And the winners are .....

I've just drawn the names out of the hat for the Virtual Easter Egg Hunt Prize Draw - there were loads of you who took part!

The winner of the Easter Focal bead is ...

Mandy Davidson

Second prize of a Lonelies Lucky Dip Bag goes to ...

Melissa Chowdhury

And the third prize of a Lonelies Lucky Dip Bag belongs to ...

Jane Wyatt

Thanks to everyone who entered the draw!

Virtual Easter Egg Hunt

How do you fancy winning one of my 'Easter' focal beads similar to the one pictured above?

Well, I'm giving one away as a prize in my 'Virtual Easter Egg Hunt'!

Lurking somewhere on my website is an Easter Egg. All you have to do is find it and click on the 'I found it!' link underneath it which will open an email screen. Just click the send button and I will enter your name into the draw to win the bead.

You have until 7.00pm (GMT) on Saturday 22nd March to enter. I will do the draw that evening and I'll announce the winner of the focal bead here on my blog. There will also be second and third prizes consisting of 'lucky dip' bags of my Lonelies.

The competition is open to anyone anywhere in the world.

Happy hunting!

Red Tulips

It would have been my Mum's birthday today so I bought this lovely bunch of red tulips to stand in her arbour in the garden.

I'm sure she would have liked them.

'Blissful Glimmer'

There's something about purple and teal together. This colour combination seems so calming and relaxing. In this case I've added oodles of fine silver to give a delicious glimmer to the beads.

I'll tell you what's not blissful or relaxing, though. My next door neighbours have bought their son a drum kit. A flipping drum kit! I was trying to read earlier (I say read - I was actually sniffing the Davidoff sample in my copy of Cosmo thinking 'Aaaahhh, so that's what Ewan McGregor smells like!') and all I could concentrate on was the repetitive 'thud-thud-thud-cymbal-crash-thud' coming from next door.

Thankfully he's stopped doing his Taylor Hawkins impersonation now (actually, it's more like Meg White) so I'll be able to watch 'Gavin & Stacey' in peace . . . . .

Customer Gallery

All the Starburst beads from last night posing nicely for a photo!

Now for my new Customer Gallery idea. As you know, I recently updated my website and the one page I haven’t got around to re-doing yet is the ‘My Beads, Your Work’ page.

I’ve been thinking about it and I want to do something different to what I had last time. Instead of a wall of photos I’d like to make the page into a ‘deluxe’ links page.

Each jewellery artist listed will have one photo of a piece of their work featuring my beads plus a few lines about them and their jewellery. There will also be a link to either the jewellery artist’s website, blog or Facebook/MySpace/Flickr page. If you don’t sell your work or if you don't have any work online but would still like to be featured then that’s absolutely fine!

So, if you’ve made jewellery with my beads and would like to be featured (note to self, repetition of 'featured', find alternative word) on the new-look ‘My Beads, Your Work’ page then please email me a good, clear photo of one of your pieces featuring my beads (the larger the file, the better), a few words about you and your work and the webpage address that you’d like me to link to.