packed and ready to go to their new owners!

I will miss them though...

Jewelry and fantasy, The exhibition

What an amazing night, a big thank you to Petros Sakelliou http://www.myspace.com/petrospno who played the piano for us and http://jazzmastersinathens.blogspot.com/2011/12/jewelry-and-fantasy-xciv-soundtrack-of.html for the rest of the wonderful music and support and of course http://e-d-w.gr for hosting the event! Thank you to everybody who came  and all the compliments they gave which have kept me smiling since friday....my cheeks hurt!!!!! ;)

The Garden of Eden Tent installation, where the jewelry was displayed.

Red butterfly with orange agate, coral, gold stone, amethyst, garnet and glass beads

Night Butterfly, agate, swarovsky, murano beads, antique buttons and glass beads

Art nouveau blue butterfly, Malachite, turquoise, aventurine and glass beads

Siver crocodile tears, Glass beads, swarovsky crystals

Green crocodile tears, Glass beads

Malachite gecko, malachite and glass beads

Pink and black Gecko, glass beads

Malachite twisted snake, murano beads, malachite, swarovsky and glass beads.

Dark matter with black spider bib, Murano glass beads and old broken spider brooch.

Je t'aime choker, bronze tama, silver je t'aime vintage piece, bronze mermaid and glass beads.

Tangled octopus, chain, vintage enamelled octopus broken brooch, glass beads. 

Romance and Mother, mother of pearl, pearl, rose quartz, silver pendants and glass beads.

Aztec premonitions, Silver hand beaten antique chain, silver decontructed bits and pieces
and glass beads.

lucky, selection of semiprecious stones,vintage silver enamelled lucky charms and glass beads

Hand of temptation

Hand of temptation

Chess snake cuff, leather, agate, quartz and glass beads

Twisted snake brooch, gold stone, agate, swarovsky and glass beads

4 solar plexus pendants, glass beads, and glass silver backed stone.

Becoming, chair leg and glass beads

Je t'aime...choker

Bronze heart Tama, retro silver je t'aime pendant, bronze chain, glass beads, bronze mermaid,
glass droplet beads, dark pearl, bronze bamboo shaped cuflinks (on the back)
All materials except small glass beads are recycled abandoned treasures.

Updated

I added a few extra pieces and am much happier with the result...

Modern ancient

Summer witch

I think this summers eclipse had an effect on my work!

Mother

A choker I had made for a friend of mine, had totally forgotten about it till I saw it at her place.

I love it when I rediscover these old pieces I have made!

Agate eye pendants

                                                                       I LOVE AGATE!

Agate set in clay, framed with old chain,

 encrusted with beads, peridot stones and strass

Agate set in polymer clay, framed with chain, encrusted with beads and stass
and micro shells

Forgive me father for I have sinned

My dad gave me these crosses and pendants....the sinning however....

selection of kitch modern crosses mixed with old
religious silver  charms, strass and old glass flat backed beads.

Summer colour

Fruity beaded bracelet and summer madness necklace

Glitzy pink cuffs, antique pink glass beads

Photoshoot

This weekend will do a photoshoot so I can show these pieces being worn!

Abstract mount fuji cuffs

Inspired by my Love of japanese prints and the famous views of mount Fuji. The buttons are antique black glass with gold details.

Intense

One of my few silver pieces.....The squiggles remind me of something the owl might want to eat... :)

Sea inspired jewelry

necklace, glass beads, cast metal coral from deconstructed jewelry

No name

silver and glass beads

This Necklace is made from silver crosses that are given to guests at baptisms. They were given to me by my aunt after years of collecting. 

contrasts

Maroulina an Icon of Jewelry design

When I had My shop on Mykonos a lady commented on how similar my work was to her husbands Grandmother Sophia Thanopoulos, better known as Maroulina. That was how I was introduced to her marvelous creations...and this will always be the biggest compliment concerning my work!
   Maroulina, was born on November 7th 1908 in Russia. She moved to Greece when she was 4. She described while she was young how the sea used to throw at her feet an assortment of materials, from sea shells, driftwood, fragments of glass, crab claws and so on, and how all had been polished and shaped anew by the genius of the sea, these items were to become her precious materials.
     Maroulina was self taught, in 1943 she started making espadrilles, bags and dresses,in 1953 she decided to try her luck in Mykonos (her mothers island) and opened her shop <Maroulina's little shop>.
   Two years later a young man walked into her shop and asked why she didn't make jewelry, she laughed at the time, but she would never forget him.
  Her list of clients were to include Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Ursula Andress, Julie Christie, the Begum Aga Khan, Mary fairbanks, and many more.
    What makes her special to me is not that our stories are so similar, including us both being scorpios and that we are both self taught and discovered our jewelry making passion on Mykonos. What makes her special to me is her uninhibited use of fantasy, never sticking to one style nor conforming to fashion, her work is free, timeless and totally fantastic.
   I could find very little about her on the internet, which actually makes her even more precious....but here are some pictures of her work from her self named book.....Maroulina.

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Maroulinas little shop