Yep, you read that right! I grouped some of my PNW and SW Indian style canes and put some sets up on Etsy to tickle your creative imagination. I have also listed some of that dragonfly cane I just reduced. You can find them all by clicking right here!! Thanks for looking!
A couple days ago I finally finished making a PNW style dragonfly cane. It was a measly 5.75 pounds and measured 6″x6″x4″. I decided to put a teaser on Polymer Clay Central’s ….Delphi message boardsof this cane and showed a picture of it on a postal scale with a white side showing. I then told everyone the weight and said the person who could come closest to the time it took for me to reduce the cane would get a 2″ section of the cane. Man…what a response! 33 people took guesses.
So, this morning I decided it was time to reduce this baby! I set up the camcorder and then the timer on the oven so I could see how long it took to reduce the whole thing. I usually start reduction then when a cane is long enough I cut it in half and save half to reduce later. this morning I reduced the whole thing. Here is what it looked like before reduction.
SO I sat on the kitchen floor, man that tile is hard! and started reducing it. Used a couple different techniques, the one I normally use and then the way Sarah Shriver told me she does her large ones….by walking on it. wow…that works amazingly!! So, after building up a nice sweat the cane was all done. I have 60 inches of 1/2″ cane, 30″ of 3/4″ cane and 18″ of 1 1/4″ cane. I also had (note the tense) 1 1/2 pounds (24 oz) of “waste” but reclaimed 18 oz of white back so ended with a total of 6 ounces of “waste” (which if I know my friend Moe…will be turned into something beautiful! )
Here are the post reduction shots. One with the large slice after I took it down to 4″x4″ since I didn’t have a blade long enough to take a slice off the 6″x6″ cane.
and here are the sizes that will be on EBay and Etsy.
I suppose I should say how long it tool me to reduce this but I am afraid folks won’t believe me. It took all of 24 minutes to reduce it to these sizes. That makes Connie of Connie’s Clay Creations is the winner of the cane slice. Congratulations Connie. I will email you to find out which of the three sizes you want 
PS: I did actually video tape the reduction….will work on editing that later this coming week.
Today I finished up a new cane and reduced it plus another one I had waiting for reduction. I am really happy with how the PNW Hummingbird cane reduced. I decided to leave it at two sizes in case people wanted the larger one.
These three canes, plus others cane be found in The Dragonsglass Etsy Store. Thanks so much for dropping by and taking a look. I am hoping in the near future to be offering cane sets.
So here I sit tonight, with the final of Survivor on and thinking about this upcoming week. Clay is calling me, my glass is pulling me to the studio and my Bat Mitzvah is in 6 days. Anyone have a spare cave on a mountain top that I can go hide in?
This last week I have been really studying my Hebrew Torah portion and feel a lot more comfortable with it then I have in the last couple months. I guess studying does pay off. I came up with a system that has really stopped my frustration. Instead of sitting there and reading it, saying it out loud over and over again for hours, I clay for 50 minutes and then take a 10 minute break and read my Torah portion. It seems to of worked well. Now if I can figure out how to remember the uv and vey starting words then I will be a happy camper. There are like 6 works that still smack me brain dead.
Yes, I said I had been claying between speaking Hebrew. I made a couple new canes that I am very happy with. I figure if you have read this far you might even want to see the canes. So here you go.
This first one is a Hopi Thunderbird cane. I have probably 20 2″ sections ready to go, either in my Etsy store or for the Sandy Camp store in October.
This next one is a pre-columbian Aztec turtle. I so love the different colors I used in this one. A walk in a different palette for me.
Heck if I keep cranking out a couple native motif canes a week I might even brave the cost of E-Bay and put a group or two up there. I found a new pacific northwest design I want to make. I think it will turn out great. I also need to make another PNW hummingbird cane. the one I made last year is pretty much all gone. I have about 3/4″ left of it.Happy claying to everyone this coming week. May your Muse make all the pretties you want
So, today I mixed up some custom yellow color to finish up a cane I started last week. I had to fudge the color with premo, fimo, and kato and not the original yellows I used (cause I ran out dang it) I managed to make a perfect match. Don’t ask me how cause I sure don’t know, but I can not see where the old yellow and the new yellow touch, and they DO touch. I posted the cane on the PCC message board already but wanted to show it here too, in case there is someone out there who doesn’t go to PCC.
I have also added the cane to my etsy store. There is a link in the left hand bar if you wish to visit there I am thinking about making a grouping of my canes but haven’t decided if I want to group them by design, color, or what. Guess thats what my brain will be thinking on this week as I make a few more. Yes, I said more. I have a Hopi Thunderbird on the table in pieces. so stay tuned…..