Just a quick one to show you some of my latest canes. I am pretty pleased with how they worked out. This is the first time I have tried a rose cane or the reversed skinner blend one. The one on the far right with the green is from the Ayelet Beads tutorial I bought a while back. If I was making the rose one again I would have less white in my skinner blend cane centre.

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...