People will always talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live.

Let them.

You affected their life, they didn't affect yours.

It's getting warmer meanwhile and spring is knocking at the door. Here are just some photographs from what's going on outside our workshop. Our workshop guardian, Carlo is looking at his friend Roary, the huge shire horse stallion. They love each other.

 

 

Traditionally it's a painting which first comes to mind if thinking about art.
Since Astrid loves to paint and has a formal background from the days back at the Academy she tried to combine both, the painting and the glass art.
Now her first pieces are available in the online shop. Check it out.
There is a new category called "Gaia Paintings".

If you love going on trips and have jewellery, you know how easily necklaces and bracelets can get mangled, how jewellery pieces, particularly those containing glass beads, can scratch each other, or even how you can lose a pendant or an earring to the jumble. Using a jewellery travel case most probably solves all these issues and helps you keeping your jewellery organized.

Protecting your jewellery saves you grief and money as scratched bracelets and broken necklaces are expensive to repair or replace. Sometimes they even cannot be repaired or replaced at all.
It also stops dust and dirt from getting into and at your precious jewels.

Jewellery travel cases are available in a wide assortment of shapes and sizes.

If you have fragile pieces of jewellery (any piece that would easily break in your luggage), a hard case is recommended, otherwise, a soft case is easier to pack.

Here are the most important things to look for in a jewellery travel case:

- Lined with a soft material
- You want your pieces of jewellery to be stored separately. Therefore the case needs to have compartments or other means to avoid the jewellery banging against each other. Each single piece should also be stored in a way that adjacent parts of the jewellery cannot damage each other.
- Fits easily in your bag
- Has a safe locking mechanism to prevent accidental opening

Whatever case you choose, know that your jewellery will be easier to find, more protected and tangle-free!
Have a great trip!

It's not in the online shop but it's worth to be mentioned on the website. So why not doing it here?
Glass figurines of the human body!

Sculptural work in glass is a challenge on its own certainly.
Working "off mandrel" handling just the glass using grabbing tools, glass and steel punties, or just the hands protected by suitable gloves is fascinating. Also there is a different glass being used than for the beads in the jewellery and it behaves differently of course.

Here is a glimpse of 2 recent sculptures which were going overseas to a customer in the USA.
Maybe we put such sculptures in the general online shop one day, but for the time being they shall remain hidden in the non-public department. Currently it's just about custom orders and not for general sales.

It's been an exciting day today when a whole convoy of vintage cars arrived and entered the roundabout in front of our house to spend a visit to the AsKoru studio.
We always love the opportunity to show others our work and how the whole process of flameworking and glass bead jewellery making works.
The Northland Vintage Car Club took the opportunity of their todays rally to make our studio one of the checkpoints and give the drivers and copilots time to learn about flameworking and our work.
We found a very interested audience which did not hold back with questions, being keen to learn about melting glass.
Time just flew and after an hour they hit the road again. Have a nice trip, guys!

The Treasure Hunter Specials are so well accepted by many website visitors and customers that we start another round right now.
If there was nothing for you yet, there maybe something now.
If something catches your eye then don't hesitate to put it in your cart since somebody else might be after the same thing.
Experience so far tells that these items maybe gone pretty quickly.
This category is for the one who always is on the hunt for something special being not expensive at the same time.
Here you may find items from the last fashion season, or items in unusual colours, or maybe something which we just hide here to make you return to this website.
All items offered here are not seconds or of low quality. They are definitely one-of-a-kind.
If an item is sold it's not gonna be remade.
You can find the new category by using the site navigation or the speed bars at the top of the homepage.

AsKoru on MySpace
We eventually managed to establish a MySpace presence (www.myspace.com/askoru).

Maybe you check our page out there, learn to know some of our friends and customers in the fashion world, and enjoy our flashy jewellery fashion show video.
Don't forget to turn your speakers on. The tunes and pace are thrilling.

The Treasure Hunter Specials, our new category in the shop completed the 2nd round already.
Why not add more? - It's available right now.
If there was nothing for you yet, there maybe something now.
If a something catches your eye then don't hesitate to put it in your cart since somebody else might be after the same thing.
Experience so far tells that these items are pretty much sought after obviously.
This category is for the one who always is on the hunt for something special being not expensive at the same time.
Here you may find items from the last fashion season, or items in unusual colours, or maybe something which we just hide here to make you return to this website.
All items offered here are not seconds or of low quality. They are definitely one-of-a-kind.
If an item is sold it's not gonna be remade.
You can find the new category by using the site navigation, or the speed bars at the top of the homepage.

Why are blogs so popular these days?

I really don't know.

Is it that somebody has to tell something important or is there nobody else around to listen to them?
Is it and indication of lack of social contacts, or is it just the opposite?

Isn't it an amazing phenomenon that people publish their every-day-life and at the same time maybe bothered about privacy and that some business or third person may find out personal details and consumer habits?

A blog is food for any profiler and it opens the door widely for SPAM mailers if even email addresses are published.

But back to AsKoru.
Now would you like to read about Astrid's and my private every-day-life? - C'mon, you would!

Fortunately this website is not a private website after all and we don't want to confuse business with private matters, do we?
So there won't be private matters being published here. No need to wait for it.

Maybe this or the other opinion on things going on in the world, particularly in the glass jewellery world is to be read here, and of course, if there are news about the shop.

Let's see how this turns out eventually and if I find out why these blogs are so popular these days.

Thanks for tuning in.