Having recently discovered Kato clay I am now a complete convert. I love the Kato clay to work with and I now find Fimo too soft and sticky (although I now realise this is a problem with fimo at the moment). The problem with Kato is it is SO difficult to condition. I haven’t tried the latest formulation of Kato which is supposed to be easier to condition yet.I have tried some different methods for conditioning Kato clay and here are my...

 I have been busy claying with friends today. I helped a friend and her children (aged 4 and 6) to make some spoons as a present for her mother. Here are the spoons the children made – pretty cool! I am sure their Granny will love them!In the evening a friend popped round but I already had my mind set on making some faux turquoise so she made herself a spoon too (I had made one for her boyfriends birthday and she felt she needed her own...

Thanks to those of you who commented on my bracelet either here or over at Polymer Clay Central (which you should check out if you haven’t already. I only recently discovered it thanks to Anita (again check out here blog if you haven’t already seen it http://melobeau.blogspot.com/)).I tried a zillion things this afternoon, different sized beads, different colours, different combinations. Annoyingly I had been to the bead shop this...

Here’s the necklace that I have been talking about. You can see the silver flower pendant I made a polymer clay prototype for (still haven’t played with my PMC yet).It is from ‘Make Jewellery’ magazine issue 4I started stringing those chip beads with the focal bead I showed you the other day. I find it difficult to see how things will look and have to string up a bit to see. I started off with just the chips but there...

I can’t tell you about the main polymer clay project I have on the go as it is for my mum’s birthday and she sometimes reads this blog. I’ll tell you about it early May!Whilst I was with family over Easter the kids, my niece and I had a quick polymer clay play. This is what I made having been reading Polymer Clay and Mixed Media– Together at Last by Christi FriesenFimo polymer clay flower with beaded centre The beads...

You may have noticed I have been unusually quiet this last week. We have been on a holiday visiting friends and relatives all over the country. We live in the outskirts of Bristol which is a large city in the south west of England. We have been up to the highlands of Scotland and back over the last week which was great. The weather has been lovely and it has been really good to catch up with all the people we did manage to visit.Home now and...