new toy
My husband has bought himself a new dremel because he needs it to do something in the loft, it’s a posh cordless one! When he was ordering all the bits he needed he also ordered a dremel workstation for me (he has been in charge of drilling holes in beads so far). So the quest to master dremel buffing will resume but should be easier cause I can use both hands. Any tips for using this set up gratefully recieved.
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I made myself a new necklace to go with some new clothes my mum kindly bought me. I have another one planned with a series of different beads but need to make some more green flower canes first. I was having trouble getting texture on my beads but with help from some friends on Poymer Clay Central and Flickr I am now happy with them. I used my nutmeg grater in the end to get the texture (need to get a new one now before I need nutmeg again but clay is more important ;)Necklace and bracelet setClose up of spliced flower cane bead and the...
read moreDorset Fruits cake forks finished
Finally got round to photographing these cake forks. They are a bit different from my normal style being made to match my sister in laws crockery (not the same one who got the paisley cake forks in case you were wondering). They are being delivered at the weekend, I hope she likes them!
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Happy birthday mum! She has already opened these so I can now show you what I have been busy doing. I didn’t give her all these, mum got the four on the right, the larger sizes as I knew she already had many of the smaller ones. I am using the blue one in the middle and it is lovely to work with. So much nicer to hold than the plain aluminium handle. I’ve been busy but look forward to having a bit more time to blog again soon. Cara
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As well as making my mums birthday present (will show you soon – can’t show you now as she might read my blog) I am also making cake forks for my other sister in law. She has Dorset Fruits Crockery by Poole Pottery so I decided to make her some matching cake forks. She has a set for each of the family with their own fruits and they have plums (as shown), apples, grapes and pears. I am still experimenting with inlaying or having a raised fruit (much easier!). Resisted the temptation to make fruit canes – overkill for 6 cake...
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Just a quick one to show you some of my latest canes. I am pretty pleased with how they worked out. This is the first time I have tried a rose cane or the reversed skinner blend one. The one on the far right with the green is from the Ayelet Beads tutorial I bought a while back. If I was making the rose one again I would have less white in my skinner blend cane centre.
read moreConditioning Kato Clay
Having recently discovered Kato clay I am now a complete convert. I love the Kato clay to work with and I now find Fimo too soft and sticky (although I now realise this is a problem with fimo at the moment). The problem with Kato is it is SO difficult to condition. I haven’t tried the latest formulation of Kato which is supposed to be easier to condition yet.I have tried some different methods for conditioning Kato clay and here are my findings.As I would FimoWith Fimo and Premo you can just squash up a bit of clay and roll it through...
read moreFriends spoons
I have been busy claying with friends today. I helped a friend and her children (aged 4 and 6) to make some spoons as a present for her mother. Here are the spoons the children made – pretty cool! I am sure their Granny will love them!In the evening a friend popped round but I already had my mind set on making some faux turquoise so she made herself a spoon too (I had made one for her boyfriends birthday and she felt she needed her own special spoon too – her birthday is New Year’s Eve so a way off!). It’s very...
read moreFinally finished that bracelet
Thanks to those of you who commented on my bracelet either here or over at Polymer Clay Central (which you should check out if you haven’t already. I only recently discovered it thanks to Anita (again check out here blog if you haven’t already seen it http://melobeau.blogspot.com/)).I tried a zillion things this afternoon, different sized beads, different colours, different combinations. Annoyingly I had been to the bead shop this morning but forgot to take my chip beads with me to try out. I bought some lime green and brilliant...
read moreTurquoise things and how to string?
Here’s the necklace that I have been talking about. You can see the silver flower pendant I made a polymer clay prototype for (still haven’t played with my PMC yet).It is from ‘Make Jewellery’ magazine issue 4I started stringing those chip beads with the focal bead I showed you the other day. I find it difficult to see how things will look and have to string up a bit to see. I started off with just the chips but there wasn’t enough (the problem of playing around rather than planning!). I then tried putting seed...
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