At Rings & Things, we like to save the year-end festivities till things calm down a bit   Let’s look back at our blog’s Best of 2010!

Feb. 21: Bead soup / bead show party

Mar. 25: Neither snow nor rain...

Apr. 15: Only at R&T, only the best...

June 2: For new ideas...

June 18: No-solder bezels

June 30: Featured bead: metal-core

July 22: Vaseline & uranium-salt beads

Oct. 25: Bead? What bead?

Nov. 18: For a holiday gift...

Nov. 19: Cheapskate booth ideas

Dec. 13: Misleading turquoise information

Dec. 19: Castings call!

What’s your favorite?

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- How excruciating for readers…suddenly every tweet of mine is a post on our blog…don’t worry, I’ll fix this! -☺Dave

April giveaway: “DIY Display Ideas”:
* You enter by leaving comments under the March 31 giveaway announcement
* At the end of April, 2 winners will receive coveted Rings & Things goodie packs!
*So read the blog regularly to see if you won!

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Over at The Purple Flower blog, Swati bestowed a “Spreader of Love” award on the Rings & Things blog and me.  Thank you!  A condition of the award is that you go on to recognize 5 more people, who brighten your own blog.

So today, let me write about “who we love.”  Here are the new recipients of the Spreader of Love award: ☺

I thought I'd use the "Sweet Penmanship" project from our Design Gallery, since I'm writing about who Rings & Things loves...

• Dawno always has something constructive to bring to any conversation.
• RockCreekCreations is a thoughtful soul.
• tamdoll is full of truly good ideas.
• fireseed has generously shared what she’s learned from experience.
• dani29 constantly encourages us.

I’ve linked to a Twitter page for each of them.  That’s because I feel that Twitter is just as great a place as blogs to connect with people.  And these five award-winners do good things on Twitter, just as they’ve done by joining our blog club.  Go check these folks out!

It was easy to find, but hard to pick, five recipients.  Thanks to every one of you who have visited and commented at Rings & Things’ blog.  Let us reward you for being here!  Read on…

Exciting news: every month, we’re going to hold a lottery right here on the Rings & Things blog. Here’s how it will work:
*At the beginning of each month, I’ll announce a new lottery.
*You enter by leaving Replies, also known as blog comments.  Comment on any post(s) this month.
*At the end of the month, I’ll randomly draw 2 names to receive surprise goodie packs!

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Here’s another great idea that came from talking with one of our readers.  (In this case, thanks go to @Rockcreekcreate on Twitter!)

Exciting news: every month, we’re going to hold a lottery right here on the Rings & Things blog. Here’s how it will work:

• At the beginning of each month, I’ll announce a new lottery.  (That’s what I’m doing right now, hint hint.)
• You enter by leaving Replies, also known as blog comments.  Comment on any post(s) this month.
  
• At the end of the month, I’ll randomly draw 2 names to receive surprise goodie packs!

These packs will include a themed selection of Rings & Things stock.  Of course I can’t tell you now what they’ll contain, but an example might be a bunch of items for making bracelets, or maybe a variety of beads in ocean colors.  You never know.

Leave your replies here to be entered in our Feb. 28 drawing!

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