Please note the new diary link above, that should show you an online calendar with my sale, demonstration and workshop dates. Some dates you might want to know about if you live near Bristol (UK)…I will be demonstrating making polymer clay jewellery in Hobby Crafts at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol  this Thursday 15th September between 10am and 4pm. Come along, say hello and watch me work if you are anywhere near!I have also organised some more...

Not a great photo but here’s a peek at what my stall looked like on Saturday. I moved that mirror on the right as it was obsuring a lovely pendant. It didn’t look like this at home time, there were lots of gaps! Should of taken a photo then too, maybe I will remember next time.

When I was doing my curing experiments I wondered if the quenching, plunging into ice water straight from oven, really did help with translucence. I had a few things ready to cure made with translucent Kato clay so thought I would quickly test to see. I made 2 samples from translucent Kato polymer clay on a mid thickness in the pasta machine, setting 5 on an Atlas. Not sure of my reason for the  thickness, just what seemed right at the time. On...

sorry for those of you not interested in all this tech stuff, I am just off to play with my clay so there will be some more creative updates soon!First of all you need to get the HTML code to link to your facebook page from here -http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/You change the options as you wish and then click on get code. Copy it.In blogger go to design (where you set how your blog looks) and click on one of the...

I am really looking forward to Monday. The children are at school, and I am at home! I shall have time to play with my clay I hope!I remembered the other day that I had set up a facebook Cara Jane business page but never done anything with it. I have put some photos there now (don’t worry nothing you haven’t seen already – they’ll be posted here and flickr first) and will try and keep up to date with events too. Please...

One of my friends was telling me about https://posterous.com/ the other day, it’s a way of making one post appear on your blog, facebook, twitter, Flickr etc. I had a brief look at it, thought it might be a good time saver but filed it into the something to have a look at when I’ve got time category. Anyone used it?Today I finally got round to activating my NetworkedBlogs blog link, by putting their widget on my blog (see right down...