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 [...]

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 [...]

Front & Center

I had fun with my creative co-workers  decorating the Christmas window of the local bead store here in town. We just kept adding more and more…fused and slumped glass bowls, hand dyed silk scarves, dolls, the miniature quilt store, (which we decorated  for Christmas too),  a polymer clay covered wagon and even Golde in [...]

Hot Daze

I’m going to play with dolls today, and let my project dreams roll around in my head while I do the day’s tasks early so that I can get to the parts that are more fun. There’s something about the heat on long summer days that really encourages day dreaming, memory [...]

Hats Off To Color!

The Annual Dyeing Days are over for another year. Almost–I still have to rinse out the bottles and put then pools away in the garage, but not today!! My hands are sore, and so is my back…but I do love the colors that we got this year. Eggplant was the new color in the [...]

"We who are about to dye.."

If I’m going to make colorful puns (and I am, just accept it) then the whole quote would have to be “We who are about to dye, solution you. ” Which is probably only funny to textile artists and those forced to take Latin in school…if that. But the colorful fun IS about to [...]

Sparkle Plenty

That’s the name of a comic strip character but its also what a lot of people like to see in their polymer clay or textile or other wearable arts. A great example of another place it all connects is with the JonesTones Foils that are often used in fabric embellishment, or on on already [...]

Am I Blue?

Tsk, another song title. And yet, it is appropriate at least a little bit. MY head is not blue, but the cloth on this wig head is several shades of sapphire, indigo, cerulean, peacock, sky and other blues. Cotton stretch jersey was tied with rubber bands to produce a pattern of circles. A section of the [...]

Whiter Shades Of Pale

No, I don’t mean the song, I’m referring to the piles and bags and boxes of things I’m assembling to dye this week. We’ve got plain old white, summer white, navajo white, eggshell, offwhite, ivory, cream, even a bit of ecru. There are turned pieces of wood, bamboo beads, silk and rayon and cotton ribbons, silk [...]