Archive for polka dot creations

Ancient history

Allow me to dust-off the admin panel here for a moment – it’s been entirely too long since my last post.  I’ve got some show-and-tell and a shop update to talk about later tonight or tomorrow, but first really quickly I wanted to let you know I’ve got a little piece of ancient PolymerCAFE history [...]

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Buried treasure

I finally came up with a plan of attack for the basement.  You may recall we were flooded last weekend.  It was only an inch or so of water, but it was across the entire floor, and anything that had been sitting on the floor was damaged.  Thankfully that wasn’t too much stuff, but Neil [...]

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Sherri Haab Jewelry Inspirations + giveaway

I have Sherri Haab to blame for all of this.  And by “this” I mean the polymer clay supplies that lurk in many corners of my house, the business I’ve built around clay books + videos, and the piles and piles of polymer jewelry mostly gathering dust in my bedroom.  (You know how that goes [...]

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Have a heart

Last summer, I was asked to submit a beginner-friendly polymer clay project for the upcoming Craft Hope book. The book will feature pairs of projects and charities, the idea being that you can make the projects and then donate them to the charities. I was honored to be included, and so I set to work [...]

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Couch dents from the easily-distracted

I feel like this week has gone by in a whirlwind of super-busy-being.  And yet, I’ve spent enough time on the couch that I wouldn’t be surprised to find dents the shape of my rear-end in the cushion.  Weird week. Every first full week of January, having just re-opened my two shops (Polka Dot Creations [...]

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Eye candy for the new year

Technically, I am still on my Christmas vacation until Monday, but I had promised to take a day out of my holiday-having to ship Bettina Welker’s new book when it arrived.  I’d been checking the tracking information online every couple of days, but there’d been no change in status since December 15th.  Ack.  So you [...]

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Just beachy

Now that both of my kids are school-age, I find that I appreciate my role as at-home Mom most deeply in the summer.  I’ve gotten used to having them both on schedules and gone for a great portion of the time during the school year, but in the summer?  In the summer, we can drop [...]

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Four Things

One It has rained here so much this summer, that dark lazy mornings have become the norm.  Rainy days bring out the loafer in me, so you can imagine how hard it has been to get anything useful done lately.  Luckily, when I loaf, I can still be productive, albeit in a way that may [...]

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The book pile, volume two

I do so love crafty books.  If I had unlimited funds, I’d run right out and stock my own creative library.  How fabulous would that be??  Sadly, funds are anything but unlimited, but I do get to treat myself now and then.  Since all of the books in my inspiration pile have cycled onto the [...]

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Ancient Modern inspires

Look what showed up on my doorstep last night, fellow clayheads.  Ancient Modern by Ronna Sarvas Weltman.  I’ve been looking forward to this book, by virtue of the piece on the cover alone.  I’m happy to say that the fresh aesthetic of the cover image is carried through the entire volume. Now, I should stop [...]

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