Here is Ann showing off the necklace she made in my workshop this morning. These are bumpy beads, with spots made out of bullseye cane slices. Love the colours she chose, so different from my usual blue.

Some sample bead I made to give people some ideasA lovely necklace made by a workshop participant!Another lovely necklace made by a workshop participant!You too could make your own unique necklace or bracelet in a polymer clay workshop. Contact me for more details – carajaneuk’at’gmail.com (replace the ‘at’ with @ to email – can’t add it direct to the page or I will be overloaded with spam!)

I have just been trialling a beginners polymer clay workshop with some of my friends. I was aiming for them to make a bracelet like this from simple cane slices, threaded on elastic.We have had great fun and they are all really pleased with their creations but we haven’t quite managed to get to the bracelet stage so I either need to find a way to speed it up or make the class longer. I am doing them from home which seems to work out well...

I’ve recently acquired some new polymer clay books and am looking forward to trying out some new things. I haven’t read any of them properly yet but I have had a quick look through and am very excited! Here’s the new ones.   I already have several books my favourites being and there are loads more I want to read! Let me know what your favourites are.

I made these beads ages ago but hasn’t quite found time to string them. Finally now the kids are back at school I got a chance. They are sold already to a friend who came over looking for a present, I hastily grabbed a photo. I am pleased with the bright colours. I am looking forward to having time to play with clay and to sharing it with you. thanks for readingCara

A friend of mine was admiring my charm bracelet but doesn’t wear bracelets so asked me to make a necklace for her. The original idea was to just add a bit of chain to either end of a bracelet but I made the charm section quite a bit longer in the end so it didn’t look ‘mean’. There are 6 different types of pearl and crystal beads in turquoise and green to pick out the colours on the petals. I am pleased with how it...