Monthly Archives: February 2009

Clay Bugs

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I joined Connie’s bug swap again this year – I did it in 2005 or 6 as well – and while I won’t post what I made just yet I will show what I made from the scraps of one group and what inspired the other!

Red Butterfly

One of my bugs for the swap is a butterfly. The remains from making those made a regular butterfly cane. The other bug I made was inspired by these, very bright little Costa Rican shield bug young. Mine are a little bigger than the 1/4″ things in the picture.

A really awesome feature of the online polymer clay community is the sheer number of swaps on every topic happen. It’s a wonderful way to see what techniques others are doing and to contribute in your own way. My next swap is Sarajane Helm’s Mini Mask Swap! A quick spot to get started finding clay swaps is right here.

Chaos and Everything Before

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The last we heard from me I was taking a few days off, visiting the town I’m moving to in the summer. I spent my weekend there eating. No joke, everyone kept feeding me. I had two birthday cakes:

Birthday Cakes! Slice of Cake

The first were part of a care package from the very charming Schimmel’s Dutch Bakery and the second is a slice from the beauty made for me by Cindy of CindyCreativeCrochet.

I got to see how my future studio and office space is coming along. The subflooring just got finished. Next is either the laminate or paint. I got to visit with the house cat Sam who is my daughter’s sole reason for willingly agreeing to move. Then we came back to town.

Tacked to my apartment door was the notice that they were going to be doing major and extensive work on the apartment and that everything had to be boxed, cleaned and moved. By the next morning. Yikes!

Somehow we got that finished up and I tackled an order that was pending for Rycrafty:

Flame beads

I expect it’ll be a few days yet before I’m all recovered!

Rest my Weary Self

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If I’m slow to return an email for the next few days it’ll be because I’m spending a few days out of town with limited access to my computer and clay.

The last few weeks have been exhausting so I’ll take myself out of the chaos for a few, catch up on my sleep and come back with a little more energy.

Officially, that means I’ll be back in the game on February 17th! Have a great Valentines you guys!

Bowl Goals: Belatedly

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I realized, belatedly, that I had missed my Bowl Goals post last week (and all the other posts too but there’s another story!). I can only plead distraction as I was busy making Thing-a-Days. Here’s my catch up and it’s been a regular bead making factory around here this week:

Bowl Goals - Belatedly

As to what was distracting me, there were orders for which some of those beads are, preparing for an oncoming long weekend trip and my upcoming birthday! Valentines Day is my birthday and this year we’ll be in the small town I’m heading to at the end of the school year.