Free Butterfly Ring
Written on 30 June 2008 by Princess
Butterflies can symbolize hope. They start out as a weird caterpillar thing that I can only assume is ugly. (I’ve never seen one.) After much growth & struggle they turn into a butterfly. Every week I give away jewelry at random to try & remind people that they are special even if life is difficult at that particular moment. The winner can either keep the jewelry or give it away. To enter the contest, just read the rules & then leave a comment/trackback/link to a blog post with a random act of kindness or who you would give this to & why.
The prize this week is a sterling silver filigree butterfly ring in a size 10.
The Rules:
One entry per person per week.
Please don’t sell the jewelry, it’s to make whoever receives it feel special. Winner will be chosen by a random number generator at 6pm on Friday Mountain Time.
Contestants should be over 18 & live in the lower 48 states because I’ll be paying shipping. I won’t sell or abuse your mailing address. If you’ve already won a Random Act of Bling, you can win again, but please give the jewelry away at random.
If you want to link or stumble this post it would be appreciated but is not required.
Comment/trackback/link should be about a random act of kindness or who you would give this jewelry to & why.
Free Pearl & Sterling Flower Earrings
Written on 23 June 2008 by Princess
Update: This contest is now closed. The random number generator chose Sarah to win. A new contest will start on Monday.
I’ve often heard a random act of kindness likened to a pebble. The pebble may be small, but when you throw it in water, it creates ripples, & then the ripple creates another ripple & that ripple creates another one. Every week I try & throw a pebble in so to speak by giving away a free piece of jewelry at random that will hopefully make someone feel special. The winner can either keep the jewelry or give it away. To enter the contest, just read the rules & leave a comment/trackback/link to a blog post with a random act of kindness or who you would give this jewelry to & why.
The prize this week are sterling silver post earrings with a white freshwater pearl & flower detail. Pearls are the birthstone for June.
The Rules:
One entry per person per week.
Please don’t sell the jewelry, it’s to make whoever receives it feel special. Winner will be chosen by a random number generator at 6pm on Friday Mountain Time.
Contestants should be over 18 & live in the lower 48 states because I’ll be paying shipping. I won’t sell or abuse your mailing address. If you’ve already won a Random Act of Bling, you can win again, but please give the jewelry away at random.
If you want to link or stumble this post it would be appreciated but is not required.
Comment/trackback/link should be about a random act of kindness or who you would give this jewelry to & why.
Free MOP earrings
Written on 16 June 2008 by Princess
Update: This contest is now closed & a new random act of bling will start on Monday.
I don’t know where this saying came from but my Grandma & Dad have both always said “You can’t do everything but you must do something” It’s so easy for me to get overwhelmed & feel inadequate to help because there are so many problems all around.
Instead, I try to look for small positive changes that will hopefully reverberate to other people & they will do a good did & so on. Every week I give away a piece of jewelry at random. The winner can either keep the jewelry or pass it along to someone else. To enter the contest just read the rules & then leave a comment with who you would give this to & why, or a random act of kindness.
The prize this week are grey mother of pearl earrings set in sterling silver.
The Rules:
One entry per person per week.
Please don’t sell the jewelry, it’s to make whoever receives it feel special. Winner will be chosen by a random number generator at 6pm on Friday Mountain Time.
Contestants should be over 18 & live in the lower 48 states because I’ll be paying shipping. I won’t sell or abuse your mailing address. If you’ve already won a Random Act of Bling, you can win again, but please give the jewelry away at random.
If you want to link or stumble this post it would be appreciated but is not required.
Comment/trackback/link should be about a random act of kindness or who you would give this jewelry to & why.
Black pearl necklace winner
Written on 14 June 2008 by PrincessSharon M was chosen by the random number generator to win the black pearl necklace. She has such an awesome story & be sure & check out her website refugeecrafts as well. A new contest will start on Monday thanks to everyone who left such fantastic comments. Here is Sharon’s comment:
I am not poor, so maybe I don’t deserve to win. I have enough. The rest I tend to give away in the form of things people need to live their lives. The specific people I help are refugees, people who have lost everything except their lives. Our government offers them safe haven, but the rest has to come from within. You can read about this on my Website by scrolling down the right column.
Two friends and I started an empowerment program for refugee women. We do this in addition to our regular busy jobs, not as a job. We put in at least 20 hours per week each trying to make the project something that will benefit and teach the women for a long, long time.
A year–much less than a year–before we started this project, I was sick, I was suicidal. Very suicidal. I lost my faith but not my faith in hope. I wanted hope for myself but found my strength was in helping other people find hope. While I was getting my affairs in order and preparing for the end of my life, I discovered jewelry making. I loved it. It was the first thing I had loved in a very long time.
A few months after I started teaching myself to make jewelry, I had this opportunity to teach refugee women to make jewelry to better their lives. I gave away all of my beads to help the women get started (I have since bought more).
Now I can look back and see how close I was to ending my life. I can’t say I will never feel that way again, but for now I know that the time I have given back to myself has been used well and it has mattered. It’s important to me that my time matters.
Anyway, on the bad days, I turn to pretty, sparkly things to lighten my mood. The pearl necklace is beautiful and something that would brighten my day when it needs brightening.
Thanks for reading my story and considering me for your gift.
Free Black Pearl Necklace
Written on 9 June 2008 by Princess
Update: This contest is now closed, thanks to all those who entered. A new contest will start on Monday
“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.” -Whoopi Goldberg.
I started giving jewelry away at random because hopefully it will make people feel more visible & well less invisible. I think we all have so much power in us to change our lives & the lives of people around us, but we forget because of the little mundane parts of life. So every week I give away a piece of jewelry that the winner can either keep, or give away to someone else. To enter the contest just read the rules & leave a comment with a random act of kindness or who you would give this necklace to & why.
The prize this week is a 17″ liquid sterling silver necklace with black/purple freshwater pearls. Pearls are the birthstone for June.
The Rules:
One entry per person per week.
Please don’t sell the jewelry, it’s to make whoever receives it feel special. Winner will be chosen by a random number generator at 6pm on Friday Mountain Time.
Contestants should be over 18 & live in the lower 48 states because I’ll be paying shipping. I won’t sell or abuse your mailing address. If you’ve already won a Random Act of Bling, you can win again, but please give the jewelry away at random.
If you want to link or stumble this post it would be appreciated but is not required.
Comment/trackback/link should be about a random act of kindness or who you would give this jewelry to & why.
