My mum got more birthday presents made by me. I wasn’t quite sure how my disc necklace would work out so I went back to something I knew would work just in case – a flowery cabochon. Again in purples. It turned out very well, I’m very pleased with it. She ended up with both.I recently bought some new micromesh sheets in the 8000 and 12000 grits. Previously I had the basic hobby kit which went up to 6000. The difference in the...

I was playing about with ideas for a present for my mum’s birthday. She wears a lot of purple so the colour choice was easy at least! I wanted to incorporate many different shades so it would go with lots of different purple things.  I made a bullseye cane using quite a few different layers in differing thickness’s for added interest. I cut some slices and used my favourite texture tool, a texture sponge sheet I bought from the...

For those of you who haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere Cindy Leitz is offering free access to her recent Teardrop blend shift video it’s for a limited time, she said a week in her first post. So go check it out now while you can!Sorry I haven’t had much to say recently, April seems to have been a month long holiday this year! I’ve had an excellent time out and about and hardly touched my polymer clay. That’s all...

I have a very exciting time coming up. First of all we are off on a family holiday to Disney World in Florida (very exciting!!!) Then it’s the Royal Wedding which I’m not really that excited about apart from the fact we get a lovely 4 day weekend and are off camping with friends. So I am afraid there will be little clay news for a while.As if that wasn’t enough excitement, in May,  in the same weekend I am catching up with my...

 This one was a birthday present for my sister in law,  to go with the tiny tulip tile earrings she had bought from me already. tulip earrings on Cara Jane card  And then I made a very simple tiny choker which was snapped up at my sale last Friday. Think I will have to make some more! I’ve also had enquiries about making another set of cake forks, which I realise I haven’t shown you, and worse I realise I didn’t...

My little girl was 5 today! Can’t believe she’s so old, I don’t know where the last 5 years have gone!She wanted a monkey hunting party so we had great fun at her party making binoculars from toilet rolls, hunting for monkeys (pictures of them only but that didn’t seem to disappoint the children too much), finding sticks for a fire and toasting marshmallows.Off course she had to have a monkey cake and as I was short of...