Wow what a weekend! I had the best time! I learnt some new skills, I bought some new tools, I met some new friends,I had a great time with some of my favourite polymer people. I really didn’t want to come home! I was a bit worried before I went as I have been having pain in my arm and wrist. Amazingly it got better whilst I was away so I need to do more clay at home too! It turns out it’s tennis elbow and using the computer makes it...

I made this set of jewellery in Mokume Gane from several custom mixed green shades of Kato clay for a friend’s birthday. I was delighted with the result and was dying to show you but couldn’t post them just in case!! She’s had them now so I can show you too. Couldn’t resist a little owl with the mokume gane shavings! As you can see I am making good use of what I learnt from Melanie Muir in her workshops....

I recently stayed up half the night to watch a CraftCast Webinar with the Marvelous Melanie Muir – it’s an online workshop and it was fabulous and the best thing is I have a download of the workshop so I can go back and watch it again when I can’t quite remember. You can purchase a download yourself here – www.craftcast.com. It has taken me a while as I seem to be too busy to fit much polymer clay time in at the moment 🙁...

 Turquoise on top            Red on topAn additonal black layer on top        White on topAll these mokume gane patterns have been made with the same colours of polymer clay; turquoise, white and red  just in a different order. It is quite amazing the difference you get just by varying the order of the colours.On the one which had the white on top of the stack the turquoise which was the layer underneath has become muted so it looks more like a...

Pin It I’m thinking Easter. I’m thinking I don’t want to have to  blow hundreds of eggs – it’s hard work! So I bought some children’s plastic eggs, the cheap kind that are meant for hiding sweets in so they are hinged, and oven tested them. Survived a baking so time to test covering them. Covered with a layer of scrap clay just to be sure, all seemed well. I made a quick mokume gane sheet rather than covering...

Bracelet 672Originally uploaded by Angela.BFor a long time I have been admiring other peoples mokume gane but never quite managed to get results I was equally stunned with myself.Here’s one of the pieces I love by Angela.I was determined that I too was going to master this technique. I had already read several tutorials and played about with it a bit but still wasn’t quite getting it how I wanted it. I reread some tutorials and...