Polymer and Pearl Ring

I shaped the polymer over the ring, wired a gorgeous pearl into it and cured it.

The beautiful fabric sculpted doll is from Goodwill.

What Did I Create Today?

......a bill. I fell in love with this antique Mexican sugar cone mold I saw on Geninne Zlatkis' blog "Geninne's Art Blog" (click HERE) and HAD to have it. Do I need it? No. Do I want it? Heck yeah. It makes me feel "artsy" and somehow connects me to the peaceful feeling I get looking at Geninne's studio.

It is so intriguing how objects connect us to something and at the same time create an emotion. How our five senses create our memories.

How our creative spaces become our sanctuaries.

Visit her Etsy store (click HERE) and her Flickr site (click HERE) for inspiration. Visit her blog, experience the peace, see her beautiful creations, marvel at her talent, sense of bliss and artistic purpose.

Good News & My First Giveaway!

The good news is I just signed another contract with Polymer Cafe magazine. Hopefully I will be in the next one coming out in a month or so.

So in celebration of today, 10/10/10, my 406th post and sharing my good news, I am posting my first giveaway.

A Russian Spiral bracelet with a sweet sterling silver teapot and spoon closure.

If you are interested, leave me a comment mentioning the giveaway bracelet. It is open from today (Sunday, 10-10-10) until Thursday, 10-14-10 (midnight). A winner will be chosen Friday morning. You can leave the comment on this particular post or any post up to Thursday's. I'm so excited and happy.

And Then There Were Two

It was the beginning of a mask (below). Then, I dropped it and it became two halves.

Kind of cool how we are fractured, but still whole. How we have sides of us that we aren't particularly proud of, but must still embrace. Took your mind off of how the heck did I drop a 6x8" piece? I do these in multiple curings. Add a layer, bake, cool, building up the features as I go. I bake them on cardboard; or I did. Not anymore. Now I use a tray WITH SIDES, lined with parchment.

Salt & Pepper Please

I'm happy these turned out so well. Pathetically crude, zombie looking skeletons, but I love them.

I wish I could say covering the shakers were my idea, but I can't. Problem is, I can't remember where I saw the polymer covered salt and pepper shakers. I have spent hours going through my viewing history trying to find where I saw them. No luck. Just a gigantic headache.

And, actually, it could have been a long time ago. I keep inspiration files, but didn't keep the S&P in there. So, I am thinking it might have been a while ago.

Anywho, if anyone out there knows the source of the skeleton covered S&P shakers, please let me know, as I would like to credit them.

Polymer Glow In The Dark

What's Halloween without Sculpey Glow-In-The-Dark polymer clay? B00oooring!!

Making The Skeleton Crew Cane

Awwwww, my first skeleton cane. It's the happy little skeleton crew working the late shift!

Skeleton cane in the making......before the black outline was added. Finished size was 4"x6"

Rolled and reduced to various sizes. Oh yeah, and there's always one that's got to be different; the one who sings, "I've got to be meeeeee!"

Beaded Leopard Bracelet

Peyote stitch. Leopard. Purrrrty.

I haven't ended it yet because I haven't decided on the closure. This was so much fun following an intricate, ever changing pattern in the car, beading with delicas in poor lighting. Yeah, I'm going to be wearing this bracelet proudly. I survived the leopard!

Catrina

So, we are back home in Arizona after a wonderful trip to Chicago. I don't like long car rides, but time passed quickly. I finished three peyote patterns; the snake, Catrina (above) and a leopard pattern (tomorrow). Catrina is going to be a pendant. Love how she turned out. I photographed her on a Rodin (Femmes, Vingt-Quatre Etudes De Rodin, Albert Morance, I, rue Palatine--Paris VIe). I have 19 of them in a set I bought years ago. One of these days I will have to do something with them.

PaperClay

PaperClay is fun. Dries hard as a rock and the textures are great. Scary too!!