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My Clay is Too Hard

My Clay is Too Hard

This post was originally posted as part one of a two-part conditioning your clay post from the original Pithy Art Blog back in 2013. Well it happens, polymer clay gets old and goes stale. When this happens it TAKES FOREVER to condition it, and frankly, there are time...

Painting my shoes WIP-it Wednesday

Painting my shoes WIP-it Wednesday

I wear Z-coils because I have bad feet. I lust after Fluevogs because they make awesome shoes, that aren’t always just black. So I’m taking a pair of old Z-coils, and painting new life into them. Mostly because I really want some new shoes that aren’t black and I...

Enchanted Challenge: Time and Memory Necklace

Enchanted Challenge: Time and Memory Necklace

To be honest, I didn’t look very hard, but I could not find glass beads shaped like the ones in the book. I went with what I already had, and I just happened to have some of these vessel pendant pods left over from when I was making tesseract fan art jewelry from The...

Color Theory with Pencils and Mandalas

Color Theory with Pencils and Mandalas

I’d say this is more a hands-on workshop in book form than I would say coloring book. But don’t get me wrong, it is definitely a coloring book. You are basically walked step by step through color theory, and how to implement it to create your own color pallets. The...

Wip-It Wednesday Polymer Molds

Wip-It Wednesday Polymer Molds

I am doing some prep work so that I can move forward with the Enchanted Challenge. Its time to break out the metal clay, but before that happens, I need to know what I’m doing, and that means some advanced prep work. I went through the metal clay projects and found...

Tidepools nope

Tidepools nope

This challenge blog post is more about why I’m not even going to attempt the tidepool project than it is what happened when I did try. Honestly, if I were truly committed to the “challenge” aspect of this endeavor I would go for it, but you see, glass and metal clay...

Valentine’s Robots

Valentine’s Robots

Tutorial originally posted in February of 2013 I used to make my kids special little things to Valentine’s Day. They got lost or broken, and as they got older their tastes changed, and that’s okay. A few years ago tiny robots seemed to be their thing, so I made these...

Fairy Door Locket

Fairy Door Locket

Admittedly I made this piece a few years before I undertook the personal challenge to complete all the projects in the book  Enchanted Adornments. But that goes to show you I have been influenced and working on projects from the book ever since I first got my hands on...

Make Your Own Krampus Stencil

Make Your Own Krampus Stencil

  The plastic sheets that come in bacon packages make excellent stencils. Of course, wash it off. LOL. When using any kind of spray adhesive, be sure to spray outside in a well-ventilated area. Spray booths really don’t do the trick. And make sure to cover your...

Enchanted Challenge Sunset Baubles

Enchanted Challenge Sunset Baubles

These necklaces were six-months in the making. All because I am pretty certain that resin has a personal vendetta against me. I will say the results are pretty outstanding, I just wish the process had gone a little more smoothly. I did have to do my own take on things...