Creative Connections

Creative Connections

New Faces For Spring

face cane made with kato polyclay

I’m in polymer clay mode this May, making lots of new beads and pins and faces–both in cabochon form and canes. I’ve made face canes before, but only using Fimo and Premo brands of polymer clay.

Here’s a picture of some of the ones I’ve made throughout the years.

I dress them up using [...]

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 [...]

Movement Is Good

moving boxes

You may have noticed that I’m moving things around at The Polyclay Gallery. When I first began building it back in the dark ages, I only knew a bit of html. Then I learned about CSS and PHP and all the wonderful things they make possible to do to/with a website. I’ve been practicing [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

You Know The Drill…..

babushka faces before antiquing

I’ve been making babushka faces and lentil beads all week. Sounds like a horrid recipe, doesn’t it? but the “lentil” part refers to the shape, and even though I’ve been sticking my heads in the oven all week long, things are looking good here. I’m committed to using up old scrap clay for “bead [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]