It's a birthday giveaway!

Time has surely flown by.

It's going to be my birthday real soon again! Whoops, did I mention birthday?

So as a real treat to you , I will be doing a giveaway of my own. What's this? A birthday that you give instead of receive presents? And why not?
A birthday is a celebration and I'd love to share the joy with you.

So here's the deal:

I'm giving away ....





one of my sakura necklaces (blue or red, you pick!)

These pretties are valued at $35 usd and are one of a kind.
If you haven't heard already, they are kimono fabric frozen in resin, shaped into sakuras.
Three different layers of sakuras flowers coordinated together and highlighted with shimmering swarovski crystals!

Don't you want one? Of course you do. They are such beautiful little pretties.


How to win:

There is only one method of entering and that is by posting this on Twitter.

" Be the 271 person to tweet this and win your very own #SakuraNecklace http://bit.ly/5LOTRd Details: http://bit.ly/6cthNg #littlewaltz "

Rules:

1. You may tweet only once per hour.
2. You may RT but the keywords #SakuraNecklace and #littlewaltz must be in the tweet or it will be disqualified.
3. Winner may pick the colour theme that they desire (red or blue) but the fabric pattern may not be the same as pictured.

I will be doing a search through Twitter and keeping count.

The winner will be contacted through Twitter, if the winner does not contact me back within 48 hours of winning, the win will be disqualified and the next person in line will be the next winner.



So why wait? Do it now!


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In other news,





The lovely Heather King had my little ear studs up on her blog to cheer you guys up from January Blues.
Not just my ear studs but many other lovely cheerful things as well.
So why not pay her a visit?

It's a birthday giveaway!

Today...

I've been taken over by a Japanese craze recently. So have more kimono fabrics encased in resin jewellery!


Blue Kimono Fabric Resin Earrings

Available here

Red Kimono Fabric Resin Earrings

Available here


Earrings this time! Aren't the colours just gorgeous? I'm really loving all the vibrant colours and how it really really pops.

Also, hello! to all my wonderful followers! There's been quite a few new followers recently, I really do hope you are active readers and active bloggers! I'm always looking for new blogs to read so I'll be doing my rounds very soon and popping by your blog!

Please don't feel shy, say hi! I love having conversations with my readers. So feel free to leave a comment, who knows, you just might get a little surprise one day!
(I like to give my readers random gifts.. you never know when it might be you! )

What did you get up to today?

Today...

Turning Japanese: Kimono Resin Flowers as Necklaces.

It's been awhile since I spoke of my own crafty endeavours on this blog, so let's have a look shall we?

This is going to be a combination of posts really, but to start with Finki started a monthly challenge, and the January theme was Turning Japanese.


So here's my take on it!



These are made from Kimono fabrics frozen in resin, and then shaped as sakuras.
Each sakura has 3 layers of different flowers and different fabrics
As different parts of the fabric is used, no two sakura will ever be the same.
Similar, possibly. Exactly the same? Not possible.





Closeups of the flowers.


The flowers hang on a necklace ring that is also nickle free, so for those with skin allergies, this will definitely suit you.
It's a modern take on the usual traditional looking kimono fabrics!

These particular necklaces have gone home to a new owner! *cheers*
But if you want more sakura necklaces (just with different sakuras), you can get them on my etsy store.
Mention the code TURNING JAPANESE and you'll even get free shipping on the necklaces! Offer ends 10th Feb tho, so be quick!

These necklaces were also featured on Empirebeads blog!

So what do you think? Like them, hate them?

Turning Japanese: Kimono Resin Flowers as Necklaces.

Giveaway winner for Angelene announced!

It's been a massive week so Waltzing through with Talent will take a break this week.

But don't worry, we do actually have the winner for the Angelene Giveaway all picked and chosen and ready to go!

There were some of you who entered the entries a tad late (after the deadline) so I'm sorry but your entries had to be disqualified. But don't worry coz we have many more other giveaways for you to try your hand at!


And without further ado:




Random.org has spoken. The winner of the much coveted 40 dollars gift voucher from Angelene will go to : Melissa S. !!

Congrats Melissa. I will be in touch with you shortly!

More blog posts to come, stay tune yet!

Giveaway winner for Angelene announced!

Giveaway winner for MooBeeTees design contest unveiled!

I'm a day late with my announcement of the winner from the MooBeeTees giveaway. Thank you so much to everybody who entered! Your ideas were fantastic and Karen from MooBeeTees echoed my thoughts when I wished that I could award each and every one of you with something awesome.

It was hard to pick a winner, but the deed had to be done, and so after much delibration on Karen's part (She got the hard part of the job! ), she finally landed on a winner.

And the winner is:




Congrats Janil!


Janil, I will be in contact with you shortly.

Now. Before you go off and close the window in disappointment, Karen was ever so generous and has decided to award an extra four prizes. A 25 % discount voucher to another lucky four of you!

So Congratulations to :

Rebecca - with your suggestion of a hippy shirt
Shiki - with your suggestion of a cherry blossom tree
Busy05 - with your suggestions of the birds tweeting a name
Candy3181 - with your suggestion of a sheriff badge

All of you incredibly creative cookies have won yourself a 25% discount voucher from MooBeeTees!
I will be in touch with all of you shortly to send you voucher details.

Phew! Wasn't that exciting? If you didn't win this one, don't worry. There's plenty more giveaways to come, and hey look! there's even one giveaway going on right now!

So hop on over to the current star of the fortnight and enter Angelene's giveaway for she does make absolutely gorgeous jewellery, don't you think?

Giveaway winner for MooBeeTees design contest unveiled!

Friday Favourite Artist: Marc Johns

Friday Favourite .... is a new favourite artist!

I'm talking about : Marc Johns

His art is simple and refreshing and full of humour! I especially love this toilet paper series:











If he ever made these into actual printed toilet paper rolls, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Even though I'm a diehard fan of Quilton's 3 ply toilet paper.
Yes, I'm a toilet paper snob. *grins*

Check out more of this work at his website! Marc Johns

Also! Don't forget that Oakleigh Brown Owls are meeting tomorrow!
If you are wanting to send in your RSVP, do so NOW!

Friday Favourite Artist: Marc Johns

The Handmade Show

I'm nervous, I truly am.

But this will be my very first display show, trunk show, jewellery party, whatever you'd like to call it so I'd appreciate it very much if my friends and blogger friends came to support me.

Plus I promise you it will be fun!

If you are the crafty sort, bring along a handheld craft and join us as we sit around with cuppas and finger food and chat about all things crafty under this sun.

And do introduce yourself if you come! I'd love to say hi to my crafty and blogger friends. I do love putting faces to people!

The Handmade Show