Another Flower Mountain

Well as you can see, I'm having all together too much fun over here. I've made some more flower canes - with many thanks to Zuleykha and Ayelet for their fun tutorials. Thank you for sharing your talents, ladies, you add so much to the polymer clay community.

I love the colors here - the copper and blue cane is different looking and the turquoise folded-petal flower cane is cheery and bright.

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A Mountain of Flowers!

I posted the initial photos of these flower canes a while back, but now that I've wrapped them in my special secret recipe of translucent clay, and reduced them, I wanted to share them again. I think they are so pretty! I'm definitely making more like these as soon as I get some claying time in again.

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I'll be listing these in my Etsy shop as soon as I find some extra time. Where DID I put that extra time, anyway??

Embroidering with Polymer Clay

At times I feel like I'm embroidering pretty patterns with my polymer clay. This week, my thread colors have been turquoise, white, black, green and yellow. I've got some new polymer clay cane patterns to share:

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Next week I'll be working on some coasters for the Polymer Clay Central Coaster Swap. I'm looking forward to it, and already liking my prototypes.

Truckee Softball Rules!!!

Today I want to share my granddaughter Dezaree, and her Truckee Softball team. They were in a tournament this last weekend and we got to go to one of her games. It was really fun and her team was doing so well when they called the game for time.... but they didn't win. But, since it's not just about winning, we still had a wonderful day together with the family.

Here is Dezaree's team all stacked up:



And here is darling Dezaree in a couple of poses - cute, isn't she? That's my girl!!

I love you, Dezaree!

New Flower Canes!

I wanted to share some new flower canes that I've been making. I just love them. I still need to work to make something closer to perfection, but these are my first flower canes in years, so I'm pretty happy with them.

I can't take all the credit, though, I did purchase a tutorial by Zulekyha from www.claylessons.com - and that made the difference. It's a great tutorial.

I hope you like these as much as I do! Thanks for looking.

Stack O' Canes

Oh boy, I've been sadly neglecting my blogging lately. In my last post I said I expected to be back to my healthy self, but that didn't happen. Instead I had a darn relapse! But now, for sure, I am back to my healthy self and back to claying, as well.

Here is a photo of my latest doings... my "Stack O' Canes"! As usual I had a lot of fun making these. The orange set was made to mimic the school colors of orange and grey for the Atascadero High School, the school where my niece and nephew attend. The other two sets were my experiments with putting some of the color yellow into my work - it's a color that I rarely use. I think it worked out well!

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Purple and Gold, Blue and Lime....

That title sounds like school colors or something, doesn't it? Nope. Instead those are the colors of two new sets of polymer clay kaleidoscope canes that I made. I've been sick for about 2 weeks - one of the longest illnesses I've ever had, and so I haven't done any claying for that whole time. Finally I felt good enough to get back into my Claypen, and these canes are the result of that.

I just know I'm going to be my regular healthy self any day now, I'm feeling much better at last. And I'm rarin' to get back to the clay table and make more canes. A lot of ideas are jumbled up in my head so I better let them out while I can!

Here are two of the most recent canes:





Thanks for looking! There are lots more canes that I've recently made on my Flickr site, I'd love it if you'll take a peek. Here's the link:

Jae Jewelry & The Pleasant Pheasant Flickr Album