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Archive for May, 2011May 12
Your comments help us improve and give you what you want. Help us congratulate Dawanna Young, April’s Survey Winner! May 10 We have special offers, contests, surveys and more only available on Facebook. “Like Us” and get in on it! We also answer questions you have about your jewelry and our products! Share photos of your best work for everyone to enjoy! Join the community and click “Like” at the top of our Facebook page! This months Facebook special feature: You Ask. We Listen. You Win. What Do You Want? The You Ask. We Listen. You Win. What Do You Want? survey is full of open ended questions that allow us to better understand your needs. We will give 5 of you who take the survey and offer us your thoughts a $100 Cool Tools Gift Certificate! The only thing we ask is for you to be specific on all questions that apply to you! WE READ EVERY COMMENT and your insight helps us give you what you want! The more specific you are the better we can understand you! The drawing will take place in June! Hurry and get your opinions in! The survey is featured right on our wall. When you “Like Us” on Facebook all sorts of contests, surveys, specials, and chances to win are available to you! “Like Us” today! May 5
Congratulations to Julie Black, the Winner of the Random Review Contest for April! Julie has chosen a $100 Cool Tools Gift Certificate as her prize! Metalsmith, glass artist and certified PMC instructor Julie Black has been at her craft for the past 30 years. Julie reviewed one of our Cool Tools brand products, Slik. Jule was one of 200 reviews and was selected in a drawing of all April reviews! She was really excited and told us about herself!
A winner is selected every month! Winners get their choice of a $100 Cool Tools Gift Certificate or $100 in Metal Clay. The more products you review the more entries you get into the drawing! Keep reviewing products and help us congratulate Julie Black, the April Random Review winner! May 3
Christi is a self-taught metal clay artist who has won numerous awards for her work. Her pieces are impossibly intricate and mostly hand carved from very thin sheets of metal clay. One night during the 2009 Bead & Button Show, a group of metal clay artists met for dinner, including me (Mardel Rein), Holly Gage, Gordon Uyehara, Bill and Lacey Ann Struve and others. Christi had just won the Bead Dreams first place award and one of her magical pieces was being passed around. We were trying to decide if she had really carved the piece or not! It was so intricate and so detailed that we just could not believe what we were seeing. We thought it had to be a mold. Christi is in a league of her own when it comes to creating in metal clay. Come by and see for yourself what a true artist can do with this material. We are honored to display Christi’s work. Be sure and visit her Etsy site and purchase a treasure of your own. The pictures shown here are from my own private collection. The top piece is a beautiful book that opens and has several pages, all with inscriptions and images. The bottom piece flips open to reveal a birds nest with eggs. See her amazing detail by clicking on the images to view a larger size. Then, visit the her gallery for a feast of metal clay artistry. -Mardel |
