Latest pendant
I am getting ready for my next sale on Friday evening, in Fishponds. It’s part of a foot pampering night organised by a friend of mine.I will have some new jewellery to display including this pendantNew domed pendant on wire choker frontThe back of the pendantAs you can see it has my new signature cane on, jewellery made from 1/2/11 will have it incorporated.
read moreBirthday heart
We went out last night to celebrate one of my friends birthdays to an 80’s club. I wanted to make her a funky piece of retro jewellery, which was why I started the whole rainbow thing but I couldn’t show you this before in case she happened to read my blog.So I have been meaning to try making hollow lentil beads but for some reason decided I was going to make a hollow heart. Probably not the most sensible idea as I have never tried the technique with the much more simple lentil shape but I like a challenge!So I sculpted a heart...
read moreChoker necklaces and new pendants
Suddenly everywhere I look there are choker necklaces – and they look fab! I wanted to make some but wasn’t sure where to get them in the UK (did have a look on the bead supply websites but didn’t find them).At the London Polymer Clay Group meeting on Sunday, Rebecca Thickbroom (who is one of the organisers of the Polymer, Pamper, Play event I am very much looking forward to!) showed some beautiful choker necklacesRebecca’s beautiful choker pendants!They were inspired by the amazing work of Helen Briel and made using...
read moreImproved photographs – first stage
I am really proud of my latest jewellery and was thinking I must sort out the photographs show I can show you properly. Then today I was emailed some photographs by a friend to use on my blog (post coming soon), they are great photos and I just couldn’t put them up against my poorly lit ones so the ‘sorting out a photography set up’ jumped up the to do list!See why I need to sort it out… Here’s the rainbow owls photograph from yesterday, I took it on my work bench with my normal room lighting.Original, just on...
read moreRainbow owl
Here’s the first thing I have finished (because I don’t sand them) with my funky rainbow jellyroll. This little owl has glow in the dark (fimo) eyes and a lovely rainbow tummy and one slightly long wonky ear – it’s character of course! I think I might try and photograph my work and checking it before baking, it’s amazing what you spot in a photograph that you don’t always see in real life. Didn’t notice his ear until now.and have a quick look at his bottom, I am using my signature cane and I like it....
read moreRainbow stripe jellyroll cane
Rainbow stripe jellyroll caneOriginally uploaded by Cara Jane Contemporary JewelleryI’m off to an 1980’s nightclub with the girls at the weekend so I have been feeling rather retro. Time to go all rainbow! I have a few special projects in mind, I’ll share them with you soon
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The main demonstration at the London Polymer Clay Group was by on making signature canes Susan Rimmer, thanks Susan it was an interesting demonstration. I have been thinking about signing my work and did play about with a stamp made from bent bits of coke can back in the autumn but I wasn’t happy with the results, it wasn’t obviously a signature and I mainly sanded it out the few times I tried it. Off course the first one I made was back to front because I forgot it was going to be a stamp image and didn’t reverse the...
read moreName badge
I was lucky enough to be able to go to the London Polymer Clay Group meeting today (thanks to my parents for looking after the children as hubby was busy shock horror!). I decided to make myself a name badge yesterday evening so it was made in a bit of a rush (one day I will learn not to be so chaotic but until then last minute it is….). The photo too was taken in a rush and the lighting is terrible. It is on my list of things to do in Feb to try and sort out some better lighting for both taking photos of my work and for my sale table...
read moreAnn’s necklace
Here is Ann showing off the necklace she made in my workshop this morning. These are bumpy beads, with spots made out of bullseye cane slices. Love the colours she chose, so different from my usual blue.
read moreFirst Cara Jane workshop
Some sample bead I made to give people some ideasA lovely necklace made by a workshop participant!Another lovely necklace made by a workshop participant!You too could make your own unique necklace or bracelet in a polymer clay workshop. Contact me for more details – carajaneuk’at’gmail.com (replace the ‘at’ with @ to email – can’t add it direct to the page or I will be overloaded with spam!)
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