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Ok, I’ve been a bad girl and not blogging, but things have been kinda hectic for me at the moment.

So here’s a wrap up of the past week:

Day 14….worked briefly on some swaps that I had to get out and into the mail the next day.

Day 15 & day 16. Played around wit Maggie Maggio’s Color Scales Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4_gkZ226c

http://www.maggiemaggio.com/color/

Now whether or not you use polymer clay, it is certainly worth while picking up a few blocks of clay and playing around with color mixing. (Michaels’s Arts & Crafts has it on sale for .99 this week, btw)

Day 17: Made an orange cane to use for a matchbox swap.

Used this tute: http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/candy_citrus.html. Of course I can’t follow instructions to save my life, so I missed the step for wrapping the log in the medium orange sheet before wrapping in the darker sheet. Oh well.

Cane before reducing:

Day 18: Playing around withPosh Inkabilities inks. Haven’t made anything yet, but probably will make some beads tonight.

Day 19: Faux Stained glass…or something like that. Rubber stamped clay and painted with liquid clay mixed with powdered pigments. Baked then topped with UTEE.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94666736@N00/sets/72157603853927227/

Finally I have organized my flickr site to include the things from the first three days.

The Day One will be for a snowflake trade that I am part of - although it turned out a bit more random than I had planned.

I had started making a crocheted sculptural form, after looking at the crocheted reef project, ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/84445194@N00/sets/72157594407472295/ ) but when my daughter saw it, she asked if it was a beanie. So it became one. Disclaimer: it isn’t as mathematically precise as this coral, being designed on the wing.

The little face charms for Day three took quite a bit of experimenting to get right. I was given some leftover acrylic circles and wanted to see how the liquid sculpey interacted. In order to avoid air bubbles the painted face, in this case water color crayons on cotton poplin, must be stuck down with the LPC and baked once, then covered and baked again. I did a sand and second layer, baking again (third time) before using some water based gloss varnish. I will say the LPC skews the colors to the yellow spectrum.