Tea Rose

The other day I was making a tea rose for my friend...beaded rose on wire of course :)

I love making these little beauties. Only 8 petals, 6  sepals, stamen, and 10 leaves for 1 flower (smile)

I remember 7 years ago I was making 11 pink tea roses. I could make a dozen, but I run out of beads. The bouquet was beautiful! I have a small picture of it.

I have a tutorial how to make this beaded tea rose. You will learn and master Victorian technique while making this cute little flower with leaves. This tutorial has 8 pages with 26 step-by-step detailed photos. (Click here for details).

Oops... I almost forgot to boast :) I've got a gift from my friend Alla who runs FleetingStillness shop on Etsy. She made a beautiful Stained Glass Panel Bud Vase for me, where my tea rose now lives :) I think, they were "born" for each other :)

Scarlet Floret

Do you like fairy-tales? I do!

Every night I read a fairy-tale to my daughter before she goes to bed. One of her favorite is a Russian tale by Sergey Aksakov "Scarlet  Floret". A scarlet floret - a gift which younger daughter Nastenka asked the father to bring from the distant countries. The father gets in a palace of the Monster where picks a flower, but he is threaten by mortal danger because of it. The daughter rescues the father, having removed a spell from the Monster.

I made my scarlet floret with shiny bright pink and red beads. 

Do You Like Abstract?

About a year ago I found a new (for me) media. It was a polymer clay :) It has endless possibilities to create one-of-a-kind pieces.

I want to share with you some of my favorite designs with abstract pictures. When I was making them, it was like magic- after cutting a slice of clay you see new picture. What do you see here?

Some people see a dog, others- angel or rabbit. Everybody sees his/her own picture. It's like the Rorschach test, right?.

Beaded Flowers

Once, my Russian friend living in Japan sent me a beautiful, red beaded rose as a Christmas gift. I thought, "Is it possible to make something as lovely as Mother Nature creates? Probably not, but sometimes copies can be worth that of the original." That is when I fell in love with beads and wire.

Gerbera