his year I made so many different designs that I had to split my Martenici posting in 3 parts. I published the Tabletop Martenici the day before yesterday, including the video how to make them , the pin Martenici part yesterday, the bracelets and the rest of the different designs are for today including  the…

This year I didn’t make necklaces, but rather more pins, because I finally managed to find the little bar pins for the back, that hold the actual pins.  I wanted to make different designs, so this is what I came up with in a day! Thanks to my beautiful 3 year old daughter, I took…

As I promised, here is the video that I made on how to make the tabletop Martenici I showed to you yesterday! I apologize for the video not having sound, but with 2 small kids running around I doubt you would have been able to do hear anything if I did record a sound. 🙂…

If you don’t know what Martenici is, you should probably take a look at my previous postings about the tradition, the story etc. Martenici 2009 http://artcraft.anniesartbook.com/2009/02/martenici-martenizi-2009_11.html Martenici 2008 http://artcraft.anniesartbook.com/2008/03/martenizi.html I first made Martenici for my kids in 2008, because thanks to the Bulgarian Post Services, the martenici my mom sent me arrived at the end…

You probably have read my posting from yesterday that our dog Krum is in a hospital in critical condition. Last Friday my friend’s kids and my kids got together to do a little project called ” Get well, Krum!”. The kids were age 2, 3, 6, 9 and 10 years old. Unfortuantely I have pictures…

I am always happy to see my kids doing artsy stuff, but they’ve surprised me really nice with these 3 cards and I liked them so much, that I wanted to share them with you! my son, age 6 first my son, age 6 second card   my daughter, age 3 ( front) My daughter…

I am sorry I’ll be very short today, but my dog is till not recovered from the surgery and all my time is devoted to him these couple of days. Thank you all for the good thoughts and support! I hope he is going to be better tomorrow, so I can manage to post couple…

Yes, that is the Crazy challenge theme this week- butterflies and flowers! I didn’t feel like doing a card today, so I made a mandala called Butterflies and flowers. Here is what I came up with: And here it is a little bit closer It is difficult to see the details in this size picture,…

Еvery girl has a stuffed animal, that at some point is special for her. My little girl’s favorite toy is an elephant. I was thinking since I drew a special cartoon character for Kalin – a black belt ladybug, I should do the same for Ellie too and the best way to make my little…

It is difficult to make something that would show everything you feel about this person. It is even more difficult to put these feelings in words. But somehow once I got the idea about the structure of the card ( thanks Bleshtuchka for the awesome idea!)the design just happened. I started working on it and…