August 20, 2020July 22, 2026 by BCS4life

Waiting for the Paint to Dry

Since April, the Northwest Polymer Clay Guild is meeting on Zoom. I had a space downstairs set up while I’m getting my clay studio ready. Here’s a few dining table creations…

I suppose these could be Seattle Sounders fan beads as well as Seahawk beads- slices of striped cane with metallics wrapped around scrap core, shaped on the ends and twisted for interest.

Cane adapted from Meg Newberg’s cane tutorial at Polymer Clay Workshop…

…and what I made with some slices of it, along with a few tiny ornaments with my Folk Art obsession.

Tiny vessel made from another Meg Newberg cane variation

And yet another cane, a red tile with a translucent background

A little Folk Art redbird, simple and sweet

By day, I'm a cartographer in the Emerald City, mapping the world one line and one polygon at a time. By night (and most weekends) I'm up to my elbows in polymer clay. This journal is my creative field notebook—a place to record experiments, share techniques, and post free tutorials. If it inspires your next project or helps you avoid one of my mistakes, then it's doing exactly what I hoped. Whether you're here for inspiration or simply to see what I do with a block of clay and a little imagination, I'm glad you stopped by.