Mary's Graces Blog- 1st giveaway

My friends are having their first giveaway today on their brand new blog.
You can click on the picture above to go.
http://www.marysgraces.blogspot.com

Have a great weekend and good luck!

Fave Crafts Giveaway

This is not the giveaway I am going to post later but it is a giveaway I am involved with. It is very similar to the first giveaway I ever did back in May on the 19th here
http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/05/1st-giveaway-thank-you-thank-you-thank.html

Win this Kit!

We are giving away 1 Glitter Flower Pendant Kit. Enter with the form below.

 
1.If you blog about this giveaway at your blog, we’ll give you an extra entry. Contact us with a link to the blog post.


2.If you twitter about this giveaway, you’ll get an extra entry. Again, contact us with a link to the tweet.


3.If you add a link to us on your blogroll or website, we’ll give you an extra entry. Again, contact us!


Contest ends December 25, 2009. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve your chances of winning!

Here is the link!!
http://www.favecrafts.com/sweeps/Glitter-Flower-Pendant-Kit-Giveaway#

List of winners for the 5th giveaway!

I want to ship these out all at the same time. So if you can please wait, I will get them out to you all as soon as all of the rest of the winners reply.

Thank you so much all of you, for playing along with me!!!

I am looking forward to seeing what you all make with your kits!!

Terry's Treasures (too late, no response)

Anonymous Tina G

Sharon P

Bygone Productions (too late, no response)

Alecia

Melissa

Kathi

Susan

Silly...'ma

RNJenny

Creager Studios

SandiLee James

I have waited until today 10/18/09 (I think that is more than fair) to see if the winners that had not contacted me would reply and they haven't so I am going to pick two more people. I will get back to you with the new winners.

5th Giveaway- Trick and Treat, 12 winners

My next giveaway is a fun one and I am very excited about it. Jacquard Products http://www.jacquardproducts.com/ the importer for Cernit Polymer clay in North America has given me 12 sets of Cernit to giveaway. There are 10 colors and a 1 ounce package of each color to play with.
You can read about Cernit here and in this blog and see all of the colors http://www.jacquardproducts.com/products/cernit/
Jacquard Products also carries an incredible amount of other products that you can see on their site.
The Clay Factory, my husband Howard's on line store carries all of Jacquard's products even if they are not posted on Howard's site yet. He can get them for you, just ask. We are working on getting them all up on the Clay Factory site. http://www.clayfactory.net/

Yep, you heard that right, 12 of them!
12 winners!!!
I think this deserves some tricks, LOL!! and we are approaching the trick or treat season, so this is soooooooo perfect. You do a trick and you may get a treat.

1. Follow me in Face book or Google, scroll down on the right.


2. If you are a winner, when you make something with this Cernit, show me your stuff. I would like blog quality pictures of what you make. Everyone starts at the beginning and I want to see what you do. No judgment just cheering. I will even help you if you have questions.

If you are willing to do this, post a comment (and follow) on this post.
Also, if you have a chance check out what my friend Lynda Watkins is doing with Phthalate free Cernit at her Blog Swoopin' along   
Wyatt wip http://claymama1.blogspot.com/2009/09/wyatt-earps-wip.html
and some gorgeous jewelry: http://claymama1.blogspot.com/2009/09/firsties-new-design.html

I will choose the 12 winners when I get back from Sandy Camp on the 6th or 7th of October.

Ces won the 4th giveaway!

Hope you all had a great Labor Day. I don't get it. Why do they call it labor day when no one is moving at all? They are not having babies and everyone is lying around and eating. Grown-ups really confuse me sometimes.

Grandma says it is to honor working people. Geesh it is about time they give them a day off.

Anyway back to why I am here at all.

CES WON!!!

Ces is the winner of the 4th Giveaway

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/08/4th-giveaway-no-tricks-just-follow.html

Congratulations Ces, grandma started laughing; she says you say you never win anything.

4th Giveaway no tricks, just follow

I found something on my desk that was supposed to be in this giveaway. I added it below and a picture of it too!!!

This is the 4th giveaway for Howard and me. Part of a year of payback, thank you, and love for 30 years in a job we love so much and good friends.

May you all be as blessed as we have been and are.

You can read about the others here: http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/05/1st-giveaway-thank-you-thank-you-thank.html

Here: http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/2nd-giveaway.html

Here: http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/08/3rd-giveaway-renee-bracelet-life-and.html

Thanks you, thank you, thank you, we love that you are here.

This one is an easy one.

Leave a comment on this post!

Follow this blog!

This one is a fun one, it is for a out of print instruction sheet.

Very cool, written in 1994 by Joan Pompa for Friendly clay. That is 15 years ago, a collectors item, LOL!!!

The instruction sheet may be out of print but the designs are timeless and beautiful. The clay used in this tri-fold may not be available anymore, but other polymer clays and air dry clays will work just as well for this. It also shows how to make beautiful roses and leaves, Calla lilies, dogwoods, pansies and cut out flowers.

What is in the giveaway package?

Buds and Blossoms Jewelry 15 projects just shape, bake and paint.

1 bag of assorted metal ephemera

6 brooch findings

10 oval shell pieces

30+ small rhinestones

50+ small and medium no hole pearls

3 butterfly charms I made

1 "frazzled" word mold I made

*Bag of small stamps* just added

Oops forgot!!! This is my 100th post this year, wooooooooooooowhoooooooooo!
This giveaway will close on September 6th at 6 pm pdt.

3rd Giveaway- the Renee Bracelet- Life and Death

Life and Death- This 3rd giveaway is influenced by a dear blog friend, Renee. Renee has Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), she is the same age as I am, and you can share her story on her web page here, http://circlingmyhead.blogspot.com/ . She talks about her real life and experiences dealing with this disease. I have learned a lot from this woman and consider her a sister-friend through the connection of the blogs and I love her.

This is a copper wire bracelet with Cernit polymer clay beads and each bead is made by me and the wire wrapping I did myself. It is wrapped and made with prayers, love, and good intentions for Renee, it has big JUJU kids.

There is also a condition to this giveaway and I trust you, on your honor for all that is good, that you will follow these rules before you comment on this post. Yep, this is the one; I am going to make you do tricks.

1. You will have to take the time to go and visit Renee's blog http://circlingmyhead.blogspot.com/ and read at least two of the entries. If so inclined proceed to show her the love.

2. You will have to offer up a prayer, a good intention, a loving or healing thought for Renee and her family.

That is all I ask, for together we are stronger and can heal and start to change this crazy world we have had a part in making. I believe in this and I want you to believe in you and your power to change things. There is nothing I can do to change Renee's situation but this and I do believe with your energy, we can help me do something. I do believe in magic, I do, I do! 

You can also read about why I am having giveaways

Here: http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/05/1st-giveaway-thank-you-thank-you-thank.html

Here: http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/06/2nd-giveaway.html

This giveaway will close on August 19th at 6 PM PDT.
Thank you.
Blog about this and post the link here and I will give you another entry.

Madi says...

I just wanted to tell you all that my grandma is trying to get the next giveaway posted but she and I have been so hot, neither one of us want to do anything but sleep and eat. Stay cool out there.

Madi has an announcement to make...

I love my frog and he has the best eye.

OH and my grandma also wanted me to tell you, her and papa picked the winner for the Bella necklace grandma made.

Grandma and papa are giving away stuff for a year because they are so grateful to be alive and have a business they love. You can read about that here.

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/05/1st-giveaway-thank-you-thank-you-thank.html

First grandma wrote all of the names one at a time on the piece of paper.
Grandma usually does this with a random number generator, but she decided it would be more fun if her and papa did this together.
Then she checked them to make sure the numbers and the names matched.

She cut them all up with the big scissors that I can not play with.

Mixed them up again to be sure. There were 38 of you this time and she read to me what some of you said, so nice of you all. My grandma just loves that part.

Some times she gets a kleenex, but don't tell her I was watching her that close. She thinks I am just a baby, I don't want to spoil her fun.

She folded them up real small and

put them in one of papa's coffee cups.

She took the cup to papa and he couldn't get his hand in there, it is really big, so he had to take his little finger and fold it up so he could reach them and then he swished them around in there again.

Silly grandma didn't tell him she had already done that lots.

He picked out one and gave it to grandma and it was...

#13 ARTGALCRAFTS

Grandma was excited. She said this Bella necklace was going all the way to Australia.

She said that her friend Bella's words and paintings travel all over the world in peoples hearts and minds, so it is only right that the necklace should go faraway too!!!

Grandma says that you all should go look at Bella's art work because she makes cute little girls like me all of the time.

Some of the girls are bigger than me though.

Her blog is here http://bellasinclair.blogspot.com/

ArtGal you need to get in touch with my grandma so she can send the Bella necklace to you. Grandma's email is on her profile page.

Oh and congratulations!

#16 Myra Katz come on downnnnnnnnnnnn

I went in to the post last night and numbered each and every post and then deleted the two repeats.

I generated random #16 with my daughters watching and looked, there was Myra Katz.

Congratulations Myra!

I also read through again all of the sweet and beautiful comments. Howard and I loved each and every one as they came in, but reading them all at one time was just awesome and good for me. I am forever better because of all of you!!

Sometimes sitting behind this computer I forget that there is a whole world of wonderful people out there.

On some days I feel like I am talking to myself.

Any way thank you, thank you, thank you!

This was great fun and I am ready for the next.

And here is a sneak peek of the next giveaway to be posted to this blog soon.

xoxo

Marie

Please do not worry

I am going to be away from this blog and do not know if I will have access while I am gone. I do not want you to worry, you will be added to the giveaway, if you comment, when I get back.
You will see it as soon as I get back. Do not post a 1000 times ;-O, I have comment approval and I will be deleting all duplicates in the final tally anyway.

Here is a link.

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2009/05/1st-giveaway-thank-you-thank-you-thank.html

There is also a right hand side link under the title Giveaway page.

I am fine, I am in West Virginia playing and sharing at the Polymer clay and mixed media retreat.


You should be there.
I hope you all have a beautiful and magical week.
Love and hugs,
Marie

1st Giveaway, Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottoms of our hearts

Howard and I wanted to do something special this year and we wanted to do it with all of you. We have been in the Polymer clay and craft supply business for 30 years, this year. That, my dear friends is a feat. We have also been married for 30 years this year and let me tell you that is a monumental feat!! LOL!!
Sometimes though, it has been the business that has been tougher. At least we have had each other and you.

We have met many, many, many wonderful people, friends, customers, and acquaintances in all the years we have been doing this and some of those mentioned are no longer with us for many reasons and we can not thank them personally. We are grateful for each and every one of you. You have touched our hearts and I hope that we have touched yours.
THANK YOU from the very bottoms and tops of our hearts; you are our light and our life.

We were looking for a way to pay it forward and backwards and to let you know that you matter to us and you are perfect just the way you are. We think we have come up with a wonderful way to celebrate this.

This is going to be the beginning of a year of giving. It will take us through our anniversaries, Children’s birthdays (happy birthday, Shas!!!), grandchildren’s birthdays and many more important family and business celebrations. I am counting on hitting some of yours too.

The giveaways will happen at irregular intervals, so it is probably best if you follow, but it is not a requirement. I am so grateful to have you if you do decide to follow.
There is only one thing you have to do and that is to leave a comment to the giveaway post in question at the time.

I will count all of the responses and generate a random number from Random.org (I have also added the generator to the blog if you want to use it) and announce the winner the day after the contest closes.

This first giveaway is brought to you by these lovely and wonderful people and companies; with out them this would not be possible at all. Please make an effort to visit their sites. Thank you, thank you, thank you to each and every one of you:

Clay Factory

Me

Art Glitter

Makin’s Clay

Jacquard Products

I am going to run this till the 14th of June, that is Sunday, and the contest will close at 12 midnight PDT

Here is what you will get:
Art Institute Glitter- basic set with fabric glue
Sculpting tool
Bamboo skewer
Clay blade
Set of 3 round cutters
2- 2 ounce blocks of Cernit phthalate free clay in black
Rhinestones
Pendant I made from photographing the step by step instructions
Step by step instructions

added 06/17/09
#16 Myra Katz won the giveaway, congratulations Myra! There were two duplicate posts and those were eliminated.