A fun and bright set for summer, made last summer (appropriately :) ). If not for bright colours would be very minimalistic and understated. Here it is: ...
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More of the unshown goodies today :) Two more last year Christmas gifts -- two pendants. Both made for my friends and both unique designs. First one -- Blue Dream. Here it is: ...
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It's the end of November and I am working on Christmas presents already. As they are supposed to be surprises I am not going to show any just yet, but there are still some of the last year ones that have not seen the light of this blog. One of them is my first try to follow a pattern and also make a...
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This one was a super fast set if you consider that I made it practically overnight -- I received a request from a person I know for a birthday present, a birthday that is in two days... And all I had was one day to find all the materials that I would need and finish the set. It had to be elegant, understated...
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I made this brooch last year during the winter, loved the colours and warm feeling it gave me. When I showed it to some friends the comments were unanimous -- it looks delicious :) That's when the name came up -- it does look a bit like a sticky toffee pudding that I loved so much in UK. ...
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I started doing this set for a competition but at the last moment forgot to send the photos in :) Happens, I'm such a scatterbrain sometimes. Bought the hovlite hearts some time ago just because I liked the shape and thought it would look good with soutache. For some reason I could not find the right idea for them for a long time...
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We got back from the show on Monday, and finally I found some time to write about it. This is an annual show, happening last weekend of October somewhere in the world. This time it was in Poznan and we (me and Kristina, the owner of Karmino Cat cattery) decided that it is close enough to go and see what it is for...
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As I mentioned in my description -- I do love animals and own a horse and some cats (at the moment 6 grown up cats and 4 babies) so the news about them are bound to jump into my blog from time time. Last night one of my queens -- Serafima Karmino Cat gave birth to 5 little kitties -- 4 boys and...
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I am going to a steampunk/cyberpunk party tomorrow and have nothing to wear in the category of jewellery. Ok, I'm lying -- I do have a very nice pendant my mother gave me -- two brass jigsaw pieces connected with leather, really suitable, but appart from that -- nada, zilch. So, I started browsing around and realised, that I could make some myself....
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This set is a last year Christmas present for my mother -- she likes peals and I like bright colours, so this is what came out of the two: ...
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So the event is over! Everyone (I hope) had great fun and I am really looking forward to the next one. I loved the fact that people took time to make or adapt their costumes to the requirements of their respective houses -- so the event looked beautiful as well as was interesting. For the latter we have to thank the game masters!...
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I have finally finished a choker for this set. It had to be a bracellet, but the motive I started sewing ended up being somewhat too long for a bracelet and now I have this: ...
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I have been making jewelry from soutache for a while when I realised that I still have nothing that I can wear -- everything was given as gifts or sold. So I decided taht this was it and the next item or a few will be mine, just mine, nobody can have them :) And so this at first small and now growing...
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Next month we will have a LARP in a R.R.Martin A Song of Ice and Fire setting. If you like knights, politics and such and still haven't read this R.R.Martin's series I really recommend it. I am going to play as the lady of the Tully family and in this case the liege lady of all involved. So I am making myself some clothes...
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A few weeks ago I attended a friends' wedding. This story started a month or so before the wedding when one of my friends phoned me and asked whether I still make soutache jewellery and when I answered positivelly I found out that she needed white earrings. Ha! I though - this got to be for a wedding. After some adjustments the earrings...
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This piece of soutache was lying around unfinished for a long time -- thought to make it into a bookmark but then thought it is going to be too heavy. Finally inspiration rescued me and I made it into a necklace. Central stone is agate, the big beads are agate beads too. Smaller and small ones are pirite -- I love to work...
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Agate is a microcrystalline variety of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of colour.The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Colorful agates and other chalcedonies were obtained over 3,000 years ago from the Achates River, now called Dirillo, in Sicily. ...
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Today I finally finished a hair clip -- decided to call it Japanese red, because my boyfriend said upon seeing it that for some reason it looks Japanese. And so it became Japanese Red. Middle stones are fire agate, small round stones -- Carneol, black and grey soutache braid and Gutterman silver beads. This hair clip is made to order, but so far...
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Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a- ("not") and μέθυστος methustos ("intoxicated"), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness; the ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication. ...
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Red jasper Jasper -- it is so varied and different that at times it is even difficult to recognise it. So many beautiful varieties of this particular mineral have caught my eye. I will show you some of what I have and tell you more about the mineral itself. ...
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Next -- pyritised ammonites. The one I have is cut in an unexpected way -- not a horizontal cross-section, but vertical. ...
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Second part of my stone collection. It will feature Seraphinite (also known by the chlorite mica varietal name: clinochlore). The stones that I have are from Russia. ...
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I have dabbled in felting very very little -- tried a wet felted flower and now am going to dive deep -- my own felted bag. Already have the wool and all the needed equipment, even have made the design and cut it out. ...
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I am going to post photos of the more interesting stones that I have and information about them for those who would like to order a custom made piece of jewellery. This is first part in which I will show you photos of beautiful Simbircite cabochons that I acquired recently. This particular kind of stone has been discovered only recently and only in Russia....
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