Surreal, Stacked Button Earrings - Pink, Turquoise and White in Antique Copper

I created these earrings as an entry to the EST challenge, hosted this week by dindi. The theme was pink and turquoise, or magenta and teal.

Surreal, stacked button earrings, pink and turquoise

Thank you dindi for the inspiration, these colors are great for spring!

Cactus Loves Hot Weather

Contrary to humans, who usually find intense heat rather annoying to say the least, cacti plants seem to love it!

Here's the evidence:


This little beauty started as an unhappy, baby indoor cactus that a friend gave me three years ago, because she didn't know what to do with it (!), and quite frankly, it didn't seem to be alive. I placed it on my balcony, and gave it a little water and plenty of light. And now, three years later, it has grown more than 5 times its previous size and is in bloom!!!

Once again, nature shows its beauty...

The Way To Ithaka, Bracelet

'Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and
wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities
did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and
customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea
while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home;
but do what he might he could not save his men, for they
perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of
the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever
reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter
of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.'

(The Odyssey by Homer, Book I, rendered in English prose by Samuel Butler)




Ithaca is a Greek island of the Ionian Sea. To make this bracelet I thought of the green on its mountains and the rose of its sunsets. A humble island it is, so I only used humble materials, like papier mache and watercolor to paint it, and common seed beads. No, the beauty of Ithaka lies not in its wealth or power. Ithaka is the destination and the journey itself. And, if you've read Cavafy's Ithaka, that is the only wealth and power one may ever truly claim their own.

'Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.'

(From C. P. Cavafy's Ithaka, translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard)

Shoes Revisited

Here's what I did to give new personality to a beige pair of shoes, that can now be worn at a party, instead of just the office...













I used little pieces of leftover fabric, and I'm totally loving these right now! I also made another pair exactly like this, which you will find in my shop. AND I'm ready to experiment with shoe clips more...

Pink Is Green

Earth Day is almost here! Celebrate: Think Pink and Go Green in one!



I hope you will love these eco friendly items from the following Etsy sellers:

1. Rosa. sweet necklace with rose. From birribe.
2. Notebook bike inner tube. Recycled rubber. From palepink.
3. Pleasure is All Mine.................................vintage skirt. From GinaMicheleVintage.
4. pink lady- ecofriendly clutch purse in dark pink and with vintage buttons. From karuski.

Enjoy!

First Fabric Flower Brooches In My Shop!

They are certainly not the first I have made, but they are the first I am listing in my Etsy shop. I recently made 5 or 6 of them for myself and my friends, but I still have lots of fabric left from curtain projects etc.

My Recycled Fabric Corsage Flower Brooch, Oyster Pink and Brown is a youthful design and appears to be madly loved! Thanks everyone!



The Recycled Fabric Corsage Flower Brooch, Cinnamon Multi and Brown is another style, with shaped 'petals' and seed beads, and is Oh! so elegant!



Stay tuned!!! More will follow SOON!!!