Check out the beautiful ‘Wearable Artwork’ from Melody O Designs, the lovely Anita’s new artfire shop. Her polymer clay works really are works of art! Wish I had her patience!http://www.artfire.com/users/melodyodesigns

Here’s my stall. I shared it with my lovely mum, that’s her knitted and crocheted creations on the left side. My clever dad made me some display cases and they worked brilliantly making my set up a breeze as I was able to take them ‘loaded’ with jewellery. The weather wasn’t too bad, warm and dry and not too windy, but I did have to sellotape my little signs and labels down! There were lots of people at the event...

I meant to tell you all about this sale before, just in case you lived close enough to come along and say ‘Hi’ but somehow in all the other preparation and general life I forgot (hmm people who know me will know that I always try to do too much, in too little time and that makes me rather prone to forgetting things).Tomorrow, Saturday 2nd July, I will be selling my jewellery at my first outdoor show – Heathfest in Bromley...

In celebration of my new blog I am going to run 2 giveaways.Giveaway 1To enter all you need to do is be a follower, I will use a random number generator to pick a follower, with 1 being the first follower. Those of you who are already following me here, thank you, you will be entered. This is the prize for giveaway 1Giveaway 2To enter this you need to link to my blog. A blog, or facebook post, or tweet – about my blog in general or the...

I used what I’d learnt from my recent strength test experiments to make sure my latest polymer clay jewellery was cured to make it good and strong. The pieces were cured at 160ºC for 30 mins. I was pleased when I handled them, they seemed good and strong. Then I tried to sand them. Yup they are strong, and hard and that makes them really hard to polish! I spent about 4 times longer than I normally would polishing this flower pendant and I...

You may recall I’ve been having problems making bangles. I’ve had trouble with them cracking.In my usual style I did a little experiment to see how curing on different ‘bangle forms’ changed things.I had a suggestion from Jo who writes the FloRaeMe blog that perhaps the coke can being flimsy might move, undermining the strength of the bangle and that I should try using cardboard tube. I tried to make a cardboard tube the...