Some of the happenings out in the clay world:
- PCAGOE’s Monthly Challenge – prizes for voters and the person who wins the most votes, too!
- Polymer Clay Central’s monthly challenge is all about Celebrating Your Holiday! Enter a photo, win
Polymer Clay Snowmen in Canes
In the real world, I teach regular polymer clay classes to both kids and grownups. My last adult class, a caning intensive, ended with the whole class doing a group cane to finish it off. I was very impressed with … Read More ...
Decorate Your Christmas… in Clay
My public service – in the sense that I’m always looking so I’m going to share – advertisement: this is based on a quick search for polymer clay Christmas decorations.… Read More ...
A Simple Clay Nativity
As the artist says, any student could make this simple nativity scene from Fimo clay. For me, the simplicity is part of the appeal. If your holiday decorating includes a nativity, consider creating one!… Read More ...
Tutorial: Polymer Clay Reindeer are Awesome!
Adorable little reindeer from Sandy! These remind me of the teeny wine bottle cork reindeer I made as a little kid. I’m thinking I’ll have more reindeer soon although I’m pretty sure a few of my originals still get hung … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Moustaches
If you’re not familiar with Movember it’s a moustache growing fundraiser. Many of my women friends pay their men not to grow them, in fact! And more than a few friends have made moustache necklaces to show solidarity with their … Read More ...
Black Friday Sales
I took advantage of a nifty tool to post a treasury of PCAGOE (polymer clay artists guild of etsy) items for this Black Friday:
‘Black Friday etsy in polymer clay’ by HiGirls
PCAGOE team offers some fabulous gift ideas!
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A Simple Truth
Erin Prais-Hintz has been using polymer clay to create her line of simple truth pendants. This one, I felt, was appropriate for Thanksgiving. Where I am, Thanksgiving was six weeks ago but the sentiment is appropriate any day.… Read More ...
Robot Turkey
I stumbled across this adorable little robo turkey. The geeky-cute spin on your polymer clay turkey decoration!… Read More ...
Rounding Up Sunday
- Don’t forget! Take the survey on Polymer Clay Daily (if it’s still up by the time this posts) Speak up about how you think polymer clay should go with the manufacturers
- The Etsy Russian Team has a giveaway for a
Thanksgiving Done Tiny
1. Thanksgiving Dinner, 2. Miniature Thanksgiving Treats
Anticipating yummy supper with family and friends this week? These minis look so realistic you could almost think Thanksgiving was here already!… Read More ...
Dragons from Lightleaf Studio
Lightleaf Studio introduces us to her dragons and shares a little of the woe we all (or most of us? me for sure) go through sometimes: she toasted the original. … Read More ...
The Polymer Clay Survey
There’s a survey on PolymerClayDaily that any user of polymer clay – novice or professional – should take:
polymerclaydaily.com/2011/11/14/an-accurate-polymer-picture/
Take it and encourage your clay using friends to do so.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Turkey Place Card Holder
Here’s another Sculpey tutorial – this one is a less cartoony turkey sculpture to use for a place card holder at your Thanksgiving meal. The tutorial says to use a ripple blade or scalloped scissors. Using shaped edge scissors … Read More ...
Mosaic Monday: Decorating Your Thanksgiving Table
1. napkin-rings, 2. Thanksgiving OOAK pumpkin picture photo holder
I realize this is a bit of a niche topic – Thanksgiving table decorations made from polymer clay – but the above are a couple of examples! You could make … Read More ...