My most recent creation for a person, who cannot wear heavy earrings. I called it Airy Raspberry because of the design I used. A design as if there was a stone or a glass bead where there is none. It makes the earrings very light and at the same time not tiny. ...

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One more of my hair clips. This one took ages to finish -- all these little twists and turns that had to line up ant make the correct shape in the end. It is made with little swarovski bi-cones and backed with leather, measures approx 10cm by 7cm is very sturdy and wears well.   ...

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This was my first more complex attempt at soutache. One of the reasons I love it is that you can achieve exquisite and complex designs and still get lightweight and wearable jewellery. I love this hair clip, it took me a while to learn all the techniques I needed to make it just the way I wanted. Never before I had encased a...

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 A little bit more of the brass things I created this summer. This time delicate earrings and a bracelet with amethyst beads, peridot and fluorite stone chips, light and lovely to go with light summer clothes and suntanned skin. I found very beautiful findings for the earrings, brass as well. The earrings measure about 9 cm in length -- my first earrings that...

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Haven't been posting here for a while what with the wedding and all (by the way, I will post the pictures of my wedding jewellery too, just need to get around to taking the actual photos). I have fallen in love with brass this summer and have been puttering around making little things with it. Some of them I present here, gifts for...

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My newest addition to my jewellery box -- a set of earrings and a pendant ( a hairclip is on the way). Made with white coral, soutache, green Gutterman beads and silver findings. I love this design, I think at the moment it is my favourite, it looks quite modern as opposed to generally soutache jewellery looking very festive and a little antique....

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And last but not least -- Zenit, a silver boy with a cute spiral like tail. Calm and kind most of the time, but crazy as a bat from time to time whe he gets running with his brothers. Here he is: ...

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Two more kitties from my Z litter. Zavulon -- a big, inquisitive, very  friendly boy, who wants to always be on my knees, when I'm by the computer. ...

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 Second post about my newest litter. This time a spotlight on two red boys -- Zeus and Zephyr. A devil and a proud alpha male. Zephyr is a crazy daredevil sort of kitty, while Zeus is strong brave and a little bit shy boy. Zephyr is missing all his antennae, his mother took care of that -- a punishment for being too feisty....

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The kittens are 10 weeks old already and preparing to go to new homes! You can find their photos and more info about them here http://kurilian.eu/kittens/litter-z/ Mom and Dad are: ...

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It took me a while to finish these earrings -- lack of time and not knowing which way to go with the design were two main reasons. Now it's done -- lo and behold: ...

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A present for a friend -- needle knitted little bird. I love a challenge and making this little friend was one indeed. Little tiny details, complicated knitting design and lo and behold -- a bird, looking like a bird :) A teensy bit fat, but it was winter -- so all is good. ...

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I created this brooch for a particular dress. This beautiful red jasper cabochon was lying around for a while in my boxes and when I bought this particular dress and went looking for a stone to match -- it matched perfectly. The colour is almost identical and it makes me very happy. The design of the brooch was simple and not too elaborate,...

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This particular piece of jewellery was begun a while ago and was left lying in my crafts pile for a long time. I wanted to make it into a necklace but couldn't find a nice way to finish it and so it was going deeper and deeper into an unused corner of my crafts drawer. I kept pondering that a bunch of grapes...

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So it's done! Last Sunday (02.12) we had a second installment of our Westeros LARP. This one was set in Oldtown and the premise of the game was a Listening and a Tournament for that occasion. The famine caused partially by a plague that swept accros the whole seven kingdoms is on everybody's mind. And so the game begins. Everyone has their own...

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This brooch was sitting around in my head for a while, I knew what kind of colours I was going to choose and which stone, just needed to match the right shades and forms. A bithday gift for my friend's mother, she likes earthy tones and small unimposing pieces of jewellery. ...

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A few more frivolite pieces made for Christmas presents. I really like this idea of something as small as a knot making these beautiful designs. And the you ahve colours, and forms and... basically freedom, that's what I like about making things with your own hands. It takes my mind of things, lets me forget unpleasant events, sad things, etc. This one looked...

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Some more Christmas gitfs. This time felted. I had been putting off trying anything bigger than a flower brooch for a long time, but when my mother said, taht she wanted a particular colour felted scarf I realised that I will have to cross that bridge pretty soon. And so I did. At first to refresh my skills with felt -- a flower...

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 Something new I tried before Christmas. I like to work with needles and yarn, thread, ribbons, so frivolite or tatting in general, needle tatting in particular was a lot of fun for me and something I quickly got the hang of. i do not think I am going to try shuttle tatting, needle tatting is plenty exciting and quite versatile for me. Here...

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