Halloween is nigh and shops and crafters are burning up huge amounts of orange and black supplies.
Get your broomsticks and cauldrons ready! It's Halloween!
My take on this years Halloween accessory is this:

A  little something for a friend:

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:

 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.

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!
The premise of the game was that there is to be a wedding between two houses that have been at war with each other for a while already -- House Blackwood (the only followers of the old faith so far south) and House Bracken. The House which is the rulling house of all these parts is House Tully and the Lord of the house deemd this wedding to be the only way to finally end the enmities. Unfortunatelly Lord Tully dies several months before this takes places and Lady Ayleen Tully takes the matters into her hands to finish what her husband started.

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 in Tully colours and of course -- jewelry to go with them. I have already finished a brooch and earrings. Here they are: