Shimshoni Handmade Gallery

Меня часто спрашивают, где купить пластику и инструменты в Америке. Так что пишу тут отдельный пост;)
( Адреса и описания магазинов )

It's not too modest:) but I decided to collect all the links to translations of my tutorials and articles about my works.
Собираю ссылки на себя любимую)
( List of the links - Cписок )

Many-many-many ThanХ to Alena Zhukova zhuchkin, fashion photographer from San Francisco for the great photos she made with my jewelry!!!







You can see all the photos at Alena's blog
Or on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zhuchkin/
Alena's web site - www.zhuchkin.com
The clothes are by Katya Ryabtseva 8_kat_8

Сто раз ура!!! Смотрите, какие трансовые карточки сняла Алена Жукова при участии моих кулонов, бус и пары колечек! Не зря они все летали на другое побережье в далекий и прекрасный авангардный Сан-Франциско!
Это совместный проект Алены с дизайнером охрененной одежды Катей 8_kat_8, ну и я к девчонкам примазалась;)

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I'm so glad I have made and opened my own web-site! With the gallery, tutorials and with a little shop too!
http://www.shimshoni-gallery.com/
It's the first version, I hope I could do a better one later:)

Ура! У меня открылся свой сайт-галерея! Там висят не только фотографии моих работ, но и есть раздел с уроками - заходите! Попозже довыложу туда свои статьи на русском, и доделаю собственный магазин (пока там только выход на етси). Но уже сейчас там можно лазить и рассматривать все. По-моему, там все удобно и понятно даже несмотря на английский;)
Обещаю обновлять сайт раз в месяц и выкладывать новенькое и интересненькое, и в галерею работ, и в раздел с уроками.
( еще пара слов про сайт )

Today I received these wonderful bronze beads and finding from Russia (from Ural Mountains). These beads were handcrafted by jeweller designer Anna Tchernyh. And Irina Sergeeva, a famous Russian lampwork artist, is selling those in her shop.
Her Russian site - http://www.irina-lampwork.ru/
Her etsy shop - Artisan Findings
I highly recommend Irina's shop - the beads are just great and so unique! I love each and every one of them!
You can look at the photos of the making process of these beads in Anna's blog - http://blackslava.livejournal.com/11559.html



Ура! До меня доползли великолепные бусины из Е-бурга! Огромное спасибо Анне Черных blackslava за исполнение заказа и Ире Сергеевой i_seven за ее чудесный магазинчик, в котором продается вся эта красота!
Ирин сайт и магазин - http://www.irina-lampwork.ru/
Etsy Shop - Artisan Findings

Если вы еще не видели, как делаются эти красивости, то сходите к Ане в журнал и поглазейте! http://blackslava.livejournal.com/11559.html - ужасно интересно!

а на обратной стороне большого листика сидит стекозка!;) махонькая такая!;)
Ух, сколько красивостей получится из этого добра!;)

I fell in love with Hunderwasser theme after seeing works of
Hunderwasser himself


k_tata


m_a_d_o


and b.mariatheresia on flikr


I waited so long and finally I made my own cane houses too!:)


Тема домиков и Хундертвассера захватила и меня;) Наконец-то я до них добралась! Обожаю цветную геометрию!!
Долго я смотрела на работы k_tata, m_a_d_o, и еще замечательные домики grgalina подлили маста в огонь.
Но теперь у меня будут и свои домики и вообще целая куча всего разноцветного и геометрического! Ура!;)
Заодно на волне темы сделала подборку украшений с домиками - под катом.

( More House Jewelry )

This June when it still wasn't so hot for working with polymer clay, I finished this big order of beads (about 200) for a Russian beads store http://greenbird.ru



I'm showing off just now because these beads were made as small "thank you" presents for a contest participants. The contest was organized by the store owner and my friend Tanya girl_of_fall. Now when she have told about the beads in her store's news blog, I can show them to you too.

An illustration of the polymer clay beads creation process


Еще в июне я сделала для Тани, хозяйки магазина "Зеленая птичка" эти сувенирные бусинки. Целую кучу;) Около двухсот разных. Но показываю только сейчас. Потому что они предназначались в качестве маленьких сюрпризов для участников конкурса, который проводила Таня для своих покупателей. Конкурс, кстати, был очень интересный! Посмотреть, сколько прекрасных бисерных птиц было прислано на конкурс, можно в новостном блоге таниного магазина. Там же можно посмотреть и почитать про мои бусинки тоже;)

Take a look at Russian Ural Mountains beads store - www.irina-lampwork.ru
It's a store of very talented Russian lampwork artist Irina Sergeeva i_seven. Irina is a very nice and beautiful person herself - just like her beads and her jewelry! And she is working with another artist, Anna Chernykh, who makes beautiful beads, clasps, connectors and so on from copper!

I ordered a lot of copper beads and beading components by Anna Chernykh - can't wait to receive the order and start to use these wonderful copper things in my jewelry. Love copper!
Заказала шикарную красивущую медную фурнитуру от Анны Черных в магазинчике у Ирины i_seven!! Вот приедет это богатство ко мне - и будет мне счастье!;)) Обязательно похвастаюсь, конечно)

Look at the beauty! I want beads that look like this!

I don't know who's photo it is, I took it from randompictures.

Какие потрясающие черные колючки на голубом, черном и оранжевом одновременно! И все в зеленом, да еще и с черными полосками-пятнами! Просто потрясающие цвета и текстура! Хочу такие бусины!;)

Right after my ring tutorial was published in French polymer clay portal Parole De Pate French visitors to my blog outnumbered those from USA and Ukraine (Russia always stays on the first place:).
And now the same tutorial appeared in Spanish Polymer Clay Guild Newsletter (on the very last page of it, almost at the back cover:)) Thanks to Marivi Ricart (Boolingas on Flickr), the vice president of Spanish pc guild, who wrote the article and translated my tutorial.
If you are a member of A.P.E. and speak Spanish:) you can read this newsletter. It contains many interesting articles about polymer clay meetings, techniques, tutorials and a swap gallery. There is even an interview with Grant Diffendaffer who taught his master classes this year in Spain.
If you are not an APE member you can become one and subscribe to their newsletters, otherwise I will just show of a bit and quote what was wrote about me in Spanish;)
"Hos nos vamos hasta Connecticut, Estados Unidos, y contactamos con Elena Samsonova, una chica que crecio y estudio en Moscu, y hoy, desde Estados Unidos, modera un foro rusode arcilla polimerica, www.polymerclayfimo.livejournal.com. Podeis ver sus creaciones en http://shim-shoni.livejournal.com, hace unas murrinas muy particulares. Elena nos ha cedido un minitutorial pare que lo traduzcamos y lo publiquemos en nuesta Gaceta. En este tutorial nos muestra como montar un anillo de arcilla polimerica sobre una base de alambre. Es muy sencillo de hacer, y los resultados pueden ser espectaculares segun la murrina que elijais."

Под катом как обычно по-русски ( RUS )

Great table!

Начинаем почтовую горячку?;)
Под катом обзор почтовой темы в бижутерии и не только, примеры интересных работ и идей, ссылки на уроки. Много!;)
( Letters, Stamps, Parcels and so on )

Serge, the Teddy Bear, by Galina Voschina, Novosibirsk
the Mug by Karen Wosoba, Wisconsin
photo by me)
( +4 pics )

I'm so happy my favorite wire artist Elena Strukova severi made one of her jewelry sets with my sunflower beads!

And her photos are also great so I took them to show off a bit in my journal too;)
( RUS )

Currently sources of my inspiration are mainly works of two artists.
One is Svetlana Matusa, Serbian artist who now lives in Reykjavik. I saw her shop and studio in January when I was traveling in Iceland. I wish I could spend five hundred dollars and buy her gorgeous tea pot and a pair of tea cups! She makes beautiful pottery and ceramics! Her works resemble Icelandic lava rocks and moss-grown stones.
Svetlana has a web site - http://svetlanamatusa.com
But you should definitely go to Reykjavik and see for yourself.
I fell in love with how tiny little holes of lava rocks were recreated in Svetlana's ceramics and was mesmerized by its curves, natural colors and beauty!

Another artist, Kate Clawson, lives in USA near Philadelphia. Her flickr and etsy shop called Organic Oddesseys.
Her organic designs appeared in Susan Lomuto's blog.

I love it, love it, love it!

My last "nature" collection is an attempt to make something as beautiful as their works.
Lava stones that I brought back from Iceland help me recreate organic holes and shapes. I wander around the neighborhood looking at stones, trees, moss, leaves, bricks, knobs and all sorts of magical manifestations of nature.

( RUS )

by http://www.silverworkzgallery.co.uk/


other





poncho by Isabella Lundberg


( RUS )

I have accedentally found my three works (four pictures) in google search!:))
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=black+plastic+wrapped+copper+wire&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

It feels nice:) Though I enter a very strange and rare word combination...:)

I got interested in artistic usage of silicone sealants recently.
( Here are some links I've managed to find: )
and my first experiments with silicone sealant, paints and acrylic paste on polymer clay and glass beads base
( дальше с картинками и по-русски:) )



( these two acrylic gel beads are my favorite!! )

Here is my new bangle (silver plated wire, my pc beads, jade and glass beads)

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And there are my how-to's about this technique in Russian community wire_ru

fantastic jewelry by Jason Burruss - http://jandkdesigns.net
silver wire, gems and glass beads by Chris Roesinger - www.yelram.com

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Yes, I did fall in love with wire!
A few month ago I told myself I'll never be touching any wire, because the material is too rough and uninteresting. And now I just can't stop thinking how and what to wire-wrap next.
What a beauty! It's not mine... well... yet;) looking forward to be able to make something like this:

In this post I'll collect all helpful and/or beautiful links I can find on wire wrapping tutorials and galleries.
1- http://groups.msn.com/FineWire/lessonlinks.msnw - a bunch of great links
2- http://www.geocities.com/my4jewels/wirewrappedringtutorial.html - how to make a wire ring
3- http://www.geocities.com/mick62001/simplecabwrap.html - the simpliest wire wrapping
4- http://www.rockhounds.com/rockgem/articles/wirewrap.html - this one is the best!
5- http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/wrap.htm - very helpful and inspiring article
6- http://jewelrymaking.about.com/library/weekly/aa112398.htm - a good and easy tutorial - wrapping a cabochone