Rena Klingenberg - "Making Jewelry Now" review

Today Rena Klingenberg - author of "Making Jewelry Now" blog made a comment regarding few items from my latest works and listed them in a top of "Newest Content": Fabulous set of brooches! by: Rena What a gorgeous and diverse set of beaded brooches, Aili. Beautiful colors and designs. Great use of your materials. It's especially nice to see them all together here, to compare the different techniques and designs. Thanks so much for posting these here for us to enjoy! link to the site & review here

These brooches I made for pearls4us.com collection. "Three Crystals" (6cm) and “Rose” (3.5x4cm) are made from sewn Czech glass beads, incorporated three glass crystals in the first brooch and acrylic resin cameo in the second. As a base I used high quality 3mm felt (quite dense) and natural leather for back side. Even there is a common suggestion to use cardboard (as inter-layer) I did not follow this tip. As result, the structure becomes a bit flexible and sturdy enough to feel „solidness” of the craft. The third brooch – a pin brooch “Swarovski Flower” (3cm) I made combining two types and colours of Swarovski crystals and Taho glass beads. Sparkling reflection of austrian crystals were complimentary leveraging royal bronze shine of japanese beads. Putting these materials in a simple (orientaly minimalistic) form and net pallet of three colours the brooch got its vivid elegance.

Aili Horna-Butkevica

www.pearls4us.com

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Sietiņtīkliņš

Something special - Sietiņtīkliņš. This is a kind of net-basket -masterpeace of postmodern minimalism. Made from elastic cord, helps take care of you daily purchases. Enriched with original 15 SWAROVSKI crystals. Just perfect piece! Other beauty stuff (Pearls & Swarovski) is available on : www.pearls4us.com