I've just got back from my trip to the USA to visit my daughter and family. My body isn't back on UK time yet and I haven't ventured out of the house. The garden desperately needs tidying but as my living room floor is still cluttered with the contents of my suitcases I guess it will have to wait! I'm very fatigued so I'm not pushing myself to do very much.
This morning a friend sent me a link to an interesting new website. I decided to save it into my bloglist but when I tried to do this I was told I can only save 300 blogs and I already had that many on my list!
So I set about deleting some. I've worked my way through the list (with a couple of teabreaks) and stopped following any that haven't been updated in 4 months or longer. There were quite a lot of them. There are quite a few more that haven't been updated for 3 months but I've left them for next time in case they get updated in the meantime.
I know I follow more blogs than people follow me (I don't have 300 followers!) but if by chance you own one of the blogs I've unfollowed, I'm sorry!
It's certainly a lesson to me to keep my blog updated. Now I'm home I'll try hard to blog more often and hopefully be interesting enough to keep my followers... and thank you to everyone who visits, I really appreciate you.
Polymer clay, jewellery making, other crafts and life in general...
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Artfire Collection
I have managed to get a few more items listed in my new Artfire shop. You can shop right here on my blog! One of the features of Artfire is the collections. They are a little like the treasuries on Etsy for those who know Etsy. Unfortunately Folksy doesn't have that facility (maybe in the future...)
I have been very fortunate in the short time that I've had my Artfire studio to have had items featured in several lovely collections.
This is the most recent, it's full of gorgeous blue items and my polymer clay pendant necklace is included. I'm very grateful to the curators of this and the other collections I've been included in. (You may have seen them posted on my Facebook page)
I have been very fortunate in the short time that I've had my Artfire studio to have had items featured in several lovely collections.
This is the most recent, it's full of gorgeous blue items and my polymer clay pendant necklace is included. I'm very grateful to the curators of this and the other collections I've been included in. (You may have seen them posted on my Facebook page)
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
jigsaw Puzzle Cutters
For some time now I have wanted to make polymer clay pendants and earrings in the shape of jigsaw puzzle pieces. I have tried in vain to find cutters and I knew I could not do them freehand.
By chance I read a question on an Artfire forum from someone looking for the Artfire studio that sold cookie cutters.
I found Cookie Cutter Guy - a brilliant shop that makes custom cookie cutters. I emailed Sandy who made me 2 cutters, a small one and a really small one! They are perfect, I'm so pleased with them, and here are photos of my first attempts. I couldn't wait to share the results. These aren't perfect and I want to define the texture with inks - but first I have to buy some inks. Once I perfect the technique you will see them listed in my Artfire and Folksy shops.
By chance I read a question on an Artfire forum from someone looking for the Artfire studio that sold cookie cutters.
I found Cookie Cutter Guy - a brilliant shop that makes custom cookie cutters. I emailed Sandy who made me 2 cutters, a small one and a really small one! They are perfect, I'm so pleased with them, and here are photos of my first attempts. I couldn't wait to share the results. These aren't perfect and I want to define the texture with inks - but first I have to buy some inks. Once I perfect the technique you will see them listed in my Artfire and Folksy shops.
Friday, 1 October 2010
My new shop
Well first of all, if you are on Facebook you may have seen that I'm in the USA right now! I'm visiting my daughter, son in law and gorgeous grandchildren. I'll be here for 5 weeks, which will fly by I know but I intend to enjoy every last second. I'll be posting from time to time to let you know how I'm getting on. I'll be taking lots of photos of course so watch this space, also my Facebook page.
Some of you may also have seen the buzz around Facebook and on Etsy about the deal on Artfire to get a pro shop over there for just $5.95 (that's less than £4) per month. I decided it was worth a try so I signed up and it's just been activated.
I started by transferring a few items over from my Folksy shop (which is in holiday mode while I'm away. I plan to get busy making beads and some jewellery in a day or two when I've recovered from the journey to get here.
The basic free Artfire account allows you to list unlimited items, you get a shop with a banner but can't rearrange your shop, have featured items or categories. Once you go pro you get a lot of tools to help you sell. I'm excited to get categories which we are waiting for on Folksy. I can also set up a shopfront on Facebook (again eagerly anticipated soon on Folksy) which I will do soon.
For now I've put a small shop front on this blog which you can see just to the right of this post! You can shop directly from here!
Some of you may also have seen the buzz around Facebook and on Etsy about the deal on Artfire to get a pro shop over there for just $5.95 (that's less than £4) per month. I decided it was worth a try so I signed up and it's just been activated.
I started by transferring a few items over from my Folksy shop (which is in holiday mode while I'm away. I plan to get busy making beads and some jewellery in a day or two when I've recovered from the journey to get here.
The basic free Artfire account allows you to list unlimited items, you get a shop with a banner but can't rearrange your shop, have featured items or categories. Once you go pro you get a lot of tools to help you sell. I'm excited to get categories which we are waiting for on Folksy. I can also set up a shopfront on Facebook (again eagerly anticipated soon on Folksy) which I will do soon.
For now I've put a small shop front on this blog which you can see just to the right of this post! You can shop directly from here!
Friday, 24 September 2010
Folksy Friday Shop Feature
I haven't done a Folksy Friday blog post for a reeeeally long time! I have decided to feature one shop that I have recently discovered and love.
It's Kilo Lemur Lampwork . Kaye makes lovely lampwork beads, and sells them at a very reasonable price. I have bought some that I plan to use to make myself something beautiful but plan to buy lots more in the future to make jewellery for my shop.
I've loved the idea of making lampwork glass beads ever since I first saw some a few years ago, but me and a very hot flame is not a good combination at all!
Here are some of the beads she has on sale at the moment - I want them all but can't buy any more just yet :(
Opus Terra beads, only £18 for all these beads!
Three cute skulls,
Bijou Crystal Beads The colours on these are gorgeous!
Aunt Dotty Bead Set Pretty spotty beads.
There are more, go and see for yourself, if you make jewellery I defy you not to buy any!
If you don't make jewellery yourself, Kaye also makes jewellery as Triple Moonstar, so I'm sure she would make you something with the beads of your choice.
It's Kilo Lemur Lampwork . Kaye makes lovely lampwork beads, and sells them at a very reasonable price. I have bought some that I plan to use to make myself something beautiful but plan to buy lots more in the future to make jewellery for my shop.
I've loved the idea of making lampwork glass beads ever since I first saw some a few years ago, but me and a very hot flame is not a good combination at all!
Here are some of the beads she has on sale at the moment - I want them all but can't buy any more just yet :(
There are more, go and see for yourself, if you make jewellery I defy you not to buy any!
If you don't make jewellery yourself, Kaye also makes jewellery as Triple Moonstar, so I'm sure she would make you something with the beads of your choice.
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Some new beads
Here as promised on Facebook, are some photos of my latest project. I'm really pleased with it. I've made a necklace and earring set for the winter exhibition at Arteria's Gallery 23 in Lancaster. I'm working hard to make a decent amount of jewellery to leave with them before I go away at the end of September. The exhibition runs from 26th October until 8th January. I'll be back early November and hopefully I'll have made some more jewellery while I'm away in case they want any more.
I've rolled out a sheet of black clay and covered it with slices from assorted canes. I've used a variation on a technique I found on a great website, How to make beads from polymer clay .
I used her technique for some pillow beads I made, and some beads Amanda from Chicita Gimme That Thing has used for some of her lovely wire wrapped rings.
I'm sorry the photo of the necklace isn't too good. I was lazy and just took one photo since I'm not listing them on Folksy. I will have to take a better photo of it, the light tent I ordered has just arrived so I'll try that out later.
I used her technique for some pillow beads I made, and some beads Amanda from Chicita Gimme That Thing has used for some of her lovely wire wrapped rings.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Giveaway Winner
The winner, picked out using a random number generator at random.org, is number 13 - Lemonade and Lamingtons.
Congratulations Lisa! There isn't an email address on your Blogger profile so I'll contact you via Folksy and Facebook to get your mailing address. Well, so much for unlucky 13, which I've never been superstitious about anyway!
To everyone else, thank you so much for entering and if you would like to purchase any of my handmade polymer clay jewellery there is some in my Folksy shop, or you can order something custom made.
Congratulations Lisa! There isn't an email address on your Blogger profile so I'll contact you via Folksy and Facebook to get your mailing address. Well, so much for unlucky 13, which I've never been superstitious about anyway!
To everyone else, thank you so much for entering and if you would like to purchase any of my handmade polymer clay jewellery there is some in my Folksy shop, or you can order something custom made.
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