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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