Christi of Rivervalleydesign

I promised myself I would start promoting my guild members on my blog and the first person I chose is Christi of Rivervalleydesign. Christi lives in Michigan. She has the most unique and beautiful pendants. She shows how very diverse polymer clay is as an art medium and is truly a great artist. You can see more of her outstanding work at http://www.rivervalleydesign.etsy.com/.

Transfer Focal Bead

Here's a new style focal bead I'm working on with transfers. This will be the center or focal point of a new necklace.

Crochet Hooks Covered with Flowers

Here's a new item in my shop at Etsy - polymer clay covered crochet hooks. They are really fun to make and I have already sold a few.

Please help the people of Haiti

Such a devasting event for these poor people. You can make a contribution to the American Red Cross and be sure that your money will get to Haiti. Let's help them in any way we can.

Some new work

After watching Lynne Ann Schwarzenberg's (Riverpoetdesigns) new DVD three times, I decided to give it a try. What she does with clay is absolutely amazing. She makes it look so very easy and believe me, it's not. I doubt anyone will come close to her beautiful flowers and placement on her pendants. There's a lot of room for improvement, but I'm working on it.

Georgia O'Keeffe Necklace

This is my challenge entry for the October Challenge of the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy. We had to pick our favorite artist and design something around their art. I chose Georgia O'Keeffe and added Kambaba jasper rounds and tubes and highlighted it with yellow magnesite. I just found out this was accepted into the Customer Gallery at www.turquoisemagpie.com.

Bringing Back the 60s

The peace sign is all over the place, in clothing, in jewelry, on backpacks and more. I decided to add one to my Etsy shop. Here I used a transfer image on polymer clay and finished it with resin. I tried to find one that was a little different and not so psychodelic. This one has the stars, moon, earth and sun. It comes with a black cording. I guess the peace sign was a cool part of the hippy era.