Bottled water is killing our planet.click on the link to see the video

The big companies WON'T stop producing it if we keep buying it!

21st Century Waterfall click on the link to see the video

I have been using/reusing a more permanet type water bottle for a very long time now. I refill it using water from my Brita pitcher. I used to still buy the odd case of water just to have on hand to offer to my guests,but after seeing this simple video I won't be doing that anymore either. If my filtered tap water isn't good enough...too bad!!

Creativfestival Oct 2008

Congratulations to Marg Scott of Shades of Clay. (she's the one on the far right for those of you that don't already know).
It was Marg's first year participating in the Creativfestival and she did an amazing job. Her booth looked fantastic and it captured the attention of many passers by, even those that had no previous experience with polymer clay showed interest. I think we may have created some new polymer clay addicts!

Many of the members of
The Southern Ontario Polymer Clay Guild came out to support Marg and give her a hand.



Lydia was one of our "greeters"














Bev and I had a great time helping out. I did my first public demo of the CaBezels and I know I made a few converts to polymer clay. It's always great to see people get so excited about something!
There were many demos going on in the booth. Donna Kato drew in a crowd.

Gerber Daisies

I just love Gerber daisies.

Clean your pasta machine!!!!

Here is a great lesson on what NOT to do!
I learned this the hard way while I was at the Dustin workshop.
I noticed that my translucent clay kept getting stuck in my PM and I needed to run it thru on the thinnest setting for the technique that we were learning! What a mess.
I didn't even imagine that was PM was soooo full of clay bits! After all this was my spare machine, the one that I ONLY used when I travelled to classes and the SOPCG meetings! Who would have thought.

After taking my PM machine apart i noticed that I had BENT parts because of the huge amounts of clay that were jammed inside!
All was not lost. I recovered more than a package and a half of clay!
I DIDN'T put the fenders back on my machine so now I will be able to see any clay that might get stuck.

Kathleen Dustin Workshop

I attended the Kathleen Dustin workshop back in June.
She was a great teacher and it was great to learn her secret layering techniques.
Here are a few examples from others that took the class.
Most of these are in the early stages.