Cute animal necklaces and brooches by Nellin Shoppi

I have made a new design for cute animal necklaces and brooches. I have been working on them for about a week now. It all started when I began drawing them in my notebook and realized they would make very cute  products. Today I had my first photo shoot about them!

These will go with me to the next fair Korukarnevaalit on 27th.

Me and my rescue

I love my dog!

Meet Kaveri, our mixbreed rescue dog. 

He came to us from Russia. Someone had abandoned him and luckily he was found by some nice russian people who took care of him. A few months later he came to us trough a friend who works as a volunteer with rescue dogs. He was approximately 9 months old when we got him, so a playful little puppy!

This is Galina who rescued him and brought him to us. Thank you Galina :)

He was so small and big eared :D

He has been my dog now for 1,5 years. During that time I have come to realize how many unwanted dogs there are in the world. I have started following Koiran Elämää in Facebook and the amount of dog pictures just tear a hole in my heart. They're all so cute and deserve a home. Often the organisations have money issues (because they run on donated money) and they need help to feed the dogs. I have donated food a few times already and tomorrow I will donate Nellin Shoppi items for lottery winnings to a organisation Kodittomien koirien ystävät ry. I think this kind of helping is small, but in the end it is what keeps the organisations running. 

Winter clothing :)

So cute!

He was running free when we went to our summer holiday. Such a happy little doggy :)

If you would like to donate to some of these organisations, here's a few links. Even a small amount of money, or a bag of dog food helps! 

Rekku rescue

Espanjankoirat

Kulkurit

Kodittomien koirien ystävät ry.

And the rescue dogs thank you :) 

Some new photos

I have been taking new photographs for my Etsy shop. I bought a Canon 660D about a month ago and today I had some time to try it out with my new macro lense. It's been lots of fun to take pictures!

Here's something I've managed so far:

Making polymer clay buttons

Today I have been making polymer clay buttons with textures from lace. They turned out pretty great!

As some of you might know, I am taking part in a sales happening in Gloria called Korukarnevaali. So these buttons will be on sale there! Also, I am making some new earrings and whatnot else I can come up with for the sale. I love polymer clay because it is so versatile!

Here are the buttons! I am still thinking of painting some of them... These buttons would be great accessory for any jacket ( or hats, bags, hairbands... etc. )

Making a fair stand

I love to find and tune new items to make my fair stand prettier and more practical. I was trying to upload some photos from my phone but it somehow didn't work at all so I have to show the pictures that I have uploaded on Facebook. Sorry for that, I will try to update them later on!

Mostly I find the props from drift stores and flea markets. Lately I found a lovely and rare, old window frame that has white and wood color brown on it. I put a white net canvas on the background with some nails and glue and it works very well with my earrings. it can also be used to show other things if you use magnets to attach items from both sides (displaying for example some necklaces on that is something to keep in mind if I ever run out of earrings...)

Old stand was brown, now I painted it white.

white :)

Window frame earring stand.

After finding that window frame I totally decided my stand would be a combination of white and wooden brown props. It was easy to look for other items to accompany the window frame, something that would have the same spirit. Take a look of what I found and how the stand looked like last weekend in the Spring sales.

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I also found the necklace stand from a fleamarket for 3 euros. It's made of brown wood but I used regular white acrylic paint to make it white.  The bookmark stand was also brown and I painted that too to match my new style. Im very happy with this new look!

Polymer clay earring workshop

I was asked to hold a polymer clay workshop in Taikarasia on 2.3.2013. There was also a happening named Silmä, pisto, Tikki, takki -Keittiönperäyrittäjien käsityö ja -tarvikemarkkinat in Kiseleffin talo when I had the workshop. The overall feeling in Kiseleffin talo is definately something to see and feel! 

I decided the theme of my workshop would be simple and easy so anyone could take part in it. By using lace on polymer claywe created cute and simple earrings. I really liked to run this workshop and was honored to be asked to hold one. I will definately do it again! Here's some shots for you to enjoy!

The fimo collection and some sample earrings!

The process was easy enough for children too :)

Some earrings got used immediately!