It’s all been a bit rushed this week but I have managed to make some canes for my Thing a Day Challenge. I chose blue as a theme as the lovely Sarah of Beadscrumptious was challenging herself to create something blue this week too. Here’s the canes I’ve made over the last few days – inspired by my recent trip to Delft! Day 1 I made a fairly simple flower cane with a crinkly centre  Day 2 I made what I call a flourish...

For my Thing a Day challenge and also my personal challenge to actually use my books and tutorials I made a turtle today.Father Christmas brought me the Christi Friesen ‘Under the Sea’ book this year so I decided to try a turtle. I like the way Christi does these ‘beyond projects’ books: there’s a whole heap of ideas to help you customise your own creations. I’m tired today so didn’t want to get too...

I have several introduction to polymer clay workshops in Bristol throughout Feb- April. You will find details on my diary page and also in my facebook page events. There will also be a few intermediate level workshops – if you are interested in those please get in touch!  I also have couple of instore demonstrations at Hobbycraft Bristol, there you can see me make some polymer clay canes and I will have a small selection of my work...

One of my favourite polymer clay books is Dona Kato’s – The Art of Polymer Clay Millefiori Techniques. I have always admired the Translucent Overlay Beads featured in the book, as has my friend Hannah so this week we decided to try them out together.We both made a couple of canes from the selection Donna suggests and put them together. The instructions are pretty clear and as all the canes themselves are reasonably simple we had no...

I randomly picked a publication from my bookshelf to try out something new (my new year challenge – to use the wonderful resources sat under my nose!) and picked the magazine From Polymer to Art – Orange. A quick flick through and I chose to try out a project by Fabi. Her pendant in the magazine was orange and green – not really my colours so I changed the colours to some more ‘me’ ones from some left over clay I...

In 2013 I am aiming to push myself to develop my own polymer clay style further so of course I’ll need some polymer clay challenges:)I am currently taking part in the wonderful free online course on Voila! ‘How to Become a Better Artist’ and I haven’t done so well at keeping up due to other commitments but I shall pick that up and try and do a unit a week whilst I’m not crazy busy. It’s provoking a lot of...