I have been very busy helping my sister prepare for her wedding. My main job was to make wedding jewellery for her and her partner. They came down to look at the jewellery I had and chose what they wanted. Their wedding colours were brown and duck egg blue and I was able to match my polymer clay colours to their fabric colours. Their outfits had matching embroidery on and they wanted pendants with the same pattern.When I sat down to make it I...

Here’s what I made with that curling petal cane I bought a pink silicon whisk, it had a plain metal handle, I made it a bit prettierand here’s a closer view of the handle.Happy Birthday Helen!

Here is one of my latest canes (sorry photo isn’t the best, was in a rush). I have made it into a special gift for a special friend (I’ll show you that next time). It’s from a tutorial I bought and reviewed ages ago. I never made any more at the time as I had plenty of new tutorials to try out so it was nice to come back to it. It is a great tutorial, love the result! Thanks Zuleykha!

I get fed up when I am wearing a pendant on a cord and then I realise the clasp has twizzled round to the front and is distracting from my beautiful creation. I keep meaning to design some necklaces where the clasp is a feature but until I get round to that here’s a couple of tips to avoid it happening. Tip 1 – Add a little extension chain (which also makes the length changeable) to the jump ring the clasp clips too and add...

 I am still busy making special things that I can’t show you – yet. In the meantime here are a couple of new things I’ve made with some of the scraps from my secret project.This was a birthday present for my soon to be (official) sister in law Heather.This you might recognise as one of the projects from the new Julie Picarello book – Patterns in Polymer.

 I came across Blogger in Draft thanks to a tip of from Doreen’s Backyard Beads Blog. It is an easy way to change your blog and I know several people have revamped their blogs using it and they look great. I haven’t really played around with my blog design yet but it has a host of other features that are much better than the standard Blogger. For example there is a spell check on the Compose toolbar and also an add video button.When...