Pumpkin soup photo shooting

I already wrote about my special Spicy pumpkin soup-puree recipe. So autumn is here again even if we have still +25C outside and it means that it's time to cook my pumpkin soup again)) 
But this time it became a protagonist of the new fall photoshooting with small pumpkins, acorns and other autumn gifts.

Thankgiving photos are also here

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Fall collection of Fabric Jewelry

I'm happy to present you new photos of my fall collection of fabric jewelry. Whole fall collection you can find in my Etsy shop

Fall... It’s the time when nature explodes with colors: orange, brown, olive green...

These amazing photos were created by photographer from Saint-Petersburg Ulianna Tennant, model: Nadya Papazova, Make-up: Tatiana Sidorova. 

Autumn is here

Happy Autumn!
My last photo session - all about Autumn and Harvest

All my photos you can find on stocks:
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Do you like mushrooms?

Do you like mushrooms?

All my photos you can find on stocks:
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Fall Giveaway

As always in autumn I decided to have a giveaway. 

This very fresh fabric necklace can be yours for free if you will win my giveaway. This is natural silk necklace in bright green shades with splashes of blue, white, dark blue and more. You can tie the necklace close to your neck or a little longer, use it as a belt or bracelet. 

So here's how you enter for a chance to win this:
First you leave a comment telling us what is your favorite creation in Katrinshine shop (you do not have to limit yourself to this, though) and then sign in the form below to provide your name and to state that you have commented (please use the same name).
  
After you indicate that you have left a comment on this blog post,  you will see options for additional entries such as blogging, twitting, sharing at Facebook, etc.

Even if you are not interested in those additional options, you will need to at least register your comment using this form in order to enter, because the winner will be chosen automatically with the help of this software. If you do not do that, you will have no chances to win, sorry.

You can get 25 more entries if you buy something from Katrinshine shop. In that case, your chances are growing dramatically!!

The more entries you submit the more chances of winning!

This giveaway is open worldwide and comes with free shipping as long as you have a valid address (no P.O. boxes please). You should be 18 years old and above to qualify. All entries of the drawn winner will be verified.

A winner will be chosen on November 4th and we will announce the winner on my blog.

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I'm happy to write that my Fall Giveaway is closed and the winner is Oksana V. Entry №74.
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Inspired by fall

Summer is almost gone and turned into fall. It’s that time of the year when I think of the past summer, organize photos made in vacance. Who has children need to prepare them to school. 

Autumn is my favorite season, because of the colorful fall foliage, foliage tours.  I do love the colors which describe the fall – hues of orange,  red and  warm browns. The colors of fall are warm and inviting, something I like to enjoy indoors as well as outdoors. But here in south of Italy the autumn is not "real", all trees are always green. You can’t feel the smell of autumn in the air. Yesterday was very hot and humid, newspapers say that all september will be such! 

I know that in Murmansk is already cold, the forest wears the colors of autumn and is full of berries and mushrooms. Mama told me that she prepared some jams for me)
I like orange maple leaves in parks of Saint-Petersburg where I studied for 6 years. The most beautiful is Aleksandrovskij park in Pushkin, small historical town near St-Petersburg. Fall is a great season for photographers. With my friends-photographers we often visited this park - away from the hustle and bustle of downtown, into relaxation, novelty and beautiful scenery.

 

I miss all this beauty there…


Looking through autumn photos on my computer I was inspired to make these orange crochet earrings. Their color reminded me of fall in Russia.  Orange glass beads are shining like drops of autumn rain on leaves.
I created also a brooch but before I had a time to make photos my friend saw it and immediately bought it to make a gift to her sister!

What about you, are you a lover or hater of fall? Maybe for you fall is dreary, cold and rainy days?

Are you was inspired to create something new?

New addition to collection of fabric lewelry

I wrote about short necklace NUTMEG before: Short necklace NUTMEG.
But I so like this fabric in autumn colors that i decided to continue to work with it.
Today I present three new creations. You can find it in my Etsy shop.
short necklace NUTMEG

long necklace NUTMEG

bracelet NUTMEG

Free worldwide shipping in my Etsy shop

With this leather poppy pendant just listed in my Etsy shop I open FREE worldwide Shipping for all fabric and leather jewelry and accessories!

That all sounds great? Offer valid till 1 December.

Take this chance!

Etsy promo love first Magazine - Autumn-Winter 2010/2011

EPL MAGAZINE IS ALIVE AND READY TO PRINT IT OR READING OFFLINE

FOR FIRST TIME
ETSY MAGAZINE
CREATED BY EPL TEAM

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We are happy to announce that the first EPL Magazine for The Autumn - Winter 2010/2011 is officially released! This is the first time an Etsy Street Team organizes such an event and we are really proud to see our groundbreaking idea be coming reality after hard work and dedication.

We would like to thank all of you for participating and embracing this great effort of the EPL Team to promote the Etsy community and the love for handmade in the best possible way.

The Etsy Promo Love Team is proud to present the release of its very first official Magazine, that aims to the the promotion of Etsy as an online marketplace for unique handmade items.

The issue is filled with beautiful creations from talented Etsy artists and enchanced with features such as interesting tips, “how to” techniques, useful links, interviews and much more!

As the basic idea behind the formation of our group is mutual support, we would like to encourage our members to participate by promoting the Team. This can be achieved by being active on our Facebook page, but also through any kind of promotion that could help to spread the word. Therefore, the criteria according to which the second issue of the magazine will be created will be according to those factors.

I'm happy to write that I'm featured in this magazine!! Two articles wrote by me was included too: first Tutorial: cutting and finishing spiral bones and second from Etsy Russian Team blog.

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If you wish your shop to be featured in the next issue of the EPL MAGAZINE, simply copy and paste the following code to your own blog: CODE
AND POST YOUR BLOG POST HERE


The magazine will be published twice a year with different articles and themes each time!

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

Autumn photos

I dedicate this post to the 1 september - first day of the autumn.
Some years ago in warm september i was walking with my friends-photograhers in beautiful Aleksandrovskij Park in Pushkin, small historical town near St. Petersburg. Today I was looking my photos and found it. Here they are, enjoy: