Melody O Designs – new artfire shop
Check out the beautiful ‘Wearable Artwork’ from Melody O Designs, the lovely Anita’s new artfire shop. Her polymer clay works really are works of art! Wish I had her patience!http://www.artfire.com/users/melodyodesigns
read moreOutdoor sale set up.
Here’s my stall. I shared it with my lovely mum, that’s her knitted and crocheted creations on the left side. My clever dad made me some display cases and they worked brilliantly making my set up a breeze as I was able to take them ‘loaded’ with jewellery. The weather wasn’t too bad, warm and dry and not too windy, but I did have to sellotape my little signs and labels down! There were lots of people at the event and I got lots of compliments about my work. I sold a good amount of jewellery and am now looking...
read moreSale at Heathfest Tomorrow!
I meant to tell you all about this sale before, just in case you lived close enough to come along and say ‘Hi’ but somehow in all the other preparation and general life I forgot (hmm people who know me will know that I always try to do too much, in too little time and that makes me rather prone to forgetting things).Tomorrow, Saturday 2nd July, I will be selling my jewellery at my first outdoor show – Heathfest in Bromley Heath which is about 2 miles from where I live. I am very excited to be able to show of my new banner...
read moreTime for a giveaway!
In celebration of my new blog I am going to run 2 giveaways.Giveaway 1To enter all you need to do is be a follower, I will use a random number generator to pick a follower, with 1 being the first follower. Those of you who are already following me here, thank you, you will be entered. This is the prize for giveaway 1Giveaway 2To enter this you need to link to my blog. A blog, or facebook post, or tweet – about my blog in general or the giveaway will count as one entry (you can do all three and get 3 entries if you want). A link in your...
read moreStrong can be too hard!
I used what I’d learnt from my recent strength test experiments to make sure my latest polymer clay jewellery was cured to make it good and strong. The pieces were cured at 160ºC for 30 mins. I was pleased when I handled them, they seemed good and strong. Then I tried to sand them. Yup they are strong, and hard and that makes them really hard to polish! I spent about 4 times longer than I normally would polishing this flower pendant and I am still not at all happy with the finish.So my advice is, think about what you are making and what...
read moreGiving up the coke can – bangles almost solved
You may recall I’ve been having problems making bangles. I’ve had trouble with them cracking.In my usual style I did a little experiment to see how curing on different ‘bangle forms’ changed things.I had a suggestion from Jo who writes the FloRaeMe blog that perhaps the coke can being flimsy might move, undermining the strength of the bangle and that I should try using cardboard tube. I tried to make a cardboard tube the size I wanted a bangle but the join where the cardboard overlapped made the bracelet a wonky shape...
read moreThe stages of making my purple flowery cabochon
I have been asked a couple of questions about my purple flowery cabochon pendant so here’s a little more information about how I made it. Looking at the colour differences due to the lighting in my pictures I really should go back to using my photography set up but I took these pictures as a record for me rather than for sharing with you.First I made 2 canes (typically I made them with little bits left over from another project so they were tiny and of course beautiful! If I had made them larger they wouldn’t have been so nice,...
read moreCuring experiments part 2 – with videos!
So in part 1 I discovered that for optimum strength you should turn your oven off at the end of the curing cycle and leave your polymer clay pieces to cool down slowly in the cooling oven. This was just an initial test to see if the set up was going to work before I made lots of samples with more complicated curing, and something I had always been curious about. I was happy that the test worked and set about making more samples (got a blister from the extruder – am thinking it might be time to look at those walnut hollow ones….)....
read moreSpecial pen
It’s my husband Richy’s 40th birthday today. Hopefully he is having fun at work while I bake his cake and prepare a special meal for dinner!He got lots of presents from me and the children but here’s one I wanted to share with you. Rhodium plated pen with polymer clay decorationThe pen looking all fancy in it’s presentation boxYou may remember I made a pen for my mum recently, from a fairly average pen kit and I was really chuffed at how great it looked compared to covering a biro. Well this was a fancy pen kit,...
read moreBeaux Bangles with Carol Blackburn
I was lucky enough to attend a workshop with the lovely Carol Blackburn yesterday. The workshop was organised by Clectic Events (Rebecca Thickbroom) so I knew it would be well organised, and indeed it was! It was great to spend time with so many lovely people. To catch up with some people I now consider old friends and to meet some new friends too! And even better I get to see a lot of them again this Sunday at the London Polymer Clay Group Meeting .I haven’t got long to write this post as I am preparing for my husbands 40th birthday on...
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