In honor of the Summer season, let’s do Mai Tais!  Sculpey Souffle Mai Tai mixes that is! The Sculpey Soufflé Mai Tai is a little bit of a mystery to me.  When I roll a piece out and look at it carefully in the light, I swear I see a mica sheen in there..but then… Continue reading New Color Tuesday! Let’s Do Mai Tais..

Sculpey Soufflé Cowboy is one of my favorite colors.  It’s such a nice neutral brown – it’s not orange, it’s not magenta, it’s just what it advertises – Cowboy – a straight up color. It was one of my obsessive colors for several weeks, only to be replaced by Latte (or was it Sea Glass?… Continue reading Sculpey Soufflé Cowboy Turns Golden

This week Premo! Gold meets Sculpey Soufflé Turnip (one of my favorite colors). Not only does it yield a rather surprising Copper color, but the partial mix is gorgeous also! So far the Sculpey Soufflé colors that I’ve become facinated with are Sea Glass, Turnip, Key Lime, Concrete, Latte and now Bluestone.  Is it me?… Continue reading New Color Tuesday! Sculpey Soufflé Goes Metal – Part 2

I get asked frequently if there are metallic colors in Sculpey Soufflé.  The answer is NO because Sculpey Soufflé is supposed to be a wonderful addition, another color line, another surface texture,  another choice for the Sculpey artist, not a competitor to Premo! BUT that doesn’t mean that we can’t mix the two and create… Continue reading New Color Tuesday! Sculpey Soufflé Goes Metal

So when I decided to mix Premo! Fluorescent Pink with Premo! Accent Purple Pearl, I knew that I would get some sparkly fuchsia to purples, but I didn’t expect the RANGE of colors it gave me! I got a lovely violet with the 1:1 mix, a bold purple with the 1:2 mix and a metallic… Continue reading New Color Tuesday! Fluorescent Pink goes Royal

This weeks color mix is a little different.  As you know, my “Rule” (made up entirely by me)  is that I pick a color to mix for the  month and I can only mix that color with one other color that I find on my table that week.  (Actually, if you saw my table, you would… Continue reading New Color Tuesday! Fluorescent Pink Goes Metal

Our featured mix color this month is Premo! Accent  Fluorescent Pink.  Our first mix uses our April mix color, Premo! Turquoise with the Fluorescent Pink (yes, I’m showing off that I can spell BOTH those colors!)  The 1:1 mix is my favorite, what’s yours?

I was processing my photos on my camera card and I came across this photo from a couple of weeks ago.  As usual, I was making a last minute necklace to go with a new blouse before I left for a trip.  It had some rather tricky color mixing to make the matches.  I tend… Continue reading A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

So after having a box of Bake Shop Light sitting in my “deluxe designer studio” (yeah, it’s a garage) for almost a year, I’ve suddenly become obsessed with it.  I had sent a photo of a project I had just designed and she wrote me back, “Can you do it in Pluffy?” CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!  Pluffy,… Continue reading I’m a little obsessed…(so what else is new?)

No thanks major department stores!  As a matter-of-fact I DON’T want a boring sponge holder with suctions cups (seriously, it’s the 21st century – we all know they don’t work!). I’m trying to do the right thing and get a sponge holder to help cut down on bacteria left in an always-wet sponge. First of… Continue reading I want it, I’ll build it!

With the big Craft and Hobby Association trade show just days away, I thought I would review the new Pearl Ex colors for you and at the same time, drop some tips on how to work with Pearl Ex (or any micro powder) on Sculpey clays. First, the good stuff.  The new colors are highly… Continue reading Sculpey and Pearl Ex – A match made in heaven

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I’m taking advantage of my two extra days off by spending time at my clay table experimenting and preparing for my January blog month on Sculpey.com. These were *supposed” to be bracelet blanks I was going to cover. (You know, the kind you put on a soda can like I did… Continue reading This One Took a Left Turn

Wow! End of Summer..it's hot, humid and not a breath of air here at the beach right now.  But it's time to look forward to Halloween!  I created a really fun multi-media necklace with a Halloween theme last year that I want to share with you.  It's a lariat necklace, which means that the ends… Continue reading How Did It Get to Be End of Summer?

 I had a rare weekend with no clay assignments so I decided to do a little playing.  We cherish our butterflies and humming birds in our neighborhood, planting plants specifically for their needs.  The Monarchs and Western Tiger Swallowtails are our favorites of the butterflies, with many people counting their caterpillars daily.  I have a… Continue reading Play Time!

 What's in a wrapper?  Well for me, my clay wrappers often act as a disposable mini-paint palette!  They are just perfect to hold the small amounts of acrylic paints we often use to antique a bead or two or three!  I like to allow my colors to mix slightly when I'm antiquing a larger piece,… Continue reading What’s in a Wrapper?

As the (self-appointed) Queen of Stoobid Simple Clay, I just want to remind you that clay design doesn’t have to be difficult or intricate to be effective.  This necklace, featured in this month’s Bead It magazine, is super simple, but one of the most elegant necklaces I think I’ve created. Sculpey Bead Projects Are Fun!… Continue reading (Clay) Life Doesn’t Always Have to Be Hard

So when life gives you lemons, er, hard clay… we still want to use it.   This happened when I accidentally set a sheet of rolled out Premo! Peacock  on top of my oven WHILE IT WAS ON. I know, right? What was I thinking?  Well, it was in a stack of index cards that… Continue reading When Life Gives You Hard Clay

At my last opportunity to blog a couple of months ago, the last blog I featured one of my tikis on the deck (see blog below) who often shows behind me when I did a Sculpey video.  Well, he had lost an eye and I mentioned that one of my goals this summer was to… Continue reading What You Looking At?

HELLOW!   I get to spend my birthday month with you!  I've been squirreling away little things to blog about with you all. It's been a busy, busy Spring and Summer.  I've been traveling and teaching and getting ready to RETIRE from my "real job" of 22 years next Feb.  It's so fun to apply… Continue reading What we will do to display our clay!

Take the picture!   Whenever you are working at your clay table, I HIGHLY recommend that you photograph each step. You never know when a design is going to be a "hit" and a magazine or company will want your project.  Not your thing?  Well, how about as a record or a "recipe" for the… Continue reading Take the picture!

Soooo, what do you say to the former in-laws when you've painted the hand-made Japanese dining table they gave you? My former father-in-law made this table for my boys and I decided one day that the dark wood just didn't fit with the Rabbit Hole.  So, I painted it free hand with primary colors and… Continue reading More from the Rabbit Hole

I’m home from the Oklahoma Twister Retreat and I already miss all my new clay friends.  I thought I would make a quick post here before I started the tedious process of unpacking all my clay stuff in the studio.  It always seems that when I’m packing to go I keep saying to myself, “Oh,… Continue reading Home Sweet Home

We are having a blast here in Oklahoma Twister retreat!  I was prepared to teach 2 4 hour classes and a photo demo.WhenI got here Penni Jo Couch, who heads this retreat says "great! and what are you going to do for your 2 make-it-nd-take-its?" Well, Im sure my face registered complete shock. apparently we… Continue reading Greetings from Oklahoma

I tend to keep bits and pieces of everything.  If a T-pin is too long, I keep the scrap I trim off, bits of clay (of course!), the stray earring wire, the odd bead or two, I keep them. Today, when I was finishing up another project, I got lazy and made the final round… Continue reading Oh come on, you have a recycle stash SOMEWHERE on your worktable!

Yes, it’s true!  I just went to the presentation for our Photoshop Users Group Monday night.  Adobe has created 4 different apps for the iPad and Android tablets.  AND THEY COST ONLY $9.99 EACH!   You can get a pretty loaded version of Photoshop (Called Photoshop Touch) for only $10!  All the basic tools, cropping,… Continue reading Do you own a tablet? You can get Photoshop for 10 bucks!!

Do you ever feel like doing clay, but not really “doing” clay?  You want something easy, yet great at the same time?  My One Block Wonder is perfect for that… 1 block of clay and 1 hour of time!  Now I’m busy cooking corned beef and thinking about green beer tonight, so this project fit… Continue reading The One Block Wonder

My friend Jen buys jewelry that features owls.  It’s like a free pass – she’s got to have it.  Sort of like when kids want you to buy them a book – you can’t say no.  so I decided I was going to try to figure out an owl for her for Christmas.  Since I’m… Continue reading Meet my little friend..