Thanks, Tipper!!

Tipper, over at Blind Pig And The Acorn who won the Hoochie MaMa Wahoo jewelry, was nice enough to send some photos wearing the necklace a couple of different ways.

She feels like the photos were kinda dorky, but she was kind enough to send them on anyway. I thought they were pretty darn good, but I don't much like to have pictures taken of myself and think that all the photos of me look pretty dorky, too.

Anyway, thank you Tip for being kind enough to share, despite your hesitations.

I had asked her if I could quote from her e-mail and she said I could, but I decided the smile in the third photo said plenty enough.



I think you look pretty great.

Congratulations And Thanks...

Go out to all who entered... And, of course, I needed to have a surprise for you because I like surprises.

In addition to the Hoochie MaMa Wahoo necklace and earrings, I found these fun glass heart beads I had and put them on earrings to add to the fun. And if any of you do not have pierced ears, please let me know. I think I have some clip-ons that I could change them to, and, if not, I can get them.

And because I like to add a little suspense to the whole thing, I'm going to tell you who won a set of these earrings first.

Twisted Fence Post -Becky

Adopting M.E. - Mary Ellen

Okie in Colorado - Brenda

Crafts And Stuff - Hetty

and last, but definately not least... Wonderful World Of Wieners - Hallie

Now.... for the drum roll... /0\ /0\ /0\ - The winner of the 100th post celebratory give-away is:

Blind Pig And The Acorn - Tipper !!!

Tipper, I hope you are ready to get your Hoochie MaMa strut going on because these are fun and make you feel good when you put them on. They were created with a lot of thankfulness and blessings strung into them and I hope you have fun with them and really enjoy them.

I'll be sending you all an e-mail or you can beat me to it and send me your address, because I will need an address to get all these prizes out to you.

Thank you again for all the encouragement, all the bloggin' love and for just being such good, kind and fun friends. I'll think of another reason for a give-away soon, well, just because I enjoy 'em, too.

Hoochie MaMa Wahoo Set...

IS HERE!! Boy howdy, this gal thought she might have let her mouth overload her butt on this give-away.

In thinking about the timing of my 100th post celebration, in addition to Valentine's Day coming up, notwithstanding my 64 birthday... I decided that I needed to go with Valentine colors in case whoever wins wants to whoosh and douche and get all fancy for a Valentine Dance.

The bad part of this 100th post give-away is ... I don't want to give it away. This set is one that
will be difficult for me to give-up. It's not often that I create something that I want to keep, because my joy is in the design and bringing what I see in my mind to reality.

I used freshwater blister pearls, dyed red-maroon, white small potato fresh water pearls, crystal bi-cone beads, small lavender seed pearls and flat puff silver beads.

This is called a lariat necklace. You can do many things with it, get many different looks. It is, from end of fringe to end of fringe, 84 inches long, The earrings are for pierced ears and are about 3 and 1/4 inches in total length.

I like to put on things I make. I like to feel how they will drape or with the earrings, how they will move, and this set feels and moves g.o.o.d. I think they are appropriate for celebrating my 100th.


This photo and the next are just to show a bit of the details. I had fun stringing this up. GiGi is sad because, since she is family, I told her she couldn't enter. I guess that tells you that she really loved the set, too. Her daughter is getting married in September and so my sweet s.i.l. will be getting some new jewelry from me to wear to festivities, showers, rehearsal dinner and to the wedding.

Okay, here's what to do... leave me a post. That's all. I don't care if you want to link to me and use a photo to tell your readers about the give-away, but if you want to, go ahead, it's not required. You know how I enjoy your saying hi and stopping by, so I'm just showing my appreciation for you all helping me and encouraging me to get, now, 101 posts.

Give-away starts now and will end Wednesday at 9 p.m. CST and the winner will be announced on Thursday.

I hope who ever wins has as much fun wearing this as I've had creating it. This set can dress up or be worn with jeans and going to the rodeo or the club. I think I'm going to have to do one up for me now... especially since I can wear it with my jeans!!

Let's get this show on the road.









Hoochie MaMa Wahoo Necklace And Earrings.

created out of gratitude for my blogging friends who have encouraged me from the start and to celebrate 100 posts.

Helen Gardner



P.S. - You can click on the photos and make them bigger.