January 2019 – Page 2

Scrappy polymer clay cane egg

Here is the down side, that is, I do polymer clay like I quilt and like I mosaic. Always using the leftovers, always making do with what I have at hand, never going out on a limb and saying “my art is worth the price to humanity of a heavy CO2 footprint”. I am just not able to do that, not in work, not in artwork, not in life or clothes or furniture or gardening or automobiles. Always, make do…. and it becomes a learning experience each time. Here is an egg as “case in point” made of all left over canes and clay. I am sure it has good and bad qualities.

Did you know I will sell any of these eggs for a low low price, any that I have left over. Just go to my website memory-beads(dot)com and send an email.

More polymer clay eggs

Easter is still more than 4 months away but I am already having fun this year, just getting started with some very conventional designs and easy stuff. I took a leap and purchased 10 small ostrich eggs which should arrive soon. It has been about 2 decades, maybe more, since I ordered that first dozen. I have one left, and repurposed another which had been drawn on by sharpie…but faded over time. This egg is primarily a single cane, pretty bright orange and some striped cane in places.

Wow, these are awesome outdoor mosaic eggs

I am not sure if these are constructed by the same designer, but one image had the name Lolly Knit. Hats off to whomever designed and fabricated these…. i would love to have a base to mosaic (i likely would have used scrap and lots of color however).

Ostrich egg: the first one I have made with polymer clay canes

I have made eggs with large paper mache base (both Hobby Lobby and Michaels and other craft stores carry the blank brown paper molded eggs, large and small). The large ones gave me a little bit of a problem because the clay shrank more than the base and they tended to crack. I was a little worried that the polymer clay would shrink around this ostrich egg and show cracks as well.

Before I cured this egg i did use my blade to put a hairline cut down some portions of the pattern hoping to encourage the clay to split there so that I could repair it as part of the design. In fact however, the polymer clay did not shrink over this base…. I do not know why there was a difference in the brown paper egg and the ostrich egg, but that was my experience (again, a first try). You can have a custom ostrich egg, flower petal, polymer clay cane ostrich egg, to purchase HERE.

ostrich egg and polymer clay

ostrich eggs covered with polymer clay cane

Left over polymer clay cane easter egg

I just have a hard time not using up ever last bit of cane. So here is a tiny chicken egg covered thusly. It is admittedly not fantastic, but great for those easter egg hunts with grandkids outdoors.

Squirtguns: squirting my friend Marcos

Corin@ 12 2018

Two girlfriends

Two happy faces – that is about the best thing in life.
Corin @ 2016

First polymer clay egg for 2019

Christmas ornaments are not my fav to make, eggs are. As soon as christmas is over, it is on to decorating eggs and here is the first for 2019. Just a warm up, polymer clay spirals from left over memory bead clay that has flower petals ground up, and in this case some of the liquid amber balls, pine cones and flowers from mom and dad’s two houses (both i lived in), and flowers from mom’s funeral in 2018.