London Polymer Clay Group

Here are photographs of some of the jewellery on display last Sunday at the July meeting of the London Polymer Clay Group. If you are interested in coming along to future meetings you can find more information here. 

Not one but two

The last day of the bracelet week. It’s been almost therapeutic to hunt around for old beads to make into bracelets. I’ve found some interesting bits that I had forgotten about and some old friends as well. I must have some deep rooted hoarding instinct. Or the memory of a goldfish. Here’s not one but two bracelets. The first one  is cheating slightly as the beads weren’t made by me.  See you tomorrow at the Whitecross Street Party.

Whitecross Street Party

Whitecross Street Party is a free 2 day event on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July near the Barbican Centre. It features over thirty leading artists and ten underground Musicians playing Parisian style on Whitecross Street.  Lots of wonderful activities and things to do for ALL ages. Giant knitting, carnival parades, silk screen workshops. A children’s photo booth, stencil printing workshops, live art demonstrations, birds of prey and lots more. There will be loads of lovely food available and places to relax to make a whole afternoon of this event . You can find out more about it here. I’ll  be running a stall there on Saturday, so see you there. 

Oh, and here’s the bracelet for day four.

coiled wire and beads

Rummaged bracelet

I’m trying to make a bracelet every day this week. But I can’t make any new beads up. Instead I have to make a bracelet from whatever I already have lying around. I rummaged around and found these beads in a box in a drawer a mere 18 months after I made them .  Add some spacer beads and  elastic and here’s  my offering for day three.

rummaged bracelet

      

Day two of bracelet week.

Here’s the bracelet for today. I found some  purple and white beads that I made last year lurking in a drawer. I added them to some coiled silver wire  and some elastic.

purple and silver bracelet

A bracelet a day

I need to exercise my hand and get it back to normal.  So I’ve decided to make a  bracelet each day this week to get back into the swing of making jewellery again. But I ‘m not yet letting polymer clay  near the almost healed wound so I can’t make any new beads. I’ ll have to use up whatever I have  already lying around. I suspect that it will get harder as the week goes on and I get down to the beads that I’ve never been able to find a use for. Today is easy though . I’ve got some black and white marbled discs that I made a while ago. Once drilled and sanded, they make quite a striking bracelet.  

Marbled disc bracelet

Another day, another bracelet

Juno bracelet

Satin smooth

Here’s a couple of new bracelets that will appear on my website next week . Each bead has been sanded by hand with 5 different grits of sandpaper. I’ve used a new kind of ‘cushioned’ sandpaper from the USA which produces a very smooth finish, almost like satin. There’s no need for varnish and the beads end up with a very natural feel. Very tactile.

The sound of beads

At last the sun is shining on London after what seems like a week of constant rain and grey. Lets pretend it’s summer. Here’s a bracelet and earring set made with ‘petal’ shaped beads. The pattern has come out a bit darker than I anticipated. An unexpected feature is a faint clicking noise it makes when you move your wrist. I quite like the effect. But should I now start designing for sound as well as colour and form ?  Choosing beads for their sonic qualities rather than colour is an interesting idea.

Noisy bracelet

Iluminado bracelet

I’m on a roll now to make some jewellery out of the beads that I’ve left hanging around since I made them months ago. How long this determination will last is anyone’s guess before I relapse into making new beads. Anyway , here’s a bracelet made from my Iluminado cane.

Iluminado bracelet