My kind of Christmas

Everyone asks me if I celebrate Christmas. I always say no, but I just realized that I do have the Christmas tree, it is decorated just like the rest of the house, I have full closet of gifts for Sophia and I even went out for a Christmas dinner to my friend's house, so can I really say that I wasn't celebrating it? 

But I love The New Year celebration so much better. The anticipation, the feeling of something new, cooking, champagne, ... I love it all. 

We always had a real tree when I was little. I will never settle for a fake one. My mom and my dad collected vintage tree ornaments their whole life and my mom gave them all to me when my dad passed away. Now every year I decorate my tree and it brings so many joyful moments... This year it's even more special, because for the first time I decorated it with Sophia, last year she was just a month old, she didn't care. I am so blessed to share this magic with her! 

Here are my special ornaments 

and the Grandfather Frost :

Another update coming on the January 1st - with all Sophia's presents under the tree

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year All!!! 

i did it

Made it to the first hundred~!

oldie, but sooo goody!

i was looking through my old jewelry pictures and found this beautiful ring that sold way to soon :) I need to re-create it, or at least get inspired by it and make a similar one. It was so much fun!

We had a special project in the jewelry class called "Adjustable ring". The idea was to create a ring that could fit any size finger. I had many many ideas, but decided to create a gorgeous wrap around ring with garnet teardrops.

I have more of these beautiful blood red garnet teardrops, so if anyone has similar ideas and would like a custom ring I would love to play with "adjustability" again!

me likey

I can't believe that 100 people actually left 100% positive feedback for my items. This is huge. I don't think i realized it before that (way over a hundred) items are all around the world: USA, Russia, Australia, Finland, England, Canada are some of the places i shipped my lovelies to.

Thank you all! For loving what i do and for giving me an chance to do what i love! This would not be possible without all of you!

Love you much.

T

p.s. to make this number even more magical I just need one more sale :)

fun. fun? fun!

This weekend was great! Yesterday we went to IKEA to get some sun toys for Sophia on Sunday. I already have her "big girl room" planned in my head, so we started small.
Here are my two loves putting some furniture together:

Fun chalk board to solve formula equations:

And we got these crazy fun finger puppets. Sophia loved the stories I came up with at dinner:)

jewelry stuff:
I shipped a couple of custom orders to my best customers ever. One is in Australia. Here is what I had to say goodbye to:

Beautiful , very rare and unique hematite pendant featuring two black Tahitian pearls

Montana Agate Ring

My favorite of all - Carved Amber Compass Pendant

Have an amazing week!

CraigsEasy = Amazing Craigslist Tool!

Occasionally I look for furniture on Craig's list. With all the house projects i am into I want to save as much as i can. But I would also like to save time that I spent opening every listing and looking at pictures.
But I came across this amazing tool and it saves me so much time.

http://craigseasy.com/

you can get directions on how it works there, but here is how I did it:

1) add CraigsEasy to favorites:

2) go to Craigslist and modify your search:

make sure you check mark "has image" and click "search"

now right from this page go to your favorites and open what we saved:

 And... Voila ! You can browse ALL the pictures at once!

Have fun exploring!

Test drive - Labrodarite Pendant

Bernita,
Here are some pictures per your request :) I love this pendant! The color is so soft, warming, loving. Simple setting and just a great feel to it.

Sorry the pictures are not the best quality, i was just trying to show the size of the pendant, more detailed look you can see in the listing in my shop.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/55396495/sale-huge-labrodarite-pendant-sterling

This stone has a really nice blue flash!

Here is me:

Here is my little helper...
What's so fun in that bag???
The dapping tools set is the best toy of her :) She is putting correct dapping sticks in the holes. No need to buy toys for this kid. Mama has plenty of them in her studio!~