Niki
Crazy Train: Two Belles & a Bead
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for the next two days is Two Belles & a Bead. She has a lot of items to choose from, but I really like her earrings! These look like pieces of hard candy, yummy! How about some Mint Chocolate Chip crystal earrings: And if you’re not a dangly earring wearer, [...]
Hippy Chick Designs
I joined a couple of guilds at Artfire recently, and so each week I’ll be promoting some of the guild members. This week, here are some items from a member of Shops with Less than (10) Sales: Check out her shop! She lives in Beaverton, Oregon.
Artfire Crazy Train Rider – Fabric Sew Simple
Today’s Artfire Crazy Train Rider is Fabric Sew Simple, or “Designs By Barb” which is her Artfire moniker. If you sew, quilt, or just collect fabric, this gal has loads of different fabrics for you to choose from, and a handful of patterns, too. Here’s a nice colorful fabric by Robert Kaufman: And here is [...]
My Artfire Studio’s Item of the Day special
While I have my 15% off sale going on until December 10, I also am doing a daily “Item of the day” special, which is free shipping on that particular item for the day, for shipping in the USA. International shipping will be 50% off for that item. I will change the special every day, [...]
Artfire Crazy Train Rider – Clara Clips
I’ve been quite bad about keeping up on these promotions of other studios, so I am going to work on that from here on. Today’s Artfire Crazy Train Rider is Clara Clips. She has such CUTE items in her shop! If you have little girls and love to put barrettes in their hair, you might [...]
Results of testing out Pardo Clay
So I baked the Santa, Snowmen and Angel beads I made over the past week, yesterday. Here they are all together: I forgot to put halos on the angels, and I’m debating whether to add them since their flesh color already seems to have darkened just from the 30 minutes they spent in the oven [...]
Book Review: The Polymer Clay Cookbook
I purchased this from Amazon about a week and a half ago, as one of the things I am interested in trying out with polymer clay is making mini foods. Not dollhouse style mini foods, but precisely what this book is demonstrating – mini food charms. I am anxious to try my hand at this [...]
Claying again
I tend to flit back and forth between projects. So I started painting the picture of my daughter, got as far as getting a little of the undertones of her skin in place, and then set it aside in favor of working with my polymer clays again. Hobby Lobby is opening stores in town, and [...]
Final sketch – I think I got it!
I worked on my initial sketch of my daughter tonight, and after two tries and then some clean up to lighten the pencil marks for painting, here it is: I can hardly wait to start painting it, though I may not get to that until tomorrow night after a family outing, due to the late [...]
My current project – art not jewelry
Based on one of my previous posts where I said I was going to start back into drawing and watercolors.. well, here is my first project: On an artists’ forum I recently joined, it was suggested in a class that was done back in 2006, to try overlaying a the reference photograph and the sketch [...]
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