My Sage Bird Featured On Pip's Blog

My sage little Sage Bird Pendant is featured today at my friend Pippa Chandler's blog.

Pippa lives in the United Kingdom and is a gifted and supremely talented Polymer Clay artist. She and I share a love hate relationship with sandpaper. We are admitted sanding and buffing addicts. Yes, we've never seen a piece of polymer clay we haven't sanded and buffed to a glassy shine!

I adore Pippa's work and am so glad to be able to call her a friend. I think she must have a perpetually sunny disposition. If she ever has a bad day, you'd never know it from talking to her.

Pippa, you are a sister of my heart, even though you don't talk with a drawl or have bigass hair, and you really are THE BEST! Thank you again!

Bird Beads: A New Chapter

I have had a productive weekend so far. I made 25 new pieces and only two sailed into the "Butt Uglies" jar!

I wanted to see what I could do with some of the larger bird images I purchased. I was cruising around Etsy Friday afternoon, checking to see what was new in some of my favorite Sellers' shops, and I stopped at Marcia Palmer's store.

Marcia Palmer is a polymer clay artist from Atlanta, although she works in other mediums besides clay. I admire Marcia's work tremendously. She has been a huge inspiration to me since I started working with clay almost two years ago. I think our sense of color and composition are similar, although she may not like the comparison. Her combination of warm, earthy colors and bold and exciting patterns and rich detail are what I strive for in my own work. I visit her shop and drool. Everything is so beautiful.

I purchased some background patterns a few months ago and haven't been able to come up with a way to use them until this weekend. I looked at the larger bird images and realized they would be perfect against the brick reds, mustard yellows and burnt oranges in the patterns of the backgrounds, made even more vivid by black outlines. They are all distressed to look even more "vintage". You know I love that vintage look! I really like the way these turned out, and hope to complete a few more next week.