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The Claycation of Tiny Flowers

I know I am two months late, but I wanted to share a bit about last year’s Polymer Claycation.

Most times when I have several dedicated days of claymaking ahead of me, I have a bit of a theme in mind to guide my work. This year was the year of the tiny flowers. In other words, I had decided that I was going to make my Calico Cane design in as many of my popular color schemes as possible. In all, I finished eighteen canes, nine of which were brand new. The other nine were replacements for designs I had run out of.

Read on to see what I did!

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Five (or more) Golden Rings 💍💍💍💍💍

I thought you might like to hear about my latest obsession and see what I’ve been working on.

I recently found a new source for brass channel ring blanks, which gives me access to a much wider range of ring sizes than I had before, and has triggered a bit of an obsession on my part. If I could, I would sit at my clay table making rings all day every day. One for me, one for the shop. One for me, one for the shop. Two for me, one for the shop 🤣

I love these colorful little hunks of brass so much, I can’t even explain it.

Today’s blog post is a stream-of-consciousness brain dump about the hold that brass rings currently have on me. I talk about a few other things, too. Maybe click through and read the whole thing if you’ve got a few minutes? Maybe even post a comment and tell me, am I in good company? Or have I possibly gone a bit off the deep end where brass rings are concerned? 😁

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Small Business Saturday, all week!

I’ve just returned from Walgreens, where I got my flu shot in one arm, and my COVID shot in the other. I’m prone to fever and chills after a COVID booster, so before that happens, I’m hopping on here really quickly to tell you about my Small Business Saturday sale for 2024.

I know it’s Friday. It’s even a particular Friday known for sales and promotions, but I have never liked the idea of Black Friday. (Remember when it was just “the day after Thanksgiving?” Yeah. Me too.)  Small Business Saturday, though, is something I can get behind. And not just because I have a small business of my own.

So, before I start shaking my fist and telling the young’uns to get off my lawn, let me just leave this coupon code here: SHOPSMALL24

Use that code to get 24% off of everything in the Polka Dot Cottage shop. That includes all handmade items and all patterns, tutorials, or other downloadables. The coupon is good until next Friday, but since I tend to make things in very small batches of one or two, you shouldn’t wait too long if you see something you like. It might not be there tomorrow!

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Remember when I owned a book store?

I have a big pile of magazines that were left when I closed Polka Dot Creations twelve years ago, and they are up for auction on eBay. I’ve listed titles like “Art Doll Quarterly” and “Belle Armoire” as well as several issues of “The Crafts Report” from 2008 to 2010. There are jewelry-making titles, magazines for miniaturists, and more! Read on for more information and a link to the auctions 🧶

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