There are just three days left of April which means that in three days time I will be switching to sending my shop profits to a new SIM project. I am investigating an option for the months of May and June and will announce where the money will go as soon as I know more [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Etsy, Madeit, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay, SIM, Wahmania

Just thought I’d put up some pics of my little scone in action. This is our display at Keswick over the weekend. I’m not actually sure that it drew much of the crowd in the end but that’s ok. I did have a few think it was real. Here it is:

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I have just created a survey about a new range of products I would like to test. Could you please click the link below and take the survey (if you want to). There are only 5 questions.
Thank you in advance.
Amanda’s Survey Click Here!

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I was recently described as a frustrated visionary. That sounds a bit on the pedestal for me but it is how I feel at times. I tend to come up with big ideas and end up having to reduce them down to about an eighth of the size. I always feel that much of this [...]

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So, as anyone who reads this regularly will know, we are expecting our second bubby in July. This week I went to my first midwife and specialist appointments since first finding out we were expecting. I have been focussing a lot on packing up for the new house so going to these appointments made it [...]

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I have great in-laws. Almost every Saturday they take Keziah for us so we can have a day to get things done. They have a great time with her and spoil her and she loves going to their house. Every time she comes home with Poppa she brings me a bunch of flowers which she [...]

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Coming up on the 17th May is our annual SIM WA Get Together. This weekend we have the Keswick Convention where we will be putting up our display for SIM and I want to emphasise the coming SIM event in May. I was trying to think how we could attract people to our display and [...]

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I have just added the following items to my Wahmania shop. Soon I’ll add them to my Etsy shop too and a few more!!

and here’s what’s on its way:

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The most fun thing about watching Kezi grow into a toddler is watching her play. Gradually she’s taking on the pretend play that most kids do with her teddies and dolls but she’s also starting to sit for longer and play with things like crayons or playdough. This morning she was very busy for about [...]

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I have recently been trying out some new techniques including rose caning (see my previous post) and ‘proper’ mokume gane. The results were quite nice and today I finished off the pendants I’d made last week.
The steps involved are quite lengthy. For anything involving a cane the steps include
Skinner blending
Creating the cane
Slicing the and creating [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Etsy, Madeit, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay, Wahmania