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Musings on beads, polymer clay, making jewelry and the wonderful world of the tea leaf

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My “Klimt” bracelets

posted August 09, 2010 in Art and Tea

I’ve gone off in a fun new direction with my jewelry lately and it’s all my dear friend Judy’s fault! I say this with great affection and admiration for an artist I consider to be THE mixed media queen extraordinaire. She has inspi (read full article)

Saturday Morning Tea

posted July 31, 2010 in Art and Tea

Yesterday my company moved from our facility in Hopkinton, MA, where we’ve been for the last 9 years, to a new facility in the nearby town of Holliston. So, needless to say, it was a day of fixing up, hooking up, learning a new phone system an (read full article)

A Bead Hug

posted July 23, 2010 in Art and Tea

There’s something about encircling an object with beads that makes my heart smile. Here, let me hug you with beads, beautiful piece of turquoise. And you, fun piece of extruded scrap clay cabochon. In my early days of making jewelry, I used (read full article)

Return to the Guild and ATCs

posted July 06, 2010 in Art and Tea

A couple of Saturdays ago I was delighted to attend a meeting of the Rhode Island Polymer Clay Guild, or RIPCG, for short. I had become a member back in the fall of 2002 and happily went to the monthly meetings until around 2008-2009 when I had to t (read full article)

Saturday Morning Tea

posted June 26, 2010 in Art and Tea

This morning’s tea was actually started last night. In honor of my visit to the Rhode Island Polymer Clay guild meeting today, I steeped up some iced decaf chai tea to share with the group. I talked about this flavored spice tea and made the h (read full article)

New polymer clay earrings

posted June 22, 2010 in Art and Tea

With both sets of my polymer clay earring components created in Julie Picarello’s workshop – the round discs and the long “lizard tails” – I drilled a small center hole approximately 1/8″ from the top of each piec (read full article)

Knitting a Spring Cardigan (or two)

posted June 17, 2010 in Art and Tea

My great-nephew recently celebrated his first birthday and I wanted to knit him something bright and colorful. I chose this boxy, cropped cardigan pattern called Haiku that I found on knitty.com, a great resource for knitters and chock full of free (read full article)

What I created in Julie Picarello’s workshop

posted June 10, 2010 in Art and Tea

To inspire my color palette that day, I purposefully wore my Come Spring vest to the first day of Julie’s workshop. You can read my post about knitting that vest here. When presented with a choice of metal foil to add to my mokume stack, I ch (read full article)

Julie Picarello Workshop

posted May 19, 2010 in Art and Tea

This post is long overdue! In March,  I had the wonderful opportunity to take a workshop with the talented polymer clay artist, Julie Picarello. Here is one of her fabulous creations destined to adorn some lucky person. More of her amazing work to (read full article)

K is for Kindness

posted March 27, 2010 in Art and Tea

I’ve received the most wonderful gift from my dear friend, Judy, an artist who creates amazing mixed media art including personalized wooden letters. You can read more about her “love letters” here. My “K” now hangs ab (read full article)

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