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Since I still haven’t unpacked any of my supplies yet from the move, I thought I would share with you one of my favorite rubber stamp companies, Yankiwi. They have a fantastic collection of stamps and some fun embellishments that they call Gorgeous Wee Ones. I have made some polymer clay work and other fun stuff, which you can see in my Flickr Yankiwi page. I personally love their stamps because they are deeply etched and the patterns are fantastic to use on polymer clay. In addition, you can use their GWO as mini molds as you can see here from my Clay Carnival chips.

This week we are moving to my childhood home. We have been planning this move for quite a while now. I can’t believe it’s finally happening. My polymer clay supplies have been pretty much packed up, all ready for the big move. I haven’t touched any clay for about a month now, but I have many ideas brewing up in my head. I so thrilled though to finally have my very own art / craft room to play in. Here is a photo of the room before our move. I have only one wall painted, but will decorate the other walls to match this color scheme.

It was announced earlier in the month that the Clay Carnival will be 4 days and 3 nights, instead of the 3 days and two nights schedule that had been in previous years. I would so love, love, love to attend, but I am not sure if this will be possible. We are spending lots of money for this move, so I’m not sure I will have the budget. I do plan to join the local group out here, so perhaps I can meet up with some like-minded individuals one a month.

Not much else to say, except personal life has been fairly busy. In the meantime, here are a few pictures of some the work that have completed a couple months ago, but didn’t take the time to post here.

I’m not sure what to call them, but this was the results of my initial experimentation.  I really like them.  The only problem that I have is that all the rolls that I made have been way too small to make enough beads to made a full necklace. That is why I made that huge flower roll.  I don’t really want these to be focal beads either. The first few were made really loosely, and so I tightened them a bit more in a couple of them.

This was the second group of paper polymer clay beads that I made.  These ended up only being one layer around because I ran out of the slices.  I also made a big bead as well. I plan to take some more pictures with the light showing through, to give you full effect of the paper.

I only had enough for four beads. I am pleased with the direction that these are going. My initial concerns are that it is difficult to see the pretty designs on the rolls because they are so small (I did make the rolls a little bigger for the last red piece, so you can see the design) and it does really use up a lot of the rolls. I will definitely continue along this route because despite the shortcomings, I am always surprised at the outcome.