Archive for polymer clay

Overboard

I look forward to this day every year: the day after I close down the shop(s) for the season.  It’s a day to take a deep breath, relax, and then jump headlong into the Christmas preparations I’ve been neglecting all month! I’ll be making my gift-giving list later today, and getting myself all organized – [...]

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Nipping at my heels

I think maybe I’m being bitten by the clay bug again.   Case in point: these pens Yesterday I allowed myself to be distracted (for an hour or so) from my book store packing and shipping duties by the thought of a new pen. I do think about clay-covered pens often (usually as I am [...]

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Custom-made crochet hooks, anyone?

Yesterday was the day I’d been waiting for: no appointments, no other work that couldn’t be postponed… So I dove into hook-handle-making. By the afternoon, I had made enough hook handles to determine my best practice for future orders.  By evening, I had sanded and buffed the daylights out of all of the handles I [...]

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A handle for a hook

It seems my granny square cane idea didn’t pan out.  It’s not that it’s a bad idea, it’s just that it needs some work.  I only had about an hour to spend on experimentation this week, and while I didn’t end up with a useful design in the end, I did generate a few more [...]

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Whispers

Shhhh… I dare not say this too loudly, lest I jinx things, but I think I may be on the verge of getting my claythings out again. I may be ready to bring my vision of a “granny square cane” to life.  And then turn it into crochet hook handles. Or covered pens. Or shawl [...]

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