holiday is coming

As I was a child, I was always thrilled
to get UNICEF cards from my father's secretary.
I didn't know, where to get them in Indonesia.
So I was really happy
to found an active UNICEF team in town,
as I moved to Constance.
I've joined them and been active for about 4 years,
'till I haven't enough time to attend the meetings.
Now I only help them out on the yearly Christmas sales.
But it's always fun, since I'm still in love with the cards.

This year however I've decided to buy handmade cards.
I've signed the handmade pledge, remember? ;-)
No, that's not the only reason actually.
I love letterpress. It's such a beautiful art.
On Etsy I've found so many people
selling letterpress items. My love grows :-)
I love especially the cards made by port2portpress.
They're so delicate.



I want to share my love to letterpress with you.
Everybody who leave a comment to this post
till Dec 10th, 2007, will take part in the drawing.
One winner will get one of these pine cards
and a glassy surprise from me.
So, simply click and say hi :o)

patterns of fall

Things I love about fall:
the colors and the patterns (and sometimes the rain ;-)).
I think this year I've missed the colors,
since I've been no where that much.
Uuhm, to be honest..
I often forgot to take my camera with me.

Yesterday I enjoyed these patterns AND
I have my camera with me :-)

European Street Team

Since I've joined the EST,
I've been chatting a lot on the forum.
We help each other, support each other,
share stories, laugh and cry together.
I'm glad, I've found them.
Thank you, Euro-Etsian!

Many of them have blogs too.
Morrgan have featured my sunset sky
in her blog yesterday. Thanks a bunch!!
She makes cute knitted creatures, accessoires,
as well as pictures and ACEO photos.
As I don't knit myself,
I always adore people who can do this.
Especially people who can do 3D knitting.
Hannibal - the cutes man-eating plant ever! -
is one of my fave items in her shop.
Now you can even buy the pattern
to make him yourself. Come click and look!

love light

I remember to adore
the black-white-red color combo,
as I was working on a round robin set last year.
It's somehow festive and glamorous
(so not for me - a rather casual type ;-)).
The idea of making a festive trifiori was born.
So, I've made some red flower beads yesterday.

And today I've beaded them to a necklace.
The silver leaf charms and silver heart bead
give it a precious touch. I could imagine,
it is worn with a black long dress.
It has a touch of gothic somehow.

Luckily the sun has came out, although
it was very windy and stormy this morning.
I quickly took some photos.
Now it's in my shop already.
It was my fastest listing, I think :-)

studio insight

I've taken some photos of my small studio.
Some photos have notes on Flickr -
so you might also visit my Flickr gallery
or just click on the photos and you'll be there.

My beloved torch - a Carlisle Mini CC


Here you can see me (ok, part of my hand)
making a flower focal bead


My digitally controlled kiln to anneal the glass beads
(or to fuse small items - never tried it though),
a rice cooker to anneal my trial beads
(and to put chunky beads in.. hehe..),
some of my tools and DoubleHelix glass rods


And last not least my grinder
to clean the bead from the bead release thoroughly.


Oh, almost forgotten - my glass inventory
(Effetre, Vetrofond, Lauscha, FFGH, CiM, Ornela)


That's the place where I create my glass beads :-)