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.

As I mentioned in my description -- I do love animals and own a horse and some cats (at the moment 6 grown up cats and 4 babies) so the news about them are bound to jump into my blog from time time.

Last night one of my queens -- Serafima Karmino Cat gave birth to 5 little kitties -- 4 boys and a girl -- a pretty tortie, just like mamma. The boys -- two ginger and white little monsters and two elegant black and white numers are feeling jsut great and already voicing their protests loudly to the world. The little girl unfortunately did not survive -- something wrong with her lungs I suspect... A pity.
I will have a rowdy few months it seems :) Though in general Kurillian Bobtails (that is the breed of the cats that I own) are very easilly trained and by the time the kitties are a month old they will have learned all the essential rules of living in a respectable home :)

 It started getting cold here. Cold and drab... The pretty colours of autumn are almost gone, but my mind is still stuck in summer. Here's what it thought of most recently:

I am going to a steampunk/cyberpunk party tomorrow and have nothing to wear in the category of jewellery. Ok, I'm lying -- I do have a very nice pendant my mother gave me -- two brass jigsaw pieces connected with leather, really suitable, but appart from that -- nada, zilch.
So, I started browsing around and realised, that I could make some myself. I recently got some copper wire just to see how I will manage to work with it and after making a few clasps and other tidbits put it aside for the time being.