AyeletBeads A Winner

I'd like to tell you all a little bit about a friend of mine, Ayelet, who is the owner of AyeletBeads. Ayelet hails from New Zealand and she has been developing with polymer clay for a few years very impressively. Her works are better and better all the time, love to see that happen to polymer clayers. Her canes are gorgeous and her jewelry is awe-inspiring for its beautiful textures, colors and design.

Here is a link to her Flickr site for some yummy eye candy:
AyeletBeads at Flickr

(I wasn't kidding, was I?)

She also does craft shows and has an Etsy shop named AyeletBeads here.

One of Ayelet's claims to fame is that she writes the BEST polymer clay tutorials! (Hint: check her Etsy shop for the tutorials.) I have several of them and they never fail to please. I've been able to use them in a few different ways making them indispensible to me. So a few months ago, I got this awesome "Magic Flower Cane" tutorial from her and was so wanting to try it out. Then I became unable to clay due to a pinched nerve for a couple of months, so I couldn't do it. But now that I'm doing better, I pulled it out, and gave it a try. It's a great tutorial! Easy and fun (just don't make your cane huge like I did!) and with great possibilities.

Thank you, Ayelet, for being such a nice woman, an awesome polymer clayer, a good friend and a good tutorial writer!

Below is the photo of my first cane made with her Magic Flower Cane tutorial. Something weird went on with the white clay in this cane, it was way too soft and compressed together when I reduced it, but I still like the flower very much. I'm going to make another one shortly, hopefully the white clay will behave next time. Ayelet, I hope I made you proud. (((Ayelet)))

Thing A Day for February 6th (Super Bowl Sunday)

Well in honor of the Super Bowl... I'm NOT watching it! But I am going to post a photo of my Thing A Day entry for Day 6 of the Polymer Clay Central February Thing A Day Challenge, which just so happens to be a new Etsy listing, as well.

This is a silver and yellow key fob - the photo doesn't do it justice at all, it's SO pretty! The little touches of yellow just make it glow, and the Mother of Pearl coin beads along with the Bali spacers make it very pretty. I like this one a lot, can you tell?





I've been carrying two of these key fobs in my purse for EVER, and I love them. Every time I pull them out of my purse I'm pleased to see them, isn't that cool? I like the fact that they hold up wonderfully - both of my polymer clay focal beads have been dragged in and out of that purse for years, and they look as good as ever.

Thing a Day is extra fun for me this year since claying has been so difficult. But it's pushing me in the right direction as I clayed some more last night! I'm so happy and although getting up this morning was tough, I'm moving around again. Might clay some MORE!! Woo hoo.

Polymer Clay Central Thing A Day - February 5th

Well, due to a pinched nerve, I've been absent from almost everywhere except my chiropractor's office for quite some time. It is not yet "fixed" but sometimes is a little bit better. It started the first week of December and I thought it would "go away". My new learning experience - if I'm having pain over a "3" ever again, I'm heading off to get it fixed before it gets to a "10" for weeks on end.

Now, though, I've had a little bit of a comeback, SO... I'm going to try to keep up with the fun fun fun annual THING A DAY contest at Polymer Clay Central! Okay so I'm 5 days behind already but I'll keep working at it.

Here is a cane I made over the period of about 2 weeks. I hope they start popping out a little faster after this! (click on image to enlarge).



Thank you to all my friends and family for your constant uplifting on my account. You don't know how I appreciate it.