Archive for 2006 August

I've been tinkering again…

I thought I’d post a quick update while I’m waiting for shipping labels to print… I changed around the Polka Dot Creations home page. I’d be interested to know what you think of it, both in terms of the layout and the content. I’m still tinkering with it as we speak, but it’s generally the [...]

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The Weave Cane

This pattern imitates the look of three raffia ribbons woven together. I’ve made it in several color combinations, and they all look really nice. I am particularly fond of the results when I start with 3 very dark colors and blend them with white – the more contrast between the three main colors and the [...]

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Keepsake Party Favors

I’ve always liked the idea of party favors, but most of the time, they don’t serve much of a purpose. They end up in a drawer somewhere or on the back of a shelf collecting dust. I came up with this nifty idea to celebrate my son’s birthday, and to give away pictures that wouldn’t [...]

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Arrgh! UPS!

I’ve been waiting (not so patiently) for days for some new DVDs, new magazines, and backordered books to show up here. I even had the books sent 2nd Day Air so that I could have them quickly, as I had customers waiting for them. By Wednesday I was getting antsy. By yesterday, I was sending [...]

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Digging up treasures

It’s been an interesting week or so, polymer-clay-publications-wise. I was already thinking that we’d seen a lot of really neat new books come down the pike this summer, and I wasn’t really expecting anything else until November or so, when I started discovering things. You know how it is when you’re wandering around the internet [...]

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