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Tiny Christmas Hat Tutorial

Tiny Christmas Hat Tutorial

I expect you are starting to think about Christmas! Well if you wanted to make some little creatures with Christmas hats here’s a quick tutorial to help you. You can find my free tutorial to make the little sleeping cats like the one shown on my blog here. Cara Jane’s Free Sleeping Cat Tutorial Of course any animal could become a Christmas animal with a little Santa hat not just cats – the owls love them! You will need a...

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Bright Flowers – a new set

Bright Flowers – a new set

The weather here in the UK is horrible today so I have tried to cheer things up with these bright flowers   These are slightly different from my normal flat flower pendants as they are slightly curved and each petal slightly cupped. They also have a dimension centre which looks like little tubes but is actually just little sticks of clay (adhered with the wonderful Kato polypaste) that I poke a pin into to give the illusion of being hollow. I...

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Christmas Fair Dates and NEW CREATURES!

Christmas Fair Dates and NEW CREATURES!

Before I let you know my latest Christmas Fair dates I’d like to introduce you to my new creatures that will be available from the Totterdown Arts Trail onwards. Meet the pigs!   This weekend I will be at  the Totterdown Arts Trail at 13 Hawthorne Street, Totterdown, Bristol with the wonderfully talented Emily Ketteringham and her screen prints of Bristol. I am really looking forward to it as I always meet such interesting people. The...

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First Christmas Owls of 2012

First Christmas Owls of 2012

I can’t put it off any more – Christmas is coming and it’s getting closer. Here’s the first Christmas Owls for 2012 Watch this space for my latest sales and workshop dates some exciting news about what I will be doing in December!

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Black and Grey Flowers

Black and Grey Flowers

A good friend of mine was making a new dress to wear to a wedding – so I offered to make her some new jewellery to match. It turned out just beautiful! Here it is If you are familiar with the polymer clay work of Ayelet you will notice my inspiration! I made the grey beads and textured them with salt, they match the colour of the dress. I’m busy working on some Christmas gift and ornament designs, I hope to be able to share some...

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St Werburghs Arts Trail this weekend (discount for readers!)

I will be exhibiting at the St Werburghs Arts trail this weekend. You will find me in the Jack Brimble Centre on the corner of Lynmouth Road and St Werburghs Road from 11am – 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.It’s a lovely little hall and there are a couple of other artists exhibiting there too but there is still plenty of space so hopefully I will be able to do some demonstrations of how I make some of my polymer clay jewellery.Do come...

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