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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 idea of this set sprang up in my mind when I was looking through the old issues of ”Beadwork” magazine. my eye stopped at one of the brooches of Nome May, created in the shape of a flower (“Beadwork”, April/May 2002, p.14) In this set I wanted to show the joy which suns warmth brings to nature and to our lives every year. With the vivid colors, combined in these pansies – bright yellows, reds and greens, this captures the spirit of summer; and in spite of classic noble materials, which I used in this necklace (pearls and coral), the feeling and whole impression of this set is quite opposite from the classic elegance – YES! SUMMER FUN! Materials, used in the set: Japanese seed beads # 15,11; antique Italian microbeads # 18,20; pearls and coral; leather and Sylamid waxed thread; gold-filled clasp.
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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