is just stunning, the steampunk from Melanie of Earthenwoods, faces from Gaea and of course my new winnings from you for the Green Girl Studios in your last contest to add to what I bought at Bead & Button...I think I horde them because I cannot bear to part with them...all to change soon!

    You are doing an amazing job Lorelei. (And if I happen to be chosen in this round, please pick someone else to be the lucky recipient!)

    Enjoy the day!
    Erin

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  19. I do have a dragon's hoard of beads, but my favorite is a bead made from a grey stone with a white line through it.

    Thanks for the terrific giveaway. Ann

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  20. Love your bracelets Lorelei!

    What a wonderful comp.

    I am into eggs at the moment, so a favourite of mine is a bead egg from ellens eggs.

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  21. ooh pretty hearts! It's so hard to choose from all my pretties...hmm. Well I guess it's any of the Indian Sapphire colour swarovski crystal that I have. My mum made my wedding dress and the bodice was beaded with these. I made accessories for my hair from them. Since then they seem too special to me to use in anything else.

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  22. Hmmm, a difficult question for sure! It could be the vintage glass beads my twin sis gave me when I was just starting out in the craft, or the cool pendant I purchased which is made out of a broken shard of Fiestaware from DVH Designs. But actually my favorite is a strand of ancient carnelian trade beads.

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  23. My favorite bead is a bead I won in a class taught by Michael Barley. It was one of his window beads! It is fabulous!

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  24. Ahhh my mst prized bead is actually 2 they are 30mm exploit free Mexican Amber pieces!

    Pattie ;)
    Mazatlan Mx.

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  25. Oh these are amazing and one would probably become my new favorite! Right now though, my current favorite bead(s) are some pretty little lampwork accents that I traded for with Margaret Zimser (mzglass) that I have hoarded for the past year!

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  26. I'm having fun making clay beads so I must choose my heart bead as my fav.

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  27. Mine is a handful of wonderful antique Cheyenne trade beads from a dig at Foss Ok. Love your blog!

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  28. A rose quartz heart that my mom gave me.

    Edie

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  29. My current favs are a string of earthy lampwork beads with pops of deep purple, bottle green, and blue on a toasty cream ground from Venus Beads.

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  30. I think that my most prized bead is one that I have from Jennifer Jangles. It is such a fun bead, one of her spirals. I love whimsical beads and hers just bring happy thoughts of spring and summer to mind.

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  31. Hands down a lampwork bead from Gail Crosman Moore! Now I just need to make something with it.
    Love the new necklace and bracelet.
    Patty

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  32. Mel Mel9/08/2009

    My very first art bead. A blue ceramic heart pendant that I won from Erin at Every Heart Crafts.

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  33. Sandi M9/08/2009

    My fav right now is my honey bee pewter pendant charm from Green Girl Studio. It hangs on a chain with with other charmy pieces.

    Sandi M

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  34. My favorite bead(s) are the fiber beads that Elanore EBrown2503 on Etsy has been making me. They remind me of fuzzy warm sweaters that I use to wear in winter when I still lived in Minnesota.

    Funky Monkey Girl,
    Jolene

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  35. My favourite beads are felt beads that I embellish myself with seed beads - each one is different and they are fun - it is hard not to be happy when you are wearing them.

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  36. I have a set of boro beads that I love. They are blue with green swirls. I am such a big fan of your work. It has a mix of artistic jewelry with earthy style.

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  37. I suppose if I really really had to decide what my most prized bead is, it would have to be the very first lampwork bead my husband made. It's not the prettiest thing but I appreciate the fact that he's taken me to Beadfest all these years and even found something in the bead world he enjoys.

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  38. My favorite bead? Every bead I buy is a favorite, at least till the next time. I do love the beads a special friend brought me from New York, they are clean and clear and have different blues swirled in them.

    Vikki

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  39. My favorite bead(s) has to be some large sapphire beads that my husband purchased for my birthday. I am still trying to figure out what they want to be.

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  40. Anonymous9/09/2009

    My favorite is a shiny string of crystals from an old piece of my mother's costume jewelry. I have yet to find something worthy to use it on, so it remains a shiny, beautiful reminder of my dear mother each time I open my bead box.

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  41. My favorite beads are a set of handmade lampwork beads that I made into a necklace. They have the colors of the sea and sand in them and I feel the warmth of the ocean when I wear them.

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  42. Ooooh! I hope I win. My most prized bead... a giant natural ametrine that is about 3 in across and about 1.5 in in diam. HUGE CHUNK, tumbled faceted, natural, not heated. I also treasure the shibuichi bird pendant from Green Girl that I got a few months back... still dreaming of all the ways to wear it.

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  43. Lori Michaud9/09/2009

    A beautiful torch-worked bead by Lenda Dewyer that she titled "A Mother's Tear". She gifted it to me after my son's passing. It's a stunning landscape bead with a birch tree shedding one lone tear.

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  44. I have to pick one? I have a vintage foil glass bead that's about 70 years old (it started my obssesion with foil glass), I have a wonderful lampwork bead made by my husband (his first "perfect" bead) and a gorgeous bead made by my dear friend Pam Way. I have to pick one?

    Off to blog the giveaway!

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  45. I've just begun on this adventure trip with bead making. I'm a polymer clay sculptor, making historical figures, etc.,so as a beginner here, each bead I make is my new favorite! I want to play! Please enter me. Lynda

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  46. I think my favorite bead would have to be a shibuichi bird toggle that I won from Green Girl Studios, ironically! It is beautiful, but it would be out of my current bead budget to buy myself, so I am thankful it is in my collection. Thanks for the giveaway, I would love to add hearts to my GGS collection :)

    Lisa

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  47. My favorite bead is a beautiful polymer clay bead I have which was made by Klew (Karen Lewis). It is absolutely amazing. http://www.klewexpressions.com/gallery.htm

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  48. Pick one? Are you kidding? :) I really do like lots of them. Colorful ones, silver charms, metal fun. I can't pick.

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  49. Be still my heart, me likes, me wants! Good Luck everyone.

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  50. Several years ago my husband made me a lampworked glass frog bead; it is the poster child for wonky beads--or in the frog world, an example of what can happen if we don't care for the environment. Oh how I love this funky little bead. It was maybe the second bead he had ever made and always brings a smile to my face :-)

    Mollie

    Hey, I think I am #50!

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  51. I recently purchased two cameos that have outstanding detail and symbology in them. I can't wait to wrap them up in something special.

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  52. I have a beautiful bone carving of a mermaid that I purchased over a year ago. It is so lovely that I'm having a hard time finding other beads to go with it to make a necklace.

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  53. I have a huge lampwork glass bead from Dianne Woodall. It is a work of art in itself and I don't know if I will ever use it because I like to look at it and feel the textures. The colors are a mesmerizing melange of forest greens and browns with tinges of gold. Yes, I am obsessed with art beads!

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  54. My favorite beads are the new enameled ones I'm making that are like filigree. Oh, and I absolutely love the aqua and brown Peruvian Opal chunks that I have. They are about 53 mm long.

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