A ring by De Grisogono

De Grisogono Bague Virgin Scarlet

Monday Inspirational Quote

Organic necklace with purple sugilite, sterling silver

Sunday Interior Design Guide

Here is new awesome collection of home decoration ideas from Anna. What a lovely color scheme! I love all of them, but the whale is my favourite!

Visit the Guide's interactive page to discover the featured stores as well as more ideas for home decoration.

Jewllery Making Halloween Contest winner!

A month ago I announced a jewellery making contest for Halloween. There were a few entries, all of them were very nice! However, there is only one winner. Here it is! I will be contacting the author of the necklace in the next few days and sending her the prize.

Jewellery Art by John Paul Miller

Moth Pendant Brooch, 1994. John Paul Miller ( Cleveland Museum of Art)

Custom Carved Gourds by Marilyn Sunderland

One of many gorgeous samples of carved pumkins

British Museum - pendant

Gold enamelled jewel pendant of a hippocamp with a female rider. Made in Spain Date: 16th Century(late)

DIY - decorated bottle and treasure chest by Irina Novikova

I have come across Irina Novikova's blog where she was publishing lots of her crafts. She is a quite skilled and extremely creative artist from Kazakhstan! I was instantly impressed by what she was making. Look at this project, for example! There is a decorated bottle here and a chest of treasures. 

1) 4 views of the bottle:

2) Here Irina uses her treasury chest to show how she makes her decoration. She says, that she uses glue to attach anything that could work! The seahorse is made of salt dough:

The lizard and the turtle is made of toilet paper!

Then everything gets painted with a black paint. Then she uses a sponge to add color to all the decorations.

Here is fabulous result!

I have a fancy bottle I have not even started thinking of what to do with it yet. Now I know! Thank you, Irina! Thank you for the idea and for your permission to save it in my blog!

Monday Inspirational Quote

Cosmic rings; necklace; silver, copper, brass

Sunday Home Decoration Guide

Today's collection of home decoration ideas by Anna gives me a feeling of a cold autumn morning that is promising a good day with no rain. I hope my morning is going to be like this too... We'll see...

This is a growing collection of ideas. Visit the interactive page for this catalog and see more ideas there.