caramel and amber

I have been in 2 Treasuries this week! Thank you my friends for including me!!

jewelry can be.. crocheted!

The spring is in the air! Wanted something innovative and positive. It's my new creation - Crocheted Bead Earrings in Spring Colors. They are charged with positive emotions and happiness, take a good care of them, and they will take of you :) Available in my Etsy shop - Lariata.

guests in our garden

Yesterday was very cold and blizzard. Some hungry animals have come to our garden. There under snow they have found last year's apples and ate them. Also they ate branches of apple-trees and cherries. That wasn't good, but roe deers were so hungry..

crocheted headbands

The spring is in the air. Wanted a shining sun and summer colours. I crocheted a pair of headbands. One of them is embellished with butterfly

 and other has two white flowers:

Used 100% cotton yarn, lacy headband is 36 cm in length and 3 cm wide, crocheted ties are ca 27 cm long.

fluffy handbag

It's a great idea to sew a laptop bag of fur. It looks so cute :) Design by Anna from sewing studio Clothes.ee. 

baltic amber bracelet

Natural Baltic Amber is very sunny stone, it's warm and has lovely caramel color. I sewed amber chips to base woven in herringbone stitch using Toho seed beads 8/o. There are added a little bit of czech firepolished glass beads for more sparkling effect. The toggle and loop are woven using Toho 11/o and 15/o.

bracelet "Esmeralda"

This gorgeous bracelet was done at last year. I love this pattern and used it again, but in other color combination: pearl white and emerald green.

Buy it for $49

bracelet - little jeweled bridge

This bracelet made of seed beads in amber and bronze colors. There are added a little of czech firepolished glass beads, so the bracelet has a graceful curl and it looks elegant around a wrist.

Buy it in my shop - Lariata.etsy.com

Secret Santa, 2

It was happened at last year, in 2009 December. I am a proud member of THE EUROPEAN STREET TEAM on Etsy and we had playing a funny game "Secret Santa". The idea behind the Secret Santa is that you make something for a teammember and also receive a gift yourself.

It was a difficult test to make a Christmas gift to the person with whom you are not familiar. Nicole have a great shop on Etsy with handmade soaps - UltimateOrganicSoap. In Nicole's questionnaire I got know that she very much likes to read. So I have decided to present bookmarks to her. I was very much worried, whether my gift will be pleasant to her. And here a response Nicole in her blog.

Much appreication to Mitsy ArtMind - her good job done with the Secret Santa :)