I don't know where today has gone! Or perhaps I should say yesterday because it's now after midnight and I have blog candy to give away. But before announcing the winners of the two gemstone donuts I would like to thank all of you, my listeners, who stay awhile and take the time to read about what goes on in my studio - I really appreciate that you stop by and leave comments. My thanks also go to Rings & Things for sending me the donuts to play with. I really did enjoy using them once I got past my initial fear of working with gemstones. I have a much better appreciation of gemstones now that I can see how easy they are to work with and I hope that the winners will enjoy them too. So without any further ado, let's get on with drawing some winners. Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 1 8 Timestamp: 2010-11-09 14:16:30 UTC Congratulations to Silky Chick (Sara) and Sue G. You have each won a Rings & Things Gemstone Donut. Send me an email (enquirie......

A couple of weeks back I was pleasantly surprised to have a comment left by Dave of Rings & Things telling me that I was one of the winners in their Blog Partner program for September. Yippee! That meant goodies from their current catalogue release were on their way to me. And just a week or so later here's what arrived on my doorstep all the way from the US: some really pretty gemstone donuts. Before showing you what I did with them, I've got to say that I was quite apprehensive when I saw that the package contained gemstone donuts. If you scroll through the jewellery on my blog and website you'll see a complete absence of gemstones and there's a good reason for that: as much as I am fascinated by the earth's ability to produce these wonderful stones, I am completely intimidated by them and have to admit that I know very little about them. Not only that, but I have absolutely nothing in my stash that would work with them. Or so I thought! Once I started playin......