And the winner is....

Happy to report that after letting the random number generator 'cast the die' for me, I have a winner for the Bead Chest certificate!  Number 5 in the comment list is none other that the lovely Malin de Koning, she of the super Swedish lessons and the maker of lovely jewelry!  Hope you can find something to suit you, Malin!

Also happy to say that the new Strata beads mentioned in last post are generating some interest, which is good, because I am enjoying the freedom of NOT hand forming everything for once and being able to put a cutter to good use.   The above two sets seem to be popular.  Square beads particularly are so reassuringly useful.  Now I can see a way to make them hollow ( and therefore lighter) and I freely admit that I have an obsession with this - but hey, it makes a necklace/bracelet more pleasant to wear and saves clay too!

My bicycle is calling me....

and the winner is...

Early morning.  Must make lunches for school - must unload dishwasher to get rid of this breakfast stuff...

No, must rush to the computer to print out the names for the draw and fold them them up wee small so that the kids can pick one this morning!  Son refuses to get up.  Daughter a little grumpy when asked to stick her hand in the bowl....

But then relents, because she is a lovely child at heart....

Can you see it yet?  Son staggers into the room in the midst of the excitement...he is completely at sea with all this and is only concerned with convincing me that hot chocolate would make a nutritional breakfast!

Thanks for pandering to your mother's morning whimsies - job well done, YOU deserve that hot chocolate!


Here it is.

Lovely Veerle from ne vous installez pas!  You must check out her blog, she has an amazing way with crochet and necklaces, among other things...Thanks all of you for commenting and now I'm sorry you all didn't win.

I just couldn't resist - perhaps next time I'll use the random number generator to minimize the drama.