Wire Lace Supplies Update

December 8, 2025 If you visited my  Wire Lace Supplies on Etsy lately, you might have noticed that things are not as they used to be. Medium bobbins and kits are sold out, and wire stock is thinning. I am not replenishing the supplies, because it’s really hard to predict what is going to happen next. The shop stock count is accurate, and when…

ARTS 2025 EXHIBITION

May 19, 2025 I am pleased to share good news that my work “Divine Harmony: Offering to Mother Earth and Father Sun” has been selected for a group show ARTS 2025. As described by the organizers, Arts Council of Surrey and the Surrey Art Gallery : “This annual open-juried art exhibition celebrates art making throughout Surrey and beyond. Entries appear in a wide range…

Spring Chickens and Eggs

April 2, 2025 Spring has arrived and I feel like celebrating… sprouting, growing and blooming with plants, chirping and singing with birds, building nests and taking care of eggs… Chicken eggs in particular!  It must be my Slavic roots drawing me back to spring festivals of pagan tribes. In their spring rites, the eggs symbolized fertility, new life and abundance. Tradition of decorating eggs…

Year of the Snake

January 29, 2025 Snake in enamelled copper with labradorite stones – tape lace with torchon ground filling.

The Year of Old Wise Trees

December 30, 2024 I am pleased to conclude the 2024 blog with a post about a new addition to the Old Wise Tree Gallery – a picture that  is especially well suited for marking a transition from the old to new year. Hilary Kent from Haslemere in the UK shared a photograph of her Old Wise Tree creation: Four trees framed together in one…

First days of winter…

December 25, 2024 I like to observe nature’s cycles and notice how creative ideas change with seasons. On the recent winter solstice I experienced something very unusual – no creative ideas at all! Instead of bright sparks I felt great heaviness and darkness, as in the depth of the soil laden with moisture and burden of life. I imagined Erda, the Earth Goddess being…