Show & Tell: clay and beads...and more clay

Love all the noses... especially the ones that Valerie donated. So Cute! And your gold heart and bottles are fantastic! Your switchplace is also cool, and I love your sterling ring! Beautiful design on that...

You've been busy, grrl! :)

Great fun, love the noses as well, a bit weird though. Sniff.....sniff.....

Not as busy as I'd like to be...but more than I was!

Thanks for look> Love all the noses... especially the ones that Valerie donated. So Cute!

I really like the green faux stone beads! Remind me of Japanese architecture / pottery / woodworks. Do you make the shaped ones with a mold?

Your crocheted rope is great too! Looks so nice, tight and even.

Where did you get your bottles for the bottle of hope projects? I wonder if there's somewhere local I could get some -- was thinking about covering them with bead weaving.

Good luck to her. What a wonderful bit of lateral thinking on your part.

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Kathy,

All my beads are formed by hand, some are textured with stamps and other objects.

My current stash of bottles for BOH came from a member at the Ocala FL Guild. But, if you call your local hospital's cancer area and ask them to save bottles for you from the anti-nausea meds (forget the name, sorry), you can get scads of them. There are instructions on how to clean and prep the bottles at the Bottles of Hope site (http://

Beaded ones would be beautiful!

Barbara

Barbara,

I'm amazed at how you are able to make those beads so uniform by hand. They're really lovely.

Thanks for the info on the bottles; I'll check around.

Thanks Linda!

Piggybacking as I lost the original thread...Barb the new beads are fantastic! I love the dino switchplate too. That is too funny!

Thanks Kathy - one of the keys, at least for me, is making sure I measure the same amount of clay per bead. For the 'bowtie' beads, the clay was rolled out on the thickest setting and I used 4 cutouts with my

1" square cutter. The rest is just practice...practice..practice, lol. Barbara

Bead & Polymer Clay Habitué

There is a very fine line between a hobby and mental illness. (Dave Barry)

Barbara,

Omigoodness! Your poor MIL. I hope her surgery goes well.

I thought the noses were funny, and especially liked the elephant trunk!

Nice work, Barb! I love the Mokume!

Thanks, Jerri!

Barbara

Bead & Polymer Clay Habitué

There is a very fine line between a hobby and mental illness. (Dave Barry)

Nice work, Barb! I love the Mokume!

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You're more than welcome, sweetie. :))))))))

Thanks for the link to Bottles of Hope. I love to see all the bottles.

Tina