I am working my way through the Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes book by Maggie Maggio and Lindly Haunani.This was my first go with the colour scales exercises. I enjoyed doing them and they didn’t take as long as I thought they might. I can see I will be doing some more with the other Kato package colours.Kato blue to green and yellow to magenta colour scales

I recently bought the bam bam bracelet tutorial from Tina Holden. I finally got a chance to try it out yesterday, a bit of a bracelety day. Again I can’t say much about what I did – you’ll have to get the tutorial yourself! It is very comprehensive and is broken down into lots of tiny steps.I am wearing it now, it fits! I didn’t break it! I think I shall take what I learnt from this back to the Scrap MG bracelet for...

 I can now buff to a glass like shine!!!! I am very happy!Thank you to my husband for buying the new Dremel and Workstation, Desiree for her tutorial on making a better buffing wheel, my children for donating the cotton muslin (stole one of my son’s comforter cloths – well he is nearly 6 now and doesn’t really use them any more and he does have several – I am not that mean a mum!) and all the other clayers who have given...

 I decided to have another go with the Scrap MG tutorial I bought from Tonja Lenderman, you can get yours here. I would recommend it Tonjas bracelets are beautiful and her instructions are clear, a great way to turn a pile of scrap into something beautiful.I made one before which was beautiful but far too big and then I was careless and broke it. I can’t tell you too much about what I did as obviously that wouldn’t be fair to Tonja...

I tried one of the methods of faux turquoise where you chop the clay (I used my blender) and then reform it, painting on black acrylic paint after baking then sanding so that the black remains  in the cracks.I used my turquoise ring to match the colour and decided it wasn’t a uniform colour so made a shade and a tint of my original turquoise colour, chopped them all in the food processorI combined all the colours and grated some cured...

I have been admiring peoples textured beads for some time and wanted to make some of my own. I tried rolling beads on some rough sandpaper but there wasn’t enough texture and I kept rolling the texture I made off and getting bits of sand on my beads – not good. I asked for help from some more experienced clayers – on PCC forum and I also emailed some people direct who had photos of textured beads on flickr. Many people were...