Cat Oh Cat!
I decided to make a cat figurine for a co worker after I saw a picture of her cat on her desk. I had never made a cat before, so […]
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Happy Holidays South Philly Style
People live in rowhouses in South Philadelphia and they decorate their front windows and doors when someone has a baby, someone gets married, someone graduates, someone gets paroled or the […]
Christmas Ornaments with Repurposed Materials
I make lamp worked beads; sometimes with scrap glass and I fuse glass, too. I was pondering whether to toss the little odd scraps. ugly beads and fused pieces that […]
Some More Christmas Ornament Ideas
Here are some more very simple ideas for for Christmas ornaments. The one on the left is a hollow paper mache ball covered with black, copper and pearl clay and […]
Make Your Own Clasps!
It took a long time for this necklace to come together. My friend Jeanne gave me the amber after her husband died. I got the coral, turquoise and Balinese beads […]
Canes, Canes and More Canes
I initially tried polymer clay because of its amenability to caning techniques. I had always loved African Trading Beads and wanted to try my hand at millefore. No matter what […]
Klay Kismet
A couple of years ago, I spent a few days at Arlene Groch’s house claying nonstop alongside Arlene, Ellen Marshall and Melanie West. During the course of the claying frenzy, […]
Dorothy Renc Gray
Dorothy’s favorite method of working with polymer clay is to model it until she feels a form emerge, much the way nature works. It’s no surprise then, that she was […]
More on Hearts
I watched The Jewelry Making Professor’s Puffy Heart tutorial and recommend it to all my beading friends who want to learn how to make the Puffy Heart. The video is […]
I Heart Crystal Hearts
I love those puffy crystal hearts you see people wearing on a chain around their neck. Each heart is made from 73 4mm crystals (Swarovski looks best) strung on one […]
