I am not that happy with my current photographs but being on crutches at the moment I just can’t fuss around setting up a photo session. I have a digital SLR but at the moment am using my Canon compact as I can carry it round in it’s tiny pouch with a shoulder strap easily from clay space to comfy chair and laptop.Once I am back on my feet I intend to set my self up to take some decent photographs and am looking at buying or more...

It was my surf dude friend Al’s birthday today. I decided (one of those lying in bed unable to sleep inspirations) to make him a surf board spoon. It turned out pretty well, my 5 year old son wants me to make him one now too. Here it isI used a blue white and purple skinner blend stripe which I inlaid into the basic surf board shape which was made with translucent Kato polymer clay. I cover the spoon handle with white clay first as it...

Roz Petal Studio is having a give away through facebook – Roz-Petalz-Studio facebook pageMy favourite of her pieces is this oneI love black and red together and the addition of the green leaves adds another dimension. Cute little pendant.

Whilst looking up ways to prevent the skin around my thumb from cracking painfully, which it has done every winter for the last couple of years, I came across Gloves in a Bottle.  I didn’t think much of it at the time until I also came across it on a polymer clay related blog (can’t find it again now of course) as something people used before working with polymer clay to protect their hands.I found out that my local chemist stocked...

For ages I have mainly used the largest and the smallest settings on the pasta machine (I have an Imperia one with 6 settings). I can’t see much difference between the first 3 settings. I decided to spend 5 minutes making some reference chips from some scrap.Pasta Machine Thickness ChipsThere really isn’t much difference between the first 2 settings, hardly worth having. So now I can check and see what the settings correspond to....

You  can find my tutorial for this teachnique here – The Surfing Cat Graduated Pointy Stripe Extruder Technique – Polymer Clay Tutorial