Flower obcession!!

I've been on a tiger lily thing lately and thought I would give daisies a try. With the odd petal slices and extras I made some roses. The flowers went so well together I did a candle topper with them. Now my daughter and friends want daisies and then some more. =)

I did a tutorial for the tiger lilies that I am hoping to get on my etsy soon. I do have some tiger lily designs on etsy. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30484541

Week of fun with Debi

NanaDeb from swap-bot.com came down to spend the week playing in clay. We tried some new ideas together and I showed her how to make a few things I like to make. She also brought a book on how to make the cutest of characters, the witch is one of them and I'll be posting a girl I made on flickr later on today. I got behind on my house chores but it was well worth it. After losing my job and being involved in a hit and run this visit really picked my spirits back up to my norm. =) We spent much time claying, talking and lets not forget the shopping. We made faux turquoise, coral and lapis. Mind you we didn't get it right the first time but we caught on quick.

Time to mow the yard but I will blog more about our adventure later. =)

New use for old tools.

I found some cake icing tips at a yard sale and bought them. I was hoping to find some way of using them in my claying adventures. Ugh I couldn't get the clay to push through the tips so I decided to try and get them to work with an extruder. It so worked with the Makins Clay Extruder. So here you see the 2 tools combined as 1 and a cupcake I made using the new take on icing tips. =)

Yet another heart

I am a memeber of swap-bot.com where good folk trade crafts and such. I started just for the ATCs but polymer clay is my true craft over the past couple years. I have started getting more serious about it this year tho. So I stop trading ATCs and mostly do polymer clay swaps. I am collecting hearts ranging from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches tall and 3D'ish. So I have started a series of swaps. The first one was "wonderfully weird" hearts where you make 1 partner 1 heart. I am hoping my partner likes his. I was really impressed at how the eyes on this heart turned out. It was just an experiment and I was just playing around with some ideas.