Stroppel Cane takes over the world!
Some of you have probably seen the latest from Alice Stroppel, her Stroppel Cane which is a great way to use up all those little cane scraps to get a striking result! It seems to be everywhere at the moment, and rightly so it’s a fantastic project!I had a play with it today, just using the scraps from my workbench, from my current project (I posted a picture of my palette and inspiration here on facebook – I will share the rest with you later) – haven’t even looked at the scraps I have hoarded, yet!Here’s my...
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Design Seeds colour Palettes
I love Pinterest. The best thing about it is it doesn’t take too much time, I can use it to file away pictures I want to see again and I can have a quick flick through to see what everyone else has come across but (so far) I haven’t spent half my day sat there playing with it.I came across a new web site today, courtesy of a pin by the amazingly talented Zuda Gay Pease called design seeds. It’s a collection of beautiful pictures and the corresponding colour palettes. Here’s one I particularly like.I am trying to be...
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My children made present for their teachers to say thank you for such a wonderful year (they have both had amazing teachers this year lucky things!). I managed to persuade them to make spoons instead of necklaces, much more useful. Here they are:My daughter who is 5 made all these things. She has 5 adults who work in her class and she adores them all! Her actual teacher got one of the flowery spoons and the necklace.My son who is nearly 7 made these 2 teaspoons.They are both very proud of their flower canes (I’m not surprised as they...
read moreGiveaway winners!
It is time to announce the winners of my giveaway.Prize 1Thanks to all of my followers, I am sorry you couldn’t all win. The random number generator picked follower 14. I counted up from the beginning (unfortunately the people with no google id go to the beginning so they had to count as numbers 1 – 4 even though they weren’t my first 4 followers) – so I make number 14 Flowermouse. I am delighted to be sending this necklace to such a colourful home!Prize 2 Not sure I explained this giveaway very clearly as only 3...
read moreDeadline extended 48 hours – giveaway
I had a super busy weekend and forgot to remind you about my giveaway deadline – so I’m extending it by 48 hours (because I’m working tomorrow so won’t have time to draw it anyway).So if you haven’t entered you still have time – so far it’s one of 2 people who will win the second giveaway prize. To enter all you need to do is put a link to my blog on facebook, twitter or your blog and then leave a comment or email me (see contact me link above) to let me know.The first giveaway prize will be drawn...
read moreFaux Wood Tutorial from Craft Edu by Sylvie Peraud
In one of my last posts I mentioned I was going to actually try and use some of the many tutorial and projects I have been reading and admiring but not actually using! I finally got round to trying out one of the Craft Edu tutorials I purchased ages ago. It’s Faux Wood by Sylvie Peraud. I was lucky enough to take a class with Sylvie at Polymer Play Days last year and am a big fan of her work and I know she is a good teacher!Generally I like to learn from a book. I like to have words and plenty of pictures that I can take in at my own...
read morePhoto challenge on Tropical Blonde blog
I don’t seem to have had time to play with my clay for nearly a whole week now – I’m getting twitchy! Hopefully tomorrow I will get some time. I am thinking of trying to challenge myself to try out some of the many tutorials and projects I have from books and the Internet. I love to read them and look at the pictures but for some reason very rarely actually use them. I am going to commit to doing at least 1 a month and sharing the result here, I won’t be able to show you how as that wouldn’t be fair on the people...
read morePolymer Clay Day at my house
I was lucky enough to have a polymer clay day today with friends old and new today!I invited all the people I knew who lived in the South West corner of the UK to get together at my home (being as it’s fairly central and easy to get to) and was lucky enough to be joined by 4 of them.It was great to spend some time with like minded people, who know what you are talking about and to share tips and ideas.We all brought some things to show each other and it was amazing how different all our polymer clay work is. Sorry this isn’t a...
read moreOh dear I have made the mistake of looking at Pinterest! There goes half my life playing with it! But how wonderful to be able to pin up pictures from everywhere in one place. I have a lot of favourites on flickr and I have lots of starred or tagged blog posts in Google Reader but now I can keep them all together! I still haven’t quite figured it all out yet but I have made myself 2 pinboards, one for polymer clay inspiration and one to collect together peoples wonderful polymer clay photo tutorials. I shall spend some time hunting...
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