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...

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 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.

A special pen for my niece’s 21st birthday! Happy Birthday Jessica!