A little bit of red today. Some in gothic style, some in vintage. I find this colour very popular among girls and personally it was my favourite colour previously for many many years :)

Enjoy!

Waiting for summer...

England isn't a great country for a summer loving persons like me, unfortunately... Born and raised in Poland I'm use to have every season including two months of constant hot dry summer with occasional 2-3 days of summer storms and that's it. Here in UK I experienced mostly one weather for whole year, I would call it an early spring or late autumn. Symptoms are: relatively cold (5-15C) temperatures, cloudy with rain varying from a quick drizzle to non stop heavy rain for many many days. This year the record was beaten and it was raining for 2 weeks non stop in the winter causing a flood in whole country including my small piece of world which is my block of flats. The nearby river has expanded its way onto streets, grass and gardens creating a big lake around my block of flats that could be crossed only in high wellies. As I'm living on the top my property didn't suffer but my mentality when I had to simmer myself every day twice a day into the lake that surrounded the entrance, well that suffered a lot. And it wasn't great for health either... So I miss summer. Oh god how I miss a proper summer with temperatures above 30C. Here I would be grateful even for 20C! There is middle of May and it's still looking like an early spring. So I'm yearning and spelling the summer to come by creating summer looking things. Like these for example:

Soutache continued...

Today I will show you my cuff bracelet that combines few techniques in one. I used soutache embroidery for focal point with gorgeous bermuda blue Swarovski crystal heart. Love this colour!  Also there are Toho beads here, rhinestone cup chain, ball chain, black chain, metal accessories like beads, caps, charms, connectors etc, bicone cut glass, ribbon, trimmings, felt as a base and eco leather as a backing. Everything is hand stitched, hand sewn, hand embroidered, well... generally just LOADS of hours of work here. All sparkles and shines in all shades of blue, very noticeable jewellery piece :)

Little bit about soutache...

I love to try new things and combine techniques when creating my works whether in jewellery, cards or in paintings. I work with almost every medium and in every technique and the only thing I cannot tell I'm good in is knitting, I just do not enjoy making scarves and cardigans lol ;)So lets come back to soutache... It's a textile art in jewellery. A very high art. Soutache embroidery technique takes a very long time, is relatively difficult and requiring a lots of patience and precision. Layers of soutache braid are hand stitched together incorporating beads and findings to create unique and stunning pieces of very light and very effective jewellery. Here are some examples of my creations in that technique:

Hot red!

If we are still with colour theme... RED! Let's look at this hot red creations. There is nothing more sexy than women in red, any man will tell you! ;)

In the blue

Blue is my favourite colour, especially teal or royal blue (parisienne blue). My 3yo daughter loves navy blue and my husband loves light blue. So we are all in blues and here you can find selection of some of the blues in my jewellery.

Coming back!

Oh, dear! I have totally neglected my blog! How could I? Well first of all as always lack of time, terrible lack of time! If I only could spread the day to 36 or 48 hours... probably still I would not have enough time, ha ha ;) But let's come back to the point. After 6 months of silence I update today with some of my makes and I will be now very good girl and posting at least once a week, I promise! :)

Below some of my hair clips, there are little snaps and big barrettes. Materials used: felt, fabric, beads and buttons. Enjoy!