Vacation plans - shop will be closed for 2 months

Hey there!
Sorry if this comes as a late notice, but things are speeding up, and I barely have time to fill up my calendar for a day!))
Two's Ruse jewelry shop at Etsy will be temporary closed for two months starting at May 11 2010.
I'll hopefully be back after July 15 and will most definitely bring lots of new gems,and beads, and all sorts of treasuries from the trip!
Meanwhile my handpainted modern art stylized earrings have finally made it to the Etsy pages, several new pieces can't wait to be photographed, and one special deal is about to be posted!
Stay with me at www.TwosRuse.Etsy.com and be first to know!!!

Hope you are all excited about upcoming Mother's Day- I am for sure! ;)))

Kisses, Maria.

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Trip to the mountains

Ohhh, the trip to the mountains this weekend was so reviving!
I got so many beautiful pictures and had such a splendid time!..Spring blossoms and dry fresh air are the best!

Nest pendants attack!

You know it became popular to make birds nests pendants these days. And Easter is not the last reason. First, it’s plain cute. Little teeny-tiny colorful or pearly eggs in a puffy wire wrapped nest look very delicate and adorable. Second, birds has been always a beloved theme of all indie oriented people. Here are some alluring examples from Etsy:

by GracensDesigns

by ssbphoto

by MDsparks

However, what once was an “awwwwww”-inspiring trick now transforms to an dangerous obsession. Birds and nests are everywhere (sometimes it’s “all-in-one-pot” with skulls, chandeliers and flowers as well) , and nobody escaped this crazy birdesque mania, nobody. Me too :)
However, the “nest” I made apparently has to come with a 16-page explanation. Here is a list of the most popular questions asked by people who saw “Two’s ruse” Nest pendant:
Why is there only a one egg?..
Why is this egg octahedral?!
What is that orange stuff around the nest?
Eeehhh...What IS This?.....
Dear friends, The answer to all of them is simple, as Hermitian conjugations in the quantum physics.
I didn’t mean to make a nest, frankly speaking.
But somehow..on a deep subconscious level.. the bird idea nested in my mind, and instead of a drop wire wrapped pendant I created a weird gold nest with one octahedral egg and a bright orange halo. What can I say,“ be special, be different”, right?.. :))

Tags: etsy, nest pendants, birds, jewelry

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More Family Gifts!

This time - garnets and gold for my grandma!

My roses sail to East Europe

In between the crazy spring days full of work, parties and unbearable warmth of the Chapel Hill Weather, I managed to start making gifts for my Russian family members.

This Necklace is a true cosmopolit. It has stones and beads of all kinds with my handmade shiny sopper swirls and a gorgeous Rose Pendant.

I made it for my dear aunt, although I suspect as soon as my mom sees it she will want the one exactly like this one. ohhh, those sisters!.. They may grow up, get kids and etc., but their jealousy never ages ;)))

Tags: design ideas, gifts

I caught a Couch flu

A Fragrance always was a special entity on my beauty table. And the more special things one has the merrier, right? So I used to have a collection. Not small, not big, although my judgement of excessiveness was rarely adequate, I managed to have about 5-15 aromas at a time.

In the poor student days, this was the closest point to luxury. One might not have a designer dress or expensive gemstone jewels, but one can always smell like a paradise with almost any paycheck. So I did! I smelled like a ton of all possible paradises from all possible universes one can only imagine.

Only one well-known belief clouded my happy and ignorant existence. All the romantic novels stated that a "woman-to-remember" always has ONE unique smell, not a dozen. This secret suppositiously makes a man to remember her by the set of unique features, including the unforgettable perfume. In such way, all glam magazines and novels stated, if a man feels the smell anywhere he will remember the woman undoubtedly.

Even having no Man hanging around, I considered my options. First was to kill all the women using my perfumes (not very philanthropical and even less achievable), second, I could stick to one fragrance and hold it till my last sunny day, and third, I could just ignore this rule altogether and continue to be a happy flourishing jumble of paradises.

No doubt what option I chose. The longer life goes the more I realize that it is much more natural to improve what's good in me, than to suppress and invent something which is not there at all.

However, this brings the very speculative question of whether people can change, which I skip for later.

And for now, here is my latest perfume obsession - Coach perfume spray! It's DIVINE!...

Ahhhh! I want it so badly !