Polymer Clay Canes for YaYa

Daughter, Heather, is leaving today for her annual YaYa Sisterhood Retreat. The Yaya's are a group of 8 friends that get together for a week each year to have fun and do artistic projects.... this year they are going to give polymer clay a try.

Heather came over friday afternoon to gather supplies and have me show her some basic projects they can try. We thought making a kali cane would be fun so we put together some simple canes that she can combine to make the kali cane.

The flowers are from my garden... turned out to be the colors Heather chose for her canes.

I love the colors of these snapdragons.And here are the canes I showed her how to make.

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These are a couple sheets we made to use with the canes.
This was made with layered magenta and ecru clay using the same technique as mica shift. Heather will take photos so we will get to see what they make. I can hardly wait!! Have fun YaYa's!!

Polymer Clay Canes

It has been a busy week. My shopping is done, my cookies are baked and I will make my candy tonight.... after I watch the Survivor finale.....

In between all the Ho Ho Hoing I did manage to play with clay. It was my way of rewarding myself.... that and sampling cookies.

Here are the canes I made. I used the canes to make beads and pendants but haven't sanded yet so those I will show you later.

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Polymer Clay Canes & Tiles

Well I'm up early again... dang cat. We seem to be establishing a pattern. I made sure her food dish was full before I went to bed. Once again she woke me up and insisted I follow her to the kitchen. Yip. plenty of food in the dish, she just wanted company while she ate. I'm a late night person, I've only had a couple hours sleep, this is not my idea of fun.

Okay so here is what I made yesterday and last night.

I was very pleased with the last necklace I made and thought it would be fun to make a couple more in different colors. I constructed these canes and then used them to make round tiles. I also made mirror image pieces and some cabochons with the end pieces from the canes.

This is the first cane before reduction. First I made two skinner blends mixing Kato and Fimo Classic clay wrapped with Kato Pearl, Gold and Black. I like the colors that are achieved by mixing the two brands of clays.

The center cane and the one on the right is from the cane above. Similar cane only it doesn't contain gold clay.
I found the inspiration for the colors in the canes on the cover of this vintage Home Arts magazine. I made lots of tiles, some are shown here. I'll take photos of the others when I get them sanded.

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