A lively brooch

Green and purple - two colors that people don't usually think of as matching. But when they are paired in the right shade they can do wonders, it's the celebration of colors!

My favourite is green: light green, moss green, grass green, bluish green, "winsor" green (as I read it somewhere)... It is a very lively color and no wonder as it is also the color of life itself. Purple can be very clean and very dirty too. Here I linked the two shades with the silver bead, also a cold tone of the color palette.

I would love to see more color on people, we tend to be so boring in this sense, especially in winter. Everybody has at least one color that would bring the best out of them, go find it and wear it!

About the brooch itself: after doing all the preparation it was really fun sewing it, I just had to think well about it beforehand to have everything needed and to go step by step. It is really just a question of planning ahead. I want to make another one sometime and then publish a tutorial here so you can also make your brooch at home if you have the patience for it.

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3 Blogs to read in March

1. Cause: Fogadj örökbe! (Hungarian)

Dejke is an abandoned and mistreated dog - nothing unusual so far. But some people found her and decided to give her another chance, her big chance in life and heal her physical and mental scars. The story is beautiful, the road is long, the blog is a must-read. Come and support this family in their daily tasks around a dog that needs to learn how to trust people again.

2. Film: The Film Sufi (English)
I would love to write another post on movies every day but this is not my main focus and there are people who can do it much better than me. Fortunate as it is, they also watch good films. The Film Sufi is one of them.

3. Arts: Artista Blog (English/Hungarian)
Are you still a kid deep inside? (I think I am...) Do you have children in the house who love teddy bears and dragons? Then this blog is worth visiting once in a while. Írisz Agócs, the Hungarian illustrator posts her drawings here - and I am proud to tell you that she illustrated the Christmas gift cards I gave to my family in 2010!


© Agócs Írisz

Fruzsina had a dream

Something metal, something feminine, something like a statement. Her boyfriend told me about it here.

So I made it - a bit shorter than the looong version, a bit softer with the key medal instead of the scissors, and a bit jingly thanks to the tiny bell next to the two medals. Length is adjustable.


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A walk on the beach

La Kukac wanted to feel some summer breeze today.

Walk on the beach, feel the sand between your toes, step on tiny shells, hear the fishermen from the distance, see as the sea and the sky become one on the horizon, feel the smell of the seawater, step into it and on the small pebbles at the bottom, walk along the shore, going nowhere. Look up and see nothing else but the light brown sand and the light blue sea.

This necklace is the way I made this dream come true today.

Made of wood and another lovely mineral: a kind of jasper or jaspis (képjáspis in Hungarian). It is a semi-precious stone. Said to relieve the feeling of guilt, bring us closer to the past and to the earth and cleanses the kindeys, while at the same time strengthens the stamina.

For whoever believes in astrology, this mineral fits mostly the Capricorn and the Taurus as these are earthy, solid signs which the jaspis helps to develop and deepen their inner good qualities.

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Eating cherries with Marvin

The piece I present today was made for an order - my colleague (another again) knew what she wanted and asked me to make it for her. She told me that when she was a kid she used to put cherries onto her ears and she wanted something similar.

This earring reminded me of a very pleasant and heart-warming memory of mine. Two years ago I was kind of a freelancer for a while. It was summer and I spent much time at my boyfriend’s house. He has a nice garden and whenever I could, I stood up from the computer and stayed outside for a little sunbath, reading newspapers or books and playing with Marvin, who was still a puppy that time. There is a cherry tree in the garden and I remember standing underneath, picking cherries with Marvin at my feet, collecting whatever fell down or was thrown away by me. We stayed silent and nothing special happened but this is such a lovely memory to me: eating cherries in the summertime garden with Marvin. This is a photo of Marvin from this time:


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"[...] don’t shine like your possessions do"

One day we will all discover that the little things are the greatest, that small gestures tell more than big words, that any moment in life is worth living just because it is a moment in life, our life in one single moment. One day we will discover that we do not need to wait for this one day or any day in the future.

The title of this post is a sentence of a 2004 Faithless song which I was listening to while making this pair of earring. I haven’t heard this album for such a long time but just by listening to it the certainty struck me that putting a little piece of my soul into such a small piece of jewelry makes sense, just as the smallest things in life are the ones that truly make any sense.

Combines some of the goods provided by our earth: a heart-shaped piece of shell, tufa, and metal.

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A different you

Why can't we be as beautiful as we wish to, every day? Why can't we wear the most glamorous clothes we can, every day? Why couldn't I dress in a million colours or into sheer black, every day? Why not wear the glitziest, the most jingling scarf, every day, any day?

Why can't we be as beautiful and free as we are, just as we are, deep inside?