From the book of Ruth: 3 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[a] for you, where you will be well provided for. 2 Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he…
As I mentioned earlier this week, it’s been more than 4 years since I’ve done a craft show. The Reiman Gardens show allowed applicants to pick an indoor or an outdoor booth. I chose indoor! I won’t have to worry…
At the Bead & Button show, I debuted some new products for clayers. I am currently offering 8 texture plates hand made from my original low relief sculptures. There are several leaf or flower designs as well as some art…
For the first time in several years, I’m going to do a retail art fair again. If you are in town, come see me on Sunday July 13 at Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State Campus. Hope to see you…
I made 18 pens yesterday! One of my galleries let me know they’d sold all their inventory and needed more. So I figured I’d make plenty to send to several galleries before the holiday season. These were lots of fun…
I’m blogging at Sculpey.com this month, but remembered to repost this here as well today… At the Bead and Button Show, or in any class I teach, I like to tell stories while I’m demonstrating. I talk about my experiences,…
I love pearls. I use many colors of dyed pearls in my leaf series of silver earrings and pendants. But I haven’t used pearls often with polymer. I have been doing a fun design with pearls set on a post…
A while back, I bought a small uv light for exposing the photopolymer plates that I use with text and silver. But I also bought some uv hardening resin which I kinda forgot I had for a while. But looking…
I took some time to play today to make a few new textures with hearts as the theme. This past weekend, I hosted a class in my home studio on the subject of textures and making your own texture plates…
I usually meet my UPS delivery guys at the door so they know the dog is all bark and would never hurt anyone. Today, I met the guy half way up the driveway cause I was so excited about what…
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