A Few Things

I played and I baked. I’ve been wanting to create some scarf holders and after perusing the net and seeing lots of what I think are acrylic holders I decided to create something similar in clay.

White clay, textured and smudged with some silver paint. Now you couldn’t wear this with a big, thick, chunky hand knitted scarf because the openings are just not large enough to accommodate anything larger than a silk or chiffon scarf, perhaps you’re lucky enough to own a hermes scarf which would be perfect.

Some earrings.

Some scrap clay with some silver swirly charms added.

It’s a start.

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I Missed You Studio

Today I made stuff. For the first time in weeks I sat down at my desk and played with clay.  It’s been such a long time…….weeks in fact, since I’ve cranked the handle on my pasta machine.

Speaking of pasta machines, I acquired a pre-loved machine (that was actually used for its intended purpose) so now I have one strictly for white clay. It doesn’t matter how thoroughly I think I’ve cleaned the machine before I use white clay it still picks up the odd little fleck of coloured clay and it’s so annoying.

So I played with white clay.

And some coloured.

And the new (slightly used) pasta machine.

Oh happy days!

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It’s Time For The Kitchen Reveal

Before and after photos. After many long weeks (since before Christmas) it’s finally finished and I’m extremely happy with how it’s turned out. So many cupboards and drawers and lots more bench space. The kitchen/dining room looks huge now and so much lighter. The last thing I have to do is hang some new curtains.

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After

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And here are a couple of little extravagances I bought to add a bit of colour to the largely beige kitchen.

I’m sorry the photos aren’t the best, hopefully you get a sense of the huge transformation, from early seventies kitchen to a sleek modern 21st century one.

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Finally

I finally cleared most of the kitchen things out of my studio today and dusted, sorted things and generally tidied up although it’s still not exactly how I would like it, but over the next few days I should be on top of it.

While I was tidying up I came across this necklace that I had started and never got around to finishing. I followed a polymer clay tutorial by Christy Uliczny of river valley designs on etsy and decided to make a this bib necklace using the two crescent shaped pieces.

It is a fun tutorial and luckily I had all the materials on hand the day I made the shapes.

Photos aren’t very good despite the fact that it’s about 38 degree Celsius with the  sun blazing down, it had shifted  too far past the window.

Not sure if I like it yet and may play around with it, possibly making two necklaces out of the shapes.

But it was lovely to be able to sit down at my desk and create something.

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