Spring flowers

Again my inspirations comes from spring flowers. One of my favourite flowers is poppy. I like it’s red color and delicate leaves. Now all fields around Brindisi are covered with poppies! This photo I made during my trip in countryside a few weeks ago but the fields are still full of poppies!
It’s so beautiful!

So I decided to create earrings-poppies. I have only dark red leather so my poppies are not so brightly as I would like. But they are beautiful, Isn’t it? Black bead in the center is like the stamens of poppy. 

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Happy Easter again!

Happy Easter again for all! I have great gift for Easter - my Quilted backpack "Sun of azteks" was featured this morning on Etsy front page. It was early morning at 6:00 AM EST and I didn't have many hearts as always but this news lived up my mood))
This treasury collection named "Spring time" was made by Petekdesign.
Thank you and congrats all featured artists!

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Cream earrigns with red beads on Etsy First page!

When I saw first time this collection I thinked I will be on the first page of Etsy. And It was there - "Red in White" treasury collection made by Russian artists team member Natalia HansHolzkopf! And my Cream earrings with red beads was featured with this amazing collection on the First page of Etsy! This treasury is so romantic and completely unique with this splashes of red in white! Thank you, curator and congratulations all featured handmade artists!

Cherry flowers

I have something new to show you today - Cream leather flower earrings with red beads.

These earrings was inspired by white flowers that I saw last sunday during our trip in countryside. I don't know the name of this tree, maybe it's cherry. I'm sure that It's not almond tree or apricot tree - they bloom in the february. But these delicate cream and white flowers are so beautiful that I immediately made new earrings when I returned at home. Every cream flower has red vintage glass beads dangles in the center. Are they very similar to the flowers on the photo?

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Red crochet and leather ring on the first page of Etsy!

Yesterday evening  my Red crochet and leather ring I wrote last week was featured on the first page of Etsy! It was included in very lovely curated collection "Let's see the show of hands". Thank you shannonpix and congrats all featured!

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Spring is finally here

Finally I returned in Italy! I love bright colors of the spring in the air and smell of blooming  flowers. They bring so much positive energy.  I feel me full of inspiration. 
These are photos of blooming succulent plants on my balcony:

   

I'm currently experimenting with combining different materials and techniques.

When I first started designing jewelry, I never imagined that I would be making handmade rings. All that changed one day when my friend asked if I ever made rings and I made one for she as a Cristmas gift. So now I created this ideal accessory for spring and summer. This is the red hand crochet rose with vintage bead in the center.  You can ask what is the difference with others crochet rings? That I combine it with the leather flower. I like this ring very much and of course I will make others!

 

What I can say for you: Try something new! You never know what you might come up with and it's an excellent chance to expand your horizons.

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Leather and organza brooch

I like to experiment, to make something new. In autumn I made leather and organza brooch and I decided to repeat it in dark red color. I create this dark red brooch bigger that first one. One big bead and many small red vintage beads I used for finishing the center of the flower.
This brooch is really attractive and can be perfect decoration for scarf, jacket or sweater. You can attach this lovely brooch whatever you want. Combination of different matherials makes it memorable. This brooch with color of passion can be great addition to your spring outfit because big brooches are on the rise this spring! Brooch can help you to accent your personality, to complete your image. The new collections of famous designers represented a large number of brooches.
I made photos with white sweater, my favorite crochet scarf and grey jacket.

New red leather earrings for Valentine's Day

St. Valentine's Day colors are red - the color of passion and sensuality, and white - the color of innocence and purity. That's why  the best gift for valentine's day is something red or white: earrings, necklace, pendant...  
Red also is on the crest of the moda. You can see it everywhere - in the collections of clothing and footwear, accessories and interiors. Red - the most dangerous and at the same time the most alluring of all the colors of the rainbow. 
Some days ago I wrote about new Red fabric necklace PASSION. Today I present Red leather earrings and Dark red leather earrings.

It will be unique and irrepetible gift!

Maple leaf leather pendant

I made this Maple leaf pendant in October together with Oak leaf leahter pendant, but forgot to write about it. I'm sorry that I hide from you this beauty) For me and many people maple leafs symbolize autumn. In Brindisi, there are a few maples. There are also Mediterranean oaks, but they are evergreen and do not lose their leaves in autumn. And I do not have enough gold autumn...
All my pendands I try to create similar to nature: orange flowers, red poppies, oak leafs... Maybe in future I'll create other leafs or animal pendants? Maybe it will be a fox? Hedgehog?

Cream and Cerise leather brooch

Today I preset you Cream and Cerise leather brooch. This is not one of my newest creations but I like it too much. This combination colors of cream and cerise is as brightly as neutral. That's why you can dress on your everyday clothes or holiday dress, bag or blouse or what you want.
You have to know how to wear a brooch. Brooches worn on the right and left breast, on the lapel of the jacket, on the corner of the collar of the blouse or the dress, on the pocket. You can pin it also on the beret or the hat. Is very good to combine color of the brooch with the color of bag or shoe.

Crimson poppy flowers earrings and brooch

Today I present new addition to my leather jewelry and accessories collection. You can find it in special section in my shop.
Crimson poppy flower earrings and Crimson poppy flower brooch are made from dark red recycled genuine leather. Actually I made also necklace but it was immediately sold)

Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color. It is endlessly multifaceted color. Perfectly go together with gray or light beige.
Few historical facts:
Crimson was always the color of the Church.
to produce the color crimson was used Expensive kermes and later cochineal dye. Cochineal dye was used by the Aztec and Maya peoples of Central and North America and was discovered by the Spanish explorers of South America. The Cochineal insect is a small parasitic sap-loving insect that feeds primarily upon the sap of certain cacti. A great many insects must be processed to produce any useful amount of the highly prized red dye extract. In recent years it has become commercially valuable again. One reason for its popularity is that, unlike many commercial synthetic red dyes, it is not toxic or carcinogenic