bangle dreams

Enjoying my morning coffee is blessed quiet. Spring break is over and the kids are back to school. And time for me to get busy. I’ve been doing more thinking than creating lately. It’s time for a change of focus. There will still be beads and jewelry, just more one of a kind or limited editions.

I recently got to choose the idea for a polymer clay challenge in one of my groups. What did I choose? Bangles! Bangles are one of the hot trends for spring.

Bangles are probably my favorite piece of jewelry and yet, I’ve never made one….until now anyway. Below is my first attempt. It’s made entirely of polymer clay. It’s a little more flexible than I would like, which means it needs to be thicker or made around a metal base. I spent part of the night dreaming about bangle designs, so there will definitely be more of them soon.

I also wanted to show a cuff bracelet I made some time ago. It was made around the time of the reformulation of Premo! and I had issue with the clay flaking. There’s an area toward the back where I sanded through to the metal blank, so it just sits here looking pretty.