Charity Auction of Metamorphosis

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will remember this piece called Metamorphosis that I created especially for my local Cancer Research charity shop in Radcliffe On Trent using lots of bits of broken jewellery that they specially had kept for me.  The only new things in the piece were some chiffon ribbon [...]

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Digitalis Fanciformus – sneeky peek.

A very big thank you to every one of you who sent me gloves for my textile project, here is a sneeky peek at what some of them have been turned into.  They are very much a work in progress at the moment as you can see. Flower heads dumped on the table above.  They will have [...]

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Metamorphosis

My local Cancer Research charity shop is a wonderful source of broken jewellery and bits and bobs that I recycle into more jewellery and other things, frequently combining them with Friendly Plastic.  They are very good about saving me all the bits that might ordinarily go in the bin, so in return for their time [...]

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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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Flowers

I thought I might brighten up my demo table at the Craft Barn Extravaganza with  some rather whacky flowers.  they are all made entirely out of scraps of Friendly Plastic. In order to take this rather sub standard photo I had to hold my bunch of flowers in front of the tumble dryer as it was the [...]

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Rusty Old Balls

Just a short post today.  What do you think this lot is (and please don’t say a load of old junk!).  To help you, I will tell you that the drums of rope are about 3cm tall (just over an inch in old money).  I haven’t got time to keep you in suspense today so I [...]

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A Bit On The Bold Side

Are you ready for something a bit loud and In Your Face?  The jewellery in this post is definitely bold and a little out of the ordinary, but not so much that I wouldn’t wear them all (not all at once of course); but I might have to pick my days when I am feeling [...]

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An Issue of Colour

Following on from all the interesting conversations on the FP blog about colouring Friendly Plastic, I have put together a sampling pack of colouring mediums for you to try out.   The pack contains 10 sheets of Heat Transfer foils which are the quickest and easiest way of adding colour to the reverse side of your [...]

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The Afternoon Play

For once, there was no hockey to ferry my son to on a Sunday and I thought I  might mess around for an hour or two in the afternoon in the studio.  Having ferreted around amongst my samples boxes I could not immediately see any more of my dollops of coloured pellets, so I dug [...]

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Recycling

I hope you all enjoyed your Easter break despite the weird weather.  I have beem clearing up in the studio – nothing drastic, in fact most people would not even notice that I done any clearing up at all!  I was doing some minor things that I have been meaning to do for ages, such [...]

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