Since April, the Northwest Polymer Clay Guild is meeting on Zoom twice a week. I had a space downstairs set up while I’m getting my clay studio ready. Here’s a few dining table creations…

Scraping, sanding, spackling, sanding, priming, sanding, painting, cleaning… finally finished! Hung new curtains, moved in a few things but like all new studio configuration, it’s subject to change to what works best.

Trying out Cernit translucents as candleholders.

These tiny birds are beads for a swap with fellow clayers- the theme of the swap is simply ‘bead pairs’… sometimes being so open-ended can be more challenging to pick something to make.

I created these two spring brooch pins for some friends of mine- I was inspired by some ‘vintage’ Japanese and Scandinavian textile prints and adapted the designs for polymer clay.

I made a small cane of an owl and one of wood- and made a brooch for autumn.I also finally pulled out a peacock cane I started a while back, it’s about seven inches tall. I packed it with a […]

A few simple bullseye canes in colors inspired by the Mexican coast. I sliced and stretched each disc until they had the organic feel I wanted. A ‘whimsical bead’ bracelet strung on memory wire. My challenge was to create no two beads exactly […]

The Elder Futhark alphabet was used by Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Norse peoples over three thousand years ago. The symbol-letters were carved onto weapons to give them strength, onto buildings and boats for protection, onto gravestones to ease the departed on their way […]