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.

 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 are that long.

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 my friends as a thank you for a great hen party that they organised for me:

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:

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.

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:

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:

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, I just needed a nice setting for this pretty stone.

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 was a great idea but was at a loss when trying to make the leaves that would go well with what I had and suit a necklace idea.
One day I realised that it would make a wonderful brooch and then an idea of how to finish the leaves popped into my head right away.
I simply embroidered them on a piece of felt and incorporated that into my soutache part. Here is what I have now:

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 agenda, some for the money, others -- for the glory and so very few or maybe even none -- for the good of the people of Westeros. Who is going to have the best claim for the throne? In this game there are two contenders -- Lady Shiera Seastar (played by moi) and Daemon Blackfire.

Unfortunatelly this time we were not blessed by the presence of photographers... So I have only a bad quality photo of myself after the game...

 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 are a few things that I made for presents for some people last year (weird, already last year :) ).

A snowflake -- I like those, I will probably make a bigger one at some point to use as a doily, they look beautiful.