Winner and More

Hey Hey it's Monday....Around here it's our last Monday for school. Wahoo! We are so tired of getting up early and making sure homework is done in the evenings. Nik and I might be more excited than the boys about being finished. I worked to get some new jewelry made up yesterday and I am really excited to share it with you. The sun needs to come up and I can get to photographing. I am also going to shoot some of my new work for Etsy too. It's about time, eh? There is a lot going on here in the Jennifer Jangles Studios and Etsy had to be put aside for awhile, but it's going to be loaded up real soon. And, of course, I will let you know when that happens.

By the way the felt and ceramic ball necklace is a free project. You can find it on the side bar of the blog or you can click here.

I know you are wanting to know if you are the winner if the woodland beads, but first I need to say some things...kind of an acceptance speech but backwards because you get the prize. I loved all of your wonderful comments. You are all so nice and if your blog wasn't already on my list I promise you will be added now. It was so nice to hear that you all read it regularly and like what I say. I never know these things when I am here just a chugging along making beads and buttons. So thanks and I hope you keep reading another 500 more, gosh I hope blogs don't go out of style....

Okay, Okay and the winner is...number 8. That's you Courtney! Email me your address at jennifer(at)jangles.net and I will send your woodland set out right away. Congratulations!

Have a good one,

500th Post, Studio Shots, and a Give Away, ! (whew! Look,the title was so long it took 2 lines)

buttons, out of the kiln yesterday

Hey Hey! I can't believe it! 500 posts, man time flies when you're having fun. It was March 26th 2007 when I wrote my first post. Then it was another seven months before I posted again! Ha Ha, you guys would kill me if I didn't post for that long now. Even if it's been a few days, people start asking if I am okay. It's fun to look back over the past few years to see what I have been up to, sometimes I even forget what I've done. My second post was the kick off to my annual Ten Weeks of Holiday Projects. I have hosted a Creative Celebration and several open houses on this blog. It's soo much fun! I really never thought I would like blogging, who knew? Thanks for reading all of them and bugging me when there is too much time between posts. I appreciate it more than you know.

Well, I started my studio shots last week and so here they are again this week. Seriously, I just walked around the studio and took these photos. I like the no planning just shooting method so you can see what's really going on, mess and all. I spared you a shot of the jewelry making table this week, but it is still just as messy.

yep, the cycle continues

beads from the show last weekend and some of mine waiting to be sets

button rack for stores

hot kiln waiting to be unloaded

my first packed box for Bead and Button

Okay, so here's the deal we are going to make today's give away about blogging in honor of my 500th post. Leave me a comment here and if you're a blogger leave me your blog address too. I try to follow most of you who comment but I want to get all of you entered in my bloglines list. Blog readers might also find some cool blogs they don't know about this way too. Let's see how many comments I can get between now and Monday morning. If you have never commented before, it's super easy. You don't need an account or anything, just type away. If you're anonymous, make sure you put your name in the comment though. Okay the prize.... this entire set of woodland charms. I will announce the winner on Monday, make sure you check back to see if you're the one.Do a Happy Dance, it's Friday,

New Birds and Give Away Friday

My birds are out of the kiln and hanging out in my tree. There are purple birds as well as turquoise, orange, and yellow. You can find them here on my website in the what's new section. This is my favorite picture of the week. It took me awhile to get all my birds hanging the right way.

If you do go and see the new birds on the website take a look around. I have been doing all kinds of work updating and sprucing the place up. I still have some more tweaking but I am so happy to have updated photos.

Okay, let's make this a give away Friday. Leave me a comment today and you could win a pair of my new birds, your choice of color. Have a great weekend and I will be back here on Monday to announce the winner.

Happy Earth Day

Hee Hee, I took this photo the other day with my photo shoot also. This is one of my little snails in the garden with my tiny zinnia sprouts. I have tried to grow flowers every year since we have lived in Georgia but we have deer that have no problem with coming up on the back porch and eating whatever they feel like. So this year I got my own space in the veggie garden for flowers. I planted a ton of zinnias because they are my absolute favorites. I will show you when they bloom. I even planted a whole pack of chartreuse, eek!

Happy Earth Day,

Birdy Sneek Peek

I promised some new birds coming out of the kiln this week. Here is one that made it out a litle early. He is perched on our birdhouse. I've got more colors coming later in the week.

Keep coming back later in the week, I have more bird pictures, I had a bit of a photo shoot this week with them. I was once again looking like a fool in my backyard, but at least now that it's spring the trees have leaves and the neighbors can't see in as well. This bird house was made by Nik's grandfather for us. We got it just after we were married, 13 years ago! Check out the back, he carved J + N. Birds come and stay every year in it.

Have a great day,

Big and Noisey Week

Good Morning! It's here, it's the week they are going to fix my basement. Wahoo! After nine weeks of leaking water straight, today is the day it's going to end. Or at least that's what they tell me. :) Here is a picture of my studio today. Gulp...not so pretty and very dusty. Today is going to be worse, they are bringing in the jack hammers. I am planning on being in the glaze studio, it the farthest away from the noise but I think it's still going to be loud.

I put the little snail bead above because I hate to see the first picture of my post be an ugly one. He's a bead I made instead of a charm. I have a couple listed in my Etsy shop right now.

My comments from the give away were great. I got some good suggestions for new beads, I am always up for a challenge so I am going to see if I can come up with some of them. The winner of my Friday Give Away is comment number 14 from the random number generator(I love that thing!). Shona Murphy, Congratulations! I will mail out your owl and twig today.

Now that my studio is pretty torn up and I have to paint, I am stuck with a dilemma. Do I paint it the same color again or do I go with something totally different? What do you think? I would love a lime green wall but I am thinking I might not like it with the yellow. What ever it is, it has to be bright, it's a basement room without windows.

Have a great day!