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I’m still here, really.
Please tell me it hasn’t been an entire week since my last post. Oh, how neglected you all must feel. I guess it was just one of those weeks. Usually when I’m busy during the week, I at least have the weekend to spend getting caught up around here, but not this time. It was [...]
continue reading "I’m still here, really."Some for me, some for you?
Before Christmas I showed you how I went down a crazy path, and made a whole set of coordinating crochet hook handles for myself. What I never told you was that I tried to use one of the hooks a few hours later, and it was terrible. I’ve heard people say that they are fiercely [...]
continue reading "Some for me, some for you?"For your gift-giving pleasure…
Last week nearly kicked my butt. I was minding my own business, working on your custom claythings (crochet hooks, pens, and shawl pins, if you remember), when we had a bit of a medical mystery unfold with my older son. I’ll spare you most of the details. Suffice it to say, there was a call [...]
continue reading "For your gift-giving pleasure…"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 [...]
continue reading "Custom-made crochet hooks, anyone?"Going out of Business Sale
Have you been to the Polka Dot Cottage shop lately? No? Well, neither has anybody else, myself included. I’m not feeling it anymore. The why’s of it are complicated, but I think it boils down to one fact more than others: I don’t make enough time to work with polymer anymore. THE BACK STORY The [...]
continue reading "Going out of Business Sale"Shop talk
When I first created this shop, it was designed around my work at the time, which was almost entirely in Millefiori Polymer Clay. It worked well at the time. In the last four years, my work has evolved to include other materials, and even other techniques in the polymer itself. I don’t think the layout of the shop has worked for some time, and I am ready to do something about it.
continue reading "Shop talk"Summer Studio
Still experimenting with photographic pendants, in this installment of Summer Studio, come see the bits and pieces on my clay table, along with some of the other creative things I’ve got going on.
continue reading "Summer Studio"Activity, conflictedness, and a grand opening
Image transfers. Oh! how I love the look of them, when they work. My track record with this technique is less than spectacular, and it has me considering showcasing my photographs in resin instead of clay. Conflicted thoughts abound!
continue reading "Activity, conflictedness, and a grand opening"Opinions to weigh. maybe.
The experimentation with photographic pendants continues, and your opinions are requested.
continue reading "Opinions to weigh. maybe."Summer Studio Sneak Peek
I’ve been working on a little something. It spent a lot of time just living in my head, turning around, being mulled over, re-inventing itself, until I finally took action this week. It’s not entirely finished yet, but here’s a little sneak peek: I’ve got some research and refining to do, but once I’m ready, [...]
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