Bilingual blog

Good news, you can now read my Jewlery blog both in Estonian and English. It has been too difficult to keep up two parallel blogs, so I decided to integrate them.

the address is: http://vaatan.blogspot.com

ENJOY!

Ethnical vol2

An e-mail popped into my mailbox the other day asking if it is possible to get a necklace similar to the one I had made earlier. A slightly ethnic-looking yellowish necklace. Of course it was possible to get a similar one. And here it is.

 

Happy new year!

Thank you to you all for visiting me here. I wish you take with you all the good experiences and thoughts to start the new year with happy feelings. The last day of the year in here was beautiful. Frosty, lots of snow and even the sun came to peek for a while. 

  

I also met a cat who pretended to be a … bird? Sitting high on a branch of the bush and looked in from the window.

Happy new year to all the cats. I wish you lots of great ideas for the next year as well

forest berries

Another brooch. A smaller one, this time, but also covered with small glass beads, freshwater pearls and some metal flowers. I also love the fury lace which balances the sparkle of the beads. I have to say it feels really lovely to know that Santa has this year quite a few jewelry made by my little hands in his gift bag. This one including.

  

Summer berries

In this brooch two kinds of ideas meet – organza flower and bead-filled brooch which you could see in the last post. This is again lots of beads on the border, but in the center there is a bit of organza. At the heart there is a piece of old broken jewelry, bracelet, I believe. Using broken, but beautiful pieces in brooches is something I intend to do more often.

Why summer berries? It does look to me like a basket of full of forest berries of different kinds and sizes. I guess, this dark and sunless Nordic winter is getting to me – I miss the summer and sun and berries.

Another brooch

Another brooch. This time no laces, only beads. It took really long time to finish it but the result is nice I think. Like a blue hedgehog

more brooches

Sometimes people ask where do I get my ideas for jewelry. I never know. It seems it is a gradual constant process. My brooches are a good example of it. First I made these flowers with rich center. Now I make only these centers, but richer, bigger, shinier And I have to say already in advance, these centers also grow into earrings.

This first pinkish brooch found its place on beret of similar colour. Such a  great idea! Both of the brooches has a combination of everything on it – glass beads, seed beads, some semiprecious stones, freshwater beads, some buttons and lace.

Oh, how I enjoy making these brooches! I have a very intense and demanding period in terms of work now. Landing on my coach and just playing around with tiny shiny beads, combining them, creating this beauty really is the best recreation activity I could imagine. Brain that is so tired of working day can switch off, this process uses some other senses, no thinking needed.

Floral beauty

These organza flower brooches are great to spice up your winter coats. These do tend to be dark and dullish, black most often, don’t they. But also it looks beautiful on hats and berets.

The petals are made of organza and the core is rich, full of all kinds of beads. The pink one has some fresh water pearls in addition to glass beads.

Something made a long time ago

I discovered two necklaces which I made already long ago and I haven’t blogged yet.

The first one is a simple brown polymer clay pendant decorated with metal flowers and hanging on double chain…

The other one is asymmetrical, made of silver plated wire, all kinds of different beads and organza ribbon, also decorated with seed beads. This is a beautiful and tender piece of jewelry.

bridal

i made few jewellery pieces for a wedding – bridemaids will wear blue earrings I made. this necklace looks like a bride could wear it. it doesn’t have a bride yet. so if anyone is interested, let me know It is good for all other purposes and events, of course as well.

the pendant is made of two kinds of polymer clay, one is mother of pearl white and the second one is translucent. they look pretty nice and dynamic together. the biggest of the glass beads have this lovely milky glow and the other ones have a mother of pearl shine. it looks lovely, believe me.