One World One Heart, week 4 of canes...

It's One World One Heart Time!!!!

And the winners are:

Gaby from Germany who chose the blue earrings.

Vale from Italy who chose the black and white earrings, and

Assaya from the Netherlands who is happy with the green earrings.


I was surprised that all three winners came from Europe, but I double checked and the random number generator was random and the numbers were what they were. Packages will be on the way some time in the next week or so.

Thanks to everyone who participated and left the wonderful comments that they did. I had a lot of fun perusing the various blogs.

On a side note, I've already started posting the bottles that I'm dedicating on behalf of the first 100 entrants.






For those of you unfamiliar with OWOH, it started in 2007 by the Whimsical Bohemian with fewer than 100 participants and in two years it grew to over 900 participants in 2009. I'm excited to see what 2010 brings. I participated in 2009 and gave away clay covered tins. Through the experience I was fortunate to meet Renee and a few other women. The event is meant to encourage bloggers around the world to connect with each other.

The theme this year for One World One Heart is Magic Carpet. My interpretation of magic carpets turned into three pairs of earrings made with canes that I've created. Earring findings are surgical steel. Here are the three pairs. If you're unfamiliar with canes, please see my blog entry here for some great cane links and here for a bit more pictorial on some canes that I made.

I'll pick three names randomly late on February 15th from people who leave a comment between now and the closing time. People can have until noon Eastern Standard Time on February 15 to leave a comment.

If you want to see other Canadian clayers participating in the event, go over to the Clayamies website and check out the links there.





I'll also commit to making up to 100 Bottles of Hope throughout the year that will be donated to local hospitals and I'll name them publicly on my blog for the first 100 entrants on my website (if I get that many). Since many of you will be new to the idea of Bottles of Hope, they're clay covered medicine bottles that are given to cancer patients. The history of Bottles of Hope can be found here. My bottles may not all be cane related, but here is an example of ones that are covered with canes. You can see other examples of some of my bottles here, here, and my personal all time favourite here. One of my friends, Louise, does very creative bottles so if you're in the mood for a smile, stop by and see her bottles here.



I will post the winners some time during the evening of the 15th of February.


My rules - there are only two:

1. My giveaway is only open to active bloggers and website owners. You must have a blog or website (Etsy, Flickr, and other such sites count) that I can visit. It doesn't have to be artsy, and half the fun last year was seeing the myriad of topics that people cover out there.
2. You must leave a comment on this blog entry with your e-mail address or a way of contacting you.
   

In terms of e-mails, I generally hate leaving my e-mail out in a public domain and I'm sure others of you feel the same way. However, I know that I'll be entering other people's giveaways so I've created a special e-mail for myself through gmail which has the initials owoh in the e-mail address and I'll be leaving that as my contact. Another way of leaving an address is to use the format where you spell out the at sign and the dot symbol. For example: sandy123owoh at hotmail dot com. I will consider that format acceptable for finding you.


Thanks so much to Lisa who created this wonderful event and has the dedication, kindness and spirit. What a wonderful way to touch people.

Cheers, good luck, and happy blog and website surfing. Here's to new friends and linking up with old friends. Let the fun begin!