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March 17, 2010

I’m working on a resource list for my Guest Artist visit to the Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild this weekend.  I’m giving two demos:  Scribble Beads and  Combining Metal & Polymer Clay.  After compiling a list of online sources for various tools, supplies and reference books, I was trying to think if there was any [...]

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Bead & Button Show – Microfold Texture Class

June 2, 2009

My buddy and annual roommate, Diane Villano arrived this afternoon and I had my first class today.  I’m having a blast already.  The energy and enthusiasm here at the Bead & Button Show is fantastic.  I love talking to other students about what classes they’ve taken so far.  Despite the economy there seem to be plently of [...]

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Reawakening the creative voice

May 14, 2009

This long dark winter has been a creative desert for me.  It has been so long since I have done anything artsy that my creative voice has been completely silenced.  Even when I am too busy with life to get into the studio, my mind is usually awash in ideas and images.  Often I think [...]

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On a positive note

January 12, 2009

I am not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, but as I was looking back at last year’s blog posts, I noticed that I really whine a lot about creative inertia, blocks etc.   So I am not going to call this a resolution, but  going forward I will to try to cut back on [...]

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Poker chips and possibilities

October 23, 2008

I did manage to spend some time playing around in my studio yesterday.  Because it had been such a long time since I had last spent any real time in the studio, I decided to do something fun and without pressure.  So I made polymer clay poker chips. I’m going to the Clay Carnival in [...]

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The importance of paper

September 21, 2008

I had another one of those flashes of inspiration this morning as I was lying in bed reveling in the fact that we didn’t have to get up early and rush around getting ready for school etc.  The last time this happened to me was when I started working on my Captured Strata series.  The [...]

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