January Challenge and Give-Away!!

So Tanya came up with a great challenge......Bead Embroidered Buttons. One a month. Every month. She's learning the techniques, but I'm an old hand at these things. So I'm making two! Leather back with a tie-tack pin:

Garnets adorn the top, January's birthstone. There's one for me, and one for you!!

Please leave a comment on this post to enter to win a pin! Post this to Facebook, (and let me know) get another entry!! Don't forget to leave me a way to contact you:)

Yes, I will be doing this every month through December!! Permanent link over on the right for easy access to this post.

A bit of Garnet trivia for ya:

Garnet
Garnet, the birthstone for January, signifies eternal friendship and trust and is the perfect gift for a friend. Garnet, derived from the word granatum, means seed, and is called so because of the gemstone's resemblance to a pomegranate seed. References to the gemstone dates back to 3100 B.C., when the Egyptians used garnets as inlays jewelry. Garnet is the name of a group of minerals that comes in a rainbow of colors, from the deep red of the pyrope garnet to the vibrant green of tsavorites. Today, the most important sources for garnet are Africa, Sri Lanka, and India.