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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.
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.
Look at my necklace – and you will see all these in the pictures. Blue mountains at a distance, pools with deep blue water, covered with very thin veins of ice, spring clear streams, running from hills to mountain lakes and ocean bays. Dark thawed patches here or there and “gold” tracks of pyrite saturated sand on the earth so recently uncovered, moistened with water from melted snow… See the beauty of the harsh wilderness while looking at this necklace, and feel the gentle touch of romanticism and nostalgia, depicted in this piece of bead-work art. The necklace is made from antique micro-beads size #18, Japanese beads #11 & #15; Czech teardrop beads; crystal chips; jasper. Materials used: black leather, Japanese fishing line, Cylamid waxed thread. The front embroidery has a button-like fastener on each sides and can be fully removed. 
Here it is – my FINALIST IN BEAD DREAMS 2009, the most prestigious bead competition in the world.
This necklace brought together my favourite things: beautiful nature and flowers, elegance and finesse, practicality and the capability to wear it in many different ways. The idea of this necklace occured to me when I found on the Internet pictures and videos of a spectacular little humming bird, the Marvelous Spatuletail or Marvelous Spatula, which got it’s name for it’s interesting tail: the bird has just four feathers in it. It’s most remarkable feature is the male’s two long racquet-shaped outer tail feathers that cross each other and end in large violet-blue discs or “spatules”, which he can move independently. This humming bird is one of the rarest on the Earth and it is on the Endangered Species list, there are approximately 1000 specimens of this bird living in the forests of Peru. Here is the video, where you can admire this amazing bird and if you would like to learn more about it, check out ABC Birds. I was so in awe of this fantastic specimine of God’s creatures, that I wanted to capture it forever in beads and show it to people to get attention to the fragile nature and to the miraclous work of our Creator. This necklace is a transformer; there are about 15 different ways of wearing it. The part with the humming-bird is removable, has different beaded clips from two sides: one in a shape of a flower and another one in a shape of twisted branch of a tree. The beaded Marvellous Spatula humming bird was made in natural size and in natural colours, inherent in this bird. To be able to make this bird that small I used antique Italian microbeads (sizes 18, 20, 22, 24) – beads such small are not produced in nowadays world. Hope, you’ll enjoy it!
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My original intention was to make this a simple display of the beautiful lines in the stone, but as I continued in the design, the stones “queenly nature,” appeared. Thin lilac veins on the light-yellow-greeninsh body wanted to be accented by lilac colour beads and with a wide palette of green color tones and shades. The stone demanded luxury and charm, beginning with the antique italian microbeads (sizes 18-20) and ending with the Swarovski bicones and crystal beads. The main elements are embroidered on high quality leather, so the cabochon is resting on a “pillow” of two-layered leather. |
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