tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41125262792123709002011-12-20T09:35:48.169-05:00visual arts, mixed media, polymer clay and whatever....Violette Laportehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07836525316401027260noreply@blogger.comBlogger1121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4112526279212370900.post-71049313785190811832011-01-28T11:30:00.004-05:002011-01-28T11:58:41.081-05:00

Well, I found a few metal templates that I still had. I gave away most of them: bored, remember?I then started using liquid clay on them and got these interesting results.Le souvenir des osJ'ai trouvé quelques pièces de métal dans mon fouillis. J'en ai donné plusieurs: because enthousiasme = 0.J'ai utilisé ma pâte liquide ("pâte/liquide" ça n'a pas de bon sens ça!!) et j'ai obtenu des résultats

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In my last blog post, I said I was bored with the metal/clay pendants. I had one on my workspace and took a look at it and thought that the metal/clay bond was not very good: they could be taken apart. I then thought I could put raw clay beads in the tiny holes located on the points to solidify the bond. I squished tiny clay beads in the holes with my ball tool instrument. I found some coloured

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As I was taking the last pictures of the pyramids, I saw a metal insert and had an idea. The story goes like this:About two years ago I saw these little metal pieces at the local dollar store. I bought a few of them because I thought the textures would be interesting. You guessed it, I am always looking for textures!Pas terminéEn prenant les dernières photos du projet pyramides, j'ai vu le petit

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Some details.Suite et fin...je croisQuelques détails.

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if Pharaohs ever sang the blues!On to my nesting pyramids which pose a presentation problem. I guess the best is to play with them... but technology isn't there yet.Parfois je me demande si...les pharaons chantaient les blues!De retour à mon projet des pyramides qui me pose un problème de présentation. Le mieux serait de les manipuler mais la technologie n'est pas encore rendue là.They can all be

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For the new year: dreams, creativity, discoveries, magic, health, peace, mostly peace.Nesting pyramids. For one reason, I love to make things that can be manipulated/played with. The child in me is strong. Actually it started out as one single pyramid but it wasn't stable so I added another one and that wasn't stable so I made them smaller and smaller and now the structure is stable and fun to

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Actually it feels like the first month of winter, but I digress!My friend Sandy made these ornaments for the annual clayamies ornament swap which you can see here. She got the inspiration from an earlier post of mine. She is on a roll because she made other interesting ornaments. You can see her blog here. You will see why it is important to use an oven thermometer!!Have a Merry and peaceful

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Christmas colours, why not! No blabla, just pictures.Couleurs du temps, pourquoi pas! Quelques photos, pas de blabla.

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The last of my daily posts. It was a good challenge indeed. Taught me a lot.The other project:From a fruit bowl to this bracelet... it was an interesting ride. I have a feeling it is not finished yet because there are some other things I want to explore (those last pendants). Choices I made on a given day. If I had done the exercise another month (ex: in the summer) would the results have been

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Running around this morning. Going to work on my bracelets after this. In the meantime.... a mini mosaic (4 x 4 cm).Ce matin, cours à droite, cours à gauche. (J'ai de belles bottes neuves.) Je veux terminer des bracelets après ceci. En attendant..... une mini mosaique (4 x 4 cm). Tourlou!

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Doing my blog early today. The light is a little better for pictures (it is still snowing). I made more little tiles in view of a future bracelet.J'écris dans mon blog de bonne heure ce matin. La lumière est meilleure pour les photos, même s'il neige encore. J'ai fabriqué assez de petites tuiles pour faire un bracelet.Now the work starts:sanding and probably adding a border. Finishing touches are

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I am working on the little squares I made yesterday; no pictures yet. Anyway it is quite dark outside and worse inside. Snowing!An artist trade card made with button moulds. Actually, a good picture with lots of detail.Je travaille avec les petits carrés que j'ai faits hier: pas de photos. Lumière absente; il neige.Photo d'une carte d'artiste confectionnée à partir de moules de boutons. Bonne

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Wow! this is my 100th post.The other day I said I would clear out my work table and start over. Well, I didn't so I must have more experimenting to do. I went back to the layered pendants and decided to play with color combinations, just to see. Made a pendant.Oh lala! ça fait 100 fois que j'écris ici. L'autre jour j'ai dit que je nettoierais ma table de travail pour commencer autre chose. Pas

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Sitting here with no idea of what I am going to talk about! That will teach me not to prepare in advance. Eating some pomegranate seeds yum! Inspiration, come for a visit! In the meantime, I wish a happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends. We have so much to be thankful for, living in our great countries.On with the show...and tell! I am going to look at some of my photos and find something

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Tip #8 Improving your cutouts When you are cutting clay shapes and want to apply them elsewhere, here is an easy tip to make them neat and add to the quality of your finished product. Just place a thin plastic film over the clay sheet before cutting your shapes. Oh yes and don't forget to do this on a piece of paper or card stock.Truc #8 Améliorer les découpesQuand vous faites des découpes de

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Yesterday the mailman was good to me. I got my mini cards! You submit your own pictures and they print them: they also have a lot of prints and designs for you to choose. I tried 10 different styles to see what works best. I don't need a full size business card, only one that gives my email and blog address. Love them! If you are interested, check it out at Moo cards. A UK company but they ship

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A departure from the holey pendants. I went to my work table to clear it out and whoops, I started on more stuff. Too dark to take pictures.So here is some older work using liquid clay which I coloured with paints and powders.8x8cmJe laisse les découpes pour le moment. J'avais l'intention de nettoyer ma table de travail mais j'ai trouvé d'autres idées. Fait trop sombre pour prendre des photos.Un

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Journey's end?Well this morning it was -10C for the daily walk. Froze my teeth; after 20 minutes they warmed up; adapting to winter conditions.A few more experiments; I haven't even played with colours yet!!La fin d'un parcours?Ce matin il faisait -10C. Comme qui disent par ici, "ça fesse dans le dash". Me suis gelé les dents. Après 20 minutes se sont réchauffées. On s'adapte aux conditions

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Got out the boots and the shovels today; it is snowing big time. Will have to get used to winter driving!The mixture of dots and holey pendants gives this result which in my books is interesting, and opens up a can of holy dots!!Il a fallu sortir les pelles et les bottes aujourd'hui. L'hiver est en train de s'installer dans nos têtes et nos paysages. Il faut réapprendre à conduire dans cette

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I then added a lighter colour layer just to see. I probably won't go any further with this.J'ai ajouté une couleur plus pâle comme couche de fond. Le résultat est... bof! Sans suite probablement. Since I had a lot of little cutout dots on my table, I started playing around with those, no specific purpose in mind.Avec toutes ces découpes, j'avais un tas de petits pitons sur ma table. Sans but

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... and then, I made a pendant after cutting out a circle and draping it on a lightbulb.... et puis j'ai fait un pendentif après avoir découpé un cercle et l'avoir moulé sur une forme arrondie.

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Dentist today:always enjoyable!Voilà le textured/layered pendant.Visite chez le dentiste aujourd'hui, c'est si agréable!Voici le pendentif texturé cuit.Yes indeed, I got sidetracked by the texture. This particular texture is a piece of plastic netting that I remove from the front of potato bags. I have been using these textures for over twenty years in drawings, paintings, pictures and finally

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Magnifique journée d'automne! soit dit en passant!Après avoir travaillé avec un fondu j'ai eu l'idée de travailler avec des couches superposées. Le pendentif devient plus épais donc plus résistant mais il perd sa fragilité aérienne. Teintes pâle vers foncé et foncé vers pâle, etc. Résultats intéressants. Ensuite, j'ai fait des essais avec des découpes de différentes grosseurs placés

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At the half way mark. Patting myself on the back!There is still a.... (arrgh I hate it when I get stuck!!). OK, my pendant story is not over yet but I am getting there.The next thing to try was to use a blend. So, light to dark on top and dark to light on bottom just to see. Interesting results. I made a smaller one (the size of a quarter) and wear it a lot. And I haven't even looked into colour

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Detours and possibilities. Variations on a theme.Playing around with bits and lumps of clay on my table.Détours et possibilités. Variations sur un thème.J'expérimente avec des bouts de pâte.

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Saturday....yipes!! where did the day go? Short and sweet this entry will be. Ouille, samedi et la journée m'a presque échappée.Court net et précis aujourd'hui. The next idea I wanted to try was textures.La prochaine étape: les textures.A smaller one, not as rounded.Plus petit et moins bombé. Another texture to recall the round cutouts and more rounded.Une autre texture qui rappelle les découpes

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After I shaped the sheet with holes in it and draped it on a rounded shape (here a light bulb) I thought pendant. The sheet was fairly thin so the pendant would be airy and delicate. La feuille trouée a été formée sur une forme arrondie. J'ai immédiatement pensé pendentif. Puisque la feuille était mince le pendentif serait aérien et délicat. The dots took on the colour of what I was wearing. I

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Journey.The creative process has always intrigued me. Why, when, where? Lately, I caught myself in the process and have been able to reconstruct it. Choices, possibilities, in-the-moment decisions. I start with inspiration. Inspiration = of the spirit.The spark that gets the juices flowing.Parcours.Le processus créatif m'a toujours intriguée. Pourquoi, quand, où? Dernièrement je me suis surprise

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Finish what you start. The last two pages from my box/book. Actually on both of them I played around with liquid clay. I like the results but haven't gone very far in exploring those. Terminer ce que j'ai commencé. J'ai fait des expérimentations avec la pâte liquide sur ces deux dernières pages. Résultats intéressants mais je n'ai pas poursuivi beaucoup plus loin. Peut-être un jour...

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Today I am trying something different because I want to insert more pictures. Learning process!! They don't seem aligned, but maybe they will be in the blog. Who knows. More pages. Click on them if you want to see them in a larger format.Je fais des essais pcq je veux inclure plusieurs photos. Apprentissage. Zont pas l'air alignés mais qui sait ça va peut-être s'arranger dans le blog!! D'autres

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A few pages from the book/box.Quelques pages tirées de mon livre/boite.

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Yesterday's entry taught me something: no need to make the pictures so big. I love my close-up lens a lot but I shouldn't overuse it. So here is another variation on my theme. It's all about the journey and I am enjoying it.J'ai appris quelque chose hier: il n'est pas nécessaire de mettre les photos en si gros format. J'aime beaucoup ma lentille macro mais il faut que j'en fasse un usage modéré.

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Recently I have been experimenting with the holey pendants I started making about a month ago. Trying some of the many possibilities. For example light to dark or dark to light in three layers, which one works best? Me thinks the dark to light is more effective.Récemment j'ai fait des essais à partir des pendentifs troués que j'ai fabriqués il y a un mois. Une myriade de possibilités: j'en

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Experimenting I love. Trying something new. Clearing the workplace. Starting over.Using those experiments to actually make something that reflects where you are in a specific moment. Sparks of happiness.Book/box Livre/boîte; 7 pages ; 10,5 x 8 x 4,5 cmL'expérimentation. Tenter de nouvelles choses. Nettoyer la table de travail. Recommencer. Utiliser ces nouvelles expériences pour

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Kaleidoscope mosaic/mosaique - 8 1/2 x 13 cm

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A bead that took a long time to make. I used to take the time!Cool and crisp sunny day.J'y ai mis du temps à faire cette perle. Faut croire que j'avais la patience et le temps!Journée froide ensoleillée magnifique.

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If you look carefully (click on the picture) you can see what happens to a cane when it is extruded. You can see it in two of the squares. It can reduce so small you need a magnifying class to see it.En observant attentivement (cliquez sur la photo), vous verrez ce qui arrive lors de l'extrusion d'une canne. On peut la voir dans deux des carrés; en continuant l'extrusion, la canne devient

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This month I am going to try and post on my blog every day. It will consist mostly of pictures of stuff I made recently or a while ago. No specific plan here I will just go with the flow and see where this will lead me.House for a viking mouse 10.5cm x 10.5cmLogis pour souris vikingCe mois-ci je vais tenter de publier quelque chose dans mon blog à tous les jours

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Recently I got back from minding the kids while parents were away. They (the parents of course) all deserve a break once in a while and we were glad to contribute. While they were gone, we went to the park and fed some birds. Needless to say, the little one loved that.Récemment j'ai gardé les enfants de ma fille: un petit congé ça fait du bien (pour les parents bien sûr). Aider un peu, ça fait

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Last June I had this idea for polkadotty pendants that would change colours depending on what was worn.Au mois de juin dernier j'ai eu l'idée d'un pendentif qui changerait de couleur selon le vêtement porté.Loved the effect but the problem was that they were delicate and wouldn't resist wear and tear.- That original one didn't!L'effet était super mais... le pendentif en question était très

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Yesterday in my kitchen, a spider hanging over my counter caught my attention. It's been there for a long time. I figured out how to assemble them a few years ago from a picture on Adria's website (it is no longer active). She assembles lovely canes and loves spiders. I made them to decorate my Christmas tree; needless to say, everybody took one and I don't have any left except for this lone one.

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Been absent for a little while. Time to get back in the groove. Creativity times replaced with family/busy times: two little fellas kept us on our feet for a month. Awakening of the creaking bones....Un mois d'absence: temps de reprendre le boulot. La créativité a fait place à des moments passés en famille; deux petit mousses nous ont tenus en haleine. Les vieux os se sont réveillés... Charles 1

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Another wall piece completed. I am not sure about the shiny black paint; I'll probably redo that. Anyway, I used bits and pieces that I put away in a container (and I have lots of those).J'ai complété une autre pièce murale; pas sûre de la peinture brillante noire; je vais probablement corriger ça. J'ai utilisé des trucs que je sauve au fil du temps; j'en ai beaucoup de ces petits bidules.And I

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...play a trick on my back which is acting up, by keeping busy and doing what I like the most. I put these together this morning. At the Morrisburg Polymer Clay Gathering this spring Louise gave us a class on face canes and quite a few of us made canes. I collected one of each and assembled them to make a wall hanging.J'essaie de déjouer un mal de dos en faisant ce que j'aime le plus. J'ai

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Actually I should be working in my Moleskine (there are four of us working on this project/exchange) right now but I am procrastinating. A good way to procrastinate.... write in my blog. Je devrais être en train de travailler dans mon Moleskine (un projet à huit mains). Mais je procrastine; vous ne saviez pas? ....je suis la pro de la crastination. Au lieu, j'écris dans mon blog.New concept for a

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Here I go again with the titles so I just wrote what's in my head (or needs to be done)! I have finished up this little piece of furniture recently; little meaning 4x5 inches.Mes lunettes sont sales..Les titres, je n'aime pas ça surtout quand je n'en trouve pas. J'écris donc ce qui me passe par la tête... Un petit meuble que j'ai terminé récemment; petit = 10 x 12 cm. The bottom left hand drawer

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I am not supposed to be second guessing what I am going to include in this blog and here I am doing just that. I decided I would stop that right now and just write what is on my mind. Recently I got a new camera and a macro lens to play around with. I love the small world and all the tiny details hidden there. When you take the time, there is so much to see..... In my back yard!Souvent je pense

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What a pretty month here! I hope it is the same where you live. I have been away from my blog for a while because, busy elsewhere. The Morrisburg Polymer Clay Gathering was held for the 8th time at the end of April. I was also the reporter-photographer. You can see my pictures on Parole de pâte where you will get a French version and also on the Morrisburg blog It was a great meeting with a lot

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As a rule, I don't like shiny plastic/polymer clay. But sometimes for artistic reasons,I like to contrast shiny with matte or textured. Also,it can highlight the 3-dimensional possibilities of metallic clays. I gave a glassy sheen to the last book I assembled; it really pops out with a little shine.En général, je n'aime pas les choses qui brillent; mais parfois pour des raisons artistiques j'aime

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It took me about two minutes to make these images! I used the polymer clay "fish-in-the-attic" tiles as a starting point.Passage du temps!!Ça m'a pris environ deux minutes pour assembler ces images; j'ai utilisé les tuiles "poisson-dans-le-grenier" comme point de départ.It took me at least two days to make this polymer clay mosaic!!! Made it in 1998.Ça m'a pris au moins deux jours pour assembler

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Il y avait un poisson dans mon grenierHope your weather is fine for the holidays. Here we are breaking all records for... well, it is summer here!!Je vous souhaite du beau temps pour les vacances de Pâques. Ici nous fracassons les records de chaleur!!

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My French friends love to set up challenges. This one (make something inspired by the Celts) caught my attention. I always wondered if there was a trick to drawing these knots. Googled it and found a video that taught me. If you have a minute, click on the link and try it, it's a lot of fun.Once I was comfortable drawing the knots it was time to try my hand at carving them. Baked a thick sheet of

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Saturday morning last, it was cold. Instead of going out for a walk, I sat down at my work/play table. This came out of nowhere.Un poisson dans mon grenierSamedi dernier il faisait frette (au Québec quand on dit "frette", ça veut dire très froid genre -20°C). Au lieu de prendre une marche, je me suis installée à ma table de travail/jeu. Voilà le résultat.I love it when stuff comes from nowhere. I

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I couldn't resist, it is snowing; we haven't seen snow in ages here. All-time record for this northern neck of the woods.I practised on wax crayons, on erasers shaped like crayons and then, on a clay shaped crayon (my friend Margi made it for me - thanks). Slow process, teaching myself: there are probably easier ways to do it. But then again I like the whole learning experience.Eloge de la

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Since polymer clay allows you to do so many unusual things, I thought that sculpting a piece out of a bunch of colourful extruded bits could be interesting. I made a rough square with a lot of small extruded multicoloured squares. I went for an oval shape. I am not sure that a more intricate shape would be interesting with all those colours. Any detail could get lost because of the colours so I

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And it will be slow posting also.Carving, sculpting, whittling clay. I am not sure which word applies. I guess whittling because my dictionary says:"cut or shape by carving thin shavings from a surface, making repeated reductions." I guess that is what I am doing. All I know is that it is a slow (and enjoyable) process. Every chip removed with a carving tool modifies the shape. Éloge de la

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The skies have been blue for the last month, really blue. Unseen before by moi.Quel bleu!! La couleur de notre ciel: ça fait un mois que ça dure. Je ne me plains pas.I decided to try mokume gane with metal clays to see if the resulting images on the clay would yield a three dimensional effect. It does! (I knew that!!)J'ai décidé de faire un mokume gane avec de la pâte métallisée parce que je

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About ten years ago, I was in Southwestern US, looking for souvenirs when a little ocarina caught my attention! I dropped it and it broke.Il y a environ dix ans, j'étais dans une boutique de souvenirs dans le sud-ouest états-uniens. J'ai remarqué un petit ocarina parmi les trois mille trucs "made in China" et je l'ai échappé. Cassée la bebelle!!! I paid for it and cheap little old me thought she

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I get this newsletter by Robert Genn about twice a week. They are always interesting. The one I got this morning is about the (you guessed it....) anatomy of creative decisions. Go and read it here (just a click away). He says it so well and I thought I would share.And while I am at it, I am going to find a picture because I like to include pictures with every post. So here are a bunch of beads

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...of my creative process on a given day. Last week sitting at my work/play table. Blank. No specific idea. Messy table. Chaos, usual. Little metal rings staring at me. Filled three of them, didn't pursue further. What to do with those? A pendant, a pin? Anatomie... de mon processus de création la semaine dernière. Assise à ma table de travail. Rien. Aucune idée spécifique. Désordre, chaos, c'est

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February 15th: I have have two winners!!! I drew random numbers (90 and 79) a few moments ago, and contacted the winners. The first one is Marina Lenzino, from Florida; and the second winner is: Dorcas Midkiff from North Carolina. I will be sending out my books shortly.... For the second time, I decided to participate in the One World One Heart giveaway. A great way to visit many blogs

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For a while I have been trying to learn how to carve. When I was young, my grand father told me carving was for boys...so guess who always wanted to learn?About ten years ago I started to whittle clay blocs and had the project of making a totem out of them. The project has been ongoing and offgoing for a long time. This year I decided to be more proactive as to carving clay. This site has

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This has been on my wall for over ten years. I thought it appropriate to post it today as it translates my mood very well.Cette plaquette est accrochée à mon mur depuis au delà de dix ans. J'ai cru approprié de la publier aujourd'hui.

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Pretty name to describe snowflakes falling slowly to the ground...Sitting at my worktable yesterday and....nothing. Inspiration somewhere else. So I decided to play with my new camera and test it. I have a lot to learn: the natural lighting conditions were different (sunny and cloudy)."Étoiles flottantes" un joli nom pour décrire les flocons de neige qui tombent doucement vers le sol. Me suis

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Temperature wise, it is not too bad here. I know it is not the same story elsewhere: just grin and bear it because it will eventually go away. Took a nice walk here at -20C! We will have snow permanently for another 3 to 4 months; it is all in the way you perceive it!! OK,we are well equipped to deal with it.Before the holidays, I was working on a mokume gane for book covers. I finished the books

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May you find peace in this new year: peace on this planet, in your respective countries, in your families and in your minds. Thought: if everybody had inner peace, there would be no more wars! A good resolution for moi.Pour cette nouvelle année, je vous/nous souhaite la paix: paix sur la planète, dans nos pays, nos familles et surtout dans nos têtes. Pensée: si tout le monde était en paix avec

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Every year, same story. Run here, run there, run everywhere. Some stuff I will be working on in the next year. Weird occurrence: I finished carving these erasers and out of the blue, I found this paper.... a cool match. Not that I specifically like matching stuff...À tous les ans, la même histoire: cours ici, cours là, cours partout!Petit projet pour l'année à venir.Bizarroïde: quand j'ai fini de

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This is a little spin-off from yesterday's tip. When you laminate different colours of clay to make a mokume gane, the results will differ depending on what colour is on top.Yesterday, I made a sheet of clay with green, blue and fuchsia layers. I had enough clay to cut my layered sheet in two. The first textured sheet I shaved was green on top, blue and fuchsia and I got the result seen in

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I love texturing clay in any way possible. This morning I wanted to make covers for a book because I have leftover scrap paper. I conditioned this horribly dry blue clay (with feet and stomping) and layered it with bright green and fuchsia clay. Looked around for stuff to texture and found these on my work table:J'aime appliquer des textures à la pâte. Ce matin, je voulais faire des couvercles

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It has been sunny here for a while and I am not complaining. That picture of granular clay (in the previous entry) is depressing so I am going to post something else right now. A set of tiles I made recently using old canes I gathered here and there and some I made. Layered them with translucent clays. It reminds me of a window for some reason. Maybe I want to go out and play....Le soleil est

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Does this ever happen to you? Does it make you happy? I have a lot of old clay, very old clay. When I pass it through the pasta machine it looks like this! Please don't throw it away : there is a solution to your problem.Est-ce que ceci vous arrive parfois? Aimez-vous ça? Ne jetez pas ces petites crottes: il y a une solution.First of all you will need a few tools: easy to find, I guarantee you

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...right now in the sky. Recently, I have been sitting at the worktable concentrating on finishing what I started. The new ideas will have to wait... on the other hand, if I wait too long, they will evaporate into thin air but then again, new ones will come.In the last post I had books to finish for my grand daughter and her friend (they did the paper part). Done:Je vois un petit trou bleu dans

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It snowed all day yesterday. A little early for my tastes but hey... may as well go with the flow. The only thing, my carrots are still in my garden under a foot of snow. I hope they are not frozen in there... I took a picture on my daily walk this morning, as I suspected the scenery would be out of this world....it was.Il a neigé toute la journée hier. Un peu trop tôt pour mes goûts ... Mes

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Me thinks/hopes I have finished running around for a while. I am happy to be in my studio and renew contact with all my stuff! Not that I minded babysitting, au contraire. Contact with children is very inspiring. Enfin chez moi! J'espère avoir fini de courailler à droite et à gauche pour un bon bout de temps. Chuis contente d'être enfin dans mon atelier. Ouais, j'ai été garder mes petits. Le

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I had the idea of pushing this "tomato" project a little further: another round of cut outs. I was curious to see what would happen.This is the result. I also cleaned up the picture presentation. For me, this is but a sketch. It will go in my idea box or maybe make a book cover or still I might push it still further...who knows!J'avais l'intention de pousser ce projet "tomates" un peu plus loin

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To follow up on yesterday's post, I wanted to do two things. First of all, blend the cut out shapes into the clay sheet: time and patience required. For that, I use thin paper, an old cut up credit card and I work slowly in circles.I also wanted to take the (almost) same picture with another camera. The picture taken yesterday with my camera has a fish eye aspect (i.e. it is curved in the middle)

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I have these mini tomatoes on my windowsill waiting to ripen and explode with happiness in my mouth. Because frost is a menace here I brought them all in, and each and every day, I pick out the red ones and they contribute to my health and welfare. For fun and with no specific result in sight, I decided to sort them out by colour. Cool blend! "interesting" said I to myself...what next?Y a des

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Taking a walk this morning in the woods nearby, François (that is the dh) reminded me that it was a special date today, i.e. 9-9-9. Got me thinking. It was a beautiful crisp morning and the light had a squeaky clean feeling to it; you know, like when you just washed your windows and look out for the first time: the colours vibrate.My idea was to post something in relation to the date. Got home

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I finally sanded and polished all my bottles and they are ready to go. I have been trying to find a way to take a picture of them and after a lot of fiddling with props and stuff I found this. Enfin, j'ai terminé de poncer, sabler, polir, astiquer mes petites bouteilles. J'ai essayé plein de manières de les photographier toutes pour me rendre compte que la solution était tout simplement sous mon

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At last I can do the happy dance because I covered bottle number 100 this morning.OK I didn't sand and polish them all but I can do that outside and listen to the birds ...and fight off the earwigs (eeeuwww I don't like those)!Enfin je peux danser de joie parce que je viens de terminer mes 100 bouteilles de l'espoir. Sont pas toutes poncées et polies mais je vais le faire dehors en écoutant

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Finally the sun is out! Voici l'histoire: I decided, upon looking at yet another grey day, to play with sunny colours for my bottles. Did a happy mokume gane and guess what...the sun came out. So I took a picture of it in the bright sun and here it is.Now, I am going to make a bottle or two with the sheet.Le soleil s'est enfin montré. Here is the story: Une autre journée tristounette et grise se

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Don't feel like sitting here for two hours trying to come up with a decent title: whatever is in my face right now will do fine.Ça ne me tente pas de chercher un beau titre: je me contente de ce qui est dans ma face!The weather has been cooperating (cool and grey) for claying so I am on my way to reaching the 100 goal for my Bottles of Hope, -a good all around link-. Actually I still have quite a

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I have been making some bottles of hope recently and my plan is to make quite a few of them before the end of summer. My inspiration started to grow thin and I wanted to try something different: but what? I visited Parole de pâte as I do quite often and lo and behold, there was a très kool technique begging to be tried by moi. I went to Cecilia's blog where she generously shares her technique and

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Playing around with letters. "Grouille ou rouille" means USE IT OR LOOSE IT. I made these for my daughter's studio where she teaches Table Fitness, a training method aimed at improving your posture. I have been trying to undo the bad posture I developed throughout my life, strengthen core muscles and move everything that moves. Je me suis amusée à faire des lettres. Je les ai fabriquées pour le

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Now there is a job for you: the payback has its ups and downs.I am making zipper pulls these days. Why? well, I put them in the geocaches I find and this is the season for geocaching. Geocaching? As of now, there are about 830,000 geocaches throughout the world. If your inner child loves treasure hunts, this is for you. They are all over the planet: check it out!!Tirer des zips Un boulot qui

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Do you ever have these days where you have so many things you want to do that you don't know which ones need to be done? House to clean, windows to wash, fridge, stove, garden to plant (well it's too cold for that), clothes to sort. So you decide to play with clay instead (stuff can wait eh?) but things don't get any better when you confront all the stuff at your worktable: I want to finish some

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Four tiles made 12 years ago, part of a project that never saw the light of day...The project: make four tiles of the same size (5x5cm) every year to see what would come up. I never got around to it.Twelve years later... will I? won't I? why not? These tiles each measure 5x5cm or 2x2 inches.Projet perdu?Quatre tuiles fabriquées il y a déjà 12 ans, partie d'un projet qui n'a jamais vu le jour. Le

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Having a strong fiber connection, I always loved weaving because it reminds me of life: wax and wane, inside and out, high and low etc. Early on I tried to weave the clay but it was complicated with strips of clay sticking to each other and the impossibility to adjust them. So I found this way to make faux weaving. And now, decide to share. Truc #22: On fait semblant qu'on tisseLe tissage c'est

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Last week at the Morrisburg Polymer Clay Gathering, I taught a class about making a book. My knowledge is limited: I am at the point where I am not aware of what I don't know! It was a very simple - I didn't say easy - class. I taught all that I knew. Now I want to learn more about bookmaking, however I want to stick with Coptic stitching. I like that kind of binding because the books lie flat

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Last weekend (Thursday to Sunday) we held our seventh annual Morrisburg Polymer Clay Gathering. Year after year clayers come and have a great time: we leave all worries at the door, the outside world doesn't exist anymore. Thirty five smiling and enthusiastic participants: claying, classes, no need to prepare meals, reconnecting with friends who share the same interest; it is an obvious recipe

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42 reasons you should visit (or maybe not) the following sites:42 raisons pour visiter (ou pas) les sites suivants:If life dull? La vie est-elle platte?Did you have a busy day? Avez-vous eu une journée bien remplie?Are you stressed out? Êtes-vous stressé?Do you live in a crowded city? Vivez-vous dans une ville encombrée?Do you live in a tacky town? Vivez-vous dans une tite ville ennuyeuse?Do

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For one reason or another, my life is full of synchronicity. Here is a cool one. In my last post I said I would not throw out polymer clay in the garbage: actually I have been pretty good at keeping this resolution for a while now. Now that I make it public what happens? This:Pour une raison ou une autre, ma vie est remplie d'évènements synchroniques: lors de ma dernière entrée, j'ai dit que je

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To celebrate mother-earth today I thought I would talk about using the elements she so generously gives us and most of the time we don't even see. Went outside and looked around me and saw plenty. First of all, the snow is just about melted here; there is just a little patch left in my back yard so I am going to make the most of it because it won't be there tomorrow!Afin de célébrer le jour de la

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Actually the thirty other ones are in my head somewhere!Les trente autres trucs sont en quelque part dans ma tête.This one is all about shaving off thin slivers of clay from a sheet of clay.You can use this tip for the mokume gane or the mica shift techniques.For making a mokume gane, you usually stack up different colours of clay laminate them into one sheet and then make an impression upon this

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Six weeks later, and this is the view from my window! Not as pretty as the picture in the previous post but the snow is slowly melting... yay!Six semaines plus tard. vue de ma fenêtre! C'est un peu moins joli que la photo précédente: la neige est en train de fondre.Youppi!Got back recently from the other side of this vast country (Rossland BC). Glad to be home, sad to be away from this part of my

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This is what I can see, right now. When I get back with the arrival of spring, I will take the same picture to see the changes. "Go west old girl", is where I am going; will be getting acquainted with a new little being making his/her debut into this world. I will also get to play with Henri, the 2 year old big brother.In the meantime, here is a picture of the little tiles I really enjoy making/

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Today I skied on a carpet of clouds. Maybe they fell from the sky. It was divine...Another reason for making books is that it gives you an opportunity to invent four different surfaces. Don't forget that you can paint, sculpt, apply/invent textures, mix colours, use moulds, apply mosaics, well you know, the sky is the limit. Here are some books that I made recently and finally got to

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...I would be a bookworm. I love libraries, book stores, the smell of leather books, I love to handle them and read them, alter them and write/draw/paint in them! Which brings me to the subject of book making. I have always been interested in making books and polymer clay lends itself well to this craft: the covers are easy and so much fun to invent. I made a lot of books: all clay books, box

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Vous arrive-t-il de travailler à un projet et de trouver que les restants de pâte sont quasiment plus intéressants que le projet lui-même? Ça m'arrive souvent quand je fais des mokume ganes: je les mets tous de côté, je finis par les empiler, je les regarde, parfois je les passe au four. Souvent à reculons, je les mets en boule et hop dans le bac des retailles de pâte qui servent à faire des

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I really don't know what normal is yet: because this blog was started at the same time as the One World-One Heart event, and I became a participant. It brought a lot of people to this blog, most of them only to see what the giveaway was and to leave or not to leave a message (that is the question!). So I guess it will become more quiet here and that will be "normal". My giveaways are going to

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