As always, thank you all for contributing to this comment section and taking the time to enter your name in the drawing for this necklace. I know this giveaway was more labor intensive then simply leaving an emoji on an Instagram photograph and I want you to know that your time, your thoughtfulness, is deeply appreciated.
I asked Robert to randomly select a winner for this necklace and he chose Rachel of “The Sagebrush Sea”, who simply said, “Thank you for being a light.”
Merry Christmas to you all and thank you, always, for being a part of my world.
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Behold, my Christmas giveaway! At long last. I bet you thought I forgot about you.
This year I put together a necklace featuring one of my bison skulls, a gaggle of iolite and one of those huge silk tassels I’ve been working with for a couple of years now (they’re SO festive) — everything is suspended from a glorious opera length chain. As always, this giveaway is in honor and appreciation of you and your support. All you need to do to enter in the drawing for this piece is leave a comment on this post so I know you were here. Make your comment as short or as long as you like. Tell me what dreams you are cooking up for the new year.
(I’ll leave this giveaway open until comments begin to taper off!)
Thank you for being a part of my little world in 2016, for helping to pay our mortgage, for buying our groceries, for feeding our cats and dogs, for putting gas in the Tacoma and diesel in the Cummins, for helping us to pay our closing costs on our new little farm, for funding our jury-rigged kitchen in the Airstream so we could live with a little comfort during the fire season, for helping me to buy Rob a riding mower (it’s a Deere), for paying our vet bills, for paying for our big game hunt tags, for paying for our teeth cleanings, for helping to cover the cost of a new naturopath MD I’m seeing for my thyroid disease, for a new pair of fire boots for Robert…for everything. When you choose to support me as an independent artist it contributes to our life in very real ways. You get a cocktail ring and then I buy a few bags of groceries. How real is that?!! We are eternally grateful to you and for you.
All of this is to say, from my little family to you and yours:
Thank you for your support this year and for the past 9 years. Merry Christmas. I look forward to entering into my tenth year of small business and seeing how the year evolves and unfolds, and naturally, I look forward to serving your souls, uplifting you and shining all the light I can into the shadowy parts of life.
Onward and upward. Always.
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