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 symetrical soutache adornment.
There you go:

 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 but something that would not get lost when wearing a bussiness attire.
After carefully choosing the style and agreeing on colours I started my work and at 8 in the morning I was finaly done! Here it is.

 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.

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 though. Then I bought this soutache ribbon that was black and white! Bought it just because it looked really fun and never thought what is it that I can use it for. So it also ended up lying in my crafts box for a while.

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 ourselves.
We took two cats with us -- Exlibris Karmino cat (better known as Bučkis) and Excalibur Karmino Cat or Ex, as I call him at home. They are brothers of the same litter and look very much alike, except for a small detail -- Bučkis is a KBS (Kurilean Bobtail shorthair) and Ex -- KBL (Kurilean Bobtail Longhair). Thought truth to be told, kurilean bobtails (or if you google mostly called kurillian bobtails) are not truly longhair -- they are semi-long-hair, the only true longhairs being Persians and Exots.