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I entered two contests in October, one was a Creative Glass Guild of Etsy treasury contest with the theme of Halloween and the other was the Creative Glass Guild of Etsy’s October challenge which was to create something that shows what you’re “Thankful For…”.

Knowing how elusive those treasuries can be, I snagged one pretty early in the contest.  I didn’t want to take a chance of missing it the rest of the month and not be able to participate.  Apparently, that strategy worked because I won!

Here’s my winning Halloween treasury

Now, on to the tie…

This was a very difficult challenge to enter.  How do you translate into glass what you’re thankful for?  I suppose I could have attempted a glass Diet Coke can, but one of the rules is that it has to be listed on Etsy, and had I actually pulled off creating a glass Diet Coke can, it wasn’t leaving my possession. 

Well, I got lucky.  I had a pot melt sitting around in my studio for a couple of years which happened to have formed a tree design in the glass.   As I was cutting the rest of the pot melt into pendants “Tree of Life” popped into my head.  Perfect!  I am pretty thankful for life so no problem there!  I immediately got to work designing and fusing.

Then the really hard part came….  Voting for your favorite in the challenge.   There are so many beautiful entries it really is hard making the decision.  And once I do make the decision and cast my vote, I feel guilty that I couldn’t vote for the others, too.  Voting is opened to everyone on Etsy so we do get a pretty good turnout.  I’m pretty sure they also have a difficult time choosing which one to vote for. 

So now the votes are in and I tied with Fire and Ice Designs. 

Here’s my “Tree of Life”

And Fire and Ice Designs’ “Abundance of Love”

Check out Fire and Ice Designs Etsy shop and see all of the beautiful and creative things she makes www.FireAndIceDesigns.etsy.com

To see just how difficult it was to choose a favorite go to the CGGE blog and check out all of the October entries http://cggechallenge.blogspot.com/

Thanks to everyone who voted for me, and make sure and vote for your favorite in November’s challenge too! 

 

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