Polymer toggles
I have been thinking about making some polymer toggles for a long time now. I like toggle clasps I find them less fiddly than the lobster type clasps, especially for a bracelet when you only have one hand to do it up with!I first thought about making them thinking about asymetric necklaces and using a decorative toggle as feature at the front of it, still haven’t tried that yet but I will sometime!I was asked by a friend who can’t wear any metal to restring an 1930s necklace of her mothers so decided it would be the ideal time to...
read moreLatest jewellery – and it’s all for me!
I haven’t had any new jewellery for myself for a while now, I was busy making sale stock and completing orders. So far this year things have been quieter so finally made myself some new things. Here’s some of them 3 blue and white skinny bangles. I am road testing these to see how they strong they are. Baked them extra long to try and make sure they were strong! Blue and white oval cabochon pendant, I do love this simple blue and white flower cane. This is the second batch of the cane I’ve made and I can see I will be making...
read morePhoto set up further improvement – stage 2
A while ago I posted about trying to take better photographs of my jewellery (read my stage 1 photo set up post here). Well finally I got my hands on a suitable cardboard box and have made a light tentThe light on the left of the picture has a 100W equivalent (it’s energy saving so actually only 25w) daylight bulb in it, it’s my normal work bench light. The light on the right is one of my show set up lamps and I thought I could put another 100w daylight bulb in it but alas it has a tiny screw fitting so it doesn’t fit. I...
read morePolymer Pamper and Play was Perfect!
Wow what a weekend Polymer Pamper Play was! It was so well organised, Rebecca and Debbie had thought of everything! It was a great group of friendly and talented ladies and it was great to get to know you all a bit better. The best thing was staying all together in the same place, sharing meals together, having time to talk and being able to play with our clay before breakfast, in the middle of the night…. Wonderful! There are some pictures from the event on the Polymer Pamper Play website here.Here’s some of what I made in the...
read moreand the giveaway winner is…….
Thanks to a random number generator, the winner is comment 13….Looking at the list I see it’s Fiona! Congratulations Fiona. I know you have been reading my blog for at least a year so I am sure it’s going to a good home.I wish I had the time and money to send you all one, sorry I can’t but thank you so much for taking the time to read and comment on my blog, it’s much appreciated. I’m sure I will do another giveaway sometime this year.Got lots of exciting things to share with you so stay tuned…
read moreNatalia’s fold it class on Craft-Edu
I know some of you have admired my work based on Natalia Garcia de Leaniz’s class at Polymer play Days in Nottingham 2010 (see below for a reminder). The focal in my Giveaway (still a few days left to enter!) is off course also made with this technique.Well the good news is now you can take the class too on Craft-Edu – Natalia’s fold it class on Craft-EduFurther good news is that there will be a Polymer Play Days 2011 in the UK – see the blog for more details.And even better is that tomorrow I shall be packing to go to...
read moreCutting polymer clay
I was reading a discussion on the Polymer Clay Central Message Board about which clay blades were rigid and shared my home made clay knife so I thought I ought to share it with those of you who don’t read the forum (you should there’s so much useful information there from such wonderful, friendly, talented people).I do have an assortment of clay blades but more often than not use my own trusty blade. It’s a snap off knife blade which I have made a polymer clay handle for. I have used several of these over the years (have...
read moreSquare inspiration
I am busy completing a few orders at the moment but am feeling the urge to try a new shape.Here’s some inspirational ‘square’ polymer clay jewellery by other polymer clay artists I have found on Flickr. The pictures are all links so you can click on them to see more photos from these brilliant artists. Enjoy!.Blue Dog BeadsBlue Dog BeadsSilvia Ortiz de la TorrePurple Cactus Studioszarzamel / melanie gautronneauWired OrchidDon’t forget my giveaway http://surfingcatclay.blogspot.com/2011/02/giveaway.html
read moreCPAW8 work in progress
It’s the children’s school holiday week so not much clay time for me. I did manage to sneak in a quick hour this evening in order to keep up with the Color Palette a Week Flickr group . I had lots of ideas but not enough time to fulfil them so I opted for some quick things. Here’s what I’ve made, the sanding and finishing will have to wait til next week. I will try and remember to show you the finished items.This weeks colour palette – back in my comfort zone ;)Striped jellyroll cane covered oval...
read moreGIVEAWAY!!
It’s time for a giveaway! There are now 100 lovely followers for this blog – amazing! Thank you all for reading my ramblings.To enter the give away simply leave a comment below, making sure I have means to contact you should you be a winner (easiest way is of course to be a follower). The winner will be drawn on Monday 14th March by random number generator.They will win this lovely necklace! Should there be more than 100 comments I will add another prize. Everyone is welcome to join in, friends, family (yes even you mum!),...
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