as long as i am here doing some editing, i thought it a good idea to add a new post...
today i finished painting the trailer for breast cancer action kingston (canada) survivor dragon boat racing team... the weather certainly wasn't very cooperative for the last seven or eight weeks, given that i was using oil based paint. . .

never again. regardless of what the paint store experts say, i will always use acrylic from now on, so that i can use water to clean up, etc.

but the work turned out pretty well, considering that sign painting is not my forte!!! the amazing thing is that the color purple is exactly the same as the color of the team's shirts -- and this the more surprising because i had to pick a color chit at the store. . . they couldn't scan the shirt...

here she is. . .

good morning, world and thanks for another day...

there sure are some talented polyclayers here in canada.... it seems to me a good idea to post some here as the days go by. . .

first of all, tho, i will toot my own horn a bit. for august, i was the featured scope artist on kbkb, kaleidoscope builders knowledge base, a yahoo group for scope builders.

this scope is about 5 inches tall, has an oil filled chamber, and i call it a hope scope. i have given these to very dear friends battling breast cancer.

well, another week -- or two or three -- has gone by and i am trying to keep up to date on my posts... i also have another blog wicca'd words here on blogspot and my last post there shows an absolutely astonishing likeness between my late dog koki and a little one named sophie i met last weekend.

Clay wise, i am getting ready for my annual polymer clay weekend here at my studio. this year we have gera scott chandler presenting her Secretive Women workshop. here is a photo of two of her marvelous creations.
september 15 - 16 will bring a wonderful weekend to the participants at this workshop held in godfrey, ontario.

well, today i had my first disaster with polymer clay after nearly six years of working with this fantastic medium.

if anyone has had any experience with bake and bend or knows if the problem was that one cannot rebake it, please leave a comment. . .

i am broken hearted. . . my artisans guild is having a challenge "The Great Toilet Roll Cover Challenge" so i decided to crochet one from bake and bend, which i mixed with premo. baked it in long yarn like strings and crochetted a wonderful cover. then i decided to add some decoration. . . two blue herons and some bull rushes with a batch of lily pads on top with a lotus like flower and a tiny little toad. . . well, there is not much left except a lot of little bits of clay. . .the temperature was correct, i have baked before on this tin with no trouble. . . waaaaaa

but i think i will enter it in the challenge just like this anyway.