Christmas is gaining on me!

Didn't realize how difficult it is to make charms for friends this Christmas! Aside from the fact that I was obsessing over every fingerprint on my polymer clay jewelry, I also wanted to make the packaging personal and extra special! I spent hours on every piece. I've done about 5! I'm behind by about 20! Lol.

here are some of the other gifts I managed to make :)

what do you think? :-)

Happy Holidays!

I was lucky enough to help out when Project Brave Kids threw a christmas party for all of the kids at PCMC. Project Brave Kids is a volunteer organization that helps out children battling cancer and they work alongside the families of the patients, the doctors and the hospitals. The kids were amazing! Best Christmas ever :)

Done!

When making canes, you're supposed to cut off the ends because they've already "leeched" or distorted, or they aren't the flat surfaces a lot of people like to use for their jewelry or crafts. But for some reason, I loved the ends of the canes I've been doing and wanted to incorporate them into the gifts I am planning to make :D

Here are some of my finished projects! I'm giving these away to family and friends for the holidays :) Made with a whole lotta love <3

Silk test

My emulsion is about to expire plus I'm worried that I might forget the steps which is why, late one night, I decided to do some silk screen printing. I have to test the 2011 calendar I asked my sister to make since I'm planning to give this to friends anyway for Christmas :)


Anyway, the whole process from making the screen to exposing to printing is quite laborious. I might have exposed it too long though because April looks good...

But June looks terrible... :(

After applying photo hardener...

I did a test print...

And I'm pretty happy with the result! :-)


I have to cut my exposure time from 3 mins to 2 mins (my reflectorized lightbox has four 20-watt lights) and I must buy more paint then I'll be ready to print some more :D