Vintage beads from Bumbershoot: project and giveaway

Last Saturday, I introduced you to Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies, a good source of all types of vintage beads.  Well, today I want to show you what I made using a few of their wonderful glass pearls and leaves, and crystals.

Using an antique skeleton key around which I had previously formed lampwork rings, I wired the pearl and crystal elements together with a few supplemental glass vintage glass flowers that were in my stash hoard.  All it needs to finish it off is a chain!  I'll be posting a tutorial in the future, but in the meantime, I'm going to let you all have a crack at winning the remainder of the beads that I didn't use in this project.

***Free Stuff Alert!!!***

See that picture at the top of the post.  Well, minus the wired pearls, the pearl-colored leaves, the little baggie of clear crystals, and a few glass pearls from the strand, all the rest are up for grabs.  Just leave me a comment below telling me how crazy you are about vintage beads and you'll automatically be entered to win.  If you tweet or post on Facebook or other social spots about the contest, you can leave a second comment and be entered twice!

Please make sure that your link will lead me to an email address, or else I won't be able to contact you.  No contact, no win, and I simply have to go on to the next person.  Deadline: October 19, 2011. 
 




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