Oh so busy...

...and not so much with lovely creation, but rather other mundane things :(

However, I have been quite productive as well, and I'll show you here en-bulk.

Some things unexpectedly sold before I could even list them, I had loads of commissions and am very exhausted and in need of a holiday. But there you go, life gets in the way.

But! I am in no way whining and now I'll get on with it and just show you the pics. I hope you enjoy and wish you a great weekend!

(Weekend, yay!)

So, the burdies are naturally flying around and the bottom two are still available at the shop.

These 3 have already been sold or gifted to lovely friends.

The earrings I kept for myself, but the pendant will be in the shop today

And my latest obsession that I call "mad patchwork". Some sold and some will be available later today.

Well, I hope you enjoyed that and don't mind me being slightly "unconnected", I'm working on it ;)

Cheers, my dears!

Summer!

Hello there and happy summer!

I am sorry for being so infrequent lately, but I have been really really REALLY busy.

The stuff that I promised to post last time is still on hold, but rather replaced with a little summer celebration (most of it coming to the shop later today).

I hope you enjoy it and that you are having a smashing summer!

 Cheeep! Pendant

Summer in the City Pendant

Summer in the City Earrings

 Marine Burdies Earrings (private collection)

Simple Beach Life Earrings

 Ice-Cream Peacock Ring

Ice-Cream Garden Earrings (sold already)

Just a quick hello

Hello there! I know I've been neglecting the blog and other web whereabouts for a while, but I have been super busy. Making some custom orders and also a sort of a new collection which, in a way, blends together my love of fabric and of polymer clay. I hope to get it into the shop and on here next weekend. Till then I hope you are having great first days of summer.

See you soon and be good!

Wishing for summer breezes...

I have been super busy lately and missing the sun (oh, Holland, why art thou Holland!), so I am just squeezing in two little additions to the shop (later this evening). 

Sunshine, happy chirrups and the sound of rustling leaves:

The multiplying flock of burdies

Loads of burdies followed this one. Only a few will make it to the shop later today, since most are already chirruping away, and some I kept for myself. I think summer sun when I look at them. What do you think?

brooch

brooch (available)

brooch

brooch (available)

brooch

ring

pendant (available)

brooch

necklace

Sunny critters

Life has been quite hectic over here this past week and it looks like it will continue to be so. But! I have decided to try and keep the sort of relaxed regularity of posting new things in the shoppe, probably on weekends.

So, on that note, I give you two new critters:

Both are brooches/pins and this one is mine...

...but this one is for sale, so go grab it while it's buzzing! 

(someone told me that people who do puns should be shot - when I re-read myself now, I tend to agree)

Have a sunny weekend all!

Images on polymer - and heeeeeeeeelp!

Hey there! I hope you are enjoying your spring. It's Koninginnedag here in the Netherlands, and the weather turned rainy last night and will apparently stay so next week, which spoils my plans a little, but oh well.

So, images in polymer - there are obviously a lot of ways that you can achieve them (caning, painting, transferring, carving, backfilling, etching) and I was experimenting a bit this past week with some of the techniques, mostly  carving and backfilling and transferring.

First, let me show you the carved pendants (they will be in the shop later today).

I love the flower one so much I almost kept it. The birdie one looks better in person than in the pic and was hard to photograph because of the varnish applied to it, but is not as pretty and vintagey looking to me as the first one. They are both carved and then antiqued with acrylic paints. But they were carved before baking though - I find it much easier (and obviously much more forgiving).

And now to transfers...

The only transfers I did before were on baking parchment with inkjet printer and those were good enough for what I wanted to achieve, but this time I wanted a proper clear transfer so I tried the toner one. I read up on it galore and then set forth to do what I thought would be a straightforward and quick process. Oh how mistaken I was! Seriously, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong and have been reading up on it afterwards as well to no avail. Let me show you my troubles:

1) Snakeskin ring

This transfer turned out the best of them all, but that is due to the fact that it's a busy pattern, so you can't really make out if there are mistakes. However, when I applied a layer of liquid FIMO and re-baked it, it bubbled up in tiny specks. In stuff that I wear I really don't mind little imperfections, but it is definitely a mistake and I can't figure out where I'm going wrong.

(I adore huge rings btw.)

  2) Fly ring

In this one you can clearly see two problems - first, there are still little hairs of paper that I couldn't get off for love nor money, and second, due to trying to @#Y^%% get rid of them I rubbed off a part of the fly's left wing. How do you get rid of all the paper!? I mean, if you leave it there, as soon as it dries it creates a milky film over the image, and if you rub more it smudges the image. Which leads me to

3) Japanese print ring

No picture since I screwed it up completely (and it was my favourite image!). Same thing as with the fly, I was trying to get rid of the paper from the black hair of the girl in the picture and at some point the black just smudged all over her porcelain face! And there was still a white paper film on the hair!

And finally

4) Liquid clay transfer (decal attempt)

Also no pic, since it was ruined.

I put Liquid Fimo onto a picture, baked it, soaked it in water, started rubbing paper off (it wouldn't peel in one go) and just straight rubbed off the whole image from the clay!

I really don't get it! Please do share your advice, if you have any, I am getting desperate!

In the meantime, I am itching to do some etching (hah!) but want to sort out this transfer rebus first!