Mother Hen & 4 chicken Co.

A set of four coasters with a teapot doily - crocheted, handembroidered, a bit kitch, a bit folk, a bit of fun! :) Get inspired and make your own! Or choose the lazy option here: http://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/186100216/hen-chicken-co-4-coaster-set-teapot

Heart Tide

I made something last night, too. In January, I got a heart of glass made by Mariaela. It waited for a proper moment and it came... The heart got a crocheted string with some beads like blood drops.... De gustibus not disputandum - I like it very much. It is made for myself and not for sale - because the heart was a gift :)
Check Mariaela for her stunning handmade jewellery!

Silver Siren's Scallop Necklace

This necklace made of a true scallop and soft linen+viscose thread and a fistfull of glass and syntetic beads will be available on in my little shop koticzka's Cottage later on :) I really like it with its imperfect perfection and harsh beauty, the contrast of the thread and glass and the ribbed scallop...



By the way, scallop is different than a cockle (pardon me if I am using too common English terms here) - scallops are flatter, more delicate and seem to be made of porcelaine, they are quite fragile. They were used commonly as a decorative motiff, particularly in art nouveau. Black ones are my favourite (to be honest they have many shades of gray when dry), pink are less frequent, white are - for me - unique; spotty ones are also charming. I feel like finding a treasure each time I get a scallop, which is not damaged. Cockles instead, are deeper (which makes them also so much better for little tea-lights), harder and heavier, their ribs are also deeper. The colloring takes frequently a shape of stripes but it is quite easy to find plain white, brown, pinkish or black on the Eastern beaches of Dublin Bay. Cockles are piling over there and give me this overwhelming joy of a child out of sudden thrown in - choose, whatever you craved most for as a kid - in a big chest of toys, dolls with pretty clothes, colourful crayons and paints, marbles in bright colours and various textures? Or just a magical beach full of treasures and mysterious never ending fairy-tales... Oh, the season of beach wondering is coming! :) (beachnig would not be the perfect word here, but whatever you choose! ;))