The Winners!

The first prize winner of the Madeleine Tin Ornament in my giveaway is Trudy Callan of Artistic Creations With Trudy who thoughtfully went through each post and commented on each and every one of them.

Because this was my first giveaway I hadn't realized the magnitude of what I was requiring. It didn't seem that it was that long ago that I had started up this blog and that it added up to so many entries. (pat, pat on the back to me! - my old blog fell by the wayside and into oblivion) Next time I won't have such a stringent requirement and hope that it will be easier and less work.

All current followers were entered into the second prize drawing of the box of Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels.

I'm happy to announce that Debrina of Debrina's Altered Art Diary- Delectable Tidbits and Dreamy Vignettes from an Altered Art Queen and Mail Art Princess is the winner of the second prize.

Christmas Give-Away from NuminosityBeads

I've decided to do a Christmas giveaway to help my little pinpoint of light in the blogoshpere to radiate outwards just a speck more and promote readership and involvement to spur me on to sharing ever more of my creative process. So it will become a literal sharing of my work if you are the lucky winner.

What I'd like to propose is that anyone that posts a comment on each of my posts thus far will be eligible for one of my Christmas ornaments similar to the ones in my last post. ( I have several more as well) If you become a follower you are also eligible for the second prize which is a box of Trader Joes's Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels. Current followers are already eligible for second prize.

Prizes will be randomly and fairly drawn from a hat by my unbiased and unbribable husband.

I will need to contact you for an address if you are a winner.

Drawing will take place on Dec 9th.

Ornamentality

I've been holding on to these madeleine molds for awhile now. I was thinking along the lines of some Our Lady of Guadelupe shrines but instead I opted to make these Christmas ornaments.

The tins I picked up in an antique shop in Maine on one of my forays while visiting the folks.

They're nicely tarnished and bear the stamp Made in Germany. I had picked up a book at a thrift store with some great plates of reproductions of stained glass from the Chapel of Konigsfelden in Switzerland from the early fourteenth century. I allowed myself to cut up some of the smaller images. the larger plates I saved for reselling or bigger projects. I also had some Christmas cards that I had picked up at a thrift store here that I used. Now all I need to do to finish up is to put some hangers on them and they'll be ready to go.