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Xmas bauble – custom order.
A long time passed since my last post, but be sure I didn’t go into hibernation mode. ;P All this time I have dedicated to learning German (exam coming soon) and making more Christmas decorations. A couple of weeks ago a colleague from my German course asked me to bring some of my crafts to the […]

Provencal kitchen organizer.
This kitchen organizer originally supposed to be a storage tube for spaghetti. When the last layer of varnish dried I ran to kitchen, search in a cupboard for pasta, open the box, put the pasta in the tube, and it turned out that he box was too short. ;P In the end a spaghetti storage […]

That was just a gherkin jar. Look what happened to it.
Sorry for being a bit delayed in my posting schedule, but all for a good reason. ;) Aleks’ brother graduated (we are all very proud of him :D) and due to this reason I had a pleasure to visit a new country – the United Kingdom. :D I am still organizing the kitchen. ;) As […]

It was just a bottle form vinegar. Look how it changed.
Some time ago I visited Rome. The girl that hosted me was drinking every day on an empty stomach an apple vinegar deluded with water. When I learned about the benefits one gets from drinking it, I have decided to check it out when I return from my trip. I got the vinegar. Must admit […]

Part VIII. Simple clay thing or marvelous flower pot.
Many, many years ago when most things were made from natural materials my mum used to keep indoor flowers in a clay pot. They were thick, heavy and had something like a red colour. Simply nothing special, but very yucky after few years of its servitude. I am very much in favor of natural products, that’s why […]

Lemons in, lemons out – decorated bottle – step by step.
As mentioned here, in this post I will guide you through process of decorating a glass bottle. You can use it as a bottle for a refreshing summer drink, a decoration in your home or as an unique bottle for your kid. Definitely, drinking from it, he will think how creative and awesome his mum/dad is. ;) […]

Lemon, lemon, lemon…refreshing lemonade.
Today I would like to show a project on glass. A bottle in which Agni will keep refreshing lemonade during hot days in Cyprus. It is a quite interesting how a desire for this bottle was created. One day Aleks brought to my work a drink in a bottle that is presented here. Agni seeing it got […]

Small surfaces – how to pick up the right motif.
Choosing a design for an object is not that straight forward. Big surfaces are easier to arrange simply because there is more place to play around. How to choose a design for small surfaces? When you pick an object and a motif you must check whether the whole image can be viewed from a single angle. […]

Part V. Glass vase.
The last days of the course and the tiredness added difficulties in making this vase. To me, and as I notice, to other girls that took part in the course, this was one of the most difficult and time consuming techniques we had a chance to learn. It took me 2 full days to make […]