Zebra spoonOriginally uploaded by surfingcat clayAnother birthday present this time a funky zebra print tea spoon.

White flower green backgroundOriginally uploaded by surfingcat clayMy latest flower cane. I wanted something to cover some yellow aluminium crochet hooks and thought about making a sunflower cane. Somehow I ended up making white daisy type of flower with a green background in Fimo Soft (I usually use Kato these days as it gives much neater results in cane work for me). Strange how you end up doing something completely different at...

My husband has bought himself a new dremel because he needs it to do something in the loft, it’s a posh cordless one! When he was ordering all the bits he needed he also ordered a dremel workstation for me (he has been in charge of drilling holes in beads so far). So the quest to master dremel buffing will resume but should be easier cause I can use both hands. Any tips for using this set up gratefully recieved.

You may have noticed I have been unusually quiet this last week. We have been on a holiday visiting friends and relatives all over the country. We live in the outskirts of Bristol which is a large city in the south west of England. We have been up to the highlands of Scotland and back over the last week which was great. The weather has been lovely and it has been really good to catch up with all the people we did manage to visit.Home now and...

Just spoken with the birthday girl who recieved her cake forks in the post today. Needless to say she was delighted with them! Slightly unfortunately she also happened to recieve another set of cake forks for her birthday – what are the chances of that? Of course they weren’t unique handcrafted ones.

So I reduced the Paisley cane today (half way through writing the post just waiting on the pictures) and am ready to start on putting together the polymer clay ‘fabric’ to coat the cake forks with. I have talked to my husband before about my lack of skill at cutting even slices from canes and shown him a picture of some of the cane cutting tools you can buy (in America but not easily in the UK of course). He said, “I am off to...