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This set is consisting of 3 parts: the top for a pregnant lady (completely made from beads), necklace and bracelet. The idea of this set came to me while I was expecting a baby; and the experience of spring on the nature of my home city with hills, covered in thick snowdrifts, sparkling under the sun on the thin crust of ice over the snow with billions of snow “diamonds”, and a real miracle – butterflies flying among all the snow – showed me the exact image of this set. It has a deep sense of human’s closeness to Nature, combining the ideas of expectance by a mother for her child and Mother Nature for spring. I wanted to accent the beauty of the expecting mother and the beauty of the snow-melting time with its clear thin delicate ice, sparkling snow and joyful spirit. The butterflies on the necklace and bracelet are also symbolic. They are forerunners of Spring’s Nascency: in their bodies-”souls”- they show up different manifestations of coming Spring (melting snow, dew drops, thawed patches, etc). These butterflies are very different, like snowflakes – you can never meet the same shape among others.
Тhe necklace has magnet clasp on the bottom of small butterfly. The big butterfly from the necklace can be removed and used as a pendant separately or as a decorative part for a hair clasp. Creation of this set took about 9 months – in unison with the idea. Materials used in this set: Antique Italian glass seed beads sizes 18, 20, 22, 24; vintage Czech seed beads and cuts sizes 18, 20; Japanese glass seed beads sizes 15, 11 and cuts; Czech micro cuts; Swarovski crystals (2 mm round crystal beads, bicones 2.5 mm, 3,4,5 mm; 6 mm crystal rondelle beads; 11×6 mm crystal modular beads; crystal aquiline center hole beads; crystal sew-on stones); natural rock-crystal beads; natural pearls; leather; memory wire; Fireline, Silamide waxed thread; Lacy’s Stiff Stuff. Today we took Anastasia to the Home Plus play area for the first time. Here are a couple videos of her response. Watching her was so much fun I had to figure out how to record video on my cell phone!
The name of the necklace speaks for itself; it was taken from the verses of A.S.Pushkin’s poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila”: “On seashore far a green oak towers, Materials, used in this piece of art: Jasper cabochon, antique Italian micro beads (# 18-24), Japanese glass beads size 11; acorns; metal golden chains.
This necklace I created as a transformer: you could wear it differently, changing the pendant (I made additional pendant to this necklace in a shape of a leaf, using my own technique “Micro bead netting in embroidery”) or you could wear all parts separately – the necklace also looks great without any pendant, and pendant looks very attractive by itself. Many people are wondering about the size of the beads which I’m using. This picture will give you exact image of differences in sizes between contemporary beads size 11 and antique little ones. Materials, used in this necklace: glass ruby cabochons, antique Italian glass micro beads (sizes 18-22), Czech glass micro cuts, black pearls, haematite beads, Swarovski crystals, gold-filled clasp.
This necklace was made by motif of P.Bajov’s fairy-tale “The Stone Flower.” I wanted to express the attraction and intangibility of the mythical stone flower, whose living beauty was impossible for Danila, the rock-carving master, to make out of malachite. In my necklace you can see the Malachite flower, turning into the difficult to catch butterfly… This necklace was created using my own technique “Tatiana’s MOTIF” (“Microbeaded Openwork’s Tastiness In Fitzpatrick’s Fancywork”). Work on this project of beading art took over 100 hours. Materials, used in this necklace: malachite cabochons and beads, Japanese beads size 11, 15, antique Italian micro beads sizes 18, 20, 24; gold-plated charlottes, black-greenish pearls, Czech micro cuts, Swarovski crystal beads, Onyx beads, gold -filled findings.
Materials, used in this necklace: Japanese glass beads sizes 10 and 11, Swarovski glass pearls, Czech glass drop beads, Crystal beads, “cat’s eye” glass beads, sterling silver clasp. One of the most interesting things about living in Korea with a little girl is how the people here go crazy here. Everyone who goes anywhere with us in the country is amazed at how it’s practically like the paparazi surrounding Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt when we go anywhere. Sometimes it gets a little annoying but we’ve gotten used to it and enjoy how a wave of smiles follow us where ever we go. This last weekend we spent some time on a beach and she was the star. Everyone had to come by and watch her playing in the sand. It was really funny one time when I was concentrating on flying my new kite and she knocked a chair she was sitting on over. I heard about 20 Koreans all inhale sharply all at one time and could hear them start running. I turned and saw her looking up at me startled but then she laughed and there was a collective sigh of relief that she wasn’t hurt. I’m attaching a video here of what a typical reaction to foreign kids is like here in Korea. View of the 2009 Fireworks Festival in Busan. John and Tanya with a little Korean girl on the beach at the 2009 Busan Fireworks Festival Today tanya and I headed over to busa to see the 2009 Fireworks Festival. We went the the festival last year and both of us thought it was the most Amazing show we’ve ever seen. This years show was just as good and we got to experience some wonderful Korean hospitality on the gwangali beach. When we got to the beach at about 6:40pm it was already very cowded and we were trying to find a seat. A Korean lady with a bunch of little kids near her waved to us and gave us some seats on their blankets. The little girls gave us some cookies and had fun trying to talk with us. It was also really fun to listen to their excitement throughout the show. After the 45 minute long show (felt like 10 minutes) we then headed back to the subway station. It was a scene reminiscent of the Japanese train stuffers and the streets were like rivers of humanity.
Materials used in coulombs: kaplevidnye Czech glass beads, beads Shvarovski, glass cabochon, Japanese beads number 11, 15, an antique Italian mikrobiser № 18,20, as well as mikrorubka; leather, waxed thread silamid, leather cord. |
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