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 | A flower of God’s design
Posted on Aug 29, '11 1:56 PM for everyone
"People have been passionate about roses since the beginning of time.They have always been symbols of love and beauty. According to the Greeks, the rose was born when Chloris, the g..."
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 | Summertime blues
Posted on May 17, '11 2:57 PM for everyone
"I like summer a lot. It's my favourite season. Summer means a lot of things to me, but first of all colours, light, sunshine…. For sure summer means flowers too: white chamomiles, ..."
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 | My funny beading before Christmas
Posted on Jan 6, '11 7:03 AM for everyone
"I really enjoyed creating small figures with brick and peyote stitches to decorate my newly bought table Christmas tree during last December. Actually I turned my Christmas tree in..."
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 | The Mistress of the Copper Mountain or the Malachite Lady
Posted on Dec 2, '10 5:38 PM for everyone
"I have always dreamed to have a malachite necklace. When I was a child I used to read the “Stone Flower” tale. This tale is the most famous one from the book "The Malachite Casket"..."
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 | The Red Corn Poppy Necklace
Posted on Jul 23, '10 11:05 AM for everyone
"This summer in Finland is unusual hot. Maybe that hot weather provoked me to create any red flower, a poppy, for example. A poppy is probably one the most flamboyant flowering plan..."
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 | Flowers are a timeless source of inspiration
Posted on Jul 19, '10 1:31 PM for everyone
"A flower is a metaphor for a woman, and has been used by jewellers throughout the ages. Botanical themes have been a rich source of inspiration for me, as well. I have been designi..."
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 | Globe-flowers and Meadow Buttercups
Posted on May 23, '10 4:32 AM for everyone
"Every summer we spend some days in Paakkila, a country side in the center of Finland. And each time I take photos of wild flowers growing there. I was very much attracted by nice b..."
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 | Konstantin Makovsky’s Boyaryshnyas or Russian girls of Makovsky
Posted on Apr 11, '10 4:24 AM for everyone
"Every century has its own ideal of beauty. Konstantin Makovsky associated the beauty of Russian girls in 19th century with the beauty of Russian dress: a long train (sarafan) and t..."
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 | Easter necklace
Posted on Mar 21, '10 6:40 AM for everyone
"Easter is coming! I like this holiday full of colors. Most of the people are unaware about the Easter color philosophy. All the colors of Easter have their own unique signify, in f..."
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 | Fashion Сolorworks 2010 Beading Contest
Posted on Mar 16, '10 5:38 AM for everyone
"Colour is a paramount ingredient to the bead and jewelry design process. Vibrant reds, lush greens, cool blues, elegant black and white—many great jewelry designs spotlight color. ..."
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 | "Phlox" necklace or "Shibazakura"
Posted on Mar 15, '10 11:29 AM for everyone
"I would like to introduce Shibazakura (Moss Pink, Moss phlox) at Hitsujiyama Park and my phlox necklace to you. Moss pink is commonly called "Shiba-zakura" in Japanese which can be..."
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 | All cats are grey at night :=))
Posted on Mar 11, '10 7:20 AM for everyone
"All cats are grey at night. or Rephrasing the old proverb above I can call my latest necklace “All flowers are dark at night.” In my case better to say All flowers are violet in th..."
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 | Fuchsia necklace
Posted on Jul 27, '09 4:00 PM for everyone
"Fuchsia Fuchsia is a dancer Dancing on her toes, Clad in red and purple, By a cottage wall; Sometimes in a greenhouse, In frilly white and rose, Dressed in her best for the fairies..."
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 | Some Retro
Posted on Jul 12, '09 10:13 AM for everyone
"The elegance of times past is captured in the Rococo necklace, whose tutorial I found in an old Russian beading book (published in 1999), written by Sergey Kalmykov. He wrote he ha..."
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 | Pearlwork in Russia in XVI-XVII centuries
Posted on Jul 1, '09 2:30 AM for everyone
"Unbelievable, but it is a historical fact! In XVI-XVII centuries almost EVERY Russian woman, including tsarinas could bead and embroider with freshwater pearls! Royal workshops cre..."
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 | Spectrolite sunflowers
Posted on Jun 13, '09 3:11 PM for everyone
"“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.” by Helen Keller During the last gemstone fair held in Lahti I bought some spectrolite caboc..."
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 | Anneli Kärppä
Posted on May 3, '09 5:43 AM for everyone
"It is Anneli Kärppä. She is wife of my husband’s brother, Veikko. Anneli is a real lady fond of jewelry, including beaded ones. During her last visit to me she tried lots of floral..."
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 | Maltese Cross Pendant
Posted on Mar 30, '09 4:58 AM for everyone
"A cross pattée is also known as a "cross patty", "cross formée" or "cross formy" or in German "Tatzenkreuz". It is a type of cross, that has arms which are narrow at the center, an..."
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 | Finland's first Pearls & Beads Fair in Lahti
Posted on Mar 23, '09 3:05 AM for everyone
"Finland’s First Pearl & Beads Fair taken place in Lahti on 21.-22.3. 2009 was a great success. Jokimaan Ravikeskus was very busy welcoming hundreds of visitors for two days. Th..."
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 | Pink.....pink
Posted on Mar 18, '09 4:56 AM for everyone
"These flowers were made long ago waiting to be attached. Only a day ago I put them all together just connecting them one by one with each other without any certain design idea. Her..."
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