Crafts by Chris

Musing on polymer clay, beads, jewelry and other stuff.

Boo!!!

Happy Halloween!
Here’s a photo of my spooks. The big one decided he was too old to go trick or treating this year. The little one LOVES to dress up in costumes.

Here’s a photo of their jack ‘o lanterns. Ben’s is on the left. Dad did most of it. They used a pattern and [...]

bead show continued

Oh, the fun people you meet! Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book title.
I briefly met Regina of RGR Designs. She was running late and we didn’t have a chance to chat, but it’s still nice to meet someone in person that you’ve talked to online.
I met Tera of Beadygirl Beads I bought some [...]

bead show

I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath to hear about the bead show. LOL! For starters, I have to say that I have never been treated so well as a vendor at any show. The volunteers (vendor angels) came around regularly to see if you needed anything. They brought around bottles of [...]

bead show and new Buddy pictures

Have several things in process that I want to get finished before the bead show, which is only a few days away.
I will be at:
Treasures Bead Expo 2007
7 Flags Event Center
2100 100th St. Clive, IA
Friday October 26th ~ 4pm – 9pm
Saturday October 27th ~ 10am – 4pm
Since Buddy is six months old, I thought [...]

decals

I was all set to tell you a little story about the fairies that live in my yard. Totally white toadstools popped up in my yard the other day and the first thing I thought of were the fairies that must live there. Well, I went out earlier today to take a picture and someone [...]

hope

My thoughts and prayers are with my friend, Becca, today. She lost her mom to cancer over the weekend.
Please check out my friend, Jael’s, blog entry. Her beautiful butterfly beads and eloquent words say it all so much better than I could.

random thoughts

Ok, not totally random thoughts. I was thinking about this today while buffing some beads.

I bought The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects: Techniques and Projects Featuring Transfers, Stamps, Stencils, Inks, Paints, Mediums, and More recently. Being in full production mode I haven’t had time to really look at the projects and experiment [...]

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