New bracelets

Hello everyone! :)

My mother came over for a couple of weeks to see her new grandson. She turned out to be such a great babysitter, that I managed to get to my clay table and make some jewellery. I didn't have time to try out anything new or to experiment with new techniques, so I only made something my hands remembered how to do :))
First of all I had to make this necklace on custom order:

Then I made new poppies, and assembled some old flowers, which I made almost a year ago, into bracelets and earrings.




Also I made a few thimbles

They all are now in my shop :))
Well, that is it :)) I guess next time I will get to my clay table when my mom comes again, or my baby goes to school :)))

FREE shiiping in my shop

While the baby is sleeping (in my lap, which is the only way he sleeps during the day :) ), I have a few moments to write this post :) Although I have not been making any polymer clay jewellery for almost a year, I still have a shop full of things to sell :)
So I decided to give free shipping to every customer until Sunday, January 23, plus a free gift with every order :)
So you are very welcome to come in and look around :)

News of the year :)

A week and a half ago (on Dec 2) I became a mom, now we have a beautiful baby son, whom we called Ross :)
I don't think I'll get back to polymer clay for a while yet :)

Polymer Play Days 2010 (and more)

Hi everyone!

It has been a while since I wrote anything in my blog. It seems that the less you write, the more difficult it becomes to just sit down and write something :))

And I do have something to write about! Not about my creations (I am not very creative lately), but about a fantastic polymer clay festival called Polymer Play Days, which took part here in England a couple of weeks ago. Jist like the last year the festival was a lot of fun. We had 6 workshops, half a day each, with 6 fantastic teachers. To my delight I also had an opportunity to speak Russian again, as there were 3 more Russian-speaking wonderful ladies apart from me this year :)) And I was happy to sit again at the same table with Diane and Jo.

So these are the things I made during three days of workshops:
Alison Gallant taught us to make a chrysanthemum cane, which we used to make different kinds of beads


Sylvie Peraud taught us to make mosaics. This is a technique where you have to sand your pieces for a very long time, but the results are fabulous.
These are my unfinished yet items

And this is what mosaics should look like when sanded and buffed, these are pieces made by Sylvie herself.

On a second day we had workshops with a lovely couple from Spain, Natalia and Dani.
Natalia has shown us how to make these felt broach style beads

Dani has shown us a very interesting and complicated technique of making hollow beads. I did not like my beads, which is why I will show you Dani's examples (Photo from Olga's blog):

I liked the ideas of these hollow beads, I will have to try making them at home some time.
On a third day we had workshops with two fabulous American artists, Donna Kato and Lindly Haunani.
On a Donna Kato's class we were making funky rings with rotating discs. My ring:


Lindly's class was about colours and Skinner blends.
I only had time to make these two plates at the workshop:

Then I made a few more items out of leftovers of Skinner blends at home.

I think I am almost inspired now to get back to clay :))

And that wasn't all yet! :))
After all the classes on a last day we had a charity auction for Macmillan cancer support. I won a gorgeous seed bead necklace! I think making such a jewellery of seed beads is extremely complicated, and I am very happy to own this masterpiece.





And that is not all yet! :))) We had a raffle! I was lucky again, and I won a beautiful ring made by Sylvie!

I bought myself a lovely pendant by one of my favorite Spanish polymer clay artists, Noelia. I love how accurate and neat her works are.


Not to make two posts in one day I also want to show you the beautiful beads I bought from a polymer clay artist Elena (shim-shoni)

And that is it for now! I hope you enjoyed the photos! :)))

The end of holidays

Nice and long Easter holidays have finished, and it is time to go back to work (sigh). Last week I have been working on a large wholesale order for my flowers, they are to be sold in a bead shop in Hawaii! How exciting! :) I have sent this collection, I hope they go well there.
My favorite flowers of the new ones are these

Also I had a time to make a new tutorial, which I posted in my Etsy

The book has arrived!

And the first thing I did, was find my page, of course :))) After writing this post I will sit down, and enjoy looking through all the photos, and reading what people wrote about themselves.

You can see the cover and contents of the book here
I want to say Thank You to Martina and Anke for the great idea and a wonderful job they have done with the book!

Spring, fish bracelet and more :)

Warm and sunny spring has finally arrived to the north of England:

Although the forecast suggests us not to relax, because as much as a snow is expected tomorrow. So not to waste a sunny Sunday,today we went to the seaside. To catch some fish :)))
I caught enough fish to make a bracelet! :))




I caught some other kinds of fish, the stripey ones, they will be used in some accessories. Here is all the fish I "caught" today :))

And a few new flower bracelets, which were also made using commercial metallic frames.