Polymer Clay Valentine Hearts

My muse has been giving me a hard time, she doesn't like dull winter days. I did manage to make some hearts.

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First I made some canes.

I was going to use this one for borders

Then I decided to slice it from corner to corner and made these

I reduced the one on the left, cut it into 4 pieces and made this cane

it's over reduced and it's ugly... it looks like a bug, an ugly tick. So I dismantled the 4 pieces, twisted and rolled them smooth, cut lengthwise and made hearts for this necklace.........

which I love! It looks great with jeans. I used lapis beads and rose gold 18 gauge wire to make the chain.

I used the scraps to  make pendants.

I made some tiny heart beads and added  them to this wire pendant. 

Scrap Hearts

and more hearts

I am working on some striped pieces now and will post them in a day or two.

Thanks for stopping by.

Mixed Media Hearts and Things

I just this minute finished my Christmas shopping, I love the internet!!  We had our first snow last night, woke up to a glistening snow covered world, very pretty but also very cold so I was happy to do my shopping in front of the computer.

My tree is up, not decorated but it is sitting in the living room waiting to be adorned with twinkling lights and pretty ornaments.  I am trying something new this year, I'm doing the tree in blues and browns to match my living room.  I'm  little nervous, my eldest grandson is big on tradition,  I'm not sure how he will react to the change, he likes things to be the same at Grandma's house.

Here are some of the wire and polymer clay things I've been working one.

Wire hearts before I added the clay

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and here they are after I backed them with polymer clay

Here is another of my wire critters before the clay

and now with the clay backing

and I also made some wire "cage" pendants.  I will  add clay accents later. 

This one is my favorite

and this was just for fun... a wire "zentangle" inspired by the amazing zentangles by Ruth and Dora on their Flickr pages. 

I am going to go decorate the tree. See ya later!

Polymer Clay Hearts "Thing A Day" Day 14

Happy Valentines Day!!

Today I made hearts from my recycled canes.
The cane I used for this one was very over reduced so I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I like how the gold looks like bows. Now all I have to do is add a bail.

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