Crafts by Chris

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

tutorial ideas

I had someone ask what tutorial I was working on. I’m working on ribbons and roses tutorial (see photo below), which I hope to have finished next week.

I’ve had requests for a tutorial on my stretchy spiral bracelet shown below, so it will probably be next on the list.

Anyway, this all got me [...]

busy busy busy

I’m in the middle of a large order, a tutorial, and taxes among other things, but I did make a little time this past weekend to play. I love bangle bracelets and they are the main reason I started making polymer clay beads. I wanted beads with the right size holes to fit on heavy [...]

spring colors

It has been a crazy week in our household, with the kids’ schedules, no school due to the bitterly cold, and sickness. If you are as tired of winter as I am, let’s take a break from the cold with some beautiful spring colors.

These are my version of the Pantone Spring 2009 colors. You [...]

here kitty, kitty

Have been feeling under the weather, but slowly getting back into the swing of things. So, I’m playing catch up. One of things I need to do is to figure out what I’m going to make with all of these tiger canes besides beads. I’m about tiger print beaded out. I have been thinking about [...]