15 December, 2010

Stripe madness in our Etsy shop

I just listed 5 sets in our Etsy shop, all from our new design line "Fun Stripes". We had a lot of fun while we were experimenting with the different combinations of colors applied to different shapes, we hope you'll like the result too. You are welcome to check these, and many other cool designs listed in the shop these last few days.


Have fun!
Vlad & Kremena



01 December, 2010

Golem Studio's Etsy shop - The grand opening


 Ta-da! 
It looks like the last days are a time for a lot of "first ever things" for us - we just finished with setting up our Etsy shop, and now there are a few items already listed there. You can check it out here:
Golem Studio's Etsy Shop
For the first listings we choose some pieces with special meaning for us.  We are just in love with the town of Barcelona, each visit there is giving us some unique experiences and inspiration.
 Every visitor can feel the unique spirit of the town, but especially for the ceramic artists it's more like a pilgrimage, well lubricated by some paella and sangria.
In the Etsy shop you can now see a few of the pendants which were directly inspired by the work of the greatest of Barcelona's architects Antoni Gaudi.  His buildings are maybe the most emblematic part of Barcelona's landscape.




In the pictures here you can see each one placed next to the exact mosaic spots that inspired their creation. These mosaics are part of some giant art and ecology installation - the big terrace in what's now called "Park Guel".  The mosaics are part of the decoration of the big mosaic bench, which works as the rim/border of the terrace.





This last picture shows one of the legs of the Salamander - a mosaic sculpture which stands on the entrance of the Park Guel, with our pendant representing the front part of the lizard shown on the foot of the sculpture. Gaudi described the Salamander as "Symbolic guardian of the entrance to the Underworld". This sculpture is something like a non-official symbol of the town of Barcelona.

Wish us luck with this new venue!  We are proud to be part of such great art and craft community as Etsy, very soon we'll show more of our work there.

Have a fantastic day!
Vlad & Kremena

29 November, 2010

Golem Studio's CYBER MONDAY special


Special CYBER MONDAY deal from Golem Design Studio - during the next 24 hours we'll add a free string of 4 handmade solid color beads, similar to the ones shown to the left to any retail purchase from our web Retail Shop . There are many available colors in stock, so Marsha will be able to pick a string of matching color ones for each purchase.

Don't forget also, that up to 31 of December we are offering 25% off the price of all items in our retail shop,+ free shipping for all orders over $10 (over $40 for the international ones)

Have fun during your online shopping spree today!
Vlad & Kremena

28 November, 2010

Our first ever TV appearance!

Hello!
What serendipity! Yesterday, just after we posted our first blog post someone from the Bulgarian National Television (Chanel 1) called us with a question and interview about our life and work as self-employed artists. Right now there is discussion in the parliament here about the need for a new law status for self-employed people, so they want us to be the sample of 100% self-employed family in their Sunday Evening News spot. The TV team was here in our studio today, and the interview was on air 3 hours ago. They just uploaded it on the site of Chanel 1, you can see it in the link below, we appear after the 40th second of it:

http://bnt.bg/bg/news/view/41853/pecheli_li_se_ot_nadomnija_trud

Since the interview is in Bulgarian probably most of you will not understand it. Below I'll try to translate what we said in it:
On the question "Why did you start making beads, instead of something else?"
my answer is: The beads were the only product that was feasible to be able to fire with the limited technical/equipment options that were available to me when I started my first experiments with clay. Especially in those years (beginning of the 90's) it was almost impossible to buy a good kiln for the firing of ceramic items. It can be funny and even ridiculous from the present point of view, but in fact my first "kiln" was "чушкопек"* (see below) 

On the question "Exatly how do you make each pendant?" 
Kremena answered: We are using molds only for the shaping of the pendants, this is the only way to keep the consistency in the shape and size for them. Once the pendant is shaped I'm carving it completely by hand. It's a bit sad, but not everybody is understanding how hard and time consuming this all is.

We hope you'll have fun with the video, at least for us it was very funny to see our faces on the TV screen and  to hear our voices during the interview. 


Have a nice Sunday evening!
Vlad & Kremena


* "чушкопек" - it should be pronounced "chushkopek", only possible translation of this local invention that is coming to mind is "pepper furnace". It's one of the very odd inventions of late socialistic epoch here ('80). Bellow is the picture that I found on internet of it, happily I never used such thing after 1993.

27 November, 2010

Our first ever blog post!


Good Morning!

This is our first ever blog post. For years we were thinking that it's about time to start a blog.  The only thing that was stopping us was that we were afraid that very rarely we would have something really interesting to share with our eventual readers.


We are planning a few new and exciting (at least for us) ventures for the very near future, so we decided that this is the right time to add a blog to our list of online activity. 


Have a nice weekend everybody, and prepare for the Cyber Monday! 

Vlad & Kremena