IMG_3032Originally uploaded by surfingcat clayIt’s the school holidays and the kids are home keeping me busy!! we’ve had a week camping with our friends and done lot of swimming. We have only played with some polymer clay a bit making some tiny bones which we have been playing treasure hunts with and enclosing in treasure rocks (rock like salt dough) to excavate. Tonight I finally felt awake enough to play with my clay. I am working...

These are the end of year present for my kids teachers. I tried to persuade them to make a covered spoon or a pen as I thought these would be more useful presents but they were both quite determined to give jewellery (guess it is often what I give these days). Daisy in particular really loved my necklace below and wanted to make one just like it for her teachers.The inspiration made by meI obviously showed them what to do but the following...

Congratulations to Gayle who was the lucky winner of the CSN stores voucher. Hopefully she has already received her voucher code so she can get shopping in any of the CSN stores. Do let us know what you buy!!My daughter really loved picking out a scrunched up piece of paper from a bowl and she spent some time picking them up and opening them all and did it again! Unfortunately there could only be one winner.Life has been hectic recently and...

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.