When I first started making polymer clay buttons, I used to diligently measure the diameter of each button size, divide it into four, and then pierce the button holes at the two middle points. It wasn’t always perfect though, because my buttons sizes aren’t easily divisible by four, so I wanted to come up with a different way.
Ta-da! This is what I did:
Just a few signs that you probably think too much about polymer clay:
You snap your glasses and try to mend the bridge with a snake of metallic gold polymer clay before it occurs to you to get them mended at, y’know, the opticians.
You catch sight of your latest blue-to-purple Skinner blend and your immediate thought is, “That is so sexy…”
You condition polymer clay in one hand while you’re reading/watching TV/eating/in the bath (okay, I’ve never done that last one).
You pick up a magazine you haven’t read for 3 months, and find an actual skinner blend tucked between the pages (sidenote: you wouldn’t believe how much plasticizer had leeched off into the paper!)
Hey, I got post today! I’m aware that sounds dull, but when you don’t get any for a while you start to miss it.
My copy of Beads and Beyond came through, and with it, my first appearance in a magazine. That’s actually a giant over-statement: my polymer clay beads, on sale at Big Bead, Little Bead appeared on the B&B Twenty to Make feature as part of an earring pair, but regardless, I was unreasonably pleased!
(They’re number 14 of the Feb 2010 Issue if anyone has a copy)
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I’m trying to overcome the urge to unboast right about now, and to do the stereotypically British thing of critizing myself. It’s a hard habit to break, but I have to think of it as marketing 
