Month: April 2014

  • photography: improving your suck to good ratio

    I find that in pretty much everything I do there is a “suck to good” ratio in play. When I’m learning something new the “suck” part of the ratio hovers in the high 90s. The ratio of  “good” increases as I put in more practice time. You may remember me telling you about my photography […]

  • Grin Gallery Photography Class

    Grin Gallery Photography

    Grin Gallery Photography Shooting with my camera on auto isn’t going to cut it anymore. Yet, when I read articles about f-stop, shutter speed, ISO etc. I might as well be reading Latin. I knew that I had to have a live person teach me. One of our local camera shops periodically offers lessons, and […]

  • Easter Egg Gifts

    Polymer Clay Covered Eggs

    I covered my first egg shell with polymer clay as part of an egg swap through the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy about three years ago. That was a gateway egg for my new addiction. I really don’t need any special occasion to create a decorative egg, but Easter certainly provides a nice excuse. […]

  • Steampunk Owl Ornament

    Behind the scenes look at how a floral-patterned polymer clay covered chicken egg is magically transformed into an owl ornament with steampunk flair.

  • Containers: Polymer Clay Challenge

    The entries in this month’s Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy challenge are AWESOME! The theme was containers and it really let the creativity shine.  Please go vote before April 7 and you could win a prize from one of the sponsor shops: http://polymerclayartists.blogspot.com/2014/03/april-challenge-containers.html