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Posted on January 23, 2012December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 5 Comments

Pen Affliction

Years ago, after a particularly prolific polymer clay kick, I had a wicker basket filled nearly to the top with clay-covered pens. It was wonderful! I’d run my fingers through them, dump them out, arrange and re-arrange them on the floor… sometimes by color, sometimes by pattern, sometimes in a gloriously long rainbow. But eventually […]

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Posted on January 16, 2012December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 27 Comments

Clayathon recap

I am home. Yay! I had a great time, claying it up at the ‘thon as usual, but I am glad to be home. We moved to a new hotel this year, and while the work room was much improved over previous years (so spacious!) the hotel itself was on the creepy side. Apart from […]

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Posted on January 8, 2012December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 13 Comments

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 […]

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Posted on January 1, 2012December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 2 Comments

The year in review(ish)

Another year, another Project 365. This was my third one, and I so enjoyed it! These are a few of my favorite images. You can see the rest on flickr or picasa (your choice – I’m in both places at the moment, waffling between which I prefer more). This time around I gave myself a […]

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Posted on December 17, 2011December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 6 Comments

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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Posted on December 2, 2011December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 13 Comments

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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Posted on November 23, 2011December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 27 Comments

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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Posted on November 18, 2011December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 15 Comments

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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Posted on November 14, 2011December 15, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 13 Comments

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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Posted on November 8, 2011December 15, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 3 Comments

Uh, wow.

Sometimes when I announce a sale over at Polka Dot Creations, the response can be sorta lukewarm. It gets discouraging. That’s why, when I decided to run a sale this past weekend, I figured I needed to make the discount something to write home about. 75% did the trick. Holy cow, is this a lot […]

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