Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Todays Fellow Featured Artisian from the OnFireTeam

Im loving my New Team: Come Join in on the fun






Ive found That sharing other artists amazing work makes me feel wonderful. Everyone loves different things, has different talents and it is so fun to just browse the shops to see what amazing things you can find. I joined a wonderful supportive team this week and I have had so much fun. I have had more traffic on my shops since I have joined in along time. Wonderful Treasurys have been made by fellow members and I have just had a great time. I love to make treasurys and I have made several this week. What is nice with this group is they support all Artisians not just ones on Etsy. That is important to me. Because no matter where you sell, from home, online, Etsy, Artfire your all amazing artists. Todays Featured Artist of the Artfire teams is



Shelly Attenberg Featured Artsian

She creates wonderful handmade gifts and sells on Facebook and Etsy. To find her items for sale you go to her Business page :

Handmade Creations by Shelly

Here is some of her amazing work.

Hancrafted Beautiful Scarfs

Yarn for sale



Love this scarf, great for my Northern Michigan Weather



I love all her knitted items for a link to her other items on Etsy :




Funny & Clever Mug Sayings, The one on the Right says "There's a Pill for that" :) 

She makes personalized mugs

Here is the link to her facebook page showing all of her Personlized mug Sayings. So many to choose from. Great Holiday Gift Ideas



Lots of fun ideas for the any gift giving celebration. To learn more about Shelly see her facebook page above or you can follow her on Twitter and her Blog.

Shelly on Etsy
Shellys Blog
Shelly on Twitter
Shelly on Facebook



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Some fun Treasurys I made the last few days for my new group On Fire For Handmade

Brilliant Black And White Treasury full of Beautiful Onfireteam handmade items

Loving Hot Pink & Black Onfireteam Creations

On Fire for Black & White Treasury



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 My Favorite Treasury Butterflies :)

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTY0MjU4MTJ8MjcyMDU1NzI0Mw/on-fire-for-butterflies?index=3


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Thanks for Stopping by, Dont forget to JOIN my Blog. Im having a Ring Giveaway. To see the Giveaway go to this blog post :


Kimi's Jewelry & Gifts Blog " Lori Love Ring Giveaway"

You Could Win This Ring Come Join my Blog

http://kimisjewelryandgifts.blogspot.com/2012/07/lori-love-ring-giveaway.html

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Hope everyone has a fun, warm, safe and creative week. Thanks for supporting me & Handmade.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

July Abs Challenge - My second Entry

Art Bead Scene July Monthly Challenge is for Charity and inspired by This wonderful piece of Art by Pablo Picasso. Read more below for enter (there is still time), to see my entry, but most importantly to learn about this amazing charity 7000 Bracelets for Hope.

"Two Acrobats with a dog" by Pablo Picasso, 1905
Gouache, 105.5cm x 75cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

About the Art
Our inspiration this month is from Picasso's his Rose Period. The Rose Period signifies the time when the style of Pablo Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colours in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period. The Rose Period lasted from 1904 to 1906. Harlequins, circus performers and clowns appear frequently in the Rose Period and will populate Picasso's paintings at various stages through the rest of his long career. The harlequin, a comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso..

About the Artist
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

to donate to this charity see this link: http://globalgenes.org/give/

We have a new spin to our challenge this month. We'd like encourage you to make a blue bracelet inspired by our challenge piece and consider sending it in to the 7000 Bracelets Project. Take a moment to read about this program that offers awareness and support for caregivers of children with rare genetic diseases. I know that many in our community have participated and there have been some wonderful blog hops, but I'd like to rally our readers together to donate at least 200 bracelets this month. That is only 10% off our daily subscribers and I know we can do it! To date the 7000 Bracelets project have collected over 1000 bracelets.
Blog Tour

The Blog Tour deadline is July 28th.
***Note Change***
Links must be added to the Art Bead Scene flickr page where you upload your entry.
The Blog Tour will be on the 31st.

Monthly Challenge Winners
Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries on August 1st.

Our Sponsors
Our Sponsors this month are Golem Design Studios and Creative Impressions In Clay.
Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes!

Featured Designer of the Week:
From all the entries during the month, an editor is going to pick their favorite design to be featured every Monday here on ABS. We want to give our participants more time in the spotlight! Our Featured Designer will be this Monday, so get those entries in soon.
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So good luck to all the great entrys. I have made a few bracelets to send. One for this challenge one for another and two additional just as a donation. I had fun creating them. This one was a little challenging. The photo immediatly inspired me. I work with polymer clay so the colorful diamond pattern leotard, blue hues and browns in the dog spoke to me. So I knew I would make a polymer clay cane checkered and turned to look like diamonds to make my beads with. I wanted to get more of stripe in there so I created a ghost cane and used that as an overlay on the beads when baking. So it has a more define diamond stripe design. Plus it makes the colors look better together. I then made a skinner blend of lots of gorgeous Premo and Sculpey clay blues and used them for the blue in the cane and for the blue on the blue beads that were covered with the ghost cane. I love making my own color mixtures it makes things feel more original. The Charity 7000 bracelets for Hope are usually blue bracelets. So to soften the color palate the ghost cane worked perfectly.

So here is my piece: Inspired by the geometric shapes, colorful hues of white, golden, yellows, browns, and blues. I added the Gold links because this painting felt warm to me. Main focal bead is a triangle wire wrapped in gold and blue wires. I then made a cha cha bracelets with round beads to match the focal, blue flower beads and diamond beads in blue hues. They are like the triangles on the leotard but my one triangle has lots of triangles in all the colors I see in one. Warm golden links with soft Swarovski golden and dark blue pearls. Blue diamonds and blue pearls inspired by the blue for the chairity. Since this a a genuine cha cha bracelet, I wanted it to be full of lovely beads and charms, thre are several colosr of pearls, beads, hope charms, made with love charms and gold heart charms. Lobster clasp and closure. I enjoyed this piece, its fun, full and actually lightweight. 


Great Colors, Great tools, Amazing clay & fun creation for charity


My Entry: Focal made from polymer clay by me with the colors of the acrobats suit. Wrapped in a chost cane. Once buffed and polished and glazed I wire wrapped it in the matching colors for a little extra touch. I then attached it to a full cha cha bracelet that the charity and photo inspired me to make. Clay triangle beads to match the focal, blue flower beads inspired by the blue charity event, blue triangle and round multi colored beads to match the Acrobats color scheme. The golden, Blue, Brown and Dark blue hues were in the painting and all worked well together. A nice warm fun piece of Jewelry for the 7000 Bracelet for Hope Charity. I hope you enjoy my entry. Below is another bracelet I made for fun just to donate.



To see all of the great bracelet entrys visit the flicker group:


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Here is another fun bracelet I am donating this week to 7000 Bracelets of hope. That makes four fun bracelets that will be going to help the people with R.A.R.E genetic diseases. I hope it helps. I guess every little bit does. Next week Im going to start working on focal beads to send their way.

Here is my fourth piece.


Cha Cha Bracelet with blue lucite flowers, clay beads, swarovski and clay pearls. Silver link bracelet with hope and made with love charms. This is a full cha cha bracelet with over 75 beads, light blue, dark blue, medium blue, golden hearts. Lobster claw clasp and pretty dangle at the closure with more pearls. I hope someone falls in love with it and purchases it from the charity. :) It will go in with my other 3 bracelets on Monday. :)



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To donate or for more infomation on this charity go to their website. There are so many ways to help.

http://globalgenes.org/7000-bracelets-for-hope/

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Thank you for stopping by. To learn more about the other bracelets I donated check out my other blogs. Also be sure to JOIN MY BLOG Im doing a ring Giveaway and a Gift Certificate to my shop, to learn more see this blog & I wish you luck :) :

Lori Love Giveaway


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To see my work where I sell go to My shops:


Kimi's Jewelry & Gifts on Artfire - over 400 items

Kimi's Jewelry & Gifts on Etsy


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Friday, July 27, 2012

Ive been chosen by Great Finds - On Fire for Handmade - Please Come vote for me


Come Vote For me - Kimi's Jewelry @ Great Finds - On Fire for Handmade

I was so excited this evening when I received an email on Artfire that one of my items had been chosen as a Great Find for On Fire for Handmade. Im so honored and excited. The item is a focal bead that I made with clay cane flowers, squares and hearts. Totally unexpected surprise. So stop by there and vote for me. I can win lots of fun things. I already feel like a winner since I was chosen so to win again would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.



Here is my bead they chose for Great Finds :


To Vote for my Bead : She has it listed on the Right side of the page under Kimis Jewelry, you click the dot by my name and the vote button and it registers my votes. :) 




This bead is available for sale along with many others : Pink & Black flower focal bead: http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/Kimis-Jewelry-From-The-Heart/4272555/Clay_Bead_Perfectly_Pink_Flower_Focal_Bead/Handmade_Supplies/Sculpting



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The site On Fire for Handmade says this about the items she chooses:

Great Finds is a weekly page featuring handmade artisans from Artfire, Etsy, Handmade Artist Shops, Zibbet and more! New theme every week and new items to tickle your fancy! There is a poll for you to vote for your favorite shop! The Winners receive a prize donated by one of our Artisans, $15 Gift Certificate from Helping Hands Graphic Design and a listing on the On Fire for Handmade Gift Guide as well as a prize donated by a new artisan every week too!
On Fire For Handmade - Great Finds




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Dont forget to Join my blog and you will be entered for a Free Lori Love Ring Giveaway and or a gift Certificate for my shop:

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You could win this ring




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Thanks for stopping by and supporting Handmade.

To Join my blog the link is a blue button that says JOIN under the Facebook box on the right side of the page. Please join. You will be included in all future giveaways and members will get special discounts on my items that others are not included on. And I love to share fun tips and tecniques.

To buy items from me see my Artfire : Kimi's Jewelry and Gifts on Artfire

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See you soon, Hugs

ܓƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Kimberly Idalski ܓƸӜƷ


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July ABS Monthly Challenge - 7000 Bracelets for Hope, View my Entry & Learn about the Charity and Artbeadscene

Art Bead Scene July Monthly Challenge is for Charity and inspired by This wonderful piece of Art by Pablo Picasso. Read more below for enter (there is still time), to see my entry, but most importantly to learn about this amazing charity 7000 Bracelets for Hope.

"Two Acrobats with a dog" by Pablo Picasso, 1905
Gouache, 105.5cm x 75cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

About the Art
Our inspiration this month is from Picasso's his Rose Period. The Rose Period signifies the time when the style of Pablo Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colours in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period. The Rose Period lasted from 1904 to 1906. Harlequins, circus performers and clowns appear frequently in the Rose Period and will populate Picasso's paintings at various stages through the rest of his long career. The harlequin, a comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso..

About the Artist
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

to donate to this charity see this link: http://globalgenes.org/give/

We have a new spin to our challenge this month. We'd like encourage you to make a blue bracelet inspired by our challenge piece and consider sending it in to the 7000 Bracelets Project. Take a moment to read about this program that offers awareness and support for caregivers of children with rare genetic diseases. I know that many in our community have participated and there have been some wonderful blog hops, but I'd like to rally our readers together to donate at least 200 bracelets this month. That is only 10% off our daily subscribers and I know we can do it! To date the 7000 Bracelets project have collected over 1000 bracelets.
Blog Tour
The Blog Tour deadline is July 28th.
***Note Change***
Links must be added to the Art Bead Scene flickr page where you upload your entry.
The Blog Tour will be on the 31st.

Monthly Challenge Winners
Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualifying entries on August 1st.

Our Sponsors
Our Sponsors this month are Golem Design Studios and Creative Impressions In Clay.
Please visit us tomorrow to see the prizes!

Featured Designer of the Week:
From all the entries during the month, an editor is going to pick their favorite design to be featured every Monday here on ABS. We want to give our participants more time in the spotlight! Our Featured Designer will be this Monday, so get those entries in soon.
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So good luck to all the great entrys. I have made a few bracelets to send. One for this challenge one for another and two additional just as a donation. I had fun creating them. This one was a little challenging. The photo immediatly inspired me. I work with polymer clay so the colorful diamond pattern leotard, blue hues and browns in the dog spoke to me. So I knew I would make a polymer clay cane checkered and turned to look like diamonds to make my beads with. I wanted to get more of stripe in there so I created a ghost cane and used that as an overlay on the beads when baking. So it has a more define diamond stripe design. Plus it makes the colors look better together. I then made a skinner blend of lots of gorgeous Premo and Sculpey clay blues and used them for the blue in the cane and for the blue on the blue beads that were covered with the ghost cane. I love making my own color mixtures it makes things feel more original. The Charity 7000 bracelets for Hope are usually blue bracelets. So to soften the color palate the ghost cane worked perfectly.

So here is my piece: Inspired by the geometric shapes, colorful hues of white, golden, yellows, browns, and blues. I added the Gold links because this painting felt warm to me. Main focal bead is a triangle like the triangles on the leotard but my one triangle has lots of triangles in all the colors I see in one. Warm golden links with soft Swarovski golden and dark blue pearls. Side blue and white round clay beads made by me. Inspired by the blue for the charity. Square beads matching the focal inspired by the many shapes I see in the photo. A golden Lobster clasp and closure. I enjoyed this piece, simple and soft.


Great Colors, Great tools, Amazing clay & fun creation for charity


My entry



To see all of the bracelets go to the flicker page for this challenge.



www.artbeadscene.com

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Thanks for stopping by to see my entry. For taking the time to learn about this amazing charity and Artbeadscene. Again to find the charity 7000 Bracelets for Hope and ArtbeadScene Monthly Challenge Page. 

Im very glad this challenge introduced me to this charity. This charity accepts donations of polymer clay beads. Im thrilled. I love love love making beads. I will be making more soon to send to them for the kids to create with. How exciting is that. Im going to have fun creating for them.

for more on how to donate beads as an artist see this link:
http://globalgenes.org/give/

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Dont forget to Join my blog. Im having a giveaway for a Lori Love Ring & a gift certificate to my Artfire shop. All you have to do is Join my blog and your automatically entered for the Ring. To see more view my blog: "Lori Love Ring - Giveaway"
To see my work and more about me stop by my Artfire or Etsy shop
As Always I thank you for supporting Handmade and me. Hugs to all and keep on stopping back for more fun, free giveaways and lots of helpful tips and hints for jewelry and clay creating.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Polyform Products July Make-It-Your-Own Challenge -A blog About my Entry



Polyform Products July Make-It-Your-Own Contest
July's Make-It-Your-Own Contest from the sculpey.com site - Let your imagination take flight; create a project using premo! Mini Cutters.This month’s prize is 30 colors of premo!, premo! Accents or Sculpey III, your choice. Post your entries right here on our Facebook page. Good Luck!

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I of course have a ton of Mini Cutters. I go to look in my cutter drawers. I only have shapes and flowers and the ones that were shown in the original piece. I thought of many things to make but was not to excited. So I ran to Joanns in Petoskey which rarely has any new supplies. Woo Hoo Jack pot, they had several new ones that I have never seen before. So I was very inspired and have been playing with them all week. I had about 4 projects started and wanted to create away but only one needed to be entered. This one meant the most to me.

I was inspired by the Premo Mini Cutters Baby

To see all the fun cutters Polyform has (Sculpey)

Why these cutters inspired me. When I saw all of the shapes I immediatly thought of my baby in heaven.  I lost my baby in September of 2002 but I think of the baby everyday.  I know no one wants to hear that. It was a good thought and the baby inspires me alot.  I dont have a baby book for my baby so I thought Ill make a sweet baby book with clay. I can keep it forever and with all these little cutters I had so many ideas. So I went to work a few days later creating "Our Baby Book" and was happy the whole time and really inspired. I have ideas for more pages in the future. :)

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Beginning to end the creation of " Our Baby Book" - Polyform Products Make-It-Your-Own July Challenge - Mini Cutters by Premo

Premo and Sculpey Products Used in this project

Premo & Sculpey Clays - Many Colors
Mini Cutters - Shapes
Mini Cutters - Baby
Blade & Sculpting Tool
Bake and Bond by Sculpey
Liquid Clay by Sculpey

Tools used on my project
Sculpey Cutters used, I used every one out of the Baby set & two out of the shapes (heart & square)
My Penni Jo's tools : Penni Jo's tools Link
CForiginals tools: Cf originals tool link
sewing measuring ruler: Walmart sewing section the blue thing slides-love it
eye pin tools for the dots: Polymer Clay Express Link for tools
pro kemper tool: Polymer Clay Express Link


I love these tools. Penni Jo's for shaping and forming all the detailed parts on the babys face, arms and legs. Cforiginals for all the texture on the animals. My Sculpey cutters for the cute little shapes that brought my baby book to life. My premo clay (the best) that brought color and life to my project. And of course what would a project be without Swarovski Crystals - Oh ya there on there, lots!!!

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Now I have my tools, my clay and so much inspiration:

Condition, Flatten some clay through a pasta machine and Im all ready to work


Some pages for my book and Im ready to sculpt and cut and make my creation. Some blue and white should work. Of course Id like all pink but we have to think there may be a chance it was a boy so Im being fair to my little angel. Lol

First Page of the book Started - Now Im hooked


Finished this then went to bed. Layed there and layed there and got up and finished it completely. I couldnt wait. I started sculpting the hair with my Cf originals tools and I was having way to much fun to stop. I cut out the baby in the cling with the Sculpey mini Baby Cutters & lots more fun stuff and kept on claying. Much needed Clay thereapy. Sleep will come another day


Then I made the big mistake of making my baby. Oh no Ill never sleep. Cut out the cute onzie with the cutter and started playing with my Penni Jo tools sculpting the face, putting little dents in the elbow, chin and knees. lol too cute.

Sleep time. Lets see what a few days work brings.


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Well with some string and lots of love & finished my piece. Now to turn the pages of the book to show you my work. Such a fun project made with lots of love and smiles.


This is the "Our Baby Book" Page by page. Front cover is a Stork carrying a bundle of joy to a happily waiting family. I sculpted the stork by hand with clay and added swarovski crystal for his eye. Used the Premo Baby cutters for the Hearts and The Baby in the Sling. Such a cute cutter. I had fun giving it definition and textures. Topped it with a cute little curl of blong hair for fun.


Page two is our Babys "1sts", First curl on bottom right, First bath on top Right made with a Premo Mini Duck Cutter. Top left is a Premo Mini Bear cutter, Left side is a Premo Mini square cutter that I made into a baby letter block, bottom left is a Premo Mini Rocking Horse from the cutters. The baby started as a Premo Mini Onzie cutter and I added lots of fun accents. Sculpted face, arms, hands, legs right down to dimples in the elbows, fingers and knees. I added matching baby maryjane booties, a blue an pink skinner blend swirled blankie and a pretty blue bow, a binkie in the babys mouth and last but not least a Baby bottle made from the Premo Mini Cutters.


Page Three, doesnt fit the color scheme, but we all know babys love black and reds so I wanted to add that love in this book. Plus it matched the colors of the page. I used Premo Mini cutters hands and feet for the babys first hand and feet prints. Too cute. I Made a rattle to match these colors with the Premo mini Rattle cutter, A heart for a little love from the mini Premo Heart cutter. Some swarovski Crystals of course needed some bling and a ? mark for lbs. & Inches. Since I dont have my babys I just left it like this. It looks cute and finished and I was happy with it.


Page Four, Our angel in Heaven Page. The end of this book but not the end of my memories of "Our Angel" . I sculpted a little baby angel face. With the Premo Cutters I made a double heart using the mini Large Heart and Mini small heart, Premo Baby bootie cutter, Premo Baby Carriage Cutter and a premo baby Heart Cutter to finish it up. I added some clouds like the heavens and one last heart for more love. I really enjoyed this project. I have it displayed by my kids photos. More photos below of close ups. Hope you like it too. Stop by Polyform to show some love and like my project.












Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my baby book as much as I did making it. The little cutters were a clever way to create lots of fun things for any baby book if you wanted to use them for yours. You could easily make clay appliques for your baby books and add them with a touch of glue. It would be a fun project for all ages since this would be a intermediate project for those creating with clay. Except for the details of the baby face and bird but I would be happy to help anyone learning to sculpt with those parts of it. Have fun creating and Thank you for supporting Handmade.

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Kimberly Idalski from Kimi's Jewelry & Gifts

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Im doing three free giveaways.

One is on my Facebook Business Page

Kimi's Jewelry & Gifts

https://www.facebook.com/#!/KimisJewelryandGifts

Go to my page and like it and you will be entered in the $25 gift certificate giveaway Im doing at 100 likes. No cost, no spam, just like and share if you want. The sooner I get 100 likes the sooner you could win.



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My other two free Giveaways are on my blog right here. A free "Lori Love Ring" or a free gift certificate to my shop. To find out more see this blog post:

http://kimisjewelryandgifts.blogspot.com/2012/07/lori-love-ring-giveaway.html

Here is the ring and other prizes



" Lori Love Pear Rose Vitrail Ring Giveaway"

Gift certificate goes to the group member that gets the most people to come join, see rules on my blog post above. $25 free gift certificate to my Artfire shop. Win free Jewelry of your choice.



To Win You Have To JOIN my Blog!!!

Thanks and Hugs, Kim