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

We have been busy playing with polymer clay for a lot of this afternoon (me with my bad foot up on a chair and lots of pain killers). Here are some things we madeJames made an X wing (from star wars)Daisy made a spoon, I gave her the bits she is too young(not quite 4) to be making roses on her own, yet….I made my first kalidescope cane which was originally going to cover a base to hold some pens for gifts but I had the wrong type and they...