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The Shop: Autumn and On

This week in the shop there’s a few new additions – a few seasonal canes and beads – and today is the last day of Free Worldwide Shipping in my two Etsy shops and my ArtFire shop. Have a peek:

artfire beads and canes

Next weekend – October 15 & 16th – I will be participating in the Christmas Show at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon, SK. The museum is a nifty place to visit even without the show and with the show it will be packed full of holiday goodies and early shopping ops. If you’re going to be in the city that day, stop by and visit!

Meet Gingerbell

This week’s Smoosher is a special treat for me as it’s someone I know outside of the ArtFire Smoosher’s guild. My long time clay buddy and internet friend Ginger – we joined the message boards of Polymerclaycentral.com around the same time, years ago – of Rosedale, IN is also the talent behind Gingerbell’s Gifts on ArtFire.

There’s a couple items I’m partial to in her shop of course – she uses my canes on a few of them!

One thing Ginger is well known for is her beautiful bead weaving. She often surrounds her handmade polymer clay cabochons with intricate layers of seed bead weaving. This is one of my very favourite:

Outside of her jewelry, Ginger also crafts handmade soaps and candles. I know you’re not supposed to lick them but these look so tasty:

You can follow Ginger’s clay journey on her blog:
http://gingerbellsgifts.blogspot.com/

Visit her ArtFire Studio at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/Gingerbells

* last week was my turn to get “Met” by the Smooshers! They wrote such sweet things!

Meet PositivelyCharming

The Smoosher of the week is PositivelyCharmingThings. Niki, of Phoenix, Arizona in the US, is a long time crafter though relatively recent clayer. She’s a great fan of Christi Friesen’s work and has a fondness for cutesy beads as she says in her bio.

Some of my favourite pieces in Niki’s studio includes the little blue bird earrings:

or this non-clay paua shell set:

Niki really DOES make absolutely adorable “cutesy” beads though:

Visit their studio at:
http://www.artfire.com/users/positivelycharmingthings

Follow their clay journey on their blog:
http://www.positivelycharming.com/