Wow, I've been featured on HandmadeFuzion front page and their blogs! You can click on the link below to see.
How cool is that! It's my first time as a featured artist anywhere. :)

I've just got my first set of MOO cads, and they're sooo cute! If you don't know what these are, they are sort of miniature business cards, with captions of your Flickr photos on one side and your URL on the back. Very pretty! And they fit in any purse or wallet. I made them to advertise my www.jewellia.com site.

So this is a bead embroidered necklace I've been working on for quite some time now... The stones are onyx and serpentine. Not sure how to continue from this point, though. Should it be symmetrical or asymmetrical? What do you think?

Wow, that giveaway was fun! I think I'll make it a habit to do a giveaway or some kind of a monthly promotion thing for my site on the beginning of each month. What do you think?

And this ring I custom made for a wife of my collegue. It's very cute, and he told me she loved it!

Get a chance of winning these sterling pearl earrings! For details, check my blog at
http://isabeau-bijoux.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow I will be opening my new website for my jewellery, Jewellia.
To celebrate, I will hold a giveaway for a pair of earrings tomorrow, Monday 13 Oct, on my Blogger! - http://isabeau-bijoux.blogspot.com/ Don't forget to check in to win!

Gosh, I re-read some of my earlier posts, and there were some many spelling mistakes and typos! I'm so ashamed! I'll take a moment later to correct them, for sure...
In the meantime, I've set up a shop on the new handmade and crafts site, www.handmadefusion.com. My shop is at www.handmadefusion.com/stores/Jewellia. The site is new and looks nice, with lots of categories. Check it out!
I'm also working on my site - I still have much to do, but it's coming along.

This has been a horrible, horrible weekend so far. I caught a mild cold, and can't bring myself to do anything other than watch TV and eat. :( There go all the plans of finishing the website and catch up on my reading... Also I've been having rather drastic mood swings in the past two days, like really drastic. Maybe it's the cold, but it really annoys me. I just want to be my normal creative self, not this emotional wreck...

Caudalie is a French term used to define the time that the aftertaste of wine persists in the mouth; generally, the greater the length, the better the wine.
I bougth the clasp a long time ago - it really caugth my eye! I was waiting to do something equally pretty with it, I hope it works...
In this bracelet, garnet rondelles in two subtle shades and cuts on sterling silver headpins compose the length of the bracelet, along with sterling beads and a decorative sterling clasp in the wine theme.

The shape of this unusual pendant reminded me of a shield, and the overall sense of power of this bold piece made me name it Warrior Queen. The name was acctually inspired by the warrior queens of Scala, from a book series by Lynn Flewelling (great read!).

The first thing I've made on my new desk. :) Sawn, pierced and polished by hand, sterling silver 925.

Also, I'm finally done watching the BBC miniseries on Geiman's "Neverwhere". I really loved this book, and the film was true to it to the letter, but it was a really low-budget production, and it showed. The music score was horrific, and the cating was dissapointing. I really enjoyed the villains, Crupe and Vandemar (can't remember is the spelling is correct), and the Marquise, even though he wasn't all all like I pictured him. :) Richard and Door were entirely non-descript.
I would recommend it to the book readers, as it's a nice visualisation, but that's it.

This is a part of my new luxury collection! It features large smokey quartz focal and drop briolettes, green amethyst (prasiolite), citrine, peridot, and spessartite garnet rondells. A decorative sterling toggle clasp completes the design.
This is my take on something really regal (and expensive :)). I like how the colors turned out, very autumn-like.
Also, this will be featured on my new website! Yep, I've finally taken the plunge and started building a website. I hope it will be ready soon, and... I'm planning to host a giveaway to celebrate the opening! So stay tuned. :)

My new jeweller's desk with some equipment already on it (and beneath it). Acctually, I've had it for two weeks now, but I was too lazy to blog, lol! And, on the other hand, too busy making new stuff on it. Silver is so fun to work with, and this desk makes it a real pleasure. I would really recommend anyone who is serious about metalworking to invest in a proper bench - it makes all the difference.
I also bought all the other stuff you don't see in the picture - steel blocks, punches, pincers, etc. My hubby said the all look like torture devices, and he's afraid to be in the room when I'm working. :)

Money  IS happiness. It can buy you airconditioning. :(

Horray, I finally got my Shadows Return book in the mail! Along with some fab gemstone goodies, which I hoard with the intention of making a really lavish necklace. And I mean REALLY lavish. 
So I have to get my act together and finish re-reading Traitor's Moon. I would skip it and go straight for the new one, but I don't remember a lot of the facts and characters, and reading the first two was a lot of fun, like revisiting old friends. :)

And since I haven't posted my jewelry here lately, here's my bead embroidered bracelet with unakite. I really love the colors on this stone.
 

I  haven't done a thing this weekend, and I feel like crap. 
My husband has some issues at work and also feels like crap.
I'm pretty sure even the Salmonellas I grow at the lab feel like crap, 'cause the grow all funny, and their soft agar turns to soup agar for some reason.

And I didn't get my book yet! 

I went to a jewellry exhibition that was hels on 1-28 July in Tel Aviv. Lots of artist and supply vendors, really really nice original works. It's sure something to aspire to! :) Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, so there are only crappy cell phone photos to show.  



I'm choosing gemstones
 
My new hoard of treasures. :)

 You know, I'm way into online RPG games, but small and private ones, with only two players interacting in a dialog format. It's kind of writing a co-authored story, really. :) Anyway, I'm really proud of myself of coming up with an entire story line for a game (even though the ending was kind of smudged).  I'm even thinking of turning it into a real story, with some changes, of course.


Is it bad?

So  I went ahead and ordered my copy of Lynn Flewelling's latest book, "Shadows Return". To tell the truth, I was a little afraid to pick up where the storyline ended in the previous one, only because I picked up this ugly-ugly rumor that the main couple were going to split. Really, I can't live through Seregil and Alec splitting. :( I know it sound so darn silly, but I just love them as a couple, and I'd rather have them happy together forever in my head.
But, me being the nosy me, I took a pick at the spoilers thread at Lynn's LJ otterdanceand I knew I just had to read it, no matter what! I won't post any spoilers here, but I'm waiting so eagerly, and waiting for the final book next summer will be hell's torture, I know.
I'm re-reading the series now to catch up on the old names and places, hopefully in time for the book to come in the mail. I forgot how sweet and innocent Alec was in the beginning, really clueless, so funny. :)
I also remember I had a scrap sketch of them on Deviantart, here - http://ondin.deviantart.com/art/Seregil-and-Alec-38158167
God, how awful...

These certainly took me a long time to make and even longer to post! I promise I'll do better next time. :) Anyway, these are sterling silver, all hand forged by me in my class, with malachite cabochons. The detail in the back wasn't y idea, but I think it looks interesting and a lot better than simple solid backing.