Beadwork was an escape for Delia Cepoi.

Threading the pieces together and creating small works of art was a creative outlet for Cepoi, a former architect, when she was bogged down at her job 15 years ago. She continued, attracted to the freedom of the pieces and the parallels of beadwork and architecture.

She retired last year and continued selling her works under the name Silver Bliss Studio SA国际影视传媒� a reference to the satisfaction of her silver years. She founded the project with her sister, Rodica Naiaretti, in 2010.

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Growing up in Sibiu, Romania, she was drawn to art at a young age and later immigrated to Canada to pursue architecture. Fifteen years in, however, and she needed a creative outlet, and a chance to regenerate. With beads, she could create whatever shape interested her SA国际影视传媒� SA国际影视传媒測ou can do whatever you want (with them),SA国际影视传媒� she said.

Cepoi was no stranger to the use  of space in art SA国际影视传媒� she taught advanced geometry in Europe SA国际影视传媒� and beads offered a medium with weight and depth.

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That was on display as she won a readers choice award in October from Bead and Button magazine for her necklace SA国际影视传媒淒owntown,SA国际影视传媒� which is a small cityscape based off an architectural site plan complete with a stadium and gallery.

The necklace is asymmetrical, weaving in stones and beads to represent landmarks and buildings with fall colours. She estimates it took 120 hours to create.

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She appreciated classical architecture, she said, but didnSA国际影视传媒檛 want it repeated.

Her other jewellery aims to buck convention, and Cepoi purposefully designs to avoid traditional designs and make pieces that she hopes to appeal to independent women. For her, each ring and design is a small architecture project.

Cepoi is simply attracted to designing and ordering colours and shapes, she said.

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The aim is to delight whoever is looking at the piece, she said. SA国际影视传媒淧eople say that itSA国际影视传媒檚 craft or handicraft. Not that I hate this word, SA国际影视传媒榗raft,SA国际影视传媒� but my art is not craft. ItSA国际影视传媒檚 a totally different thing,SA国际影视传媒� she said, attributing the difference to techniques at play and the quality of work.

Ultimately, she said she saw her creative output as loosening the limits of her professional architecture career to design pieces on a smaller and freer scale.

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