More zebra
You may have noticed that I am fairly keen on zebra print jewellery. Here’s even more!
read morePurple scrap swirl
Here’s a pendant I made with some scraps from another project. I was rather taken with it, the little crystal dangles in just the right shade of purple (took the pendant to the shop to buy them!). It was sanded to a beautiful high gloss and felt wonderful. Needless to say about the 3rd person to see it bought it!
read morePasta Machine Thickness comparison table
Since I started improving my polymer clay work by following tutorials and going to workshops I have found it very confusing when people give you a pasta machine thickness as the different brands (particularly Atlas and Imperia the main 2 quality machines) don’t compare easily. I have an Imperia machine which I love, it is easy to take apart to clean, only requiring to remove the end plate on one end (the one without the knob) with 1 screw and then I can push out the rods by hand and clean the scraper plates. I recently acquired a cheap...
read moreAutumn flowers
I had a custom order of a crochet hook in autumn colours. I decided to use my now firm favourite spliced flower cane. I started making this cane thanks to a video from Cindy LeitzI decided to use the flower cane to make a few other bits…Autumn colours cabochon pendant – super shiny!Autumn owl (with glow in the dark eyes) – flew straight off my sale table!
read moreGingerbread men
My friend Moe has been making some super cute Hawaiian gingerbread men and hula girls – like this…I got inspired and made some more traditional gingerbread men Christmas earrings.
read more‘From Polymer to Art’ a review
I have now received my copy of ‘From Polymer to Art’. It is the first edition, a sneak preview before the sale launches in 2011. Each edition will have a colour theme, this first one being Red.It feels and it looks nice. The paper is a good quality paper and the magazine has been set out beautifully, interspersed with the articles and tutorials are snippets of poems and pictures of things red. There is a page of photographs of different red flowers. In this preview edition the advertising pages are blank but I see there are plenty...
read moreOwls
I am enjoying showing off my jewellery at the Totterdown Arts Trail this weekend and have sold loads of my little tortoises. I came home last night and made some more and did the same tonight, hopefully I will have enough to see my through to tomorrow evening! A customer today asked me if I ever made owls, my reply was not yet but I will! So here is my first batch of owls, I’ll see if they fly off the table tomorrow!
read moreNew Polymer Clay Magazine
I have just found out about a new polymer clay magazine From Polymer to Art from a blog post by Fabi on http://fabicontusmanos.blogspot.com , I have ordered a copy and can’t wait to see it. From her blog post and the magazine website where I ordered my copy it looks very exciting! They ship worldwide.
read moreEmerald green custom order
I had a custom order for a flower pendant in Emerald Green. I had some similar style pendants (the technique is from Ayelet Beads flower tutorial which I would highly recommend!) but I found it really hard to know if the customer would like them so I made a few variations. Hopefully she will get to see them this week (I have a sale on Saturday so I want to put the ones she doesn’t choose on display then) so I will let you know which one she chooses. My favourite is the top one.
read moreOne of my custom orders
At the 2 sales I have had I have taken quite a few orders. I am finding it quite tricky to be confident the customer will like what I’ve made so I have given them some options. This order was for a friend who lived locally so I made the beads and then took them to show her before I strung them.She requested a spliced flower cane necklace on a cord with no metal clasps etc. in similar colours to this braceletThere are about 12 different shades of browns and oranges and pinks and white and black in this bracelet so it was going to be...
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