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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Wednesday is Create and Craft Day for Friendly Plastic

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday 14th September is the date for the next Create and Craft show.  Tune in at 6pm.  If you can’t see it on the tele, tune in on line to see the live show, just go to the C&C website and click on the “watch us live” button. More techniques [...]

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Forgot the Earrings

I forgot to post a photo of the tiny Lizzie Dolls that I made into earrings, so here they are. The skirts are made from some patchwork fabric, and the hands and faces are Friendly Plastic Pellets coloured with Mica Powders. I have had a number of emails about the Lizzie Dolls in general and other [...]

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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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Peel Off Cloisoné

Weird title I know, but I thought you might like to take a peek at a project I did for Make Jewellery magazine for their July issue.  Sadly I was in such a rush at the time I could not take photos of the piece before it went off to the magazine, which meant that [...]

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Masking the Consequences of Friendly Plastic

Yesterday we took down our Consequences Exhibition, it had been running at Millgate Museum for 6 weeks and has proved to be very popular and well received. It took hours to put up, but came down in minutes! Everyone had worked really hard to make it happen and to keep it running smoothly and I [...]

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3D Friendly Plastic – What a Wonderful Weekend

I had been looking forward to the weekend so much: I knew that the group of people would be fun to work with, there were some characters I knew of old, and some I had yet to meet. What I had not anticipated was just how much fun, and just what a whacky and characterful lot they [...]

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