Books for Sale! Destash time
Book list

Fabric Mosaics Beesley and Boerens was 21 asking 14
The Art of Metal Clay Sherri Haab (includes DVD) was 25 asking 16
The Art of Resin Jewelry Sherri Haab was 25 asking 16
Making Miniature Villages in Polymer Clay Gail Ritchey was 23 asking 14
Polymer Clay Techniques Book Sue Heaser was 22 asking 10
Polymer Clay Creating Functional and Decorative Art Jaqueline Gikow was 21 asking 9
The Art of Polymer Clay Donna Kato was 25 asking 15
Making Polymer Clay Jewelry Sea Heaser was 17 asking 8
Five Artists Five Directions in Polymer Clay Jamey D Allen was 16 asking 7

Email Me if you are interested.

stay tuned for more destash stuff

yep, you read that right. DaDragon is in the process of pulling polymer books that she is going to put up for sale. stayed tuned as it will happen today!

I have been pretty darn busy lately. did my first two day show and it wiped me out. But, I did darn good so I m happy. Third Thursdays at Mill Creek have started back up, along with First Fridays so I am keeping hopping adding new work to my stock.

I totally loved my water color painting class and am sad it is over. I need to carve out some time to paint more.

I am going to Physical Therapy three times a week for my plantar fasciitis in hopes that surgery down the road won’t need to happen. So far I am no longer in agony when I walk but the pain is till there. Have had the max amount of cortisone shots I can have and my doc wants me off the Celebrex within a month. I guess I will see what happens when I am done with the meds eh?

until then I keep on being creative….which is a good darn thing I am thinking! Happy claying

I am all out of green pearl, but still have a few of the discontinued colors left. Have a few zinc yellows and cobalt blue. On another note, the shopping cart is a bit broken. It isn’t adding shipping so I will need to send a paypal invoice to you once you have placed your order. I am hoping to have this fixed on Monday. Thanks and have a clayful day!

Yep, y’all heard that right. The Dragon has an online store.  See? look up there on the top..next to dadragons other pages. the one that says Store. Yep, that would be the place. and the most awesome thing about this store (in my mind<g>) is that it is full of the OLD FORMULA PREMO!!! yep, you read that right. the stuff that ISN’T radically mushy. It isn’t an unlimited stock, so if you have been looking for it, here it is. I also have some of the discontinued colors.

Beside working hard to get this store working, I have been trying to get my show stock up. Starting at the end of the month my show season is in full tilt. I am trying to get other items beside jewelry, like switch plate covers, vases, wall art. It is going slow. Why? because my days are interrupted with going to physical therapy.

I am trying everything possible to fix my plantar faciitis without any sort of surgery. So, I stump off to PT three times a day. Then there is Cocoa, our rescue pup, who needs PT herself, three times a day. Of course Munchie gets jealous so I need to spend time with her. Uh yeah…I get distracted easily <g> I need to be the big bad boss and make me make myself put the nose to the grindstone.

enough babbling for the day. May the rest of your week be full of creative fun!

Of course I am jumping on the band wagon. This fun picture if you scan it with your smart phone should take you to my website. I am still figuring out how and where I am going to use it. But hey…technology is fun, right?

I have three designs and can’t decide which one. So, leave a comment and which ever one gets the most votes will be the one.

So, besides writing a blog post yesterday, I also had some fun.

I am making a friend an Ewok hat. I have it all done except the ears, stitching and buttons. That should be done today so she can get it! I will post pictures of the finished hat when it is ready.

I also went and picked up MOST of my supplies on the list for my water color class which starts in little over a month.

Having it sitting in the studio makes me all excited. Darn it, I have to wait a month….maybe I will play a bit with it so I don’t seem like a total idiot when class starts.

Then last evening UPS came buy with my new “toy”. I had everything but the power supply to start copper plating and I finally saved enough money to get one. Thanks to Tink Martin , who has a wonderful tutorial and gave me the link to this machine, I am ready to start covering some orphan beads to make pretties.

Yes, I promise pictures when I have something to show. I probably can’t start playing today because I have an Ewok to finish, a dental appointment, and am playing “driving Miss Karen” to the doc today.

May your day be filled with fun, family, friends, and Laughter!

create on!

two posts in one month. ok who am I and what did I do with DaDragon?

Not much is happening around here. I am working in the studio daily making earrings. Pretty much making Angry Bird Earrings and Angry Bird Hannukiot for my friends who want them. However, lurking in the back of my mind are some ideas I want to put to clay. A little shadowy right now but if I give the dragonbrain a bit of time, they will clarify and be created in clay.

I also did something I have wanted to do for a while. I am going back to “school”. The community college here in town offers courses for folks who are older and want to try different classes without having to commit to a full semester. I bit the bullet and signed up for a beginning watercolor class. I have always wanted “formal” art training and figured this would be a perfect place to start. There were actually three classes I wanted to take but they all met on the same day and that would of been 6 hours in a row. nope….back refused that idea. I am excited about this and look forward to class beginning March 4th. Yes, I will share pictures of what I create….IF they are share worthy

Besides working in the studio with clay, I am getting back into my knitting with a beautiful cable sweater (that is 1/4 finished) for my wife. I keep getting side tracked with fast projects (doggy sweaters and Ewok hats) but I promised Karen she would have her sweater by this summer…..when it is 100F degrees. Ok…so I would like to have it finished before then because I have other knitting projects that are clamoring to be started.

I swear there are not enough hours in the day for all I want to do. Best get off the computer and started if I want to even come close to finishing my today’s to do list.

Happy Creating!!
DaDragon

As I look back to last year, I am actually impressed with how much work I did and how I grew in my art. For this year I wish myself the same or more. For you who actually do read my poorly kept up blog, I wish you health, happiness, peace, love, laughter, and time to create to your hearts content.

On a lighter note, I have decided it is time to cross a few things off my “bucket list”. The first will be crossed off today…around 11 am. I am crazy, I am an idiot, but I AM going to do a Polar Bear plunge today. I have always wanted to do one and a friend did it last year, will be going again this year, so we are going to do it together. And yes, Karen will be taking pictures and video taping so every one can see me being abso frakkin lutely crazy.

Can life be any better then this?