It’s a gorgeous, sunny day here in Southwestern Ontario.  When I got up this morning, the sun was literally making the flowers in my garden sparkle!  There were still some dew droplets sitting on some of the flowers, and the way the sun was hitting them….wow!  I took some photos, and will put them on my scrapbooking/cardmaking blog – http://kimmerbe.wordpress.com

So, on to some more clay projects!  I’m hoping that some of you expert clayers out there will take the time to look at my work, and give me some feedback (good or bad).  I’m totally enjoying this craft, but can tell alaready that it takes tons and tons of practice!  Not enough hours in the day!

First, with these pendants, I was going for an opal look.  I didn’t have any large flake glitter, though…just fine holographic glitter.  They turned out okay, but I’ll have to go on a search for the large flake glitter and try again! 

I had some of the clay from the above projects left over, so I did some experimenting.  I added some $ store glitter that I had on hand, but quickly learned that it was not heat-proof, so when I cured them, the glitter popped out of the clay.  So, I tried sanding, and adding a few coats of acrylic, and they turned out “okay”.  I may use them on a scrapbook page, or a card…?  I forgot to put a penny in the pic to give you an idea of size.  The smaller butterflies are about 3/4″ across.

Next, in keeping with my current love of everything owls, I made a couple of owl beads.  I did lift the design from another source, but I cannot remember where I got them from.  My apologies – I will definitely try to give credit to the originator in future.  If anyone knows where I lifted the design for this darling little owl from, please let me know.  The only thing I really changed were the colours.

That’s all for today!  TFL!