A Monthly Make - January, part two

I've got the canes and beads made, and have just baked them.  It will take me a day or two to get them tumbled - sanded and buffed, so I won't get anything made with them until sometime next week.
So I've decided to use the beads as my January make.  I won't use the jewellery as February's make, I'll do something else from scratch.  I have photos of some of the canes and the beads before they were baked and I will blog again when I make them up into jewellery.  Unfortunately I forgot to photograph all the canes before I made them up into more complex canes.  I made a series of simple jellyroll canes using various combinations of the colour palette, then combined them into several bigger canes.

I've used up most of the canes making these and have saved the leftovers for possible future use.  I managed not to produce a great deal of scrap clay - I must be getting better at this!

A Monthly Make 2011 - January, part one.

If you look down the right side of this blog you will see a badge that says A Monthly Make 2011. It's being organised by The Felt Fairy.
I only found out about this a week or so ago and it's nearly the end of January, so I need to get a move on!
I made a start today, and mixed some colours of polymer clay.  I plan to make a set of different canes with the colours, and use them to make some jewellery.  I make jewellery anyway so it feels like a bit of a cheat to use it for my monthly make, but I haven't had time to think of anything different.  I will try to make something that isn't jewellery some months though! 
If you scroll down you will see my post about colour.  I still haven't found a way to print out my colour swatches from the Kuler website but I based my colours on one of them, taken from a photo of a coneflower/echinacea.

Over the weekend I'll post a photo of the beads I make, I don't know if I'll have the jewellery made before the end of the month but I'll try.