Snail mail from Velanch

My super cute brooch from Elena came today :-)
It is even more pretty on person, I looove it!! Check out her shop Velanch for more sequin, glittering beauties!

Wishing you a lovely weekend,
Aleka

Embroidered brooches

Colorful stripes embroidered brooch

Embroidered color block brooch

Square stripes embroidered brooch

Triangle embroidered brooch

I haven't posted any of the new things added to the shop lately, so here's a peek at the new line of embroidered brooches. Simple embroidery with many colors, creating nice geometric patterns. You can find them all here!
Have a great day,
Aleka

My Secret Santa is here

My Secret Santa package is here! My Secret Santa was Annemiek from twotreesworld and she sent me the sweetest gift ever, literally and figuratively. The envelope contained chocolate, which is greatly appreciated (I ♥♥ chocolate) and the sweetest most beautiful brooch I've ever seen! I am a brooch person, I have a pretty big collection of brooches that I have either made and or bought but this sweet little mouse is so super cute, it really brings a smile to my face!
Thank you Annemiek for this wonderful gift :-)
xoxo
Aleka

In circles

The reason why I love taking part in our creative spaces is not only because I get to see what so many other amazing creators are making but also because I'm motivated to make something too! These past few days all my creativity has been focused in the computer leaving me little time to work on anything else but I decided to follow through on one of the many unfinished ideas.
I was inspired by Gia's round brooches and I wanted to try and make one too, I used jean's scrap and some pieces of linen with iron on transfers. My sewing skills are pretty good when it involves straight lines, I had trying sewing in circles before but that had been a complete disaster. So this time I followed Gia's advise and really went for it, no hesitation, no stopping. I'm pretty happy with the result, they are not perfect but now I know I can do it I just need to try and try and try some more :-)
xoxo
Aleka

Entering challenges

We listed two new things in the shop. The brown paisley brooch is taking part in the Etsy Greek Street team challenge, inspired by greek traditional costumes. The green necklace is taking part in the European street team challenge, with "leaves" as the theme.
xoxo
Aleka & Georgia

New things

Finally got around to editing some photos and listing two new things in the shop. The blue felt necklace and the pencil brooches from paper mache in blue, green and red.
I'm hoping to list more items in the following days, I'm in a very creative place right now! I've been writing down new ideas for the blog and the shop, taking photos and keeping busy. I'm really liking the way summer is ending and hope that I'll be just as creative when September comes :-)
Linked to zsazsazu, check it out for more Saturday shopping!
xoxo
Aleka

The missing blog post

This weekend we were at a bazaar at Poros island, there was supposed to be a blog post on Friday with a poster of the event and details about it. Although I am pretty good at managing my time before a trip, for this one that didn't happen, I was packing things until late Thursday night then woke up super early on Friday so there was no blogging.
It's always nice to meet with the other girls from the etsy greek street team and I didn't come home empty handed. This is a photo of the things I bought: in the box a present for a friend from Eleanna, handmade soaps from Aspasia, gorgeous color photo by Elena, my favorite brooch ever from Gia, notebook with hand woven cover from Eleni and black and white photo of the monastery in Poros from Eirini, Eleni's niece.
xoxo
Aleka

Taking more photos

The sun has been shining all week, it's the reason why I decided to re shoot some stuff from the shop. I really wasn't all that excited about the original photos but I think I have (finally) improved my product photography skills. I like these so much better! These are my green bunny brooch and the blue heart brooch.
Friday will be here soon and I've got a little road trip for the weekend, really looking forward to getting away from the computer for a couple of days :-)

Spring things

Some new things in the shop: a cold clay necklace in pink, yellow and turquoise and new bright colors for my felt heart brooch. I'm currently loving yellow, pink and orange it must be a spring thing! Also finally the weather is warming up and I'll be able to work in the studio again, I've really missed that. A very sunny day today and I have a few things in my to do list.
Have a great day!

A fish brooch

The lat few days I took advantage of the sunlight and took some photos of the earrings and paper mache brooches in my hand and the felt brooches on the mannequin. I'm hoping it will help with the size reference. Then the sun went away only to come back today so that I could photograph this fish brooch, I wasn't really happy with the first photos. It's still trial and error trying to get the perfect photo!
Another thing I've done is change the avatar and banner for our jewelry shop, I liked the old ones but I have to admit I like the new ones a lot more! Also I like the jewelry with a twist shop title, I'm thinking of making it more specific but maybe I'll do that later...

Lazy daisy

I've been making a few new things, taking my time and really not rushing it. I know I will eventually get back to my working schedule and I'm trying to prioritize my to do list, it's a pretty long one too! I made these two felt heart brooches and did a little lazy daisy flowers, I think they look quite cute.
Jules Verne was born today, google's page was a lovely reminder!