Necklace Contest - Week Four

Don't you love this image?!

It's a vintage advertisement for motorcycles - I just removed all the words - so now YOU can come up with a clever saying for the backside. If you aren't familiar with the contest, you think of some clever saying or quote or word that describes this image. Enter as many times as you like! The winning entry will be chosen on Friday. Winner gets a soldered glass necklace with this image on the front and their saying on the back! Free! To Wear and brag about! {and, of course, say "I got it from Two Dog Pond. You just tell her what you want and she'll make it!"

~:BONUS CHALLENGE:~
To really engage your brain, come up with a short story describing this scene using seven words or less. Hard, yes, but quite fun!

New Ornaments

I just finished this ornament. I realize it would look better hanging in a tree, but it's too freaking cold out to go take photos. Anyway - it's a photo of my son when he was 1 sitting on Santa's lap. Terrified. At 2 he was still terrified, at 3 I was sitting on Santa's lap with him - then he smiled...and Santa? well, let's just say there was a bottle of Smirnoff under the tree that year...

The ornament - the front is a 3"x1.75" bevel which catches the light beautifully - I added some pounded scrolly wire and some vintage chandelier crystals. It's hanging from a red satin ribbon - ready to make some Pollyanna rainbows all over the pine needle riddled floor under my tree. These will be added to my website as soon as I can get someone to go outside to take a decent photo. Hey Leah....

Meanwhile - I just ate the rest of the peanut butter. We got Mom moved to a new apartment after her bout with pneumonia, then broken ribs, then worse pneumonia... My nephew Sam is coming to hang out at Two Dog Pond for a while - I'm hoping to get him to work in the Two Dog Pond Micro-Sweatshop we've got going in the basement....I'm almost caught up on orders, so if you've been waiting - "it's almost done"...Rumple (the puppy) has now eaten everything in the garage. He's still alive after eating 3 fat candles, a windshield wiper blade, a box of smooth black rocks (for a mosaic I was going to do), 2 small shovels, Tim's favorite fishing hat, my snow boots, and several pieces of firewood. Reese? He ate two of my chickens. They are so tame that they just "jumped right in his mouth" at least that's what he claims....All in all, Life is Good!!

Mary - You are the Winner!

Miss Mary is the Winner of Week #3's Pendant with her entry of "To have faith is to have wings." That is just so true. {Or as we Lutheran's like to say "This is most certainly true"}

So - Mary - just e-mail your address to me and I will get your necklace right out to you!

Again - thank you to everyone who entered - lots of good quotes!!! any of them would make a good backside of this necklace - it's hard to choose.

Next week ~ put on your sassy thinking panties...I'm picking a doozy of a picture!

Necklace Contest - Week Three

Let's go a little different direction here - the last two images were quite "Westerny", which is my favorite, but not everyone else's.... so here's a more Victorian style image taken from a vintage postcard....

Rules are posted on the right side - Just come up with a clever saying for the back of this necklace image - enter as often as you'd like - invite your friends to play -

Winner gets a free necklace!

CASA Event Today

Today is the "Boutique" sponsored by CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for children) in Seward. Miss Moxie, Leah, and I will be there from 9am - 2pm along with other vendors selling our products to support this incredible cause. Come see us and join in the fun! The best part of the day for me is hanging out with Leah! You should see the new journals she's creating - it's what all my kids are getting in their Christmas Stockings!

And the Winner of Week Two is:

High Desert Diva with her entry of

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress".

Love it!!

...and then I just had to add another line....

Again - thanks to everyone who participated! This was great fun - but hard work choosing from all the great entries!

I'll be posting another image on Monday - come back and play again!

Miss High - please send me your mailing address so I can get your necklace in the mail to you!!
rachel@twodogpond.com

Necklace Contest - Week Two

This is one of my favorite images - isn't she great!

{and remember - if you would like to purchase any of the winning necklaces or one with your own saying on it, they are only $10 - just let me know!}

So - think of a sassy or clever or life-changing comment to put on the back side and submit it here. The winner will be chosen on Friday! Complete rules are posted on the right side of your screen....

And the winner is....

LISA B with her entry of "Girls just wanna have fun"!

AND - We have a bonus winner for "Thinking Outside the Box" - JOY! with her suggestion to make it one of those rear-view mirror dingles with the words "Queen of the Road". It's like having the Patron Saint of Reckless Driving {hey - that would have been good on the back too} with you. I'm sure that next time I get picked up for Reckless Driving, I'll - - I mean - if I ever get picked up for reckless driving, I'll show the nice officer this dingle and he'll let me off with a warning.

Thanks to all who entered - there really were a lot of great ideas. We'll do it again on Monday!

On - and Lisa B - please send me your address! rachel@twodogpond.com

Itsy Bitsy Carnival

This is straight from the MoxieBlog :

If you are going to be anywhere near Omaha on Saturday, please join us!

when: saturday, october 25, 10am-4pm

where: helens house, 2908 south 74th, omaha

what: 10 vendors showing their wares. homemade goodness gracious! and food. lawdy-mercy there will be food.

who: if you are reading this, you are invited.

New Contest at Two Dog Pond

Here at Two Dog Pond we make soldered glass pendants. Many of them are custom ordered and the rest are created for art festivals, craft fairs, home trunk shows etc. Usually they have a vintage photo/postcard/or collage on the front and a word or a saying on the back....

So here's the contest:

Every week I will post an image for the front of a soldered pendant and you submit a clever saying for the backside. Enter as many times as you want.

If your saying/word(s) are chosen for the pendant, you will win a soldered glass pendant of the contest image with your saying on the back!!

How cool is that? It will even come with a chain!

So - here's the first image:

Put on your thinking cap and submit a saying or a word for the back side and on Friday we'll choose a winner.

On your mark. Get Set. Go.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Yes!! It's our Kira on the cover and inside the new Verizon wireless catalog!!

Published Nationally!

Way to go, Kira!

Marketplace Festival Successival

It's always fun to participate in the Festivals held at the Liberty House. Yesterday's event was made even better because of the people that came to it. Incredible people. It's always good to see happy customers/friends, but even better when they come back for more. It was also good to meet the clever Miss Jill - watch for her etsy site coming soon...I don't have a clue what she creates, but know that whatever it is will be worthy of coveting.
As hoped for, my tent was right next to Leah from Moxie Photo and Design. (that girl makes Schlitz Beer cards that are a hoot! and she sold out of them before I could snag one)

....mmmm....and Aunt Jeannie's famous Pumkin Pie spritzed with Bourbon.

Delightful.