Birdies

It's pretty chilly outside but it's officially springtime and little birdies are tweeting and flying around everywhere...


Little birdies are also back into my Etsy shop in lots of colors (light yellow, teal blue, sweet lavender, warm red...) with one of my favorite designs : my "Dans les bois" necklaces, featuring adorable handmade polymer clay birds and beautiful wood beads (dark tiger ebony or warm honey-colored bayong).

Swarovski crystals give a sparkly touch to the composition.

A cute little canary...

The Spring version of "Le jardin du peintre" featuring Czech glass flowers and a silver sparrow framed in a tiger ebony rectangle and hanging from a black leather cord and a very pastoral brown leaf ribbon...

Tweet, tweet...

Early Spring?

Isn't it ironic? We are just 6 days away from the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the olympic torch is getting closer and closer to my house (coming by on Thursday at noon... the kids are excited!), the city center is buzzing with tourists, journalists and policemen (lots of them!), I am receiving emails from my friends in France telling me that they are stuck in the snow and I say : snow? what snow???

Yes, here in Vancouver, it's SPRING!


As you can see, the lilac tree in front of my house is already budding... The weather and temperature have been really mild lately and we haven't seen any snowflakes since December : ) What sucks for the Vancouver Olympic Committee is actually great for me as I hate snow and I am always much happier when I have flowers around me...

So here's a new version of my "Papillon" bracelets to celebrate an early Spring : this one features a purple felt butterfly with a pink and copper lampwork glass bead, purple crazy lace agate coin beads mounted on an elastic and finished with a burgundy picot satin ribbon.

And here's a nice bouquet of felt flower brooches that I bought from one of my favorite Etsy sellers : Vaivanat. I absolutely adore these flower brooches and I could have them in all the colors of the rainbow! I actually bought another two but I intend to give them as presents to some of my friends so I don't want to show them here ; )

Vaiva is from Lithuania and she is the sweetest Etsy seller I have "met" so far.... You can visit her shop at : www.vaivanat.etsy.com

(but be careful, these flower brooches are addictive!).

Fresh beginnings...

Happy New Year 2010 to all of you!!!

So, that's it, we're starting a new year... and a new decade! I hope this year (and the next ones) is going to be fun, exciting, rewarding, surprising, fulfilling and inspiring for all of us...

So far, I have been inspired a lot : I want to repaint my house, change some furniture, take a pottery class, register for yoga class, take a trip to Hawaii and ... make more jewelry! But to be honest, apart from a few pieces of jewelry, I don't think I'll do half of this, at least, not in January!

Here are a few of my "fresh" creations :

"Fleurs des bois", a necklace composed of bayong wood twisted beads, topaz Swarovski crystals and a bouquet of green and purple felt flowers.

"Papillons du jour", earrings with light amethyst Swarovski crystal butterflies, olivine green Swarovski crystals and copper chains.

Bracelet "Rendez-vous à Hyde Park" with tiger ebony wood squares, olivine Swarovski crystals and a lovely green and purple Liberty of London ribbon.

Flowers and Butterflies

My husband makes fun of me : "Let's see your blog! Is there something new?"... and of course, he knows I haven't really posted anything yet : (

I'm actually a little bit intimidated - what should I write about?

Mmmm.... what about posting a nice picture of a bouquet I made the other day to celebrate Spring? I like this picture because I love flowers, I love bright colors and also, I love these paper butterflies I made a few months ago with pretty papers!

Flowers, colors, butterflies, paper : the core inspiration for *olala* design...