WOW I haven’t been here in a while. But I hope new year will brig new inspiration . Not that I wasn’t inspired last year I was very busy with a lot of big projects and very proud of all f them. I will share new and old art here more often …. that was my new year resolution 
Happy New Year everybody ….
This weekend I was teaching needle felting to visitors of Telus Spark Science Center. We had a lot of people who would like to learn. I was surprised that some kids knew about needle felting and did a very good job. It was great exposure for me and my business and I think most people can appreciate hand made art now. Every one where making a colourful patch from wool and then team members attached them to the shape of a monster that we made earlier that week. I loved seeing people enjoying felting and if someone left and learned something new about wool I’m extremely happy .
Here are some pictures of our monster, it is not done as I’m making mouth and eyes right now, but it will be finished Monday and you can see him for couple of month in Telus Spark Creative Kids museum :)
It is almost near, weekend with monsters. You can help making big needle felted monster and vote on a eyes and mouth design. You can read more info here
I will teach visitors how to needle felt, it will be big collaboration and I bet it will be fun.
Last year was AWESOME and this one even better. I worked really hard and enjoyed every moment, I made over a thousand monsters last year an non of them where the same.
This year Ill try to be better with my online Etsy Shop and update it more regularly .
This year I got asked by Telus Sparks Science Centre to help them in teaching visitors how to Needle felt , we will be making big monster, so if you are in Calgary on 16-17 of February please come and make a monster with us :)
If you click on the picture it will take you to TELUS Sparks Science Center page.
So excited to do it!!!
I had a lot of great people telling me that they like my work, I hear a lot of compliments and I appreciate each and every one. But this one made me tear up and I felt so proud and happy. Here is a picture from one of my customers and a little story.
“Recently Cianna completed a project about significant events in her life past, present and future. One of the events in her past was attending Market Collective. She drew a picture of a handmade toy I bought her. Pinky two tooth.” - Selina Marie
I love you My fans ♥
Canadian Thanksgiving a lot of people make Turkey or Ham but some people go further and do Turducken :) So I thought if there is thing like that why not Pork-o-Bunny, or Fish-o-Owl here is couple fun creatures :)
I haven’t had much time to get information on here, just because I was so busy. I’m going back home to Latvia and preparation was taking all my time :) Just for a month but since I haven’t been there 5 years and going to see a lot of people I wanted to take some little presents with me.
I have a lot of new paintings in “Motion” Gallery so if you have a chance please take a look
New paintings where inspired by summer and all it’s bright colours
OMG I’m so happy I got “National Film Board/Quickdraw Animation Society Production Scholarship” What it means? it means I’m a happiest girl in a world. When I was small I loved cartoons and wanted to make them one day, well now my dream will come true. Yes I did 2 animations and it felt great but now I can make my own independent cartoon , and boy I will work hard :) I’m incredibly thankful to Quickdraw to give me this opportunity. This is so big for me to get it.
Also I want to thank my husband , son and my parents who supported me , I love you guys ♥♥♥
Here is illustration of me now :) Jumping like crazy :D
Now I’m going to get great education and sky is my limit :) I wish every great dream will come true. Wish big my friends ♥
I had a very awesome request from my great regular customer Adam. He wanted me to felt character from the movie "Brazil" I never seen it and it looks very weird, but now I want to watch it. So thank you Adam for expanding my world and I had good time felting this interesting character :)
Adam send me this picture
Custom orders are always welcome :)
Here is the 3 version of Nesting dolls (Matryoshka) It is currently at “Motion Gallery” downtown Calgary, they are for sale . One of a kind I will never try to copy previous dolls. It is not my usual type of art so there won’t be a lot of them. Something really special from my Russian crazy soul to you :)
So here they are, colourful like me :) and a little bit spooky
if you wan more info , just message or email
