Year of Clay – Daffodil Doodles

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Elaine

I love daffodils. Last year, a friend sent me a piece of her daffodil cane and I’m embarassed to say I didn’t even crack the neatly wrapped little tube until this weekend!

Like a lot of my prototypes I took a little coordinating scrap and some other cane ends from my ~~neatly arranged~~ box of ends and made a little springy picture. It will probably get baked up with my cane slices from this weekend – I was a caning fool! – and made into a magnet.

The cane slices become references for me and toys for my daughter. She assures me they are the best snacks for her toys. Plastic snacks for plastic ponies…

Claychicks Weekly – April 5

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Elaine

Don’t forget our Spring Break Silly Sale – tell us a chicken joke and save on the shipping! Yep, you heard it right Send a chicken joke to thechicks at claychicks dot com when you make a purchase from our etsy or our ebay and you will get your shipping refunded. So get a little weird and crack jokes.

And if that isn’t enough to egg you on, a little eye candy from our current Ebay goodies:

Happy Birthday little blog

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Elaine

polymer clay cake The Polymer Clay Beads by Tooaquarius blog turns 1 today! I am thinking it will be much less messy with it’s chocolate cake than my daughter was.

In that spirit, some sweets that my daughter and I made from clay. Most of them are beads, as well as half inch food minis. Polymer clay truly is an incredibly versatile medium and I have much planned for my continuing journey in it!

Here’s to an even more bloggy, clayful and beady second year!

Year of Clay – Unclutter your Clay

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Elaine

Here I was, feeling a little blue, because I didn’t get to take as much as I wanted at the recent Michael’s sale on clay. Budget concerns and all that. Combine that with work being horridly behind and just a little overwhelming at this moment. And of course my desk looks like the universe collapsed on it… little blobs of clay EVERYWHERE.

Somewhere in the self-pity moment I started squishing the blobs. A while later – and serious muscle use – I have TONS of new clay.