October Fest: A Jewelry, Craft, Bead, Home and Hearth Blog & Facebook Challenge & Celebration

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Welcome to October Fest !!
A Jewelry, Craft, Bead, Home & Hearth Creative
Challenge for Blogs, Facebook Pages, and the JSF page :)

Let's celebrate autumn! 

October Autumn magic. Glowing embers fill the sky.

 Color abounds. 

Harvest, bounty, gratitude.

  
Traditions. Treats. Candy Apples.

Carved Pumpkins

My pumpkins ;)

Family and Friends' Pumpkins.

Purr-fect Pumpkins

Home Sweet Home

A Festive Home

 

October Fest!

Participate, post and share
 WIN GIFTS for the upcoming HOLIDAY HOOPLA

*Post to your blog 
and/or

*Upload a pic or post to your Facebook Page
and/or

*Share a pic or post to the Jewel School Friends Fb Page

(If you don't have a blog, that's OK! 
We'll celebrate Fall on Facebook too!)

 Here's How to Join in October Fest:
 
1) Leave a comment below that you're in.

2) Grab the October Fest button 
(see bottom of page) and link back to this post.

 3) Create an Autumn Inspired Treat!
* Make a Fall craft
* create a cool bead  
*design Halloween jewelry
*design Autumnal jewelry
*decorate your home or yard 
 *write a poem, dance or sing

 

* share a recipe, share baking tricks or treats; 
celebrate and brew up something fantastic!

3) Share your Autumn inspired jewelry, beads, recipes,
treats, poems, pictures, crafts and boo-ti-ful creations
on October 28th (my birthday)

4) Fly by everyone's creations to comment & share the love

 5) Check back on Halloween, October 31, 2012 

to see if you've won in the random drawings!
You could win any of the following:
 

 $10 Fire Mountain Gift Certificate


 or

"The Art of Making Bracelets" Margot Potter DVD

 or

"I Got a Rock" Gemstone Bead Soup from Toltec Jewels
 
or

Beadcomber Hibiscus Flowers by Tina Holden

or
   

A Sears Kenmore Refrigerator...Not!

 Just tricking ... lol, but really ...
 
  
or

Lovely Lucite Mix 
from Pine Ridge Treasures and Lori Anderson

and

 Handcrafted Ceramic, lampwork, & Polymer Beads

 ... T.B.A. soon!

Grab the October Fest button!

 Post on your blog, or upload to your Facebook page.

You can Twitter, pinterest, or re-blog for more chances to win too!

Be sure to link to this blog entry, please.

(each post earns you more entries into the Halloween drawing)

If you create multiple posts, please leave a message with the number of posts in comments, so I can count you in... again! 

(and again! and again! and again ... lol)

Button for October Fest:

Just For FUN:

The following "if the broom fits" buttons are compliments of "Crafts and Sutch" !

 

Big Hugs, TJ

Toltec Jewels is an author by day and jewelry artist by night. Her literary work is housed by the San Fransisco MOMA in a permanent collection of mixed media art and is published internationally in popular magazines, literary quarterlies, and university publications. She has won a number of awards for both her literary and jewelry art. A gemstone collector and jewelry lover, she makes handcrafted jewelry with her entire family. Her store offers small gemstone bead mixes for complimenting art bead jewelry.

She is also the creator of Jewel School Friends, a community of expert and new jewelry artisans taking inspiration from each other, Jewel School, and jewelry art culture. Jewel School Friends features jewelry designers and bead artists, supports entrepreneurship for independent artisans, and hosts community events, challenges, and fundraisers. Join her at Jewel School Friends on Facebook artist features, youtube tutorials, networking, sales & coupons, blog hops, give-a-ways and of course, beautiful jewelry!