Woodland Pocket 木目ポケットのいろいろ詰め

Last October, I went to the Clay Carnival in Las Vegas to take a few classes,
This was the Woodland Pocket pendant by Kim Cavender.

but I never finished it.

I have the coned container, but it’s time to fill it with wood land goodies.
So I have to make stuff to fill the insides.

I did talk to Kim about this during the class, but she could’ve taught us this for the whole day and not just a half day.

anyway, let’s get this pockets be filled.

What can I put inside?

I have to make various foresty pieces. Mushrooms, feathers, logs, and small creatures.
You can also have not so recognizable objects.

Once everything is baked, you are ready to insert them into the cones.
I think of this process as Ikebana.

ちょうど去年の今頃ラスベガスでクレイカーニバルっていうイベントに行ってきました。
その時に習った木目ポケットペンダント。
キム・キャディバー先生のクラスです。　最近彼女は手の手術をしてリハビリ中だって事なのですが、
この１０年ほどちょこちょこ見かけるお名前です。
これは小さめにすればペンダントだけど
どうも私は最初から壁の飾りにするつもりでやたらデカイのを作ってたわ。

入れ物は４つもあるのに結局終わらせてないのよ。

こういうのダメねぇ

早速中に詰める物を作る事に。

きのこ、羽、枝などなど他にもなんかわかんないけど色々と作って詰めます。

華道家の気分で。高嶺の花！！

Frost Valley Workshop - Japanese Themed Polymer clay jewelry

I had an opportunity to teach polymer clay at Frost Valley this summer at Family camp.
This is the last week of the summer and not only children, but adults attend the week long camp as family units. 
So they are not specifically looking to do Polymer, but something "Japanese" with our Tokyo group at Frost Valley.
https://frostvalley.org/group-and-family-retreats/families/family-camps/summer-family-camp/japanese-culture-sharing-night/

With that in mind, I had to come up with a plan that's for beginners to polymer with a Japanese twist.
I started by collecting lots of Japanese or asian themed stamps.  Ebay was great.  but I already had a good collection anyway.  Of course Christi Friesen and Lisa Pavelka stamps are always the best.

The problem was that no one will have any equipments.  I have to supply them all. Pasta machines are to expensive to buy for everyone.  I only had 2 and if we started conditioning clay during the workshop, I was afraid we would run out of time.
So I've conditioned the clay the night before.  And gave everyone balled up clay that's already to go. All they had to do was flatten it out with their hands or sticks or glass bottles and stamp them.  You can leave it as is or cut it out with cutters, make a hole and it's ready to be baked. 

While baking, I've supplied them with already made beads so they can practice coloring with alcohol ink, and then think about how to connect all the beads you would have at the end.   

30min would pass pretty quickly and you have your beads baked in no time. 

Once colored, they can glaze it with Kato clear liquid clay, dry it with heat gun to make it shine and it's ready to assemble.