I am sure some of you know this already but I only just worked it out so I thought I would share it in case some of you don’t know either.I clean my pasta machine with a baby wipe between colours of clay. I wipe  the underside of the rollers (underneath the machine) where the crumbles sometimes collect and I wipe the top whilst turning the handle to make sure the rollers are clean. Sometimes though I still get annoying streaks of colour...

Thank you to Sandy for taking my extruder experimentation a step further and sharing it on her blog.She had the great idea to extrude the square logs in the first place (why didn’t I think of that lol). She has developed the technique one step further, twisting the logs to make these cool spirals You can find out what she did on her blog herehttp://blog.simple-inspirations.com/2010/03/extruded-spirals-week-12-of-canes.htmlI have played...

I actaully went out to the shops today (my dad took me as I am still not driving) and I managed to get my own bottle of Pledge Multi-Surface Wax which is the UK version of what was Future! Unfortunately got a busy few days so might have to wait to try it.

So I have been reading up on sanding and everyone agrees on wet sanding with wet and dry sand paper and also making your item as smooth as possible before baking to reducing the sanding needed. But  I still couldn’t really figure out how long I should be sanding on each grade or how many or which grades of sandpaper I should use. I do know that I have had a few pieces that still had scratches on after sanding so I needed to do it better...

Well if you have made a lot of lentil swirl beads you will already know this but in case you haven’t here’s something I learnt about patterns today (I don’t normally swirl with patterns usually it is just a pile of scrap).I carefully placed a flower in the centre of the ball I started swirling thinking it would look nice swirled – but it disappeared!Swirl lentil bead that started with a flower in the centre that...

la vie en roseOriginally uploaded by delphineR2MI have just come across the work of Delphine- thanks to Polymer Clay Daily featuring her work.I love these flowers they are so delicate looking. She has a giveaway on her blog and one of the entry conditions is to post something pink on your blog. What better than her own pink flowers!I thought that I didn’t really use pink but actually I do have my pink flowers from the paisley caneMy pink...