I’ve been doing some experimenting – nothing out-of-this-world innovative, but new to me, and not from a tutorial (or if it is, I’ve not seen the tutorial!)
First up, I’m quite excited about offering made to order beads in my shops, and these two psuedo-sculpted designs (‘psuedo’ because I’m not a sculptor, but these cute nature-inspired beads are something I wanted to try anyway, and I’m finding them really fun) are the first up:
Strawberries:
You can choose from either a bead, or a charm with an antique copper hanging loop, and from two different sizes
Lilypads:
And the second thing I’m currently playing with are these ridged beads:
I was inspired by something in particular, but it’s not very romantic or trendy, so I won’t say what (nothing horrible though!)
I”ll probably be the 1006979676,6078598458th person to complain about Blogger changing its dashboard, but oh well. I do not like. Why are things on the side when they used to be at the bottom? I have to actually move my eyeballs to the right to find things now!
But regardless, I’m braving the confusion and writing a post. How lucky do you feel at this news, huh?
Anyway, last week I graduated from the dining room table to a proper desk (a birthday present) for my polyclay work, and it’s really made a difference to have tools in drawers, and everything within reach. Also, random pieces of polymer clay will no longer get into people’s food at Christmas dinner. Well, hopefully (hey, who hasn’t ingested a small amount of plastic these days? I once swallowed a marble; polymer clay is nothing compared to that)
I’ve also succumbed to a mania for making pinecone beads and lilypad charms from polymer clay, which are now on Etsy:
And I’ve managed to produce a cute little apple out of hot glass. I can’t deny that I’m pleased with him, though his apple-ness may be in question (perhaps there’s some strawberry in his bloodline)
His sister is resting in annealing bubbles now, waiting to go in the kiln.
