Anyway. August’s Polymer Clay Smoosher’s challenge theme was “medieval”, and here are the two pieces I came up with for it.

This one is a pewter colored medieval cross.  Hand cut and shaped, with a red decorative marble for the centerpiece and Trinity knots carved in each section of the cross’ arms.

The second entry is a gold or brass colored version of a medieval cross.  Like the other, it also has Trinity knots carved into it and is hand cut and shaped.  I’m working on a third one that is copper colored.

They’re both available in my studio for $15 USD each.

Go check out the rest of the Smooshers’ entries in this Medieval themed challenge!

Not only does she run four shops, (at least that I know of, I’m sure there are probably more!), she has such a variety of items available at each!  At HaffinaCreations, she offers handmade jewelry, some of which incorporates her handmade polymer clay items, as well as beaded jewelry and her chainmaille!

At BeadsByHaffina, she sells her handmade polymer clay beads, buttons, pendants and other items that she doesn’t incorporate into her own jewelry:

At HaffinaAgain at Etsy, she has a few handmade jewelry items, a few of which also have her polymer clay items and chainmaille included.

And finally, at HaffinaAgain at Zibbet, she says the items listed there are those that took extra special effort to create, or those created for competitions, as well as a few precious metal and gemstone earrings.

Check out this chainmaille!

Isn’t it just amazing work?

So go pay her a visit at any of her shops, you’re bound to see something you like!

First, a rather irritated alien lady.  She has three eyes, and glows in the dark:

My second item, is a stylized Blue Moon pendant, which also glows in the dark:

They’re both made with glow in the dark polymer clay.  The alien lady’s eye stalks are clay covered head pins, anchored into the clay.  For the Blue Moon pendant, I shaped it by hand and added the crater shapes with some tools, then sanded & buffed it after baking.  Last I added some blue acrylic paint for a patina and re-buffed it after the paint was dry to bring the shine out again.

Sometime today, our guild leader will put up a post with the rest of the submissions by our guild members for the Space theme.  Go check them out!

Catswire hails from Germany, where she lives with her husband and four kitties.  She is an avid crocheter of wire.  Yep, wire rather than threads or yarn.  It makes for some really interesting pieces!  And recently, she’s started working with polymer  clay and is merging the two mediums together for some great items.  Go take a look!

Just look at this cute little fruit basket!  Polymer clay fruit, and crocheted wire basket!

And then this cute little “Sleepy Star”:

And here is a piece that is a wire crochet sculpture – a kitty!

Valerie creates jewelry, pendants, key rings, and bracelet cuffs all with polymer clay.  She also hand paints some pendants with inks which remind me of porcelain beads.  Here is just a sample of the lovely items she has available at her studio:

If you hurry and purchase something by the 24th, you can get 15% off using coupon code “THISWEEK” at check out.

Michelle creates whimsical sculptures, beads, ornaments and other items with polymer clay, and she also hand sews cloth dolls, cat toys, plush dolls inspired by World of Warcraft, and many other things.  And she knits, too! Quite the busy gal!

Here is just a small number of the various wares she has available in her studio:

She is having a Christmas in July sale, too!  Coupon code XMASINJULY in select studio categories, gets you 10% off!

Go and have a look around her store!

Scott runs this studio and does beautiful woodworking, creating pens, wine bottle stoppers, and more.  He also does a little work in stained glass, chainmaille, and makes beaded wine glass charms.  Go visit his studio, you may see something you like!

So the story behind Jennifer’s studio is all proceeds from her sales are going toward a savings fund for at least one round of IVF (in-vitro fertilization), which due to some unfortunate pre-existing conditions, insurance will not cover any of, where she lives.  So, she must save up for the expensive treatment on her own.  Please go give her studio a visit!

It is only a few dollars, but really I don’t care, I am happy nevertheless!!

This is what I sold:

I can still hardly believe it!

It’s already on its way to California to its new owner, I hope she likes it!

It put me in such a great mood I decided to add a couple more listings for some earrings I made a couple weekends ago.  I still have like six more to list (one of which still needs pictures), but this is a start, right?

First, a pretty antiqued brass filigree and white rice shaped freshwater pearl earrings:

Then my next listing is called “Flower Garden” earrings, it’s lucite flowers in reds & oranges, Czech pressed glass flower beads in red, AB crystal and fuschia lemon colors, all flowers have a Swarovski pearl center, hanging on textured antiqued brass chain and ballpins or headpins:

I’ll try to add more of the earrings I made as time permits over the next week or so.  The day job has been brutal lately, even after we got everything caught up.  But I think this sale I had today will keep me in the pink for a few days anyway!