Crafts by Chris

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

garage is down

The garage is down. We still have some small stuff to clean up if it ever quits raining. Now, I’m trying to catch up on bead orders and some new things to list.

gremlins

Somehow the comments settings were such that you had to log in to leave a comment the past several days. I’m very sorry about that. I’m not sure how it happened other than my blog has gremlins. It’s fixed now.
The holes in our old garage weren’t caused by gremlins…my hubby did that. Our [...]

inquiring minds want to know

When creating with your chosen medium, do you start with a sketch? or just an idea? or do you just sit down and play around until something comes to you?
I’ve done all of the above at different times. Most of the time I just have an idea and go at it. About the only [...]

we have a winner

Random.org is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Ok, maybe not that great, but it sure beats writing names on little slips of paper and drawing a name out of a hat.

…And the winner is Madleen (comment #10)!
Congrats to Madleen! She wins a set of tropical paradise beads in her choice of matte [...]

new

New beads…pink satin and blue-green satin. Much more fabulous in person. They are listed in my etsy shop.

And…….
photos of the bead set you can win in matte or shiny finish. See this post to enter.

matte

shiny

in process

I have several different projects going in various stages. Beads fresh out of the tumbler, flowers that need leaves, beads with the finish drying and some experiments that I’m not quite happy with yet. I also have some fun new things to play with like these pendant stamps in the photo below. Planning on a [...]

tropical island contest

No, you won’t win a tropical island, but you do have a chance to win some beads.

Here’s a sneak peek at a few of the designs for my tropical island beads.

Here’s what you need to do to be entered to win a mixed set of tropical island beads (some of which are shown above). [...]