Ender’s Game (1985)

Do you like science fiction? I do. I like reading or watching sci-fi. I have just finished one book and I decided to put information about this book to my blog.

I enjoyed reading this book as Orson Scott Card enjoyed writing it. Reading is a wrong verb selection since book was Books on CD version. I have such a long commute between my work and my house. So I am addicted to book on CDs. This one was totally random selection from the library. Actually one of my friends advised me to read it when I was trying to select one. Now I am planning to read all series.

Ender’s Game is awarded with both the Nebula Award and Hugo awards for best novel of 1985, and the best novel of 1986.

You can find more information about this book and whole series in Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game

They also decided to make movie based on the novel. You can find more information about the movie from the link below.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/

If you have any other sci-fi suggestions, please let me know.

Theme of the week

The EtsyBead street team is having out theme of the week sale. This week our theme is red, white, and blue. Look for our tagged items as ebtw on ETSY.

Here are two new treasuries created for the theme of the week. One of them includes my bracelet and the other one includes my earrings.

Family

I have decided to put some family pictures in our blog. Everybody was saying that they want to see some personal information when they visit blogs. Since I always use jewelry pictures even for avatars, the only place you can see our faces is here. I tried to choose photos which also show little bit something about Turkey too.

Here is my mother. She is our talented designer.
I really like this picture. Life just goes away behind you. When I look at this picture, it reflects so many different emotions.

She is not always that serious of course !! When she has her favorite bag, you can see the smile :)

Other part of my family: My aunt and my nephew. This picture is taken in Ephesus, Turkey. I had chosen this picture because it has such a beautiful part of Turkey as a background view.

Here is me and my friend in Istanbul. Lady in the greens is me. I missed those days.

And one closer photos of me, as always I am trying to say something when someone tries to take picture :( Check out my cheerful bracelets. All of them are sold but of course I kept two of them for myself.

And I missed Istanbul too, here she is. If you have never been there, I totally suggest you to visit.

Snowflakes

I do not have any snowflakes in my store right now but snowflakes are our best known jewelries. So I want to put them to my blog and we will start working on them again soon. We had earrings, bracelets, and necklaces with snowflakes in almost every color made of snowflakes and we sold all of them.

Here they are. Aren’t they gorgeous? I just love them.

ETSYBead Theme of the Week

Summer lovin color is our theme of the week sale and this is the third time that one of our design is selected. Please check the tags for ebtw, you will find great collection of summer lovin colors. Here is the latest list and my bracelet.

Treasury

My jewelries are selected for treasuries in ETSY. Here they are. Thank you everyone who selected my earrings for their treasury listings.

Filigree

Today's discussion on ETSY was the difference between 'filigree' and 'ajoure'. Here is the explanation from Wikipedia.

"Filigree (formerly written filigrann or filigrane) (Also known as “Telkari” (the name given in Anatolia it means, “Wire work”) or “Cift-isi” (Meaning Tweezers work - Pronunciation: Chift-ishi) ) is a jewel work of a delicate kind made with twisted threads usually of gold and silver. It is nowadays exceedingly common for ajoure work to be mislabelled as filigree. While both have many open areas, filigree involves threads being soldered together to form an object and ajoure involves holes being punched, drilled, or cut through an existing piece of metal."

We called this technique, “Telkari” in Turkish. When I checked the English word for that, dictionary gives me filigree as a translation. That's the first time I've heard ajoure which I could not find any translation. Our filigree jewelries are made by using technique of filigree. I do not want to mislead anyone but I could not find any better explanation for them. If you have one, please let me know.

Ice Cubes

I just want to thank Mama Trep for putting my earrings on her blog. It’s a wonderful feeling knowing someone else likes the earrings you love and she made me a very happy person today.

Thank you Mama Trep and here is her blog; http://www.mamatrepsdesigns.blogspot.com/

We are also working on creating different necklaces by using those cubes. You can visit our store to see what we have right now. Pretty soon we will have different designs with these cubes.

Filigrees on Sale

Please check out the ETSY listing for details.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6218726

Oz Design

Our goal is to create fashion jewelry with a difference. All jewelry is original in design and handmade in creation. We encourage your feedback regarding any aspect of this store and jewelries.

http://www.theozfamily.etsy.com/