California Traveling

While sitting for the laundry and dryer finishing their work I am finding some time to tell about my trip, of course in relation to polymer clay as well.

After 16 hours of flight we landed in Los Angeles and had great 3 days (2 of them in "6 flags" park & Universal Studios), needless to say that I am not a roller coaster person so mostly I was enjoying the smiling sun beams and helping the gang with the endless backpack bags (15 to be exact). One of these 3 days was devoted to seeing some of the tourist attractions, the Hollywood sign, stars avenue and the Beverly hills celebrities homes (are they really their homes? ;))

Then, moving on the our next stop - San Francisco we drove through a small town called Cambria and I took a walk along the street when suddenly I saw a familiar sight looking at me through a store window - a big turtle sculpture made by no other then Jon Anderson.

When I walked into the gallery I found lots of Anderson's creations, small and big animals wearing beautiful millefiori canes and looking shiny and elegant.

After telling the show owner I am a polymer clay artist myself she asked me if I want to see them in close and I gladly agreed. I have to say that they are as wonderful as they appear online. All those details, perfection - amazing.

Another polymer clay artist was featuring her work in the same gallery, a local artist called Jolene Chaves which is working mostly with polymer clay as a mosaic medium and combine stamping and texturing to create a framed piece. I couldn't find any details on her on google, but according to the gallery info she is a California native and has been creative in many diverse fields from photography to fabric art. The assembly of her pieces into her final collages is adhered, antiqued, glazed, coated and framed.

What a great polymer surprise!

My family and travel companions were delighted to see quality polymer clay work by these 2 outstanding artists!

Everything is going great and after visiting Alcatraz today we are moving on tomorrow to the Yosemite park and from there to Las Vegas, NYC and home. Still lots to see & buy! :)

Have a good night everyone, I am off to fold the laundry and get some sleep...

Polymeri Online 28.12.11 | Irregular polymer earrings, Particles necklace, Nuna the cat and Naive jewelry

Jillian Moore designs has special irregular amorphous shapes, earrings, beads, brooches, no standard beads and jewelry in her gallery, she works with polymer clay, resin, paints and sometimes foam to build her ooak designs.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillian_moore/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/phlaznatch

Veruschka is the artist behind Veru Designs polymer clay jewelry, There is a very unique story that precedes the birth of every necklace, bracelet or ring which determines its shape, size, coloring and meaning. According to her, In the necklace shown here, it's "the beauty of tiny creatures in the microscopic universe: particles, bacteria, viruses, etc. Each of the five "bulbs" in this necklace are inspired by a handful of these strangely creatures, in an effort to make this invisible world visible to the human eye".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/veebeads/4746461581/in/set-72157623921674160/

http://verudesigns.com/

Kathy De WitSint-Pauwels from Belgium is an illustrator, designer and dreamer lives in a little village in the northern part of Belgium. NUNA was born out of polymer clay and hand painted with acrylics. I admire such kind of painting, it's amazing how many details in such a small piece!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/88969680/nuna-brooch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_eldibujodelgato/

Matilda Broz is from Stockholm, but living in sunny Montenegro, like many of the artists she got an university degree in another field (law), but upon realizing that law is not for her she dedicate her energy to design. She works as a graphic designer in an advertising company, but in her spare time she plays with fimo and wire. Her Etsy and Flickr are full of hand painted delights, cute designs that reminds me children books. I loved her birds studs!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matildabroz/6573966259/in/contacts/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Ribizla

Hope you're having a wonderful holiday!

What to take to a craft fair

some of the members of PCAGOE forum listed a great list of "What to take to a craft fair", it's a "save and keep" list to all us presentors in craft fairs :)

Craft fair supplies

1. List of all items (If you have time you should mark each one with a number and a price and keep a list so you just have to mark it off when you sell it and it’s great for inventory)


2. products, (things to sell)


3. table(s)


4. chair(s)


5. tablecloth(s)


6. cell phone


7. water, snacks, lunch


8. calculator


9. mirror


10. sales book


11. business cards


12. paper and pens


13. bagsstands, displays


14. change, singles and fives


15. camera


16. several shoe boxes to make different heights on the table and covers for them (fabric)


17. receipts


18. custom order forms


19. scissorstape


20. tissue paper/bubble wrap for fragile items


21. sign-up sheet for your mailing list


22. tax ID number/license


23. coupons for your online shop?


24. bring someone to help you


25. bowl of fun $1 items (kids love this)


26. hat


27. masking tape


28. small brown lunch bags (if your products will fit) with stamps or stickers on them advertising your shop


29. sunscreen


30. bungee cords


31. craft apron (like the ones from the hardware store, waist aprons with pockets)


32. umbrella


33. breath mints


34. Lights Spare Light


35. Bulbs


36. Extension Leads


37. G Clamps


38. Boxes and packaging


39. Tools (for on the spot work, like changing a pendant on a leather cord to a silver chain)


40. Flask for Coffee (actually the most import thing on my list)


41. Wet wipes (for wiping sticky fingers if I have been eating, before I handle the jewellery)


42. Spare Price Tags


43. Information Leaflets about your work

and you can add more!

thanks to -

Linda-NK Designshttp://www.nkdesignslindariopel.blogspot.com/
http://www.nkdesigns.etsy.com/

alissa
http://divadea.com/
http://divadea.etsy.com/

Tejae

http://www.tejaesart.blogspot.com/
http://www.tejaesart.etsy.com/

Holly Piper-Smith
http://www.pollyhyper.etsy.com/
http://www.secondimpressionphoto.com/
http://www.pollyhyper-etsy.blogspot.com/

Pipsjewellery
http://www.pipsjewellery.etsy.com/
http://www.pipsjewellery.blogspot.com/
www.flickr.com/photos/pipsjewellery/

Happy sales!

Jim Jenkins's - "Bognogginz"

It is always like that, when i think i would probably can't find new polymer clay flickr artists, i find it!

This is Jim Jenkins from San Diego, US. He never set out to make little creatures and caricature from clay. When he started he was just playing with modeling clay. As he played he would notice faces and figures looking back at him from the clay. He made them almost by accident, It was just what happened in the clay. From there he continued to develop the creatures and their expressions and their emotions. It is a lot of fun for him! He liked doing his unique little beasts because he had never seen anything like them. It can't be wrong if he made it up, right? From there he developed a back story about the "Bognogginz". The Bognogginzare a race of creatures from a place deep in the swamps of Southern Louisiana called Johnson's Bog. Johnson's Bog is not your typical swamp. It is more a reflection of our society and an opportunity to make comment on things that exist in the real world. He called them "Bognogginz" because they are from a bog and almost all face and head.

Jim teaches the occasional class in San Diego and volunteer at local schools to bring his passion for working in synthetic modeling compounds to young up and coming artists in the area.

Thank you Jim for sharing this info with us, i love your work!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bognogginz/
http://www.2jdesign.com/2JDesign.html

Polymeri Online 24.1.08

Hello Australian polyclayers! while touring the internet i visited the Aussiepolyclayers Forum Index and seeking for some talented artists :) here are 2 of them

Melanie Dilday - Since she discovered polymer clay about 8 years ago, her life has taken a 180 degree turnaround for the better. she lives, loves, breathes, teaches and dreams about clay. Melanie holds private clay retreats in her studio near Byron Bay Australia and exhibit and sell in various bead shops and galleries in Australia. http://members.westnet.com.au/melandcurt/polyclay/
http://clayhappenings.blogspot.com/
etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5063669

Debra Sutton - Debra is a a mixed media artist. She is working on jewellery design, in particular polymer clay, she also work with glass beads and metal findings and enjoy creating unique pieces of wearable art for everyone to enjoy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bambam_studios/sets/

Check the Aussiepolyclayers Forum Index - some great stuff there!http://aussiepolyclay.21.forumer.com/index.php

And to another side of the globe - beadscraftz is a graphic designer currently focused on jewellery created from Polymer Clay. She is from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
http://www.flickr.com/people/beadscraftz/

Bill Nelson's site is amazing, i couldn't stop staring at his amazing sculptures, such a talented artist! Bill uses SUPER SCULPEY for his static figures and paper clay for his one-off ventriloquist figures.
http://www.billnelsonstudios.com/
http://www.billnelsonstudios.com/pages/ventfigsdolls.html

You can find his online lessons at http://www.thatcreativeplace.com/html/bill_nelson.html
more artists at that site too!

Israeli Maya Lukash - wwwlady makes amazing detailed jewelry
http://www.happy-bead.com/index.php
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5426194

meritaporlared / María Sáiz is a polymer clayer in her free time, she is from Sevilla, Spain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7201667@N03/sets/72157594573263157/
www.japaya.blogspot.com/

Polymeri Online 15.11.07

There is a nice man, called fimoman, he is a 25 year old student from Jerusalem, Israel and has been sculpting since about age 18, destroyed or not finished a lot more sculptures than he kept, He uses Fimo and a bronze spray sometimes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fimoman/

Another sculpture artist is ittybittiesforyou - Jennifer, she has been making polymer clay creations since she was 8 years old and it has always been a passion of hers -http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5055767
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ittybittiesforyou/

Petitpoucet makes unique jewelry integrated with ribbons & fabric
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13246410@N04/
http://petitpoucet.canalblog.com/

allie-coosh is a gallery founded by Paulette Martsolf, Paulette is a Dallas designer, whose customer base reaches across the United States, into Canada and Europe. Her unique concept and collection defines the customer’s style and sets her apart as the Allie-Coosh woman. You can find some polymer clay artists there too and other for inspiration.
http://www.allie-coosh.com/

New Tutorial by Polka Dot Creations site - Scroll Cane by Dorothy Harvey, you can find more older tutorials published on your left.
http://www.polkadotcreations.com/books/article.php?id=pdcdh01

More groups from Flickr - Filigree pool
http://www.flickr.com/groups/filigree/pool/

Deb Jensen's Honolulu, Hawaii - fishy stuff, Japanese designs & Hawaiian petroglyphs
http://www.meer.net/users/deb/pua.html

Simple and Easy ideas to play with clay - to buy or to try your self (no instructions)
http://www.weplaywithclay.com/catalog/

Polymeri Online 9.9.07

polymer_woman's is a stay at home mother, working with PC for 15 years now and says she will never get tired of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polymer_clay_crazy/

Carolyn Bond from Australia, is sculpturing with her 14 years old son some cute monsters creatures, barrettes, jewelry and beads.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolynbond/

Muselover
A cane maker, her eggs are lovely and she is also a great nature photographer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90315669@N00/

Creafantaisie in her blog makes nice face cane and if you browse a little bit you will find cute married - bride-groom figurines, so humoristic, sweet.
http://creafantaisie88.canalblog.com/archives/p55-5.html

Agnes Blog has unique art, lot's of beads, mokume gane and water color - loved it.
http://agnestourtet.com/agnes/

Raphal le corre blog, another french artist, uses retro canes in her(her/his?) lovely jewelry and sculptures.
http://songedeflora.canalblog.com/

Molly McMahan - Molyner
Molly McMahan first touched polymer clay in the year 1988. She still has some of the first peices that she made from sculpy III. Back in those days, she didn't know anyone else who worked in polymer clay except for the friends that she introduced to the medium. She had taught herself caning out of Fimo after seeing some incredible necklaces made out of animal face canes. read more on her bio here
http://www.molymerclay.com/artist.htm
http://www.molymerclay.com/clay.htm

Jenny Armitagemakes whimsical animals hand sculpted, Kaleidoscopes with Kaleidoscopic Canework and more...
http://www.dancingfeatherstudio.com/

Margi Laurin About 15 years ago she discovered a fascinating material that appeared to have no boundaries. The more she workes with it, she realizes that the only limits were the ones imposed by the artist himself.Her art include eggs, jewelry, vessels, book covers and more.
http://www.margilaurin.com/

Polymeri Online 16.8.07

I was googling the other day and found some sites that were new to me - here are some:

Bronwen Fullington @ Coat of Many Colors design spirit dolls are the result of the artist longstanding fascination with myth and story, and the desire to celebrate the human spirit,The doll made of soft bodies of silk or velvet filled and weighted with poly. The faces and hands are sculpted of polymer clay and painted. The figures are decorated with fine fabrics and fashioned or found objects.
http://signofthedoveco-op.com/member_pages/b_fullington.html

New Tinkle Art Room Website is The Polymer Clay and Creative Arts place, they hold Clay and Art classes and retail services and located in Singapore.

http://www.tinkleartroom.com/
http://www.tinkleartroom.com/Gallery.html

Don't miss the lovely photo of the butterfly cane -http://tinkleartroom.blogspot.com/2007/07/completed-cane.html

Sandra Bruce is an illustrator but is also designing and making contemporary quilts, wearable art, polymer clay art, beading and many others! For a glimpse of very fun jewelry, polymer clay creations, wearable art and quilts, click on fun page

http://www.sandrabruce.com/home2.html
http://www.sandrabruce.com/funjwl3.html

http://www.sandrabruce.com/funpage.html

tatsuko Montreal - makes the great sushi jewelry, and they have no calories too :)
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6745&section_id=5007687

Valerie Moore started beading when she was 6, and have been working with polymer clay for a little longer than that.she says she is almost completely self-taught in both beading and polymer clay.

http://www.valeriebeads.com/http://valeriebeads.blogspot.com/

you can find 3 tutorials in her site too:
http://www.valeriebeads.com/claytutorial.html

Polymer clay in new Zealand! Galleries and projects:

http://www.polymerclay.co.nz/index.html

Found on Marjorie Zambrano blog - Little people standing near stairs - so sweet! even though one of her tags says it's not polymer clay, it can be a very original idea! http://mezg2004.blogspot.com/2007/07/little-people_16.html


Beautiful Iguana Sculpturing from polymer clay by MJ Crafts Design Studio

http://www.mjcrafts-designstudio.com/images/IguanaPolymerClayPin.jpg

Polymeri Online 9.8.07

Greetings!

My children are addicted to sponge bob, it's summer vacation here in Israel and all i hear is Patrick and sponge bob yelling (good yelling) from the TV :) sometimes i sit with them and enjoy a good laugh...

I found this Sponge bob cane by Destiny Designs - easy to understand how to build it!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/destinydesigns/965458109/

If you haven't tried it before, try putting a Decal on a bead, a demo by NKP Designs - Natalie Pappas
http://nkpdesigns.com/decaldemo.html
http://nkpdesigns.com/index.html

Pamela Gilfillen - clayangel_sc is a polymer clay artist, she makes jewelry with clay and beads. Read more about her in her flickr profile.
http://clayobsession.com/
http://www.flickr.com/people/clayangel/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clayangel/

Hoss Studio

Scott Roberts / Hoss Studio

Tami Roberts / Block Studio

Their CLAYme are caricature representations of people; using your photos as reference they sculpt a polymer clay piece of artwork that can incorporate a favorite hobby, activity, sport or special moment. they also make Customized Wedding Cake Toppers.

http://www.hosstudio.com/index.htm

The Art of Consuelo Okdie by Connie Okdie, Beautiful Illustrations and Sculptures in Polymer Clay -
http://www.consuelookdie.com/galleryspec.html

2 tutorials by Connie - Polymer Clay Window Fish

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_clay_figures/article/0,,HGTV_3237_3736313,00.htm

and - Polymer Clay Drinking Glass

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_clay/article/0,1789,HGTV_3236_3736360,00.html

Finally, Curious Creations by Suzy Mc'Neil - Suzy makes mirrors, bowls, plaques, jewellery, sculptures and odds & ends.
http://curiouscreations.ca/

http://curiouscreations.ca/page2.html

Polymeri Online 12.7.07

Some Weekend Links!

I found this nice African Cane in a french blog, scroll down to date: Friday May 4, 2007
http://123fimo.canalblog.com/

A great tutorial Rainbow beads - Thank you Naama Zamir for finding this project!
http://www.madmoizelle.com/page_perles-colorees-en-pate-a-modeler_2006-04-18.html

I am a real fan of polymer clay notes blog, from time to time i start thinking, hey, one day i won't find new links to PC sites, and then i look at Susan Lomuto blog and realize there are so many sites i didn't see! Thank you Susan, you are a GOOD site finder!!
One of the sites i found there was Freakin' Fun and Fantastic Fiendish Friends by owen klaas with nice figures -
http://fiendishthingies.com/clay_sculptures_page_2.htm

Rifka and Avi's Gallery is a colorful and most interesting - Take a look at their Polymer Clay and Photography World
http://www.pbase.com/avistar/root

Kraphti-Dez / Dez is a mokume gane artist, she loves this technique and it shows by looking at her work. Here is a Mask project with MG -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crafty_dez/sets/72157600586580096/http://www.flickr.com/photos/crafty_dez/collections/72157600368863396/ (all her sets)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crafty_dez/http://kraphti.livejournal.com/

I didn't know Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild has flickr, here are their photos -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/papcg/

How can i not mention Progress & Possibilities '07?

Well, conrtatulation to all winners, i digged a little bit at the competitors links and find some i didn't know.

Finalists: Carol Blackburn
Mixed media - including journals, fabric arts and other work not falling into other categories http://carolblackburn.co.uk/index.html

First place: Heather Campbell
Mixed media - including journals, fabric arts and other work not falling into other categories
http://www.purpledoorart.com/catalog/index.php

Finalists: Varda Levram-Ellisman
Beads and bead sets - any object or related sets that are pierced by a hole, not finished jewelry
http://www.sdpcg.org/membervarda.html

Second place: Cathy Braunlin
Non-figurative sculpture - including home decor, lamps, frames, etc. http://www.braunlincreativearts.com/

Third place: Randi Taylor
Miniatures
http://www.odaca.org/bios/taylor.htm

Finalists: Suzanne Ivester
Non-figurative sculpture - including home decor, lamps, frames, etc.
http://www.brpcg.com/Galleries/suzanne.html

Finalists: Chris Rutter
Figurative sculpture - including human, fantasy, animal figures, and masks
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/crutter2/albums

Have a great Weekend!

Polymeri Online 28.6.07

Margaret Reagan makes silk-screen-like canework, and unique shaped canes -http://www.mregan.com/

Our friend garieinternational is making realistic looking miniature cake tutorial along with a lesson on creating polymer clay paint and then use this to bake the cake -http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/clay/miniature_cake.htm

COLLECTIONS BIJOUX MATHILDE BRUN - jewelry and ooak work -
http://lathilde.canalblog.com

Rebecca wells - her bio, such an interesting story (taken word by word from her site):Rebecca’s love for art began early in life and has continued to grow and develop throughout the years. She has owned several floral shops and won awards nationally for her floral artistry. In 1998 when her business burned down, Rebecca decided to pursue other venues and returned to school to pursue her Master’s degree in Behavioral Science. She teaches full time as an adjunct professor of Psychology and Sociology at Alvin Community College. After finishing school, Rebecca discovered that her creative juices were begging for an outlet. Thus, she began claying. Rebecca has worked in both earthen clay and polymer clay, but her passion is polymer. Her influence comes heavily from her love of nature and floral design. In addition, her love of color and all things organic is reflected in a large portion of her work.
http://www.sublimeclay.com/

Kristine Taylor - Jewelry art, Necklaces, Pendants, Earings and more.
http://homepage.mac.com/designsbykristine/DBK/index.html

Sonya's Hands On Creations' - Sonya's sites are showing us some nice ideas of using scrap clay and making nice millefiori canes -
http://handsoncreations.wordpress.com/
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=2898996&uid=1491148 http://handsoncreations.spaces.live.com/

if you have'nt used all your spare hours at the computer, in theclaystore forums you can sit and forget to get up :)
http://forums.theclaystore.com/

3 Artists from Flickr -
Anebela Romano from Portugal -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maoseart/

Nata Nei from Israel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40396713@N00/

Claudia Reis -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sofia_filipe/

Diana Brown - Diana says she has no rhyme or reason for what she creates, whatever strikes her fancy...
http://www.dylinn.com/

Pat's Polymer - Pat is making sculpturings, fairies and other...
http://www.patsart.com/

Polymeri Online 17/5/07

Beginner Tutorial for you firstimers! a sheet of Clay tutorial, how to arrange millefiori slices on a sheet and then cover a box -
http://picasaweb.google.com/cvstearns/SheetOfClayTutorial?authkey=LhDD7UYHhFM

In case you wanted to know what are the differences between the 2 variations of skinner blends (corner 2 corner or chopped corners - forgive my English, it sounds better in Hebrew) - Desiree is giving us the perfect explanation:
http://desiredcreations.com/howTo_CABasicSkinnerBlend.htm

2 movie clips i found on YouTube 1 is Silkscreen on polymer clay - Daphne Hill' only a glimpse to the tutorial, the second half is not there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CecMxCuuMaw

Sculpting a torso with polymer clay by using armature by - stringfellowart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNi1Z3BSi8

Ben Can Dance from Flickr -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42836511@N00/
Sandi has always been an artistic person and have tried a wide variety of different mediums: sketched, painted, sculpted, done carpentry- projects, mosaics and now selling her products in ETSY.

A nice site called The penguin Nest, gather in it's nest few artists, one of them is Kim O'Neal which makes wonderful necklaces from PC - take a look at her craft and others in the nest:
http://www.penguinsnest.com/

Alev Gozonar is a designer of stunning mixed media work:
http://www.alevg.com/

One last thing is a cute children (and adult) project - how to decorate your personal key :)http://www.hubihobby.com/default.asp?cat_id=1516&tech_id=244

Polymeri Online 10.5.07

Doreen Gay-Kassel is creating illustrations & polymorph creatures, her images have been used for books, magazines, toys, puzzles, greeting cards, Christmas ornaments & textiles. What a great work!
http://www.doreengay-kassel.com/profile.asp

Kevin Buntin world is a fantasy - Viking ships, warriors, mummies and Frankenstein monsters, He uses all kind of materials for his sculpturings - wood, acorn caps, and scraps of leather or various other fabrics. He also uses all kind of polymer clays.
http://www.kevinbuntin.com/

In Roberta's blog - "Just Me And My Creations "you can find a nice millefiori tutorial and all kind of other links & photos
http://robertam.blogspot.com/2006/06/making-canes.html http://robertam.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-latest-creations-7.html

Take a look at Kristine Taylor amazing jewlery gallery, stunning!

http://homepage.mac.com/designsbykristine/DBK/index.html

I did mention Bettina Welker in the past, but i found some interesting links to other galleries in her site -

http://www.polyclaykunst.de/galerie.html

Last one is Michelle Davis Petelinx from Jordan's Treasures with gorgoues mirrors, boxes, masks and many more

http://www.jordanstreasures.net/mirrors.htm

http://www.jordanstreasures.net/

Polymeri Online 3.5.07

Today's Polymeri thanks all the good people sending me links :) thank you!

In swissbeads about page there is a line saying -

Caution - working with polymer clay may lead to serious addiction!

Ginette is from Switzerland, she is creating lovely lentil and pillow beads, mostly in geometric designs and uses foil leafs and pearl colors.

http://www.swissbeads.net/

Blue Dog Beads site was sent to me by Mira Krispil, it is a family business of mother, daughter and daughter-in-law, after playing with the polymer clay they decided to make a business out of it.In their site a gallery of jewelry, links and a picasa album.

http://www.bluedogbeads.com/
http://picasaweb.google.com/shirleart

European Polymer Clay People
Our friends from Europe with a site full of "goodies"
http://europeanpolymerclaypeople.forumup.org/

A blog by my favorite miniature sculptor - Myriam LAKRAA
roll down and you'll find a cute rabbit demo
http://peinture-modelage.over-blog.fr/

and last - a movie: How To Make A Clay T-Rex Dinosaur from sutree site:
http://www.sutree.com/play.asp?s=psnwefldovt

Polymeri Online 26.4.07

Projects Day! & some more...

Global Fantasy Dolls is an online directory to one of a kind dolls and artists from around globe. In globalfantasydolls you can find a gallery of artists and some lovely sculpturing tutorials of dolls & fairies

http://www.globalfantasydolls.com/Tutorials.htm

Tamila J. Darling site contains some great links for canes tutorials, sculprutings and more!
http://www.simplydarling.com/projects.htm

TwoCan Clay by Janet Pitcher and Kelly Steindorf, Janet and Kelly are 2 friends from San-Diego Callifornia, who lives one next to the other, they are the creators of jewelry and millefiori art:

http://www.twocanclaydesigns.com/

Christel Jensen share with us a tulip cane tutorial, a pin and some miniature sculpturings: http://home.online.no/~raje/Polymer/projects.htm

Lorie O Follett from Sculpture From The Heart truely make magical fairies and mermaids, they look so unique so i guess they come from her heart :) http://www.sculpturefromtheheart.com/(photo attached)

Last one is darleen bellan from http://www.kissmystampart.com/ working with PC for 25 years. She says she is inspired recently through the works of her dear friend, Christi Friesen and her influence can be seen in some of her work - wonderful!

My Arcoiris Site had a little "face lift"

And you are all welcome to take a look :)

Have a Great Weekend!

http://www.arcoiris.co.il

Polymeri Online 19.4.07

Thursday is here and with him we have some Onlines...

An interesting projects i found in http://www.polymerclayweb.com/default.asp, one of them is the Crackled Inlay tutorial, all you need is some translucent clay, black clay and some acrylic paints -

http://www.polymerclayweb.com/crackledinlay.asp

Another project is Pirate Coins

http://www.polymerclayweb.com/piratecoin.asp

Another nice photo demo is of Malachite in Polyclay by ALAN http://groups.msn.com/ALANpolymer/malachiteinpolyclay.msnw

An Elephant Tutorial by Patricia Lynn Studio

http://patricialynnstudio.com/Elephant%20Tutorial%201%20of%2010.html

Sweet Funky Fish Cane by carolyns clay (Thank you sharon amir for this link) - http://carolynsclaycreations.com/Tutorials.html

And the last site, a gorgeous millefiori celebration, ZECCA's site by Karen Hennessey with brilliant ideas and accessories and a perfect color combination of canes! i just loved it :)

http://www.zecca.net/

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Anne-Marie Hendry from Toronto, Ontario a former cartographer, technical illustrator, is now the creator of 3d art illustration: photos, tables decor, children art and more!
Thank you http://polymerclaynotes.com for this link :)

http://www.yarecruising.com/faith_gallery.htm

Helen Jacob - justbarrettes makes lovely polymer clay decorated Barrettes (and as a barrette lover i just love her designs!)

http://www.justbarrettes.com/

In le blog de mamezelle i found a unique japanese design millefiori cane
http://mamezellecat.canalblog.com/archives/2006/10/03/2821564.html

ETSY Polymer Clay Artist Guild site is full of great photos of the wonderful PC artists of Etsy - take a look!

http://etsypca.blogspot.com/

And last is Sharon Macleod and her wonderful designs - such a clean style - looks great.

http://www.sharonmacleod.com/index.html

Some of My new Stuff :)

Passover is coming soon and we are getting ready for some holiday sales!
here is some of my "treasure":

Polymer clay shoe jewelry/embellishments for crocs or for any other flexible material (bags, sandals, buttonhole, etc) made out of some canes i bought from Ebay in my dear Karen Perry store - butterfly cane and a cool skull cane:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irismishly/422317177/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irismishly/422317185/in/photostream/

Another set of Shoe jewelry with another cane - Pucca, i got it from an Israeli friend Efrat Keren, who didn't like the cane result, instead of smashing it into scrap, i took it and made some nice embellishments for little girls!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irismishly/422317172/in/photostream/

And some new Hamsa Home blessing Decor!
one of them is ebay now :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irismishly/422334375/

More on my Flickr!!

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Food and Delights!

Betsy Niederer Miniatures -

Betsy calls her creations Delicious Delights for Dolls but i can think of some more fun use for these cute items:

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/smallstuff/

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/smallstuff/page2.html

Flickr photos from BEEZY's photo stream,made of polymer clay, from Chatuchak Market, Bangkok

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beezy/55062594/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/beezy/52666083/

Mr.X 's Secret Zone -

http://www.kh.rim.or.jp/~shou/

and tutorials (in Japanese)

http://www.kh.rim.or.jp/~shou/howto/index.html

Bertha Wong with her Chinese Cuisine in Miniatures

http://berthawong.8m.com/

And scroll a little to see these sweet Bonbons beads!http://marianes.canalblog.com/archives/2007/02/21/4085877.html