Mini Books in Friendly Plastic

What is the fascination many of us have about miniature things?  I love all the tiny versions of larger items; as a child I spent many happy hours making things for my doll’s house, many more than I did actually playing with it, I just like to make the things to go in it.  My [...]

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Friendly Plastic Beads and Farewells

Sadly the fun has come to an end.  I took Linda and Mariah back to the station today so they could return to London.  I was sorry to see them go, we had had such a good time, tried out a number of different things in Friendly Plastic and Polymer Clay (Linda gave me a quick [...]

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Boundless Beads and Just Jewellery

It was only a couple of weeks ago, but it feels more like months that I was teaching two classes at Coles Sewing Centre (formerly Husqvarna Studio – same people, same everything, just a different name) In Nottingham. The first day was dedicated to learning how to make a variety of Friendly Plastic beads, round [...]

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Lizzie Doll Show In Detail

Thank you for all the emails, Twitter messages, Facebook messages, and Blog comments about the Friendly Plastic show yesterday, I am glad you enjoyed.  I was amazed at how much time I had to demonstrate; at least it felt like a long time, perhaps you did not think so!  Lesley was the lucky winner of [...]

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Lizzie Dolls, Pellets, Rubons and More

Even the Create and Craft schedule says the Friendly Plastic show will be on tomorrow, and to give me even more confidence that it really will happen, I have had The Phone Call. So, tomorrow I will pack all the samples in the car (not leaving any behind this time!) and head south for what [...]

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Playing with Pellets Part 2

If you don’t always want metallic bling in your jewellery, then Friendly Plastic Pellets are the way to go.  You add the colour in whatever form you like – Mica Powders, Alcohol Inks, Gilding Flake, Pigment Powders, etc.  colour can be added after the Pellets have been warmed and shaped, moulded or stamped, by painting it [...]

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Playing with Pellets

I wanted to share with you the Jewellery I made for the last Create and Craft Friendly Plastic show.  Because we sold out of Friendly Plastic Pellets before the end of the show, they did not repeat it during the wee small hours.  Therefore I thought you might like to get a second chance to see [...]

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Love Hearts

Last Wednesday I spent the day with some very lovely ladies making Love Hearts with Friendly Plastic at the Husqvarna Studio in Nottingham. We had a great time and everyone went home with a number of finished and almost finished pieces of work. Two of the pendants were complete with ribbons and fastenings using my quick [...]

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Create and Craft 27th May

Slight change of plan regarding the Create and Craft Friendly Plastic show on Friday 27th (10am), nothing to be alarmed about though.  I had planned to be making masks, but sadly we cannot get the supply of masks in ready for the show, so they will have to wait until June  13th – please note [...]

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Rescheduled Create and Craft Show

All I can say is darn it, (and I am being very restrained here as I don’t want to swear on the blog!) Create and Craft have got their knickers in a knot again and the two Friendly Plastic shows scheduled for tomorrow have been changed. I cannot tell you right now when they are [...]

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