On Sunday I went to the wonderful London Polymer Clay Group and demonstrated a way to make faux Lapis Lazuli from polymer clay. The focus of the meeting was faux techniques in the colours of the Olympic rings. As well as my demonstration there were brilliant demonstrations on faux malachite from Sue Margetts and faux bone/ivory from Debbie Carlton. There were handouts available for some other techniques.Here’s what I had a go at from the...

I was so excited when I saw Bettina Welkers Pixelated Retro Blend Cane Tutorial – it looked so cool! Loads of people have been trying it and it’s great to see all the variations popping up on flickr and facebook.Finally I found some time to try it. Here’s my first caneI then decided to use it to catch up with the earrings a week challenge on Flickr and made these earrings Which ones do you like best?They are all available to...

I am exhibiting my jewellery at the Easton Arts Trail this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, from 11am -6pm in the Community Centre on Kilburn Street. There are lots of other lovely things on display there too – I got a great preview whilst setting up last night. I’ll try and share some of them with you when I have more time. Here’s one of my newer pendants – Electric Zebra Flower in Green and Blue. It’s for sale at...

It was the Bristol Polymer Clay Day today and although only 2 other people came along we had a great day playing with lots of different things including image transfers! We tried out lots of different things and found some things that worked and some that didn’t work so well!Rosalind showed us how to do an image transfer using a toner based copy by rubbing off the paper. I hadn’t tried this method before and was impressed how well...

The Easton Arts Trail is fast approaching so I have finally got round to finishing some of the things on my half finished pile including some earrings for the earrings a week challenge! Next weekend I will be in Easton Community Centre with my jewellery from 11am -6pm on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July. I have plenty of new jewellery including quite a lot I haven’t posted here – I can’t share everything with you or I...

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