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More clay beads...again

Four or five years ago, I tried making clay beads for the first time. This weekend, while cleaning out my stash, I came across that early attempt -

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After that, I said to myself, "Okay, clay is not your medium." Heh. Here's the stuff I did this past week. Lots of swirled lentil practice, and color-blending.

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Hubby's gf and I have matching red and black yin yang tattoos. While laying a bead on my wrist to see how it would look as a bracelet, I noticed it was about the same size as my tat. So I made these two for matching bracelets for us -
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And I believe I may have "klunked" myself with these :)
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I'm finally starting to get better edges on the lentils; still trying to get rid of the pointy middles. I like clay :)

Cheers, Carla

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Carla
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I love the black and red ones. Good colors on the rest.

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Debbie B

Oooooooo.... ALL the beads are wonderful, especially the Ying-Yang red & black ones! You've come a Long Way, Baby! :)

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bluemaxx

Thanks, Linda :)

Cheers, Carla

bluemaxx wrote:

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Carla

Thanks!

Cheers, Carla (hav> I love the black and red ones. Good colors on the rest.

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Carla

Workin' it......workin' it..........Yes! I love swirlies! You do great swirlies! Good eye for color combos, Carla:)

Reply to
~Candace~

I really enjoyed seeing your progress over the years--very inspiring for "newbies" such as myself. I especially like the metallic lentils that you recently completed. Very pretty. I didn't know that polymer clay could look like that.

Reply to
Peggy

Yes, clay is your medium. Lovely work!

Do we get to hear more about this?

Cheri (Bubbee to Emily and Nathan)

Reply to
Cheri2Star

Very nice!

Reply to
Beadbimbo

Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing...

Reply to
Barbara Forbes-Lyons

HOw do you do that so wonderfully? Im a new beadmaker with clay but they are aweseome. Penny

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pennyi

Those pictures give a good reason to keeping some of your old beginners work. The improvement is easy to see by comparison. Im glad you didnt give up. I do like the green and black beginners stuff tho. Thats a lovely color combo. Diana

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Diana Curtis

OO I like your color combos, I like the pointy bit in the center of the lentils tho. I try to make mine do that but they musch out...

.Stephanie.

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Stephanie

Which, the tats or hubby's gf? :)

We're polyamorous; he's been with his gf for 12 years now. I've been with my bf for 7 years.

The inking was a birthday present to me from her, and we decided while there we should get matching tats.

Thanks for the compliment!

Cheers, Carla

Cheri2Star wrote:

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Carla

Thanks, Penny :)

The color combinations were my attempts at doing Skinner blends, and the swirls were from an online tutorial -

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HOw do you do that so wonderfully? Im a new beadmaker with clay but they

Reply to
Carla

Start with bicones, then lentil (can "lentil" be verbed?) them.

I like the points on some of them, but a few came out rather, um..."nipple-ish" .

Thanks!

Cheers, Carlra

Stephanie wrote:

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Carla

I think it's awesome that you guys have managed to make long-term relationships work in a society that generally offers little support for such.

LOVE the matching tattoos! That's so cool!

-Kalera

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Carla wrote:

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Kalera Stratton

Thanks, Kalera :) We usually chalk it up to hard work, blind faith, and dumb luck .

Cheers, Carla

Kalera Stratt> I think it's awesome that you guys have managed to make long-term

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Carla

That's a winning combination! I think those three things are why I seem to keep landing on my feet. Or maybe staggering to my feet after landing on my head. ;)

-Kalera

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Carla wrote:

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Kalera Stratton

~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Dr. Sooz

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