If you are in the Bristol area I am taking part in the Making Things Club Pop Up Shop and Making Emporium in the city centre so do pop in and say Hi! I will be in the shop 10-4pm on Thursday 13th, Saturday 15th and Friday 21st December. Some of my jewellery and little creatures including my Christmas ornaments will be available in the shop all the time until Christmas Eve. I am also running a Christmas Presents Workshop in the Making Emporium...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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...