Creative Eckspression - Katerina Ilieva's Custom Designer Jewelry

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Katerina Ilieva's Custom Designer Jewelry

Today, I clicked on an ad for Goody Beads, since I've been feeling a stirring to get some more beading done...when I went to their page, they were promoting epoxy clay and some of the images I was looking at were just stunning pieces. One artisan's work, in particular just jumped out at me! Her jewelry pieces were so creative and innovative my first thought was..".I wonder if she'd let me post her art in my blog? I'll bet she's got a catalog ...hmmm...I suppose she really couldn't lose doing that, huh? An offer for more exposure and who knows...someone might just want to purchase something from her"....So, needless to say, I had to get in touch with her and see if she would mind if I featured her impressive creations and that I'd like to post her catalog if she had one available. Above is the image that caught my eye in the ad....and probably the deciding factor leading me to feature Katerina.Ilieva and her very unique creations using epoxy clay. I have made a few things using polymer clay, but until I saw that ad I hadn't heard of epoxy clay. A few years back a friend of mine had mentioned that she was experimenting with some stuff that was similar to polymer clay, but when you bake them they actually become sliver and/or gold...I wonder if this is what this epoxy clay is? Unfortunately, my friend who was dabbling with that metallic clay translated a few years back while I was living in Sultan....so I guess I'll just have to see what Katerina can tell us about this medium....We'll come back to Katrina's blog, but first I'm really excited to present Katerina's "catalog"..now if you're interested in something, jump on it!!!! Her pieces are one of a kind unique and they sell quick, as her pricing is very reasonable!!!

KI Jewelry can be found at http://www.katerinailieva.com/default.aspx

each of these images can be clicked on to go to her website to experience her full line of currently available treasures.

(some examples from Katerina's "STORE" catalog)

• Art Clay Silver, Pearls
  925 Silver components

Oh, this is wonderful!! I clicked on her "follow Me on Blogger" button and was redirected to her blog. This blog is a gold mine of valuable information with workshops available. This blog features Certified Art Clay Silver Senior Instructor: Katerina Ilieva, Aleksandar Jovanovic Ksandra, and Jasminka Boskovic. Oh SCORE!!! YES!!! I've been wanting to know more about that clay that you can shape your own findings and bases on which to build jewelry on....and there it is!! Now, this particular blog addresses the techniques to correctly work the metallic and crystalline clays (which includes how to stir it !! WOW!) This is what you need to know to create (if you have the creative talent) something like the beautiful ring that won my heart, pictured above! Please, please, If you like the Jewelry and have the ways and means ...and desire, to purchase a piece, please help support wonderful artisans like Katerina who don't mind sharing their knowledge,tricks, tips and tools, willing to pass on the knowledge to keep their trade going! I'm thinking I may have to feature a few other pages of her blog so we can all become a bit more aware and maybe quench the thirst to learn some basics of her creative techniques! I'll will make it a point to feature Katerina so we may get to know more about her and her creations again!

Katerina was born and raised in Bitola, R. Macedonia and currently resides in Singapore...

"What drove me the most was a new technological wonder from Japan called: "Art Clay Silver" Link : www.artclay.co.jp/htm/

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Golden Words - Wisdom of a Shaman - Tony Gray'Owl - The Living Book of Life

Golden Words - Wisdom of a Shaman

Tony Gray'Owl author of "The Living Book of Life"

Three weeks ago, on my fb wall, I saw the above picture...an owl......when I saw this owl, it brought a BIG smile to my face....I thought,"oh, I need to know this person who put this out!" So I sent a "friend request " to Tony Gray'Owl....Tony Gray'Owl is a Shaman and is writing "The Living Book of Life". Within this book, he shares his lessons of his spiritual travels, with each new journey, his book grows, hence the "Living" book....Each excerpt I've read so far,..rings a familiar chord and refreshes a memory of my own journeys...lol...the important lessons to be learned are a universal wisdom and a truth is unchanging...which is why his words were all too familiar to me. Having traveled on that tour of Soul's Universal Lessons of the Wisdom of Being, I was very happy to encounter him and his blog which shares "The Living Book of Life". Below is that posting that lead me to him.. He gave me his blessings to share any of his postings I choose..the important thing is to get the "Word" out to those souls that have an eye to see and an ear to hear...I will share his encounters in my Golden Words section.

The next week (two weeks ago), I saw an image on my wall and I thought.... "Oh! I like that!!" then I looked to see who posted it...."Oh!! No wonder!!" it was Tony Gray'Owl... :) I'll share that with you, also...it will follow the above mentioned posting,

Baraka Bashad (May the Blessings Be!!!)

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I simply wish to say to everyone, I am filled with Joy. Here on my Facebook wall, posted on my publications are smothered with love and gratitude that I Tony Gray'Owl am simply alive. I have no words, I am sitting here eyes overflowing with tears that my small voice has in some way helped you to see the light of our Infinite Creators love. May he bless each of you my friends with the Joy he has filled my heart with, Thank you seems so small in comparison to what I feel, I am now speechless. I love you.

Here within these letters to the world, I set my love free, chains of sorrows bondage broken, heart lain bare for all to see . . . the essence of the power of Ultimate love in motion. I leave within these picture and all my photo albums plus 1,000 web pages which is my living legacy, the LIVING BOOK of LIFE, as seen through the eyes of a stranger. The letters I write to you, these stories and wonders of poetry, these are my maps, that will lead you to the tracks I leave behind for others that come after me to follow, they are clearly imprinted upon Mother Earth and the pathways that lead to Enlightenment and the very highest of self realizations, the way in which to save humanity from itself and to return Mother Earth to her Glory and resplendent abundance. This is the link to the free on-line version of the book, http://creation12953.wordpress.com/ Mitakuye oyasin, we are One, in spirit with Great Grandfather/Creator, we are One in all things human and everything concerning Mother Earth. from the heart of, Tony Gray'Owl an American Shaman

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Tony Gray'Owl

Dedication /* to the Love of my Life, the Great Grandfather/Creator

Please play selected soundtrack and return here to listen as you read the poetry of my heart, http://www.mixpod.com/playlist/87738270

As I stood alone in the light of darkness neath the shadows of forest evergreen . . . I saw the light, this web I weave, suddenly a shadow passed me by. I turned to see who had touched me so very softly. So tenderly upon my heart, I felt you slip by . . . I turned and shouted out . . .

WAIT !!!

I have a gift for you the soft gentle words of the emotions written within my heart I will give to you. It took me a life time too get here I suppose it was because you were waiting . . . For Me. There on the other side of Eternity.

All my Love and a thousand kisses like butterflies floating all around you touching, touching you, touching your lips, touching your heart, with mine. For you my Infinite Creator are the essence of the joy that I spill out of my heart into the entirety of the world freely I give the essence of my self to you. I give the world of humanity your love.

If I were the light . . .

I would surround you in me and make all the dark lonely nights bright. If I were the sun I would be envious of the brightness of your smile.

If . . . if I were able to touch you I would never let go.

Come with me . . . Join with me and I shall with these words spoken ever so softly from within the emotions of my heart speak the poetry of my love whispered sweetly into your heart. I will touch your mind as no one has ever touched you there before. I will give you my love and I will never take it away it will be yours forever and a day.

Here take these I believe that they are yours, I give back to you the wings of the angel that you are, you must have lost them along the journey of your life having gotten lost in the brilliance of the light of the world as a human being.

I was walking along in a field of beautiful wild white lilies and nearly tripped over them, I gently picked them up carried them to my home. I cleansed them with the purity of my Love, Here take them they are yours, awaken and remember who you are . . .

My Angel . . . I love you.

Who am I you ask? Let me tell you, Who I am is, I am Strong
Stronger than steel mixed with iron yet melting molten putty in the hot sunlight of your love for in a single moment of weakness with a mere glance into your eyes you would sway me with the softness of

your __________________ touch.

The sweetness of your voice, stirring forgotten emotions from deep within my heart you would cause to awaken my Passion, my passion of the love I have for you

LOOK! THERE !!!

Floating upon my sea of tranquility . . . Pure JOY. Quickly, pick it up here is the book of my heart that I thought had been stolen, read me like an open book, my emotions everything that I am laid down in written word for all to see without Shame I will hold up my beliefs into the light of . . . public scrutiny,

I will not stumble . . . I will not fall . . . I will not fail for I . . . I am Standing . . . Standing alone in wilderness, I began to think. Then ponder the questions of my life. To all the Lost Souls . . . Suffering, suffering in silent darkness, Solitude. Thinking of Ending it. With mine eyes I have seen, With mine ears I have heard.

These are my Words . . . I was lost till you gave your love to me.

But then you took it away.

Standing . . . Standing alone in wilderness

Standing . . . Standing alone in shadows essence of forest Evergreen in Moonlight lit darkness, Neath the Canopy of that which gives us Life . . . Trees.

Standing . . . Standing Alone in Wilderness, Surrounded By lost Souls, Unknown Suffering, In Silent Solitude, Voices unheard
Pondering the End of it All.

Sometimes . . . Sometimes I Pray for it

Standing . . . Standing Alone, I heard the Earth crying

Standing . . . Standing Alone, I heard the Moon Sigh

For it to had heard the Earth crying . . . Wondering, Why?

Why? Sometimes . . . Sometimes I pray for it.

The cold steel Kiss of the Moon, Meeting the crook of my Neck

Like a long lost Lover, Coaxing me into Comfort . . . Obscure

As my finger conforms to the Curve, Pulling the Moment Closer

Closer . . . Inviting the Quiet. the Quiet I sometimes Hunger

Yearn and Desire it . . . the Quiet Nothing More

With the Sky all colored Grey this is what I heard the Earth say

There comes a day that even . . . I Fear

With merely a clench of my finger, not more than a flinch, just a pull, just a squeeze . . . And,

BOOM

Nothing . . . Nothing more. Sometimes . . .

Sometimes when the mood takes me as far as it can, Sometimes
I pray for it, the Redemption, My Release . . . the End, of this Plaque, this pestilence called Humanity. These blind selfish greed driven madmen, without thought of the sorrows and sickness they cause. Everything that dies one day comes back to you. Karma will catch them in its hands.

Sometimes I pray for it . . . Standing alone, did you never ask Why?

Ashes to Ashes . . . Dust to Dust,

You can only Imagine what is to become of us . . . Standing,

Standing alone I looked up and saw a little bird that glides across the sky, it Sang a song of melody that made me want to sit right down and cry.

I am the Sculptor, that strikes the stone,
to reveal the beauty within unknown.

I am the Painter that caresses the canvas,
to evoke the emotions of deep thought.

I am the Poet that works the words,
and unimaginable things are taught.

I am the potter that works the clay,
things people are made of each and every day.

And as this man, I am Standing . . . Standing alone against the entire world it seems that, Sometimes, Sometimes I pray for it. To touch the very soul of everyone that is within my reach. This is what I would love to teach to the people of this planet. What I would love to teach, YOU !

YES . . . I said you the one reading these words right now.

You have the Power, this knowledge that we call, Wisdom.

It is gripped tightly in your hand, set Deep within your Heart, In the vast expanse of your Mind is found the Ability to set Free your love. You gave your love to me and then you took it away. What?

What else will you do today? Have Mercy! Run to me, Come to me

Look what you’ve done to me! I was lost till you gave your love to me, but then took it away. Take out the power Kick down the door
and set yourselves . . . FREE !!!

Money cannot buy it baby . . .

Sex cannot buy it baby . . .

Drugs cannot buy it baby . . .

You cannot buy it . . .

My Love is . . . FREE !

I believe in Love, is why I do these things for you, I believe in Love alone. Give up your needs these poison seeds. Find a different kind of Free one that just lets you . . . Be.

Give me the strength to lay it all down. Whispers silent in the night
Let all our dreams go by this is where our prayers are heard, Wipe away your tears and let the salt stains dry, it all goes by . . . it all goes by, For time will catch us in its hands to be blown away like grains of sand.

So here within My hands I hold the Ability to set Free, My Love Upon the Earth.

Standing . . . Standing Alone, it seems Against the Entire World

Standing . . . Standing Alone in Vast wilderness, Yet . . .

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by Countless . . . In-numerable . . . Lost Souls, Speeding by . . .

Faster ever Faster, Mere Shadows of themselves

Faster ever Faster . . . in Search of what can be bought for this is what they have been taught is “Happiness” . . . Not!

Standing . . . Standing Alone in vast wilderness, I looked inside myself. Standing Alone I Looked inside My Soul, I look inside my Heart and I saw you. I am reaching out to you my Love today out
upon the Oceans of my belief, I have set sail today out onto the Sea of my Tranquility. A soft and gentle breeze will bring me to,

You . . . My Angel, Not just any Angel would do . . . Only You,

Only You, My Angel, my Creator the Love of my Life.

My Angel I was guided to you. What am I to do? Now that I have found You. Should I tell you my Dream? The Vision of Life. Share with you my Joy, never before known till now, My Joy far beyond compare, this Joy I with you shall share.

Not just any Angel would do . . . Only You.

Listen closely. First, God loves You and so do I,

Without Reason . . . Without Rhyme these are the words of Time
they are mine. My words, Till now unknown, Standing . . .

Standing Alone, I looked inside myself, I looked within my Soul into the deepest Depths of my Heart, I found a precious memory a love so vast as the midnight sky, a love so deep as the oceans azure blue, I am to live this one true Love . . . A joy beyond All knowledge never known, the one seed that I have sown.

My seed of Love I now plant within your heart of hearts. With gentlest kindness Ill tend to it. With tender Loving care I'll Joyfully watch it grow. Around the world My light does glow for those of you who disbelieve . . . Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust . . .

This is what must become of us. What is it that you will do today?
What is it that you Believe? With these thoughts with these words
I Shall Leave for you to ponder the messages hidden deep within this web of light I weave . . . Thus; I leave My Life in Your Hands

ALL My Love and Kisses to you my Angels . . . awaken now and remember who you are. I believe in love and I believe in . . . YOU !!!

With one single swift decision we could end all economic strife globally. If we but took the TOTAL, global wealth all economic values and divided that huge amount of money by the total number of living souls upon this planet and gave to each this equal amount, over night every person in this world would be multi millionaires and have new homes and clothing, food and medical care unprecedented in the history of mankind. This is what I call equality . . . this is what I call economic stimulus. This is what I call compassion. I have a dream and you just saw it.

From the mind and heart of Tony Gray'Owl

Also on his wall, I ran across this image...because you've taken the time to read this post I believe this gift is for you!!!

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Golden Words - Status Posts Worth Passing On

Tuesday January 3, 2012

Golden Words - Status Posts Worth Passing On

இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—...இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—...இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ

♥ ♥ Thank you for being part of my 2011.♥ ♥

♥ Thank you for making it a Wonderful time for me! My

friends you are true gems and you sparkle and shine.

♥ Your friendship is the reason

I keep coming back here again and again

♥ xxxxx ♥

♥Copy and post this as your status

show your friends how important they are to You ♥ ...

இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—...இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—...இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—

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2012 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

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‎2012 NEW YEARS BLESSINGS

I wish you Health and Success...

So you may enjoy each day in comfort, 2012

I wish you the Love of friends and family...

I wish you Peace within your heart.

I wish you the Beauty of Nature...

I wish you Wisdom to choose priorities....

For those things that really matter in life.

I wish you Generosity so you may share...

The good things that come to you.

I wish you Happiness and Joy...

I wish you Blessings for the New Year.

I wish you the best of everything....

You so well deserve.

Baraka Bashad

(May the Blessings Be)

...I posted the above in 2009 ... some slight changes this time...but in all honesty,

this says exactly what I would like to pass on to my friends for any incoming year

......this probably won't be the last time you'll see this New Year's Blessing..

gt;>>&;tg&;tg

Status Posts Worth Passing On

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A Collection of Posts from Friends

A friend posted this on my wall in facebook. After reading it, I had to comment back to her.."gotta share this" so, I'm passing it on and sharing it with you...<

A speaker started off his seminar holding up a twenty dollar bill. With an audience of about 200, he asked,"Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple up the $20 bill. He then asked, "Anyone still want this?' Still the hands were up in the air.

"Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started grinding it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends," he said, " we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the Money, you still wanted it. Now why is that? Because it's still $20...after all it went through, it, even if it would have been missing a portion of it, it did not lose it's face value-...it is still worth $20. Now...check out this parallel - like that dollar, many times in our lives we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and/or the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But always remember this...like that dollar, no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will NEVER lose your value. Don't let anyone else fool you or convince you otherwise...YOU will NEVER lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased. YOU are still priceless to those who DO love you!. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by who we ARE.

You, me...each and every one of us are uniquely special - do not EVER forget that!!

Please pass this on..if you do not pass this on, you may never know the lives it could touch, the hurting hearts it speaks to, the hope that it may bring or the self-worth and confidence it could restore.

Count your blessings, not your problems..."

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I HAVE to share this. it was copied from a friend who posted it on my facebook wall, Please take the time to read it in it's entirety. Those that are older may tug on their memories....Those that are younger may want to reconsider before they lay blame to our throw-away society and the having to participate in "green-thing"...

Checking out at the grocery store recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." Hmmm -- our generation didn't have the green thing in "our" day. So what did we do back then...? After some reflection and soul-searching on "our" day, here's what I remembered we did have...

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But no, we didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a clothes line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-downs from their brothers or sisters, not always brand new clothing... We didn't have the green thing back in our day...

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not styrafoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn, we used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. No, we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a drinking fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen...and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. Nope..no green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. Isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please re-post this on your profile so another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty-pants young person can add to this...

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Have I .... Disturbed You, Troubled You, Pestered You,

Irritated You, Bugged You, Or Got on your Nerves ?!?

Well, I just wanted to tell you:

Suck it up, Cupcake!!! .. Cause there ain't NO CHANGES

Planned for 2012!!! By the way, Happy New Year!!! :)

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Family is family: You argue, you fight, you stop talking at times, but the

truth is...the love is always there. Love your family with all your heart

because you never know when they will be gone and you will never get to

apologize or say goodbye. Always remember what family stands for:

F(orever) A(lways) M(ine), I L(ove) Y(ou).

Copy and Re-Post if you love your family

F(orever) A(lways)M(ine), I L(ove) Y(ou).

Repost if you Love your Family ♥

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Guess I'll call this good for now...can't believe I let such a long time go between posts. I'm gonna try to keep this blog updated much more regularly. lol I quit playing FarmVille last month (been playing almost from launch) so I have much more time to actually do the things I think about doing!!

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