103……. That’s the temperature my car read today!  Needless to say it’s hot as hell and as much as I try to live green i keep the AC on pretty much 24/7 these days.  Going to the beach is an option just on the weekends as you can guess.

As I mentioned before I study Interior Design and projects never end for me. It’s only second week in fall semester and we already have a bunch of projects and presentations to do.  In fact I have 6 illustrations due tomorrow and I’m only half way trough…..gulp….. I will keep it short and will show you 2 of my latest photography pieces. As I’m hooked on vintage stuff lately I decided to try a new technique, which is supposed to be a photography technique Ttv but I simulated it in PS. Ttv is the abbreviation for “Trough the viewfinder” and initially is to be done with a camera shooting the viewfinder of a second camera. Pretty interesting i think and can’t wait to try it. This is what i got with manipulation of a regular photograph in PS ( the beach photo).

To those of you that noticed the lack of blog posts on Clamzee.com for quite some time, i want to say: Thank you for your patience and for checking back. Now Clamzee is back with complete new design and layout. I was going for more simplicity and professional look after it came to me that the busy look does not work for Clamzee. The logo is completely transformed as well. I hope the sleepless time I invested was worthed and the better impact of the website was achieved. There are few things I’m still working on and testing, but they are slowly coming along.
In the mean time I’m bringing more fresh photographs, that I really enjoyed taking and editing. Take a look.

Check my photography page for more

It’s been a little while since my last post and I apologize to everyone who is following my blog for not being around the last month or so. I have to make at least 2 projects every week for school as I’m studying Interior design at the moment. And the last week I had 2 midterms as well. So all the jewelry projects I had in mind (and they are a lot:) had to wait. And now I’m back with some new interesting stuff. As I promised I have now nice handmade sterling silver jewelry. The following Necklaces are available only on my etsy shop for now.

Well the jewelry giveaway is over and today I’m ready to announce the 2 winners that the random generator at random.org helped me pick.  The winners are the girls that commented under #11 and #39  Megan and Jenny.

Each of you won a $15 gift card for a jewelry of your choice from Clamzee’s jewelry shop. Congratulations and thank you everyone for your participation and check back for more nice giveaways in the future at Clamzee.com.

The previous Giveaway closed 2 days ago and here I am opening a brand new one. Those of you who like colorful handmade jewelry: keep reading Clamzee is about to add a new line of Personalized sterling silver jewelry and I’m really excited about it, so before I introduce it to the public (this will be in less than 2 weeks) I want to do a little research. I want to know what is your “every day”  piece of  jewelry? The one that you almost never take off. Necklace? Earrings? May be bracelet? Mine personally is a cute  silver pendant on a fine chain.  So lets continue with the giveaway…..

Two  lucky clamzee readers will receive $15 voucher each for the clamzee’s  Jewelry Shop. Clamzee’s trend-based pieces are handmade from polymer clay and silver or silver plated base metals. The jewelry is whimsical yet elegant and affordable.
Here’s how to win:
1. Visit Clamzee’s jewelry shop and  answer the question (in pink) above, commenting on this post. (1 main entry, has to be completed before the bonus entries)

Bonus entries

2. Become a fan of Clamzee on Facebook (2 entries!! Please comment for every entry, so I can keep track of all your entries)
3. Follow this blog ( 1 entry)
4. Follow me on Twitter and Tweet/Retweet about this giveaway (1 entry. You can do it every day for additional entries)

That’s all! And don’t forget to LEAVE YOUR EMAIL IN YOUR COMMENT SO I CAN REACH YOU IF YOU WIN!
The Giveaway will end February 15, 2010.  Open for evryone.

Good luck and Happy Wednesday!

Thank you all participating in Clamzee’s first giveaway! And today I am happy to announce lucky winner. The winner was chosen trough random.org………..

AND CONGRATULATIONS to Melissa! I will contact you shortly for shipping info!
I’m happy that one more of my art works found a new home!

A new giveaway is starting tomorrow! Check back if you want to win a piece of whimsical jewelry!

Yaaaay! I just found out my shop has been featured on Etsy.com today!!! In particularly the car tire ring .
This is the first time, hopefully not the last I’m so happy that so many people like my handcrafted products , that gives me even more inspiration to keep doing this.
This all happened right after I finished photographing some new jewelry pieces that I want to show you today.

My new peacock inspired earrings.

Double flower pendant in pink and brown.

Tear drop earrings in black white and orange.

Colorful heart shaped adjustable ring.

Click on the pictures for more details.
I will be doing a jewelry giveaway starting February 2nd and I will be glad to hear what would you like to win. Just comment on this post with your choice of jewelry you want me to giveaway.

I’m starting the new year a little more colorful. I have around 10 new jewelry pieces to show you and I’m doing my best to fit in the little time I have to finish and photograph them. I’m also happy to tell you that I finally added a jewelry section on this website and at the moment you can find all my jewelry pieces there. And don’t forget there’s 10% OFF your next purchase if you join my Facebook fan page . So for now here are 2 of my new pendants .

Yes that’s right as I promised it’s time for the first Giveaway on Clamzee.com! First here is the prize:

A 11/14 inch fine art print of this jellyfish photograph. Originally I’m selling this print for $40 , but now I’m giving you the opportunity to win it for free. It wouldn’t even take you a great effort to enter. Here’s how:

There are three ways to enter:

1. Leave a comment below or anywhere on the blog. OR
2. Follow me on Twitter (click on the twitter logo on the sidebar) and tweet (+link) this post . OR
3. Become a fan of Clamzee on Facebook and write on the wall; alternatively, you can like/comment on the wall post which links back to this giveaway (after adding me). OR
4. Follow/join this blog.

And that’s it! The more ways you enter, the greater your chances of winning the “jellyfishes” for free!:)

The deadline for entries is at 6pm PST on Sunday, January 31th, 2010.
Winner will be announced here shortly thereafter and contacted directly for shipping info.

Good luck and thank you for participating!

This is my last blog post for 2009. It’s always kind of sad when a year is to an end, isn’t it? 2009 was a good year for me…not a lot of major changes in my life but i had the chance to really improve my skills as an artist, which I’m really thankful for and I made a lot of new friends . I’m also very excited about the challenges the New 2010 will bring for me. I hope it will be a wonderful year for all of us. What about New Year resolutions? I never really formed a
habit of setting up a new Year resolutions, that is because I’ve always been very impatient . And by that I mean I would always try to reach my goals asap according to my possibilities…..”know what to do and do it now”. That works for me. Another thing is: I hate procrastinating. I feel really bad when putting off things, so I don’t.
Beside all this I want to mention few more things that will be happening on the site next year, starting the very first days of it. I’m planning to have a giveaway every month when you will have a chance to win a prize if you comment twice or more times in a month. Check back in a week for more information. I’m also doing some changes on this website as speaking: some new pages, improvements in the shop section and of course many new art projects. I will keep my word, just be patient with me as I’ll will have a very busy semester in college on top of everything else.
Also a quick reminder about clamzee’s fan page on Facebook: become a fan and you will get 10% OFF your next purchase, just mention you found out from this blog. If you refer a friend to clamzee’s fan page you will get 20% OFF your next purchase, just make them mention your name on the wall. That’s all for this year, have a very successful 2010. See you next year:)

A few pictures that I took last summer and have forgotten. I was just digging into my photography files and remembered that I really like them but never showed them to anyone. And there’s something very interesting about the place they were taken at. These rocks formations are called Pobiti Kamani, , “the petrified forest”. One of the most incredible natural phenomena in Bulgaria, and the first place in Bulgaria to be officially declared a protected nature reserve. It consists of 14 groups of natural rock formations, located in the “small stone desert” in the eastern part of the Varna lowland. Formed some 50 million years ago, Pobiti Kamani’s origin has been the debate subject of many scientists and lay people. There are several theories regarding the phenomenon’s origin, divided roughly into two groups — supporting an organic or a mineral origin — the formations are the result of some coral activity, or the prismatic weathering of the rocks, the formation of sand and limestone concretions of the lower Eocene bubbling reefs — or , as some of the stones have a zoomorphic and anthropomorphic profiles, many of them were places of worship or consecrated grounds during Thracian, Slavonic, and ancient Bulgarian times. It is easy to see phallic symbols of a sexual nature, temples or fossil trees but sorry, they are none of these. However, this is a fantastic place to visit.

I’ve been asked few times how Exactly do I make the polymer clay little pendants and rings, so I decided to make a little tutorial for something quite simple. It is a blue translucent pendant with embossed floral pattern colored in gold.

A. First you gonna need the following materials:
1. Polymer clay, color of your choice; 2. Rubber stamp; 3. Acrylic craft paint; 4. Cookie or some kind of small soft material cutter; 5. Jump ring 4-5 mm ( i’m using silver plated jump rings-5 mm ) 6. Craft blade (Just shown in the picture but not needed for this exact project)

B. Cut a small piece of your clay, condition and roll it to desired thickness. I usually roll it to a 3 to 4 mm thick.

C. Press the rubber stamp over the clay sheet.

D. Cut a shape with the cookie cutter:

E. This is what the shape looks like before baking:

F. Make a hole for attaching the jump ring

G.Bake the pendant in the oven according to your polymer clay baking directions:

H. Color the pattern carefully in the desired color with your aclylic craft paint. I chose gold color.

I. Attach the jump ring after the paint is dry.

J. This is the finished pendant on a chain.

Hope you like the tutorial. I will appreciate any relevant comments and suggestions.
My handmade shop

As I’ll be out of the city for the next 3 days, (will be visiting the in-laws) I wont have much time for blogging, so I decided to show you two of my resent photographs at this time. The first one is a panoramic of West Hollywood I took couple a weeks ago. I learned this really interesting technique of stitching photographs in panorama from my Photography teacher Peter Phun. And I thought I know Photoshop very well as I work with it almost every day. But apparently there’s lot more to learn. Ok here is my panorama:

Notice: I had to considerably resize the photo so it fits in here.

You might think I’m crazy, but I think it was worthed doing this. I took the following picture few days ago while I was driving on the highway and this beautiful sunset appeared in front of me reflecting the ground surface. It was begging to be photographed and it was quite of an adrenaline rush to do it….. I tried to find the proper settings as I shoot only on manual and that took 4-5 extra shots.
I don’t encourage you to do this ….it’s was quite dangerous. But hey, at least I don’t text while I’m driving:))

A quick recap with my latest handmade pieces of jewelry. I don’t have much to say today , I just want to show you some pictures and I hope my art will speak for itself:) I have a friend that says “I’m an artist, not a socialist” That’s how I feel too. I like to express myself with art, not with words. I didn’t have the time to take photos of everything I made but I will do it very soon.

A little 3/4 of an inch bird nest with 3 eggs pendant.

Cute little sea turtle earrings:


Glow in the dark octopus tentacle. Great for a night out.

Making your own gifts …. nothing is more personal than that. I firmly believe in giving handmade (If I have the time to make it), either buying handmade. It makes the holiday season so much more personal. I also appreciate handmade gifts I receive, especially If the person made it himself. Like the nice camera Santa gave me last year )) Ok, I didn’t mind that one
I’m back with some more beautiful creations as I mentioned in the previous post. I found some time and shot the rest. My fav at the moment is the turtle necklace, I’m keeping one for myself for sure. Here they are:

Broken heart with cuts and stitches adjustable ring.

Blue and translucent yellow swirls adjustable ring.

Japanese cherry blossom on a oval pink plate.

Blue & translucent yellow turtle pendant.

Yummy Chocolate truffle with mocha filling adjustable ring. (not edible:))

Blue & Translucent yellow flower pendant

Chocolate cake with raspberry filling earings. (not edible:))

Chocolate truffle with mocha filling key chain. (key not included)

accessories
I was planning to change my nail polish for the different rings but I didn’t have much time so don’t mind the color if you can.