Day 27 - only one more day after this one!

Boy, today was a busy one for me. We got a lot of snow overnight, here's a photo that I took early this morning looking out the back door. That's the hot tub under that layer of snow! And below that is a photo of our son Tim's truck in the driveway after we had gotten the driveway cleared of snow, a couple of hours later.


Snow being the first thing we had to deal with today, I am sharing an "already-made" polymer clay creation, a needle case that I made using a texture sheet made by our own Ponsawan Sila. I absolutely LOVE that texture sheet and use bits and pieces of it all the time. Thanks, Ponsawan! Ponsawan is a fantastic artist and always wonderful about sharing her knowledge. You can find her tutorial blog here: Polymer Clay Beads Tutorials by Ponsawan; and her fabulous creative personal blog here: Polymer Clay by Silastones.


We have more snow since yesterday's storm... but not so much that it should keep me from Thing-A-Day's final day tomorrow.

Day 26 of Thing A Day - held up by electricity

I was ready to post a new photo for day 26 of the Thing A Day challenge, however, we had a snowstorm and suddenly lost all power for the entire evening, about 6 hours. So since the saying says "better late than never", I am posting some new kaleidoscope canes here for Day 26.





I'm still having a lot of fun making these canes so there will be more of them in the future.

Day 25!

Well Day 25 of the Thing A Day challenge at Polymer Clay Central means that we only have three more days left. I can hardly believe it, and may just keep going straight on into March!

I've been claying... making canes to be more precise. I had a lot of trouble photographing this color green for some reason. These canes are actually a mild pastel green and don't have all the blue in them. I worked at correcting the color on these but it's still not quite right. They are really mellow in person. Well I guess we don't meet canes "in person", but you know what I mean.

More canes tomorrow, I hope!

Day 24 of Thing A Day

Today I have a purple kaleidoscope cane pendant that I made. I like this one because I put a sapphire crystal in the center and it adds a bit of bling to the piece.

I sure wish I had more time to clay, but today we got almost a foot of snow. Nice wet heavy Spring snow - ugh. But it's all cleaned up now and I believe I saw "moon shadows" a few minutes ago. Hope it doesn't snow through the weekend, since we have a delivery coming and our son is coming over on Friday to help with some heavy lifting and spend the night. Will be great to have two of my favorite men in the whole world (our son-in-law being another favorite) to cook for on Friday night!



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Thing a Day Challenge Day 23

Today is a "sad day", as it is the anniversary of my dear mom's death. She was a great mom and a fun wonderful person, all of us miss her a lot. But on the good side, I got to talk with my little sister for a bit, and so that was helpful.

Last night, during my thoughts of mom, I decided to make a Bottle of Hope. I got a lot of help on this one, though - from both Carolyn of Carolyn's Clay Creations and Seana at Skb31mom.etsy.com, who made the beautiful canes that I used. Aren't they awesome??? Those girls can both make fabulous canes, and I treasure those that I have from them.



Hope everyone had a nice day!

Day 22 of Thing A Day!

Now that I'm back on track, here is my Thing A Day, Day 22 offering for the Polymer Clay Central challenge. I made this pendant from one of my recent canes and I just love the shape and the way the cane looks in the frame.

I'm sliding in just 10 minutes before midnight here, so with no further adieu...


Thanks for looking!

Day 21 of Thing A Day - Yellow Kaleidoscope Canes

I'm not even going to talk about missing three days of the Thing A Day challenge. Suffice to say that I am back on schedule and have some new kaleidoscope canes to share.

Hope to be able to clay later today again - we have snow but we lucked out and the storm moved north of us. We have 5 inches... our son's area has over 2 feet!! That is not normal, usually it's the other way around. We are feeling so blessed, and so is our son, because he loves to ski. There's a win-win situation.

Hope everyone is having a safe and happy Sunday.