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I recently stayed up half the night to watch a CraftCast Webinar with the Marvelous Melanie Muir – it’s an online workshop and it was fabulous and the best thing is I have a download of the workshop so I can go back and watch it again when I can’t quite remember. You can purchase a download yourself here – www.craftcast.com. It has taken me a while as I seem to be too busy to fit much polymer clay time in at the moment 🙁...

Today is my wonderful husbands birthday. Off course I wanted to make him a present but what do you give a man? I have already made him a keyring and a rather special polymer clay covered pen. He would rather something practical and useful than something decorative. So after a look round a DIY store looking for inspiration here’s what I made himYes it’s a screwdriver! The handle is decorated with a black and white geometric cane...

 Turquoise on top            Red on topAn additonal black layer on top        White on topAll these mokume gane patterns have been made with the same colours of polymer clay; turquoise, white and red  just in a different order. It is quite amazing the difference you get just by varying the order of the colours.On the one which had the white on top of the stack the turquoise which was the layer underneath has become muted so it looks more like a...

So as I mentioned in my last blog post I treated myself to  some books one of which was Christi Friesen’s Dragon book.I made my first dragon, which is a largish pendant,  with some left over bits of some of my other projects, thinking it might look interesting. Well I didn’t like the look of it but never fear – Christi Friesen comes to the rescue again with Swellegant!   a metal coating. I will do some more playing about with...

Inspired by the wonderful stained glass technique I learnt from Christi Freisen I made some earrings for the earring a week challenge. They were fiddly but I was pleased how they turned out and I think they were worth the effort! I also made some heart earrings and a pendant to match, again Christi showed us a neat way to make a heart and she taught us how to make the flower and the leaves that embellish it so it was a good way to practise some...