Crafts by Chris

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

ice resin

I’m still working on transferring files, but wanted to share my first experiment using ICE Resin.

I mixed up the smallest amount and covered everything laying around. You have to work fairly quickly because the resin starts setting up in about 45 minutes. The hardest part was waiting 3 days for it to completely cure.

Trying [...]

missing

I’m in the process of switching web hosts. Many images are missing from the blog and I’m working hard to get everything loaded to the new host. My online shop, galleries, etc. will be back up again soon. In the meantime you can visit my etsy shop and artfire shop.

RAGBRAI

RAGBRAI is the longest, largest and oldest bicycle touring event in the world. Indianola was the overnight stop for Tuesday. We happened to be directly on the route, so we spent the day watching and greeting the bicyclists. The first bikes rolled in around 8:30am and they were still coming in at 9:00pm.

All but one [...]

faux

Don’t fall out of your chairs….yes, I’m posting 2 days in a row.
A couple months ago my friend, Vonna, and I were discussing copper electroformed beads because she had recently bought the equipment to do it. After some research, I learned that it can be done on polymer clay beads. I’m guessing that the [...]

ahhh summer

Why is it that the cold dreary days of winter seem to drag on and on while summer just flies by?
Between bead orders, kids, summer activities, etc., I just don’t manage to keep up with everything. I finally got around to working one of the ideas from the sketches I showed in this post, [...]

new beads

Hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July!
Finally got around to listing a couple pandora beads. You can click on the pics to go to the listing.

I’m doing some updates and redecorating on the blog, so if something goes missing (like the entire blog) it will be back up soon.