I recently stayed up half the night to watch a CraftCast Webinar with the Marvelous Melanie Muir – it’s an online workshop and it was fabulous and the best thing is I have a download of the workshop so I can go back and watch it again when I can’t quite remember. You can purchase a download yourself here – www.craftcast.com. It has taken me a while as I seem to be too busy to fit much polymer clay time in at the moment 🙁...

I was very lucky to attend a polymer clay workshop with the fantastically fun Christi Friesen today. It was called ‘In the Garden’ and we whizzed through lots of different techniques and were overloaded with tips and techniques. And entertained at the same time! I don’t know how she manages it! Thank you Christi for such wonderful day! Look at all the things I made – yes in one day! Christi is a slave driver ;)It was...

I have updated my calendar and the Diary tab (up there just under the title) is now up to date. At the moment I have 2 local sales, one this Friday at a Pamper night in Rangeworthy Memorial Hall from 7.15pm. The following weekend, the 17th March my jewellery will be at the Arts Market at Dr Bells and St Matthias school in Fishponds. Unfortunately I won’t be with it, I will be off having fun at Polymer Pamper Play but it will be in the...

Some sample bead I made to give people some ideasA lovely necklace made by a workshop participant!Another lovely necklace made by a workshop participant!You too could make your own unique necklace or bracelet in a polymer clay workshop. Contact me for more details – carajaneuk’at’gmail.com (replace the ‘at’ with @ to email – can’t add it direct to the page or I will be overloaded with spam!)

I have just been trialling a beginners polymer clay workshop with some of my friends. I was aiming for them to make a bracelet like this from simple cane slices, threaded on elastic.We have had great fun and they are all really pleased with their creations but we haven’t quite managed to get to the bracelet stage so I either need to find a way to speed it up or make the class longer. I am doing them from home which seems to work out well...