End of summer sale....

Here I am back at the store - after a quiet almost month off involving much reading, no clay, lots of sketching and thinking and quite a bit of manual labour in the backyard.

It feels like the right time to clear out the store while I get new listings ready to put in it.  I've having a 30% off sale on everything in the store up till next Monday.  If you buy more that 50$ worth of goods, I'll refund you the shipping too....refunded to you via PayPal after the purchase.  I will be adding a few more things this week as well.  No pods until next week....sorry!

Here are couple of previews for new work coming next week:

I have some sets of pods for next week - this is one of them!

Some tranparentish sets of Pardo headpins - similar in construction to my butterfly beads but much smaller....

I've started to see some posts on Flickr showing people trying my hollow technique - do you know how exciting this is?  Thank you to anyone who does me the honour of trying it out.....

Oh, and the coupon for the store to get the 30% discount is:

 EOSSALE2013

In my hands!

This has been an exciting vacation week - we regraded around the house ourselves ( those teenagers were very helpful with the wheelbarrow and shovel and my son discovered a passion for laying interlock brick in fancy patterns and using a tamping machine....):  we even redid our tiny little patio in the backyard. In the midst of many trips to the rental store and the RenoDépôt for tampers, brick saws, interlock, crushed stone, topsoil, garden soil and grass seed, I saw what I've been waiting for peeking out of our mailbox........this!!!!

Polymer Clay Global Perspectives by Cynthia Tinapple

Thank you, Cynthia!  It's wonderful....everything I hoped for and more!  In case I haven't been tooting my own horn enough these last months ( difficult to do when you have slid away from blogging...), I have a whole chapter to myself in this book under the mixed media heading, with my good friend Christine Damm (Stories they tell) beside me.  I am demonstrating my hollow bead technique - a teaser demo!  The full and complete tutorial will be out in the 3rd week of August showing much more that you can do with this technique.

My other good friend Genevieve Williamson of Jibby and Juna is also in the book.  This is all so exciting!  Now that the construction work is done, we can sit down and really look at and read the book from cover to cover.

Note the interlock under Rachel's feet - and the old weathered patio stone on the border (had to use it up, it had a 40 year old finish on it!).  Hey Mum, this is a really great polymer book....

Hey wait....there's a lot of stuff about you in here....5 or 6 pages at least....hey, those are your hands!  (Didn't tell my family much about it either....)

This is great, Mum - good for you!

Now all I can say is thank you again to our fearless leader, Cynthia Tinapple.  And after this post on Polymer Clay Daily, I'm just sorry I didn't think to put polymer as extra decoration in between  my interlock bricks!  Instead, I was inexplicably drawn to an expensive product which we tamped in called 'polymeric sand',  Hmm....wonder why?

New work and more work listed

I'm happy to start working through all that I have to list.  I'm starting with pod sets because I know people have waited patiently...you are all wonderful!

 Some simple graphic crackle...

Ancient looking and colorful...

A landscape set...

Mokume gane set...

Curved and tiled teeth...

I have been working on more bracelets and finding a woody finish that I quite love while I work out the form.  I can see lots of possibilities for these down the line with different surfaces...

The listings for the pods will be up shortly!  Still thinking about the bracelets.

Two posts, consecutive days...what is the world coming too?