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Unusual Bead Production Spurt

September 1, 2012

I had a very rare (for me) spurt of bead production, getting ready for the Bead Bazaar, September 8-9.  I haven’t made enough of anything in the last few years to submit beads or pendants for the guild’s booth, and production doesn’t come easily to me.  This year I had a sizable store of ripple blade veneers [...]

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Dan Cormier’s Relief Beyond Belief Ebook

August 22, 2012

In November 2011, Dan Cormier and Tracy Holmes released their ebook Relief Beyond Belief.  I’ve had time to read it several times, and to use the techniques.  I find myself referring back to it often.   Several parts of the dieforming technique have become regular bits of my bead/pendant making process. While finishing up beads [...]

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Bead or Pendant

August 20, 2012

This weekend, while I was finishing up a few items for the upcoming Bead Bazaar, September 8-9, I started thinking about the difference between a bead and a pendant.  What makes a bead a “bead” and a pendant a “pendant’?  Most of the items I’ve submitted for sale at the Bead Bazaar are one sided, [...]

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Clay ConneCTion 2012 Polymer Clay Retreat

August 6, 2012

The Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild’s biennial retreat, Clay ConneCTion 2012 has come and gone.  It was a wonderful 4 days of polymer clay madness, fun, 71 friends new and old, sharing, creating and so much more. Highlights (photos mostly courtesy of Diane Villano & Wendy Oestreicher as I hardly took any pictures): Twinkle the Clown and [...]

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