Summer is reflecting on my posting frequency to my blog -- so much sun and lovely things outside it is hard to stay in and sit by the computer.

I do however  work on new things from time to time, when I have a free minute in the evening from cat grooming, making and packaging orders (yay! :) ) and eating delicious fresh food from our garden.

So here we go -- summer blues is actually called Blue lagoon and is repurposed from my grandmother's bead necklace:

I have taken several strands of blue beads, plated them together and added a chain with a ship steering wheel charm.

Ok, I'm cheating a bit :) it was new 2 months ago.
A great designer Lisssa has been super fast and made me anew logo in a week! And not just any week -- Christmas and New Year week. She is brilliant!
I have seen a new logo on my friends shop and asked her for some pointers. She gave me Lisssa's contact and off we went.
After several emails where I described what I want and some tweaking of her ideas she came up with this:

My shop logo

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:

I have been asked to make several items for a real life jewelry shop this summer. Of course there is always "loads" of free time when it's good weather outside, so I only got around to doing it just now.
I have been talking to various people (shop owners included) about what goes best and the advice was -- pastel colours, less bright than what I usually make. So voila -- my pastel series:

A  little something for a friend:

 So, finally I came round to taking photos and posting my wedding jewellery here.
My dress was moss green with a tarnished gold centre and I wanted my jewellery to compliment it but not to stand out too much.
After a long search I finally settled on fluorite stone as the main colour accent for the necklace and a brooch (which is not yet photographed properly -- to come in a later post).
That's how it looked on me that day. It brings a smile to my face whenever I'm looking through our wedding day photos.

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.

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:

 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:

 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.