Silver Jewellery Workshop Blog » classes http://silverjewelleryworkshop.co.uk/blog Silver And Handmade Jewellery Blog Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Jewellery Making Classes http://silverjewelleryworkshop.co.uk/blog/jewellery-making-classes/ http://silverjewelleryworkshop.co.uk/blog/jewellery-making-classes/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:10:30 +0000 Jewellery Workshop http://silverjewelleryworkshop.co.uk/blog/?p=31 I’ve spent most of this evening preparing for my upcoming polymer clay jewellery class which is on Monday. Five ladies are atttending the class at “Tutti’s” restaurant in Gran Alicant. The owner Sirus lets me use his upstairs room and supplies a delicious lunch as well. We are going to make geometric design polymer beads on silver wire;  bracelet, pendant and earrings. Everything is made from scratch, including the findings. The ladies have a jewellery class about once a month and have learnt, among other thing, jewellery making with art clay silver, silver wire and polymer beads. I always like to practice what I’m going to do beforehand as occasionally something crops up that I hadn’t thought about.

Tonight I had major problems conditioning some of the clay. Some colours are harder to condition than others and crumble a lot, my hands were really hurting afterwards. A good tip is to put just a drop of baby oil on your fingers when conditioning the clay by hand and this helps to soften the polymer. It shouldn’t be a problem on Monday as I am taking my husband and conditioning the clay is his job. Well enough of the talk, the beads are due out of the oven. I’ll post some pictures of the stuff we made on Monday.

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