the rain in spain...

I made this a couple of weeks ago for a friend. He's been travelling the world since Feb this year and it was to remind him of his original plans! He has naturally 'gone with the flow' and ended up in all sorts of places not on the itinerary!

I don't know if boys wear brooches ?? perhaps we'll call it a badge or a pin, he can always put it on his bag I guess- it is waterproof!

The logo is stamped then embossed on both the card and the badge itself- I love the shiny look embossing makes!
xo

going postal!

First up in the series based on mail/post & travel is this necklace.

The main bar from which the beads hang is made from
polymer-clay and is covered with recycled paper taken from the inside of an envelope I received.

Colours are soft, muted purpley-grey with pale apricot and cream, the chain is 'black' with fully soldered links.

(Great quality chain bought from the lovely ladies at Over the Rainbow)

the next incarnation

From conventional badges to hand-made polymer clay brooches (made earlier this year).

I really love texture and things of a tactile nature. I found using oven-bake clay (polymer) the simplest way to create light-weight, durable, textured pieces.

These two have been created by pressing japanese maple branches (black one) and a textured button (pearl one) into the clay before baking.

The initial idea was for a pair of brooches that were quite different but still worked together. I also explored contrast through the use of the matte black clay with the metallic pearl clay. From which I learnt a valuable lesson- "keep the sparkly clay separate!"

xo

some old badges...

a blast from the past (well, last year anyway) a few hand drawn/painted images made into badges with a dodgy kids badge-making machine (which cost me a whole AU$13!) yes thats me reluctantly modelling... xo