Translucent effects
Translucent polymer clay rocks, the problem was that I didn’t know how to use it. It was one of those situations where I knew what the potential was, but just didn’t know how to achieve it. Carolyn to the rescue, she suggested that I try slicing my canes thinner and buffing them to increase the [...]
look Ma, no pointers!
Below is a presentation that I made to re-familiarize myself with the devil MS PowerPoint. Please do not mistake it for anything informative or entertaining.
clay pushers and bamboo skewers
“Psst! Yeah you kid.” (Looks around, beckons for the mark to come closer.) “Want some Premo?” No you silly creature. Not that kind of pusher. The kind of pusher I mean is a tool to take the place of a finger or thumb when actual human digits are too large to fit into tiny bits [...]
Recollections of a memory
I feel so foolish. There’s this stuff referred to as TLS, and it’s used for all sorts of special effects with polymer clay. I learned that this magical substance is Transparent Liquid Sculpey. I must have this stuff I decided, and announced, to my indulgent husband. So we go to the next town over, the [...]
New stuff; wire and clay
This is where my lathe used to sit. I’m not ready to give up my little lathe just yet, although I really like polymer clay, I’m going to wait it out and see if perhaps I might be able to do some occasional well protected wood turning without my immune system freaking out and making [...]
Skulls and flowers
I think the husband unit is in desperate need of an update on his operating system. Every time I try to run washthedishes.exe I get a “system busy” window. It’s really really frustrating, I’ve tried rebooting him multiple times but to no avail. Matt also needs a memory upgrade. Since he’s no longer warrantied I [...]
I need another hobby, no really, I do
Between getting the kids’ curriculum sorted out, and sorting out how I’m going to manage school, the house and life in general I haven’t had much time to focus on knitting, or spinning or sewing. Oh yeah, I paid my application fee for my school today, sort of an eleventh hour thing, I should know [...]