Square Is My Favorite Color

I'm a fan of square pendants and after I bought quite a few I decided it  was time to make my own, so I bought a kit from anniehowes and I received some lovely italian and chiyogami papers along with everything else I needed to get started:  Glamour Glaze, square glass pieces, metallic bails and a tube of E6000 adhesive.

It was easier then I imagined, and so much fun! There are a few steps on how to make this:
First, you add a drop of Glamour Glaze on the back of the glass square (front side is rounded the other one is flat)

then you place the glass on top of the paper, choosing the design spot that would look best and you press slightly to prevent air bubbles.

You let it set like that for about two hours till the glaze is dry.

Then, you trim the excess paper and turn it with the paper side up, adding plenty of glamour glaze on the back of the pendant.

You leave it like this for a full day till the glaze becomes transparent and not sticky anymore. Add a drop of E6000 on the bail and fixing it on the back of the pendant, right in the middle of one side, pressing slightly.

You leave it like that for another full day so the glue sets and voila! The pendant is ready!

As you can see, once you've started, you just can't stop to a decent number of pendants. At least, I couldn't!
Personal tip: since glamour glaze is water based and might remain slightly sticky in contact with water, I add a coat of another type of varnish on top of it (transparent nail lacquer will do)

Ticktock

I have to admit I often buy white objects just to unleash my creativity on them :) This time, a clock was sacrificed. I wanted to keep it simple - just a few flower blooms here and there. I'm going out shopping for my next victim!

Do You Ever Get Over a First Love?

Coptic binding... my first love, that I've neglected for so long. But now I returned to it, I love this technique! But I didn't returned empty handed - I am well prepared and armed with some gorgeous papers I've been collecting for awhile... I felt bad actually that all this beautiful things kept waiting in the closet for the big day.
So here they are, my babies:

The first one has its cover made from black Japanese paper with an elegant golden geometric pattern, for the second I used black parchment paper screen-printed with golden flowers, and the red one is dressed up in the best quality Japanese Yuzen Chiyogami paper, with gold little flowers.
They are listed in my shop, if you want to take this beauties away from me :)

Augustine the Baby Hare

Please meet baby hare Augustine. She just loves to nibble on sunflower petals and most of the sunflowers in her field are just huge black circles on the end of stalks. Augustine knows that the bullfinches and other birds will come to eat the seeds in winter so she makes sure that the plant will survive until them. She is very dexterous and has learned to shimmy up the tall stalk and deftly snip eat petal off. Some of the other baby hares have heard how good the petals taste and she snips off extra ones for those waiting below.

I received Augustine as a gift and reading her story, I decided to welcome her in a very special way, with a sunflower bouquet that I know she likes :) To see more creative art textile ornaments, visit Dragon House of Yuen

Stamps

I love email, but also love to write and receive real letters, they make me feel more closer to the other person, reading their handwriting and getting a piece of paper they held in their hands. I also love the different stamps on the envelopes and I decided to make something special with them. And since the people that like my journals are also addicted to handwriting, I've created a journal that has stamps on it from time to time.  I like how it turned out so I plan to make more - I've got a lot of old stamps from my grand grand father that was a postman and I'll use some of them - little works of art from different places and times. But first I just gotta make sure none of the stamps is worth a fortune  :)

Happy Day

My sister just bought me this gorgeous pendant from MaidOfClay Etsy shop - yep, my life gravitates around this lovely site, so what? My name is Anca and I took the handmade pledge (Hiii Anca)

I've been hovering around this shop for awhile now... I can't wait to see the envy on my artsy friends faces :)

Greedy Me

Can I, can I please keep it for myself? That's a question that comes to my mind often when I create something new - pretty bad for the business, I know... So here's what greedy me didn't wanted to sell - a set of goldenrod little books earrings and necklace - they look pretty on me, don't you think? They are actual usable little blank journals so inside I'll write little quotes, passwords and secrets only my ears will hear :)