Pears and Apples

This is last glass from Autumn set: apples and peaches (and some unknown berries :) )

I have finished painting this glass months ago but still haven't start new one. I have lot of ideas and no time at all. Probably I should spent some time and learn how to sleep 2 hours per day. The problem is I have no time to do that too:)

 Also I am trying to redesign my blog and make it more readable and consistent so don't be supprised if you see some unexpected things - they all are temporary and experimental.

Rest of glasses from this set:

Peak of Colors: uienifer.blogspot.com/PeakOfColors

Grapes: uienifer.blogspot.com/Grapes

Pumpkin Madness: uienifer.blogspot.com/PumplinMadness

My cute handmade knit dress

I love bright colors. I love extraordinary, weird things. I fell in love with this knit dress at first glance. I found it here: present-cama.livejournal.com. Isn't it just gorgeous?

I think I am pretty handy but knitting is not my favorite type of crafting. Moreover I don't like knitting at all. So despite of  I wanted this dress so much I was not going to knit it. It would be very sad if I had no sister who is really skilled in knitting! So I sent her the link with schema 

and ta da! 

 I have never had more beautiful dress. It just amazing.

And finally here I am - wearing the dress. Thanks, sister!

Hand-painted glass - Pumpkins Madness

I have completed paining of fall glass set about a month ago but at the first I had no camera and at the second - time. Finally I am ready to show third glass - Pumpkin Madness.I have planned to complete this glass before Thanksgiving but as usual I am six month late.

I also had plans to create winter set of glasses but looks like I should start summer one - maybe I'll have it ready before next autumn:)

First glass from this set can be found here and second one - here

Miniature Glass figurines - 7

Last couple weeks were really productive in terms of growing of my collection of miniature glass figurines. I got a lot of new cute small animals. I don't want to put all of them in one post because it will be too much - so today I'll share only three new cats. 

Love them all:

Card For the Special One

I made this card before Valentines Day last year for my very special one. It was difficult to take pictures of this card. I am not a card-maker as well as I am not professional photographer:) It can be better of course but it was made with really worm feelings.
Front side:

Back side:

I aged paper by putting it in coffee for a night. As a result the paper looks old, has burnt edges and as a bonus has wonderful coffee smell.

Underwater World Hand Painted Glass

This new glass was not created only by me. My friend started to work on it  for her son and drew octopus, fish and seaweeds. The problem was in her outliner. She had a bad one so she didn't like her art work and gave it to me.
I left almost all underwater creatures she has drawn except couple that was covered with thick rubber-looking outliner. Those were deleted using hot oven and sharp knife.

After removing those parts I drew Nemo, jellyfish and octopus on the glass base and started painting.

 Something was wrong with this glass, I have never had so many problems with painting anything. Paints, outliner and my hand just did not want to be with this glass.

 I was painting and removing what I had painted, I almost broke this glass itself twice... This was tough but I did it. Finally it was ready and was presented as a gift to my friend and her kids. I hope they like it.

The pictures have a bad quality because my camera stopped working recently, so all pictures were made using my cell phone.

Writing Cabinet Renovation

New 2012 has started and my New Year resolution is to put more attention to this blog, find more ideas and create more handmade things.
I haven't posted anything about furniture restoration and renovation for a long time. Just haven't seen anything I would like to share. I found this writing cabinet renovation couple days ago. Just compare these pics.
Before

and after

This writing desk was born in USSR about 60 years ago but after renovation it looks like new. I like bright colors and fresh look. It's really good for children's room. 

The renovation was done by LiveJournal user asa_asa. Here you can find more details and how to. BTW it's not first asa_asa renovation I am writing about. This toys cabinet was renovated by her as well.

Miniature glass figurines - 6

Two more glass figurines in my collection. They came from Ukraine. 

New Year Gift from my sister - Knitted Dragon

Chinese New Year 2012  is the Year of the Water Dragon. There are still about two weeks before New Year but I already got my first gift. This knitted dragon was made for me by my sister. Unfortunately I will not see her till the  next spring or even summer so she gave me this cutie earlier. 

This baby-dragon supposed to bring happiness and good luck in my life all next year and years after. 

 I really like it. Thanks, sister!

Travel book - Ukraine

Here are new pages for my travel book. This time they are related to my trip to Ukraine. I didn't bring too many tickets, brochures, etс this time so it's only five pages.

First page contains list of clothing I planned to take. I had very small suitcase filled up with gifts so need to be minimalist.

 Next two pages are about my #1 city in Ukraine - L'viv. This city is fantastic!

 Last two pages contain memories about road trip to Uzhgorod, Chernivtsi and road-trip: