Creative Connections

Creative Connections

All Dolled Up In 2012

ceramic face and beads

Its a brand new year, holding lots of promise of work to do and share; and I’m looking forward to finishing many of my projects that have been in the works for a while and to starting new ones as well.

I’ll be making new dolls, necklaces, and wall art with the ceramic and [...]

Summer Arts Classes at FRCC

polymer clay millefiore canes

I’ve put together the lineup of classes that I will be offering through Front Range Community College’s Continuing Education department.

Located at the Boulder County Campus in Longmont, Colorado, these personal enrichment classes are fun, fast and finance-friendly; you could pay a lot more and get a lot less elsewhere! The classrooms at FRCC [...]

Upcoming Classes

home decor with polymer clay

Want to learn more about polymer clay? In addition to the upcoming Cabin Fever Clay Festival event in February, I’m also teaching four one-day classes at Front Range Community College, through the Continuing Education Department.

For full class listings and online registration links, click here.

This series of four classes can be taken together [...]

The Sun And The Moon

Helen Hughes-polymer clay sun moon mask

It’s still feeling very summery here at 95 degrees this August day…but at night there’s a hint in the air that Autumn is coming. And it’s here right now in this picture!

Pictures, pictures,  all day long…I edited them all morning, and finished 35 pictures, and then took 50 more. I reshot 2 [...]

Masks & More Masks

Frida polymer clay mask by Suzanne Ivester

School starts up again for me at Front Range Community College in just two weeks, so I am pushing hard to get photographs taken and edited for my upcoming book “A Collection Of Polymer Clay Masks”. I expect there will be somewhere between 400 and 500 mask images once I get them all done. [...]

…With Bright Shiny Faces!

pmc over ceramic faces by Sarajane Helm

“Good morning to you! Good morning to you–we’re all in our places, with bright shiny faces. Is that any way to start out the day?” or so we sang it in Camp Fire Girls when I went to summer camp. The singing and being in the woods were my favorite parts. Crafts were ok [...]

Mothers’ Day At Nomad Beads

Bag Lady--hand painted on canvas by Sarajane Helm

I’ll be bringing my hand-colored textiles, ceramic and polymer clay faces, beads, baubles, bags, and books to Nomad Beads at 1909 9th St., Boulder, Colorado for a special Sunday Sampler from 12-4 PM on Sunday May 9th.

Celebrate the memorable moms in your life with components for making Spirit Dolls, Hand Beads, Face Pendants, [...]

Bagged And Beaded Babes

bead the doll with its head in a bag to keep hair out of the way

Sounds like some sort of adult video title, doesnt it?? But its really just about a doll whose head and feet are bound up while she’s decorated.

Hmmm, maybe that doesnt really sound any better….perhaps its time to show pics instead.

Last week I saw the beaded spirit doll (using my polymer clay face) [...]

Spirit Dolls and More!

Judith Skinner and I will be at the 37th annual International Quilt Festival in Hoston Texas October 14-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

We’ll be there in booths #1848 and #1850, with Fun Polymer Clay Jewelry By Judith Skinner and Sarajane’s Polyclay Gallery. We’re bringing jewelry, beads, faces, spirit doll kits, face [...]

Some More Mini Masks

I’ve been so busy with school this summer that I haven’t had two spare minutes to rub together. There’s been no time to work on the taking photos and putting together new books, but the summer semester is almost done, and Fall semester includes an independent study where I’ll be doing those exact things–what [...]