Along the winter trails ...

We managed this winter to realize our dream - to go skiing in Austria.

Austria is good at any time of year. 

In the spring it was romantic, with dripping icicles 

under the roofs of the old houses.

My fascination with lampwork

Welcome all looked into our blog. My name is Julia. I live in Belgium, Town Gemblouh. I have a loving husband and three sons. My family supports me in my hobby. I create jewelry.  My shop is here. I work with polymer clay, natural stones, beads. I recently started working in the art lampwork. I organized  workspace in our garage :)

lampwork, workspace

RED

Today I will tell you about symbolic meaning of colours. First of all, when we choose the clothes or accessory, or jewelery we are interested in selection of preferred color. But all colours have its own meaning and symbol.

Today we will talk about the most bright color - about red

My story is simple.

Hello. My story is simple.
My name is Svitlana. I am from Ukraine – there’s such a country in the center of Europe. I have a husband and a daughter. My family is very important for me. They inspire me to search new ideas; they support my beginnings and are always ready to help me.

I have been fond of knitting since school. The first time I took crochet, my grandma showed me two eyelets – single crochet and double crochet. My creative work started from these two eyelets. Person, who was the first to come up with entanglement of threads in a way that the picture appears, was genius. This knitwear is vivid, it creates good mood and charges with positive energy.

Hobby in people’s life

In our country– Ukraine – parents teach their kids to envolve their personalities from the childhood - read books, do the sport, find their capture. This capture - hobby - is quite important for everyone.

Hobby gives you the chance to be private, to stay alone with your own thoughts. Hobby is pretty better than psychologist and you can find soul balance, keep calm, and get positive moods in life.

In our family we have a special attention to the hobbies. My daughter is painting batik from the childhood - painting on the silk, she also makes clay and beaded jewelry.

But I want to tell you a few words about my son - Dan.

Riga Christmas 2014

Hello! My name is Julija. I’m from the small country called Estonia. My biggest hobby and passion is making beaded jewelry and accessories, but I’m not only Handmader. I’m starting my career as a physician right now, but beside my work and my hobby I also like travelling, hiking, cycling, backpacking, water sports and climbing. I often get my beading ideas while visiting places I have never been before. In the future you can see more photos of Riga on my Facebook page - follow me! All of my beadworks are available in my Etsy shop .

 Riga Christmas 2014

  This year we – me and my Belowed decided to break the routine and spend the Christmas holidays in the different place. It took us some time to think and finally we decided to go to Riga.

Our post today is about DECOUPAGE.

Decoupage is a popular trend. The technique of decoupage actually dates back to twelfth century China. it became known as decoupage during the seventeenth century when it became enormously popular in France and Italy. The term comes from the word 'decouper,' which means 'to cut out'. Some famous people are known to have loved and enjoyed decoupaging during their lives including Madame de Pompadour, Marie Antoinette and Beau Brummell. Decoupage is relatively easy and inexpensive to do. Here are some basic guidelines to get you started.

We will step by step make decoupage bag from faux leather.

I used brush, repair tape, alcohol, scissors, pencil, potch for napkins, artistic gel, primer, hairdryer, napkins and bag.

1. I bought high-quality faux leather bag at the store.

We started!

We started the blog of our team. "We" it means
Katrin (https://www.etsy.com/shop/KatrinKnitting)
Julija (https://www.etsy.com/shop/Biserinka)
Svetlana (https://www.etsy.com/shop/SvitlanaSky)
Ulyana (https://www.etsy.com/shop/BijouVarni)
Julia (https://www.etsy.com/shop/Nikita551)
Ksenia (https://www.etsy.com/shop/KsaveraART)
Svitlana (https://www.etsy.com/shop/Marywool).
 In simple life we are daughter, mothers, wives, sisters, girlfriends, etc. You still don‘t know us, of course, but we will try to be interesting for you. We all are different: we live in different countries, have different habits and tastes, but we had been merged by ours hobby -- we are hand-maders. Maby smth more, we are HAND-MADERS (this is right and more loudly). Of course our lives are not limited by only hand-mading, sometimes we have to clean, cook and erase...and another stuff.