ANOTHER FEATURE ON ETSY LUSH!

I'm so happy and honored! My Road To Damascus, one of my "trademark" rings (it's on my new business cards!) and one of my most "hearted" pieces on Etsy, has been featured in the gallery of Etsy Lush alongside my Aegean Sunset! :)

MARRAKECH

Here are more photos from yesterday's photo shoot! This ring has an oriental touch to it... It reminds me of oriental markets... magical oriental nights... Marrakech... spices and souks...

NEW ORIENTAL RING IN PROGRESS

So... this seems to be a highly inspired time for me! This is the new piece I created with the ever-so-inspiring wooden beads from Jana! It's going to be a ring.

I enlarged the off-center hole of the disk, so the glass bead would fit perfectly. Then I decorated the piece with copper and gold dimensional paints. I love the reflections of the vibrant red-orange glass and the oriental look of the piece! It reminds me of oriental markets... magical oriental nights... Marrakesh... spices and souks...

Aegean Sea, Oriental Nights and Enchanted Forests!

With my Treasuries I like to celebrate things I love...
So I dedicated a treasury to the wonderful Aegean Sea that is for sure one of the most beautiful seas in the world...

"AEGEAN SEA"

...and another Treasury to the magical "oriental nights" I have felt in the air in Rhodes, where the geographical closeness to the Anatolian coast of Turkey to the North and to the Middle East to the East has made me feel so close to other, equally magical starry nights...

"ORIENTAL NIGHTS"

...and my first Treasury dedicated to another great love of mine: my beloved woods, where I love having long walks enjoying beauty, peace and nature... I was inspired to this collection by my walks in the woods, an enchanted world that is really close to my soul and a part of it...

"ENCHANTED FOREST"

Treasury for my ROSE OF THE ORIENT RING!

A sweet, soft, romantic and stylish Treasury for my romantic ROSE OF THE ORIENT Ring!

Thank you Yael!

"Speak Softly..." by The Joy of Color

Treasury for my SHAHRZAD RING!

My SHAHRZAD 1 Ring has been featured in a special and really wonderful Treasury by a very talented polymer clay artist from Greece, Maria of Heartshaped Creations! Why "special"? Because it makes me dream about the magical, crystal clear sea of the Greek Islands... Thank you dear Maria for such an artful and dreamy Treasury!
"Ocean of Dreams" by Heartshaped Creations

MY FIRST ETSY TREASURY!!!

I finally created my FIRST Etsy Treasury!!! Being my first Treasury, I wanted to make it special and I felt it had to be meaningful to me... So I named it "Oriental Dreaming..." and I dedicated it to my fascination for the magical Orient...
I chose great works by very talented artists, who made my first Treasury a joy to create! Looking at it I feel like wandering through magical narrow alleys in a wondrous Oriental city or through a colorful bazar full of magical treasures...

Treasury for my SHAHRZAD RING!

My SHAHRZAD 6 Ring has been featured in a wonderful and really artful Treasury! The Treasury "I want to go shopping" has been created by one of my favorite artists, Sandra from Portugal, who creates absolutely stunning and amazing ceramic art and jewelry. Please take a look at her Etsy shop Azulado, it's really worth visiting!

Treasury for my SHARD OF ORIENT PENDANT!

My SHARD OF ORIENT Pendant has been featured in a beautiful Treasury that seems just made for me :)! A really inspiring and artful Treasury by Pixel Wild Child, named "A Day by the Sea..."! Thank you dear Cristina, my pendant is really happy to be in its original environment!

New Treasury for my ROAD TO DAMASCUS RING!

My Road to Damascus ring is very happy to be again in a beautiful Etsy Treasury! The author of this truly stylish and elegant Treasury named "She is Fresh is so fresh"  is Shebbo Design. Thank you dear Sebnem! :) Happy Spring to everybody!

NEW ORIENTAL RINGS!

...and here's what I came up with the oriental polymer clay rosettes! I'm really happy with the result! I painted the rosettes in copper and silver... The details came out in a beautiful way. They remind me of magical oriental cities, wonderful mosques and blue and turquoise domes under the blue blue sky of the Orient...

I used them for oriental-style rings! The rosette is a beauty by itself so I made rings with just the rosette...

...and with the rosette set in crimpled and shaped metal sheet (copper for the turquoise-copper rosettes and aluminium for the blue-silver rosettes)...

...and with a polymer clay base (antique gold for the turquoise-copper rosettes and silver for the blue-silver rosettes).

I will soon list the new rings in my Etsy shop. I'm not sure about the name for this collection yet (names are very important to me, I love to tell a story through a name!)... but I was thinking of Sheherazade!

TREASURY!

My Road to Damascus ring has been featured in a really beautiful Treasury with the inspiring name Whispering Wind... This wonderful Treasury was created by Bysweetmom. Thank you dear Sule for a really inspired Treasury! My ring is happy to be featured among such artful items! :)

CREATIVE CORNER

I have a beautiful bangle I bought in Tunisia years ago. The details are amazing and I especially love the dome-shaped rosette, it's so detailed and perfect for creating a mold for oriental-style jewelry!

So I created a mold with polymer clay. Polymer clay is great for creating molds, it takes up the texture in a very detailed way. Look at the details in the second picture!

After baking the mold, I used polymer clay to create oriental rosettes in light blue and turquoise. I'm going to use them for my next project! Surprise surprise... you'll see the results soon! :)