Creative Connections

Creative Connections

Tie Dye Class

Tie Dye Shirt

Learn how to tie dye! Bring your own pre-washed cotton t-shirts or other natural fiber clothing. Or dye fabric; just make sure it is made of natural fiber content and washed once to remove any sizing or starch. We supply the backyard and the wading pools, the dyes, synthrapol and soda ash, gloves, rubber [...]

Upcoming Polymer Clay Classes

millefiore canes in polymer clay

I do love being in the art class rooms at Front Range Community College, whether it is as a student or as an instructor. I always learn a lot either way, and have a great time doing it. The rooms there are warm in winter and cool in summer, big, well lit, [...]

A Glass Clay Play Day

flat and molded glass clay (unfired)

Actually, it was two play days! I had a lot of fun when my friend Mad Margie invited a few of us over to her Meltorium for a little fun with frit.

We haven’t gotten to the hot fusing part yet; glass is not a fast medium and there are lots of steps, but [...]

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 [...]

Adapting Quilt Patterns To Polymer Clay

My recent book written with Judith Skinner is finally available through Amazon.com! Its one of the world’s largest book marketplaces, and we are now able to offer it for purchase at the same price we’ve been selling it through our websites and through our POD partner Lulu.comSelf publishing through print on [...]

Aesop's Foibles

I’ve gone back to school full time in order to learn new computer programs and get better acquainted with the publishing possibilities in today’s world of cyber-creativity. One of the first things I learned was that my old computer that has [...]

I'll Have A Pink Lady

Here’s a flirty flapper in pink lace and pearls. She started out as a premade-white cotton doll body purchased in a store. I have a pattern that I’ve drafted that gives the same body, but I got very tired of making and turning and stuffing the dolls because the fun part is dressing [...]

Digital Doll Fun!

It took more than one day, but I got to finish up the project that I started using my Wacom pen mouse and my paper doll Belle along with clip art from Dover Publications. (see the previous post for the start of this project) Drawing is still easier for me with a pencil, but [...]