I did manage to find a little time to make something for January’s Monthly Muse inspiration…

I’ve been hard at work on the color mixes for the Kato Spring 2012 polymer clay color recipe ebook and hope to have it ready to go soon. Next on the agenda is working on taxes and cleaning my studio. It’s amazing how quickly the mess gets out of hand. What are your plans for the month of February? Anyone working on something new and exciting?

The blast from the past happened a couple of days ago on Facebook. My friend Amy posted a couple photos….


…These were the beads that were on the cover of of Polymer Cafe magazine (Summer 2006). The frenzy refers to the good ole days of eBay when bidding frenzies often occurred.

Today I wanted to share what Veronique Hoffmann (Fimomaus) created with this color palette.

The combination of the crackle look with the flowers (in the photo below) is very eye catching. Veronique definitely wins the prize for participation in the color palette a week challenge. Ok, there’s not really a prize, but if there were, she would win it. She was far and away the best at keeping up. Be sure to check out Veronique’s other work.

While mommy and baby were at the hospital, we had our two year old grandson. I forget how much energy a two year old has…wore me out. Yesterday we had his slightly delayed birthday party.

Now on to the new monthly inspiration project…

The Muses from Greek mythology are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. Each month I will be your Muse by providing an inspiration challenge. The idea is to step outside your comfort zone, try something new and have fun. This group is open to all artistic mediums.

Playing along is easy…you can join in any time throughout the year. Upload your photos to Flickr, add them to the Monthly Muse Flickr group and tag them with the corresponding monthly tag. For example the first monthly inspiration will have the tag MM1.

And here is the first Monthly Muse inspiration. Mesh and denim shades (Marina, Dark Blue and Twilight Blue).

Tomorrow is our grandson’s 2nd birthday. It looks like he may have to share his day with his sister. My daughter was supposed to be induced last Friday, but got bumped and tomorrow is the day they rescheduled it for. Keep your fingers crossed for us that she doesn’t get bumped again….she’s getting rather grumpy about it. I was blessed to be able to be there when our grandson was born and plan on being there to welcome our granddaughter. Hubby is taking the day off work to babysit, so that I can go to the hospital.

With everyone being home the past couple of weeks, I haven’t gotten much of anything accomplished. For those of you waiting on the FIMO and Kato Spring 2012 color recipes, I apologize. I had hoped to have the FIMO version done by the end of this week followed by the Kato version a couple of weeks after that. However, it will probably be the end of next week before I have the FIMO recipes done and a couple of weeks beyond that for the Kato recipes. After this week, life should slow back down and I will put my nose to the grindstone to get them done.

Sweet spring colors make up this week’s color palette a week (CPAW).

Margarita, Sweet Lilac and Cockatoo

This brings to a close the color palette a week. I hope you have enjoyed the color palettes. You can always go back and hit some of the color palettes you missed or revisit some of your favorites. You can find all 52 color palettes here.

I’ve been thinking about a monthly inspiration project for 2012, so stay tuned…..

I’m off to try and finish up my Christmas shopping today. I’m so behind and feeling the stress. Must remember to breathe…..