At the beginning of February I drew this wren - it was my first attempt at designing a maker's mark. I'd like it as a sort of signature on handmade jewellery.
Handmade jewellery you cry?
Well you probably don't as I'm sure any of my past readers have long since gone... but anyway... I know its a long time since I blogged anything let alone anything vaguely artistic or crafty and I don't think I ever showed any jewellery... even though in the last few years I have strung together the odd necklace, like this one:
In the much dimmer past I used to do quite a lot of beadwork... from very simple strings to weaving with beads:
(I can't find anything that I wove... it was rather a long time ago)
But something I have never done is work in polymer clay.... and that's what I was just starting to want do at the beginning of February.
These are my first ever polymer clay beads:
I made them on the first day of the year of the tiger so I'm calling them tiger beads.
They are a very minor variation on a bead from Ancient Modern Polymer Clay and Wire Jewelry by Ronna Sarvas Weltman - a book that I've found very encouraging.
I purposely added in a very thin layer of the orange clay into the spiral cane (jelly roll) and I didn't know not to use the very distorted end bits - which was lucky as that bead is my favourite and most tigerish of them all!
These beads were made using Cernit (from EJR Beads), over balled up aluminium foil.
Since then I've mostly been reading and learning more....
Handmade jewellery you cry?
Well you probably don't as I'm sure any of my past readers have long since gone... but anyway... I know its a long time since I blogged anything let alone anything vaguely artistic or crafty and I don't think I ever showed any jewellery... even though in the last few years I have strung together the odd necklace, like this one:
In the much dimmer past I used to do quite a lot of beadwork... from very simple strings to weaving with beads:
(I can't find anything that I wove... it was rather a long time ago)
But something I have never done is work in polymer clay.... and that's what I was just starting to want do at the beginning of February.
These are my first ever polymer clay beads:
I made them on the first day of the year of the tiger so I'm calling them tiger beads.
They are a very minor variation on a bead from Ancient Modern Polymer Clay and Wire Jewelry by Ronna Sarvas Weltman - a book that I've found very encouraging.
I purposely added in a very thin layer of the orange clay into the spiral cane (jelly roll) and I didn't know not to use the very distorted end bits - which was lucky as that bead is my favourite and most tigerish of them all!
These beads were made using Cernit (from EJR Beads), over balled up aluminium foil.
Since then I've mostly been reading and learning more....
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