Fantastic Christi Friesen workshop
I was very lucky to attend a polymer clay workshop with the fantastically fun Christi Friesen today. It was called ‘In the Garden’ and we whizzed through lots of different techniques and were overloaded with tips and techniques. And entertained at the same time! I don’t know how she manages it! Thank you Christi for such wonderful day! Look at all the things I made – yes in one day! Christi is a slave driver ;)It was great to see some good friends and meet some new ones and so great to be taught new polymer skills by...
read morePolymer clay demonstration in Hobbycrafts
Hello lovely blog readers! I have had a really nice day demonstrating some polymer clay techniques in my local Hobbycraft store. It was a casual demonstration where people could come and watch and ask questions rather than a more formal ‘talk’ at a set time. I met some lovely new people who were very interested to see what I was doing, hopefully some of them will catch the polymer clay bug and can take great pleasure in creating with it, like I do!Here’s my work area and me talking to the lovely Dawn Wilkins who did a great...
read moreFun with friends
I was lucky enough last Wednesday to have a clay day at my house with some other polymer clay addicts!There were six of us in total and we had a great day. We talked about, and tried out so many different things I think we all went home happy but exhausted! Here’s all the lovely ladies (I was taking the photo of course) from left to right it’s – Chrissie, Rosalind, Sarah, Caroline and Anita.Here is some of what we got up to! Huge thanks to Caroline for sharing with us how she makes her cool rings and funky hearts! We all...
read moreNew owls
Owls are still very fashionable it seems, which is cool cause I love them! I have just added an owl brooch and an owl keyring/charm to my owl repertoire. Here they are Owl Brooch Back of owl brooch Owl keyring Owl collection – brooch, keyring and earrings The earrings are my earrings for this week in the pair of earrings a week challenge. So owls can now be little ornaments, pendants, keyrings, charms, brooches and earrings – what next I wonder? If you’ve got a suggestion do let me know! ...
read morePay it Forward
I was very excited when I got home as I had recieved a parcel from Cate van Alphen who I was lucky enough to meet at Polymer Pamper Play this year. It was a gorgeous bracelet she sent me as Part of Pay it Forward. she posted a Pay it forward notice on her blog and I was the first to comment so was lucky enough to recieve this bracelet!Here’s how to play along:I’ll make something handmade for the first 2 people who comment to this post an the first person to email me (it should really be just comments but I wanted to give everyone a chance...
read moreCatching up
Hello. I hope you all had a good Easter break. We were away with the family in Scotland for 2 weeks so it’s all a bit manic here. My first job of the day is to work out what it is that actually needs to happen from this huge long list of jobs to do! I was lucky enough whilst travelling around Scotland to get to meet the lovely Chris Pellow. It’s great to actually meet people you know online! Unfortunately we didn’t manage to play with clay as time didn’t allow but I look forward to another visit sometime. If you...
read moreSuper shiny, super happy!
So having done a workshop with the fabulous Melanie Muir (if ever you get a chance to take a class with her do!!) and seen the amazing finish on her jewellery, and watched her use her Foredom Bench Lathe to polish her cuff bracelets I just had to get one! I have been considering upgrading from my home made polishing mop on a dremel for some time but was thinking of getting a bench grinder and buying a spindle. Having seen the Foredom in action, it struck me it was very quiet and the speed is variable which I think is useful and I decided it...
read moreRainbow Artichokes
As you have probably read I was lucky enough to take a workshop with Eva Ehmeier recently and learnt how to make her fabulous artichoke pendants. For my earrings for this week, week 12 for me, in the 52 pairs of earrings a year challenge I decided to have a go at making rainbow artichoke earrings. Rainbow Artichoke Earrings Week 12/52 Off course I had to make a pendant to match! Rainbow Artichoke pendant bottom view Rainbow Artichoke pendant side view They take quite a while to make, there are over 60 ‘leaves’ in the pendant,...
read morePolymer, Pamper, Play – Perfect Again!
WOW what a weekend, so much creative time, inspiration, fun with friends, good food, learning new skills, couldn’t ask for a better weekend! The venue was in beautiful surroundings and the food was marvellous, we were thoroughly spoilt! There were plenty of old friends, it was great to spend time with them and also plenty of new interesting people to meet. We had such fun! As for the workshops! Well what wonderful tutors! I have come away with some wonderful jewellery I am very pleased with and a whole heap more skills and a brain about...
read moreInspiration from ‘Black and White’
As you know I recently had a tutorial published in ‘From Polymer to Art’ Black and White, well the magazine is crammed full of interesting tutorials and even though I should be packing for going away to Polymer Pamper Play tomorrow I thought I would have a sneaky go at one, to make my earrings for this week (for the 52 earrings a year challenge).I thought I could use the beads from this stunning necklace tutorial by Anja Overdijk I decided to use blue instead of white and here are the earrings I made I was really enjoying using...
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