I'm back...

Hello, my dearies,

I am finally back to blogging and I have some good news - after almost a year my workroom is almost ready, I just moved in couple of days ago and I'm already back to beading. 

Here is a little fun brooch that I made just yesterday. :)

And here is another thing that I'm currently working on. Do you recognize the beautiful painting by my very talented friend Nancy? ;)

I hope I can dedicate more time for my beading from now on. And I finally have a real place for it. Yay! 

I am not going to show you much of my new room quite yet, as many things still need to be finalized, but I will show you a little corner of my beading table just for a little taste. :)

What do you think about my crazy wallpaper? :D I decided to make it really bright and fun, but still stick to some classic shapes. Love-love-love those funky tulips! 

More photos coming soon!

Oh, I missed you all so much!

xo,

Saturday Shopping Day

This week I have several new things to show you at Saturday Shopping Day with Sandra.

Let's start with two brooches.

Dark Sun has Swaroski crystal centre surrounded by freshwater pearls, Japanese seed beads and cotton lace. Elegant and attention catching.

Central Park Melody is an experimental piece with lace leaf layered over dark red leather and embellishes with mountain jade cabochon and seed beads.

And I can also finally show you the gift that I sent to my secret spring swap partner. It's a bit less crazy version of my Forgotten World. I wanted to make something for every day for my swap partner, who is a wonderful lady and a very talented artist. Wanna know, who she is? Click here to find out! ;)

Enjoy your Saturday! And come back to visit me tomorrow to see fabulous Flea Market Finds. I have something great to show you! ;)

xo,

Saturday Shopping Day

Today is another wonderful shopping day with Sandra. And here are the things that I finished this week.

Seeds and Pods Cuff with ceramic focal and freshwater pearls for Etsy European Street Team Weekly Challenge, also hosted by Sandra. :)

Custom made Forest Goddess for Finnish jewelry artist - Mags. She sent me this beautiful ocean jasper cabochon and asked for a very special goddess, which would remind her of Finnish forests and brooks. The goddess is already with Mags and she will make a very special necklace using goddess as focal element. I can't wait to see the result! And, of course, I will share it with you, when it's ready. ;)

Inspirational pictures by Urpo A. Tarnanen and Erkki Toivanen.

I am also very proud to present the third Togethrpiece with wonderful Nancy van den Boom - Summer in Holland Cuff. It features miniature poppy oil painting lovingly created by Nancy, which I later embellished with Japanese seed beads in two shades of red, blue and tarnished silver.

The outside of the cuff is covered with light red leather and the inside is lined with soft blue ultrasuede.

Every time I work with one of Nancy's tiny paintings, the ideas start dancing in my head and my heartbeat gets faster. She is such a wonderful artist and great inspiration! I hope you love this cuff as much as I do! ;)

And the last piece of this week is an experimental Midnight Blues brooch with lace, leather, vintage rhinestone and a bit of seed beads.

I hope you enjoyed the shopping tour! Visit Sandra to see more of beautiful pieces from this week! ;)

Have a lovely weekend!

xo,

Saturday Shopping Day

Today is one more of the wonderful shopping days with Sandra of zsazsazsu. I missed the last one because of Bead Soup Blog Party, but today I have several new pieces to show you.

Tiny Warrior Goddess brooch.

Fly Me to the Moon statement necklace.

The Rose Cuff - our first Togetherpiece with Nancy. I know you've seen in already, but I love it so much that I must show it off just one more time. :)

And last, but not least, Under the Tree pendant, which is our second Togetherpiece with Nancy.

I wish you all a beautiful weekend! Enjoy the shopping! ;)

xo,

My Creative Space

Today I'm working on a necklace in gentle pink, cream and gold. So far it's looking good. I really hope I can finish it this week.

I am absolutely in love with those fossil corals, the color mix is so delicate. Central metal element is an old earring. I think I'll make the backing and add some cute little fringe with corals and maybe pearls.

Today I'm also organizing my brooch box. Here it is.

I looove my new pins from SoleDeVita! They are so cute! I enjoy every small detail of her amazing work! If you still don't own a pair, you must visit her store!

Other creative spaces at Kirsty's.

Happy Thursday! ;)

xo,

Saturday Shopping Day

It's Saturday again and it means that we again go shopping with Sandra from zsazsazsu. ;)

This week I don't have only three new pieces to show you, but each and every of them is very special.

I would like to start with Forgotten World - large bead embroidered pendant with ammonite fossil, crystal, very long and playful fringe and natural leather backing. It' definitely one of my favorite pieces. Every time I get the courage to use one of my ammonites, the jewelry piece turns out to be special. In my opinion, ammonites are very challenging materials to work with and they like to be surrounded only with the best of my supplies.

Next I'd like to show you Majestic Swan earrings. They are very simple, only two colors - white and tarnished silver. Two tiny vintage cabochons, Japanese seed beads and sterling silver findings. They are also my entry for Etsy European Street Team weekly challenge. This time the theme is wedding, you can see other beautiful entries here.

And last, but not the least is this sweet Peach Nectar set of brooch and earrings. It's cute, but practical, work with many different outfits and for variety of occasions. Ocean jasper, freshwater pearls, glass beads, Japanese seed beads and sterling silver findings.

Thank you for shopping with me and Sandra! Enjoy your Saturday! ;) See you next week!

xo,

Golden Spring - bead embroidered brooch

This brooch was inspired by trip to oriental rug store. Beautiful floral and paisley ornaments were calling me for a challenge. In the end result it's not really paisley, neither a flower. But I still like it. :)

Central green marquise in cat's eye, I also used Czech and Japanese seed beads in five different colors and tiny natural amber beads. The whole brooch is around 7 x 4,5 cm big.

To me these are the colors of early spring, when first green leaves start to show and snow is playing of golden ground.

More details here.

I also want to say that now there are 100 followers of my blog and I'm very excited about it. Stay tuned, as I'm planning to celebrate this special occasion with a little something for you, my wonderful readers! ;)

xo,

Winter Sunset - jewelry set

I made this simple set of brooch and earrings right after New Year. I've always liked magnesite stone for it's creamy white color and beautiful amber brown patters. I don't know why, but I always see some kind of winter landscape in these stones. This time I saw misty sunset shining in the foggy air.

Besides magnesite I also used small agate beads, glass seed beads, sterling silver earwires and soft ultrasuede backing in matching color.

It turned out pretty good, a bit more simple than I originally planned, but I'm very happy with the result. I also opened new section in my Etsy store - Sets. From now on I'll put all the jewelry sets there instead of each item in separate category.

I have couple of more rather simple pieces in progress on my table. Hope I can show you something new already this week.

I also have a new blog button, you can see it on the right side. Grab it, if you like! ;)

Happy beading!

xo,

Saturday Shopping Day

What's new in my Etsy store this week?

Winter Sea Goddess - brooch. If you love labradorite stone and calm colors, take a look at this dreamy lady.

A bit of luxury... Colors of India - bead embroidered brooch with beautiful blue sapphire.

And Statement Ring with even more blue sapphire, vintage Swarovski crystal and freshwater pearl - Something Borrowed Something Blue.

Join us for Saturday Shopping at zsazsazsu!

Have a nice evening!

xo,

Saturday Shopping

It's Saturday again and it means that we go shopping together with Sandra from zsazsazsu.

I haven't posted too many new items this week in my Etsy store, as I was busy creating two very special goddesses for a wonderful lady from France, who makes gorgeous rings with vintage finds.

Here are my newest items...

Sweet Gingerbread Couple to wear on your favorite warm sweater.

All sparkling and shining Silver Peacock Barrette to brighten up your New Year's party. And you can wear it in so many different ways.

Black pendant with gorgeous fan shaped agate and cute faux fur skirt.

Enjoy your Saturday Shopping! Only 21 days till Christmas! ;)

xo,

Freshly baked cookies

Christmas is coming and I decided to start getting ready early this year, so I "baked" sweet tiny gingerbread brooches for my Etsy store.

I named them "Sweet couple". :) They measure just a bit less than 4 x 3 cm and have very soft ultrasuede backing. I'm planning to pack them in small boxes ready for gift giving.

What do you think? Should I make more of them in different colors?

xo,

EST weekly challenge - Out of the Space

This week I decided to take part in European Street Team Weekly Challenge. Last week's winner SoleDeVita picked a wonderful theme - Out of the Space, and it was hard to stay away from this mysterious topic.

Here is my entry - Blue Galaxy - Brooch


You can check other entries in Solvita's blog.

xo,

My first EST Challenge entry

This week I finally got some courage and entered my first European Street Team Challenge. The theme was picked by wonderful Dutch artist Nancy, who won last week's challenge with her Tiny Sun Acrylic Oilpainting. You can check it here.

This week the theme was "Winding". I made this brooch-tie and called it Long Way Up.

Central black onyx cabochon surrounded with Japanese seed beads and backed with soft ultrasuede, plus, elegant lace element embellished with tiny size 15 seed beads in sparkling bronze colour.

You can check all the lovely challenge entries in Nancy's blog.

Wishing you all a very nice weekend!

xo,