Chrysanthemums

New chrysanthemum canes are now in my etsy shop khernandezcanes! Ready for Autumn clay projects!

News and New Stuff

Alright, once again I apologize for the gigantic gaps between my posts. Ahh, such is life.

So on to the news...There are new things in my life - first of all there will be a new addition to our family this winter! I am now in my 21st week of pregnancy - Baby #3 should be arriving around January 7, 2011. Everyone is excited as we get ready for a new little one.

That is the family news and now for the clay news.

I have a new Etsy store! khernandezcanes.etsy.com This store is devoted just to polymer clay canes. My other store khernandez.etsy.com will be for my finished jewelry and other finished art pieces.

So far I have several new canes listed and I hope to get some jewelry up in the next couple weeks.

Since I always like to add pictures, here are some canes! I would show you all pictures of my expanding waistline but it's not quite as cute for #3 as it was with #1 :)

Inspiration

Yesterday's post on Polymer Clay Daily was about artist Carol Blackburn. When I clicked on the link I saw some awesome necklaces she had made with a technique I'd been wanting to try. So I did.

The result was great! I wore the finished necklace today and got so many compliments. (Thanks for the inspiration Ms. Blackburn!)I will definitely be trying it again...but perhaps with a different twist ;)

What is it they say about good intentions??

I am the worst blogger in the world! Right after I say how much I want to be better, I go forever without posting. I haven't been working on anything new lately so I've felt like I don't have much to blog about. I do have a ton of new ideas and a ton of new supplies that I recently ordered. The problem is I don't seem to have a ton of time to get the ideas out of my head and into reality. Hopefully the next post (whenever that happens) will have more content and pictures of new and exciting pieces!

Feeling Edgy

I was asked the other day to make some gauged earrings. Maybe there is a different term for earrings like this but I don't know what it would be. Anyway, there are a lot of ways to design this style of earring ranging from super simple to elaborately twisted designs. These are more on the simple side but I would love to try some more complicated ones. Really a basic concept, but staying symmetrical takes a careful eye.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!


P.S. Having another "clay day" after school today!

Featured Artist

Today I would like to showcase the work of a budding artist. Magdalena Ester Hernandez spends most of her free time creating. Her favorite medium is colored pencils but she also excels with crayons and markers.

My daughter Lena loves to draw and I keep a lot of her pictures in a folder. She gives them away to everyone, her preschool teachers, Grandma, my friends. Yesterday I thought I would take some pictures to share with you all since this is mostly a blog about art, but also me and my family. So here is little combo of both. BTW Lena is 4 years old.

This was yesterday's creation. She puts hearts on everything. And she wrote her name all by herself.

This one is from the "Beach Series" she made different pictures with coconut trees, orange trees and banana trees.

(I drew the little bird and the crazy looking squirrel, but Lena did everything else. I think she is pretty good for 4 :)

Canes

I'm going to try to be a better blogger. I will try to post something at least once a week. That is being very ambitious for me. Here are some canes I finished in the past week or so.