Crafts by Chris

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

May flowers

Just a note to let you know I’m still around. Graduations, weddings, end of the year school activities, birthdays, etc. going on that take up some of my bead time. Hoping to play catch up this week.
Our May has been mostly cold and rainy this year, so I’m enjoying indoor flowers at [...]

balance

Balance
ever elusive
seemingly just out of reach
We try to balance work with family time. Notice I say “try”. I’m not sure anyone is ever truly able to create the perfect balance in life. I’m working on being more flexible and going with the flow. No matter how much time you spend creating a workable [...]

Happy 2010!

Happy New Year! We’ve had an exciting start to the new year. Our daughter gave birth to our first Grandchild yesterday morning!
Meet Steven Alan. He was born at 10:43 am, January 4th. He weighed in at 8 pounds 3 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long.

This is me holding baby Steven. I’m a little scary [...]

snowed in

School and hubby’s work are closed today as is most of the state. I wanted to take some photos, but when I opened the back door the wind and blowing snow were too strong. So here’s a quick picture from the back door. If the wind dies down some later this afternoon, I’ll try to [...]

sorry about disappearing posts

I apologize for the disappearing posts. It was apparently a secret and will be published in an upcoming Polymer Cafe issue (which one I don’t know). I was asked to remove my posts and I did.

Pardo

I recently ordered some of the new Pardo Jewellery Clay. I got it from Poly Clay Play. When I received my order I was missing one of the colors I had ordered, but Trish took care of it immediately. Fabulous customer service!!

I LOVE the colors! I really haven’t had time to experiment with it yet, [...]

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.

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