For Homes and Families

Since I've moved to a new appartment this spring I understood how I love cosiness. Unfortunately our repair works are still in progress, so I can only deam about all that lovely little things that make our homes beautiful and warm.

For those who love cosiness and comfort like I do:

Shabby chic wooden word LOVE

Wooden word Love is painted with acrylic paints covered with acrylic varnish. Technique of painting: shabby chic. The word will look stylish in every interior. You may also use it in wedding decor.
The word in 1'' (2.5 cm) thick and remains standing.

And soon in our LekaArt Etsy shop:

Shabby chic wooden sign HOME

Love your family, smile and be happy!

Elena

Trendy Jewelry Box!

Our square orange jewelry box is among trendy items on Etsy these days! What an honor!
We really love this box! The colors are so warm and gentle! And the painting is unique and one of a kind!
Size: height - 2'' (5 cm), length - 5'' (12.5 cm), width - 5'' (12.5 cm)

Squre hand painted jewelry box

To find more details and pics of this nice box, please, visit our LekaArt shop! We hope you'll find the best gifts for your family and friends!

Best wishes,

Viktoria and Elena

New! Unique jewelry box!

This week we have an amazing thing to show you!
This is one of a kind wooden jewelry box that I've painted by hand. I have been chosen the colors very carefully so they look rich and unusual and finally decided to take turquoise, brown, bronze and white.

You may store there necklaces, bracelets, earring and other jewelry. Or just some nice tiny things that are precious for you!

This jewelry box is completely unique: I won't make any that will look the same.

You may find it here, in our Etsy shop!

Enjoy the spring!

Elena

LekaArt Etsy shop

Easter 2014: decorations and gifts!

Easter is spring, Easter is kindness, Easter is joy, Easter is LIGHT!
Easter is one of the most favorite holidays of many people! So we decided to make a collection of items that will help you to make the holidays unique and unforgettable!

#1 We believe that pastel colors would be the best choice for Easter home decor. Lovely offer from ShadeonShape - wooden vase and candle holder!

#2 If you would like to decorate your door with a wreath look at these nice ones:

- charming wreath with mint artificial eggs and feather from BotanikaStudio

 - and very nice wreath with lots of eggs from laurelsbylaurie

#3 You also may decorate your home with these lovely tiny nests! Find them in Fairyfolk Etsy shop.

#4 What gifts do you usually get and present on Easter? Many people choose eggs, a symbol of the start of new life. Here is a unusual wooden egg decorated in pyroghraphy (or wood-burning) technique from PocketsOfArt

 #5 As for us we love nice Easter souvenirs! Look at this ceramic figurine from DianaParkhouse . We bet it really brings happiness!

#6 Super cute handmade bunny from JuliaWine will bring more smiles to your family and friends!

 #7 And these bunnies are for those who love to decorate their homes in girly style! We found these figurines in wishdaisy Etsy shop.

 #8 To make a sweet surprise for kinds we'd use this amazing Easter basket from GoodWishesQuilts . "Simple, soft, and perfect for boys or girls. This soft, neutral Easter basket makes a quiet, lovely display - and also looks delicious stuffed with sweets and treats on Easter morning!" - the owner of the shop says.

#9 Let the spring in! Green hanging ornaments like these paper decorations from Bookity are perfect for Easter decor!

We wish all of you endless light and happiness! Smile and hug! It's Easter!
Viktoria and Elena

NEWS! Bright jewelry box and stylish wooden letter!

Hi all!
Today we would like to show you our new items for home decor!
The first one is a tiny jewelry box "Pearl"! It's very cute and not large, so you may put your wedding rings in it!
Size: height - 2 '' (5 cm), length - 3.2 '' (8 cm), width - 3.2 '' (8 cm)
Inner dimentions: height (without cover) - 1.2 '' (3 cm), length - 2.6 '' (6.5 cm), width - 2.6 '' (6.5 cm)
This jewelry box is made of wood and waspainted with acrylic paints.

For more details and pics, please, click on the photo above :)

The second items is a wooden letter Aleph that we also painted with acrylic paints and covered with acrylic varnish. It's the first letter of Hebrew alphabet.

Its sizes: height - 5.2" (13 cm), width - ~4.8" (~12 cm)

 The photo is also clickable!

For more nice handmade items for your home, please, visit our LekaArt Etsy shop!

Have an awesome day!

Viktoria and Elena

NEW! Wooden plates!

Hi all! How are you? We hope that excellent!
Today we would like to show you our new branch of hand painted items for home decor. We already have ceramic plates in our Etsy shop and we decided to paint some wooden ones!
So now we have 2 wooden plates painted by hand. The 1st one has 30 cm in diameter and is blue and violet, the 2nd one has 20 cm and is brown and golden.

Hand painted wooden plate "Sea Pearl"

Hand painted wooden plate "Chocolate Blossom"

We hope you liked our new wall plates!

Have an awesome day!

Viktoria and Elena

Person of the Week: Viktoria (UltroViolet shop with decoupaged jewelry boxes)

This Sunday is the day of jewelry boxes! Girls love to wear rings, bracelets, earring and necklaces and need nice boxes to store them. So if you are looking for a gift for your friend, mother, sister, aunt or just want to find an eclusive and high-quality jewelry box we advise you to visit UltroViolet Etsy shop.

We asked the owner of this shop to tell us about herself and her creative work.

"Hi all! I'm Viktoria and I'm the owner of UltroViolet shop on Etsy. I'm 36 and I'm a happy mother of 2 kids (16 and 4 years old). I live in Germany and it's my 2nd emigration (I've been living in Israel for 10 years before my family moved). New country, baby birth, and maternity leave encouraged me to start searching for my life-work. I tried myself in various types of handmade works and finally chose decoupage and painting.

I'm always in search of new ideas and materials. It takes a lot of time! But I really love this non-stop work as I meet interesting and creative people from other countries. I enjoy the communication as I enjoy trying smth new. My relatives, friends and even my children help me to develop my shop and this is so great!"

We chose 3 beautiful jewelry boxes to show you

Exclusive wooden jewelry box

Unique tee box

Unusual jewelry box for needles and pins

You will also find key boxes, door plates, hamsas and even ostrich eggs in the shop!

Enjoy!

And see you next time!

Viktoria and Elena

Person of the Week: Elena (TimeMade vintage shop)

Hi all! This is Viktoria!

Today is Sunday and it's a very important day for us! We start our new blog column  

"Person of the Week".  

What is it about? We are surfing Etsy a lot. Usually it takes 2-3 hours a day. Sometimes we meet really talanted artists and sellers and would like to tell you about them!

How do we pick a person for the column? There are a lot of similar products on handmade and vintage market. So we try to find smth new and interesting: unusual and beautiful photos, rare items, unique shapes of products, fresh ideas, new techniques, breathtaking stories etc.

How often will we write about artists? We plan to publish stories once a week on Sunday or we'll tell you in advance if different.

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And today I'm going to present you Elena - the owner of Etsy shop with vintage items TimeMade

Elena was born in Kazakhstan but now she lives in Israel near the Mediterranean sea (lucky her!). Elena collects beautiful vintage jewelry, clothes and items for home decor.

"My mission is to bring back some memories of old good times, brighten up today and save something for tomorrow" - says Elena

This week I took part in an unusual and unexpected photo shoot: no photo studio, no professional light and me as a model! Elena tried new type of sales pitch. Fantastic experience! Very soon all items in TimeMade shop will have new photographs and all models will be picked from ordinary girls and women. The idea is to make vintage items more "sincere".

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These are vintage bracelet, ring and jewelry box from TimeMade shop. Model: Viktoria.

 

Vintage bracelet

Vintage jewelry box

Vintage ring

 Thank you for visiting us!

All comments and feedback are always welcome!

See you next Sunday!

Viktoria and Elena

LekaArt

Charming Reptile!

This week we have an unusual hand painted figurine. She's small, green, bronze, sparkling and very charming! Her name is Lizzy and she's a lizard!  

She will be an original addition to your figurine collection or a beautiful gift for a friend :)

Ceramic hand painted figurine "Lizard"

For more photos and information, please, visit out LekaArt Etsy shop

Thank you for reading us!

Have an awesome day!

Viktoria and Elena

LekaArt

Valentine's Day Celebration. Part I

Hi all!

It's time for a new Friday collection of handmade and vintage items!

Do you already know how you will celebrate St. Valentines Day with the one you love? Have you already planned all the details? Clothes, jewelry, table, home decor, bedroom decor? If not, we'll help you :)

#1 Let's start with a dress! Tastes differ, so we found several variants:

•  Unique vintage dress with warm earthy colors and bright geometric print by Gezunt . It looks very romantic and womanly. It will mark your eyes and will look great with a lipstick of a natural colors.

 

• If you like Chebby Chic style you will like this charming dress from GalsMagicalCloset . Floral prints always look great especially if they are combined with another pastel fabric.

• For those who adore blouses, shirts and tops we found this nice shop - girlishstyle . You will also find there some unusual and classical dresses

• And again vintage! Gorgeous dress from 1950s by gogovintage looks soooo playful and great! Should be really awesome for Valentine's Day evening ;)

•  And of course red evening maxi dress by BLUSHFASHION is just ohmygodable!!! Pure passion!

 #2 Time to find nice shoes!

• How do you like these amazing hand painted shoes by kezbirdie ? Very nice colors! And we love the height of heels.

•  If you wear red or black dress we advice you to choose red vintage shoes by dahlilafound . We think they are very comfortable, neat and pretty!

• Don't like heels? No problem! Here you are - beautiful pair of ballet flats by NettaGertler . We bet you'll fall in love with them ^_^

•  And what if you already have your favorite pair of shoes but they are too casual for such romantic evening? Then you can use shoes clips from KyliesChicBoutique . These navy blue clips are absolutely gorgeous!

 #3 Now let's choose jewelry!

• Luxurious elegant and sophisticated earrings by ShiriAvda . They are just perfect!

• Stylish golden earrings with freshwater pearl and malachite by LouiseLeder . Long earrings with pearls are always in style! They will show your individuality and your unique style.

• Black and gold unique shaped earrings by lizaluksenberg . If you like beads and christals these elegant earrings are definitely for you!

• Bracelet with small hearts in sterling silver and gold by zanGGarts . A lovely accessory for St. Valentine's Day and by the way awesome gift!

•  Lovely, elegant and special delicate golden necklace features a heart-shaped pendant with a pearl in the center of it by netalyshany . Ladies, we bet you already fell in love with this pendant. We do!

•  Unusual and unique necklace with bird and sunset by ARDONN . All jewelry made by Ardonn looks very fresh and elegant. You'll for sure find smth that suites you! High quality materials, interesting ideas and style - that is what characterize the Ardonn shop. Great!

 The end of the Part I. We hope you enjoyed the collection!

 We'll be happy to see you in our blog again!

Next part of the collection will be published on the 4th of February.

Have an amazing day!

Viktoria and Elena

LekaArt

New decorative wall plate Agathic Flower - exclusive Valentine's Day gift!

For those who is looking for a nice gift for a girlfriend, mother, sister or a friend we made a romantic decorative plate "Agathic Flower". Violet, pink and yellow colors look very soft and harmonious.
This hand painted plate is perfect for wall decor as we've made a hanger on the opposite side.

Hanging decorative plate "Agathic Flower"

Diameter of plate: 8.4'' (21 cm)
Materials: ceramic plate, acrylic paints, acrylic varnish
Technique: point to point (dots)
For more photos and details, please, visit our Etsy online shop - LekaArt

Have a great day!

Viktoria and Elena

LekaArt

Romantic peonies on silk!

Hello all!
We have a new item in our LekaArt Etsy shop - batik painting on silk "Peony". Have you ever heard about batik? If yes, you know how beautiful batik painting can be! Batik artists are magicians: they can make a masterpiece from a white piece of cloth.
There are 2 batik techniques: 1) hot wax technique when melted wax is applied to cloth to prevent the paint to dye the cloth; 2) cold batik technique when the special substance based on purified gasoline is used.
Our painting "Peony" is made in cold batik technique and looks very romantic as we used soft pastel colors and flower motif. If you looking for a nice exclusive gift for a friend, girlfriend or relatives - this painting could be a great one!

Painting on silk "Peony"

You can buy this painting in our online shop. The painting is not framed. It will be shipped in a nice box designed specially for batik paintings and accessories.

By the way, this is how the process of painting looks like:

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Have an amazing day!

Viktoria and Elena

LekaArt

Valentine's Day Gift Ideas: 10 gorgeous items!

Hi all!
Finally Friday! Time for our collection!This time we found some awesome Valentine's Day gifts for her and for him! We really like to help you to choose a gift :)  Enjoy!

# 1 Ladies first and we start with a luxurious sterling silver necklace Double Infinity by RoseAndRaven. Guys, be sure your girlfriend will be happy to get it on Valentine's Day!

# 2 The most romantic Rat we've ever met by Candyfleece

Isn't he cute?! Lady Killer indeed :D

# 3 Stilish gold ring by YaelSteinberg

All girls like gold! And this ring will look great with any dress! Gift bag included btw :)

# 4 Valentine's Day COOKIES!!! by OldTimeFavorites

OMG we just can't stay and not to buy and eat these yummies!!! Omnomnom :D

Ok, next items are for girls who are still looking for a gift for their boyfriends and husbands!

# 5 Vintage hand stamped spoons by DazzlingDezignz4U

Very romantic isn't it? Also you can both use this gift and it will always remind you that someone LOVES you ^_^

# 6 Many of us loves to present Valentine's Day cards. Here is a nice one for your husband! Created by inkletpapery

# 7 Adorable cuff bracelet by TheMechanicalMermaid

+5 to Charisma, +7 to Magnetism :P

 And now some cool ornaments and interior elements for your Valentine's Day!

# 8 Hanging Valentine ornament "You and Me" by LekaArt

You can use it all over the year. Change the photos to keep it always fresh and new ;)

# 9 Valentines Day gift pillow cover by eugenie2 

So true: "Great gift idea for a couple. Just switch their regular pillowcase for these and watch their heart melt!" Love it! Btw there are a lot of other designs in the store, you may choose the one you love :)

# 10 Printable Be My Valentine poster by bunsandprints. It's so easy! Just download it after purchase and print it! Voila! You have a fountain of romance and love!

That's it for today! Did you enjoy? :)

Have a bright day!

Viktoria and Elena

LekaArt