I have a very exciting time coming up. First of all we are off on a family holiday to Disney World in Florida (very exciting!!!) Then it’s the Royal Wedding which I’m not really that excited about apart from the fact we get a lovely 4 day weekend and are off camping with friends. So I am afraid there will be little clay news for a while.As if that wasn’t enough excitement, in May,  in the same weekend I am catching up with my...

My little girl was 5 today! Can’t believe she’s so old, I don’t know where the last 5 years have gone!She wanted a monkey hunting party so we had great fun at her party making binoculars from toilet rolls, hunting for monkeys (pictures of them only but that didn’t seem to disappoint the children too much), finding sticks for a fire and toasting marshmallows.Off course she had to have a monkey cake and as I was short of...

I have so many ideas of things I want to make with polymer clay my head has’t got room for much else! I am in such a creative place at the moment that jewellery designs just pop into  my head all the time (especially in bed trying to sleep it would seem). I am not complaining about this but I do wish I had more time available to play with my clay so I could make them all before the ideas fade (I’ve tried writing/drawing them but it...

Rainbow stripe jellyroll caneOriginally uploaded by Cara Jane Contemporary JewelleryI’m off to an 1980’s nightclub with the girls at the weekend so I have been feeling rather retro. Time to go all rainbow! I have a few special projects in mind, I’ll share them with you soon

I would like to wish all my friends amd fellow polymer clay addicts a very Happy New Year!May 2011 be filled with health, creativity and happiness.We have had a lovely family Christmas and fun with friends for the New Years celebrations. I am looking forward to finally having some time to play with all the jewellery ideas that are roaming loose in my head in the coming weeks. I will off course share what I am up to with you.Here’s one of...

I did a little experiment today to see how the colours looked with these ‘Natalia’ beads. The top row has green inside the second row has turquoise inside and the bottom row is the 2 beads alternatively stung so 1 green inside, 1 turquoise inside etc.I thought there would be more visiual difference between the 3 different colourways. They are different but on first glance it’s not apparent as it’s the overall colours you...