Little rustic clay village

I love how these little houses look together, like a whimsical, rustic village! Each house is hand painted with a unique design, I really had no idea what it would be until I started painting it :-)
You can find them all in the clay houses section!

xoxo,
Aleka

Rustic houses

I love how these little clay houses ended up looking! Every one I make is unique and one of a kind as I simply paint on them whatever I feel like at that moment. These two are finished, now all I have to do is photograph them and list them! Let's see if I can do it with this heat...
Wishing you a cooler day,
Aleka

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More clay houses

It's been quite a while since I added new houses in the shop! So this time I added a lot of houses and trees as well as sets of two houses with a little tree. Some are done in natural colors like the brown house but for some I picked bright colors like the yellow and blue set of two houses.
I do love working on them, each house is individually hand formed, then I sand them to create surface texture and then the fun part begins: taking out ALL of my acrylics and picking color combinations that attract my eye. And once I am done it looks so good to put all the houses together, it's like a colorful little village with one of a kind homes and trees!
Aleka

Greek summer in thread

Fall is officially here! It's been only a few days into September and the weather has changed a lot, it's been raining since yesterday and it seems it will continue like this for a few more days.
I didn't get to travel anywhere this summer but I did a bit of mental traveling by starting an ambitious embroidery project. I made these hoops as a reminder of my travels in past years, the dovecot is from Andros island, the temple is from the temple of Poseidon and the windmill from Santorini island!
Each hoop took a few days to finish and is one of a kind! I loved this project so much though I was a bit uncertain when I started and there were a couple of moments where I had to rip stitches and do them over. But overall it was a very fulfilling experience so much that now I'm trying to find another idea, something new that I can create with thread on these little hoops :-)
Wishing you a lovely day,
Aleka

Embroidery work

I always wanted to try a more free style of embroidery, it is more demanding but the result is so worth it! I picked one of my photos as inspiration for this hoop, it's part of the temple of Poseidon against a blue sky. This is a one of a kind embroidery hoop, part of my "inspired by Greece" series :-)

Wishing you a lovely day,
Aleka

Fish brooches

Blue fish brooch

Burgundy fish brooch

Orange and blue fish brooch

Here are some paper mache fish brooches I made, they are one of a kind :-)
You can find them here: the blue fish, the burgundy fish and the orange fish.

Have a lovely weekend :-)
Aleka