Photoshoot

Good evening everyone.


I have something to show you, but first the backstory:

A few months ago I was asked by the lovely gothic model Lady Amaranth for two of my pieces for a photoshoot. What an honour! It's been a dream of mine to work with a model. Anyway the pieces were sent off, the photoshoot was done with photographer Scott Chalmers and today I can show you the results. Aren't these pictures wonderful!

You can buy the white necklace here and the black necklace here. To see the rest of the photoshoot please visit Lady Amarath's website here and click on the picture for 'The Queen's Game'.

On the creating front, I'm working on three ideas at once, look out for more details about these soon.
 
Heather x

Twitter Giveaway!

Twitter Giveaway

I've started my first giveaway over on Twitter for this tatted Gothic necklace (available on Etsy):

This beauty is worth $44 and will come in a gift box with care instructions. To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is go over to my twitter page here and retweet this message:

WIN THIS NECKLACE http://bit.ly/cgo63u 499th RT wins, max 1 RT per hour

Make sure you include @TataniaRosa in this tweet so I can count your entry. As it says above, you can retweet once per hour. Once I get 499 RTs I shall announce the winner. Happy tweeting!

I've finally listed my first set

Afternoon. It's lovely and sunny outside. I've had quite a productive week and have listed a couple of items over on Etsy.

The first is the Lillian necklace. This matches my bracelet and earrings of the same name. It's taken me a while to come to this final design. I first tried with just the central section but it looked too small for a necklace. I then tried three sections of the same size but this didn't work either. I've finally settled on a large central section with two smaller sides. Each part has seed beads and Swarovski Crystals hanging down. This my first time trying a design where three split rings are used to attach it to the ribbon and I really like it. I might try more like this in the future. As you can see in the picture below it hangs really well. 

This would look gorgeous with a sparlky evening dress. I've also decided to list this as a set with my earrings and bracelet. These items can also be tatted in other colours.

I've also created a set without the earrings for those of you without your ears pierced.

At the moment I'm working on a tatted cuff. I shall talk about this soon.

Heather x

Update to Etsy shop!

Good evening. It's listing time on Etsy! I bought some ribbon yesterday and it came this morning. This meant that I could get on with creating. The item I have listed today uses my Mystica pattern but I've added some black seed beads to it. I decided to make it into a necklace and chose black Czech glass beads up the sides of the organza ribbon to keep the colours co-ordinated. The finished item has such a Renaissance/Tudor feel to it. I'm very happy with the result.

As you can see in the second picture, I've started using a tripod. I spent quite a long time today playing with the settings on my camera to get a good picture of myself wearing the necklace. I love how this looks so I think I will try it with my other pieces.

Tomorrow I hope to list some at least one necklace or pendant. I have quite a few in the pipeline so keep your eyes peeled!

Have a lovely day, I'll be blogging more soon.

x

Tatting with seed beads

Good evening. Apologies for the lack of a blog post yesterday, my computer has been playing up. Today I've been finishing off my seed beads project I mentioned recently. It's taken quite a while but I love the end result. Here is a sneaky peak:

The design is my Katarina pattern and I've added some gorgeous seed beads. You will see the full item tomorrow afternoon.

I've got some more tatting in the pipeline that I shall be listing over the next few days; one of which is a prototype for a Renaissance style choker. I'm still working out the number of double stitches required for a part of it but I'll get there eventually. I will be blogging again tomorrow.

x