Dragonsglass

after touching clay again at my guild meeting, I did get a chance to clay ALL DAY on Monday. I had fun making my “tropical nights” blend and decided to make a variation of the blend with varied sized stripes. Here is the blend.

Then I decided I wanted to try to make a Maniguette style bracelet using my favorite blend. She was nice enough to translate the pictorial tutorial into English for this language challenged clayer. Of course I don’t have the PCE Extruder and disks so I had to back up and punt. What I ended up using is a piece of bamboo cut to 1/3 as the “trough” to shape the top. I think I will find or make a new trough that isn’t as deep as the bamboo one. I even amazed myself with sanding the pieces all the way through all of my grits. I haven’t sealed it with any finish, it is just buffed to the 9’s. I guess I should shut up and just show you the bracelet eh? Well here it is.

I think I will make a few more of these in different colored blends. I can also see a few different things I would like to try besides the back filling or for that matter WITH the back filling to adapt it a bit more. Maniguette has beautiful things on her blog, drop by and see all her pretties!

Is on!. Tomorrow the flooring starts going in. this means today the studio gets totally packed up and moved into either the kitchen, back patio or garage. Then one last room of carpeting to rip out. I also have to move the sectional sofa out and get the last remnant of carpeting from under it. Back? what back? I don’t need no steenkin back!

On a happier note, we had our Relay for Life this weekend (24 hour walk to raise funds for the American Cancer Society) Our Relay, here in Bakersfield, is the second largest in the whole US, the largest in California, and a training site for other relay committees. As of last count we raised over 1.7 million, with money still coming in. The final tally will be at the end of August. I am so very proud of our community and the big companies that match and sponser our event.

I had a table full of creations, many by myself and others donated by my friend Moe, from Hawaii. She sent a box of necklaces and earrings and other things for me to sell to help raise money. I went with a large box of items and came home with a very tiny box. I raised an additional $160 selling these small items.

I promise, dadragon will be back creating within the next couple of weeks. Until then, I will fold wax paper cranes. Happy claying to you all.

so much of one, I am not even going to post pictures. I knew there was a reason to be afraid to open the kiln door. Instead of a tile of nice pretty bling, some from free form dichroic, some from the glass clay, I have nice free form dichroic bling and clay blobs that don’t look like awareness ribbons at all. Looks like I will be rethinking how I use the powdered glass and binder. I have not given up at all, just backing up a few steps and taking a different direction then attempting to cane from it.

on a different note, while looking for my pickle solution, I found a ton of PMS and cork clay I totally forgot I had. Almost like winning the lottery So, I may be doing a combination of glass and PMC soon. decisions decisions.

Have a happy creative day!

I have just listed 4 awareness ribbon dichroic pendants in my Etsy Store. These are to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Free shipping on them

and a Shabbat Shalom to my Jewish friends.

Ahhh today the sun is shining and the clay is calling. Yesterday I made 6 polymer clay origami cranes following the you tube tutorials Judy Dunn- The Crane Project posted on her web site. With her permission and blessing, I will be adding Shalom on one wing (Peace in Hebrew) and Peace on the other wing and sell them here in town to help raise funds for her project. Though my first cranes aren’t the best in the world, I am pleased with them so far. I need to make the stencils to screen paint them and drill the holes to make them hanging ones and then They will be good to go. Today I will be back in the studio to make more. Maybe this time with cane pieces on them instead of just plain clay. Anyway, here are the ones I have made so far.

To see them as individual cranes please head over to my flickr site and check them out there.

I hope each and every one of you has a peaceful and creative weekend!