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Patterned Puffins

Patterned Puffins

I love puffins! I also love creating geometric canes with polymer clay and I have discovered I enjoy sculpting so it will come as no surprise that patterned puffins have emerged!The first one I finished earlier this year had two different cane patterns covering its body, one darker and one lighter for its white tummy. There are also some different ‘tail feather’ patterns on the underside of the tail. The beak is a cane too. The eye...

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Rabbit Sculpture

Rabbit Sculpture

I have been experimenting with different sculpture styles. Here is a little Delft pottery-inspired rabbit. It’s just over 6 cm tall so only small. The beauty of canes is that you can resize them so I took some of my Delft-style blue and white canes and made them smaller to fit the size of the sculpture.

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Polymer Clay Bail Tutorial

Polymer Clay Bail Tutorial

I’ve added a quick tutorial onto my tutorials page showing you how to make a bail from polymer clay for a pendant. I love this way of finishing the back of a pendant as it means I don’t have to add any additional findings. I use a 6mm knitting needle to form my bail which means I can thread most things through it so I can change the cord I hang my pendant on easily. You can find the tutorial here

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Signing your Polymer Clay Creations

Signing your Polymer Clay Creations

Welcome to 2021, I hope it will be a good year for you all (or at least an improvement on the last one!2020 was a strange year and I really didn’t make anything very much from polymer clay, I just didn’t feel like it. 2021 is a new year and I hope to get back to spending lots of time experimenting, learning and creating with polymer clay – I do still love it really! I don’t do it every year but I do try to make a new...

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Large Blue and Green Cane Jewellery

Large Blue and Green Cane Jewellery

Back in October 2019 I made a large cane using mainly blues and greens. I took slices of the cane in various sizes to make some jewellery. I finally got round to taking some photographs of the jewellery so here they are.

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Kimono Patterns Necklace Workshop

Kimono Patterns Necklace Workshop

I will be teaching this Kimono Pattern Necklace at The Atlantic Clay Escape in Atlantic City from 6-10th October 2020. There will also be workshops by Donna Kato, Leslie Blackford, Fabiola Perez Ajates and Laura Tabakman. You can find details of all the classes here and event details and registration here. If you have been following me for a while you may well recognise the canes from my Kimono Curl pendant a few years ago. At the moment am...

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