Some more of my Polymer Clay Work

Well, I'm sitting here, thinking about some images I can use as Laser Photo Copies so that I can transfer them to Polymer Clay. Since I've done the Blue Rose, laser copy, its got my mind, just coming up with new ideas to try. Also, I'll enclose another one of my polymer clay pendants, in this post too. Here it is: (BELOW) just a regular pendant with impression on it.

Here is another one: (BELOW)This is my Foil Pendant, basically all I did was make a pendant with Black Polymer Clay, then I took some Liquid Sculpey make a thin layer on the top of the Black Polymer Clay, I cut a piece of Foil of my choosing, and also made it a little bit bigger so that it would hang over the pendant, (this way I could pull it off) When I cooked it, I cooked it at a low 200 degree, temperature for 20 to 30 minutes, watching carefully for signs of overburning, or the plastic melting, because if it melts than you can't pull it off the pendant. If your nervous about cooking at 200 degrees cook at 150 instead and just cook it longer. Half way thru cooking the pendant, I take the pendant out, and pull the Plastic from the pendant, HOPING the Foil will come off cleanly, (it took me several tries to get this right-so beware that you might have to do this more than once!-LOL ) but I think it came out alright by the 3rd or 4th time don't you?

Here is another one of my Pendants: (BELOW) Another one of my pedants with a Flower Impression Stamp on both sides of it, this pendant is colored with Gold, kind of a Rub & Buff product and some pearl ex pigments in the impression part - on the other side its reversed.

Another one of my Pendant Creations: This Pendant BELOW was made with a Cane that I purchased from one of the links on the MY FAVORITES LIST: thru Ebay on her Store. The pendant is only layered on the top and the sides, and the bottom, is black polymer clay.

Here's another one: These pendants BELOW are two that I just recently created, one has a Red and Black swirl and the other one is Turquiose and Copper Polymer Clay, at this point they aren't completely done, both of these pendants have a Polycrylic bump at the bottom, because I dunked them, and let them drip dry, I couldn't figure out a better way to do these type and get a solid coverage, so if anyone has any ideas on how to get rid of the bumps please email me and let me know... Thanks. (ie: The writing just says that I'm not done working on the top in the pendants picture)

Here is another pendant I created BELOW: This kinda fuzzy(not well taken photo) is a picture of a pendant that is black and white, and instead of leaving it round, I thought it looked more like a rock so what I did was take my craft knife and carved the pendant, so each side comes down to a pointed edge, at the bottom, I thought it looked kinda neat anyway.

Here's my first pendant that I created that was the Laser image transfered, I wasn't sure if it was actually going to come out, and its not quite done yet. BELOW:

Here's other kinds of Pendants I created: BELOW:

This pendant below is a Copper Pendant with Stamp Flower (painted)

This Pendant BELOW is a Copper Pendant

with some Pearl EX Pigment in Silver

This Pendant BELOW is a Heart Pendant -but it too isn't quite done as well... I'm hoping it will be a necklace when I'm done..

Here's some more Pendant(s): This Pedant to the Left; is a Bead pendant with my own cane which is a swirl cane. The Cane to the Right; is a pendant that is made with Polymer Clay in Blue and White with some Pearl mixed in.

This Image below is the start of a pair of Earrings, with Red Polymer Clay with a touch of Orange, on the front side and Black Polymer Clay on the Back of them. I also used an impression stamp (texture stamp) to give it a little texture)

Those where the images of my Pendants and pieces that I've done, since before I started this blog, I'm hoping as I keep working at it, it will eventually get a lot better in style and in photo taking..LOL Well, don't be shy email me and let me know what you think or even if you have and suggestion, email me at: jewelry_by_kimberley@cox.net hope to hear from you!

Well, its about 2:12AM E.S.T here, and I guess I should be getting to bed. So, I'll be going for now.. write more later on.

Excited about my new Chair and a little background info..

Well, I'm really excited, about tomorrow, I've been waiting for my new "electric" wheelchair for a long time now, and tomorrow, hopefully everything will work out where they will be delievering it to my home. For those of you who haven't checked my profile, yet, you might not know that I'm disabled, I have a disability called "Spina Bifida" there are different kinds of Spina Bifida, and I don't have one of the worst ones, but still when I was born, I had problems with my Spine being exposed, and what happened was when they cut the part that was exposed it had nerves in it, leaving me partly paralized from the waste down, at least in the beginning anyway. Before 1998, I was able to transfer in and out of my manual wheelchair, and in and out of cars, able to wheel all over my town here and there, but in 1998, I had what was suppose to be a simple spine untethering, where they remove scar tissue away from my spine, that was made during birth, and well, something went wrong, after my surgery which was right before Thanksgiving, I was sent home, While being home, I wasn't able to do much of anything including help my mom with anything, After much arguing with my neurosurgeon, he said fine, and I was taken back to the hospital everything looked like I'd be home in a day or two, and then all hell broke loose, I started to get really bad headaches, and nausea along with vomitting, this went on for a long time, during that time I was in a Rehab Center, near the hospital, and I kept telling them something is wrong, they choose to believe it was constipation, and were treating it like that, well after a month of that, (none of it worked) and by then Christmas was coming up, and I wanted to go home for the day, most of the Rehab people who could did, Christmas Eve while my family was home celebrating the evening, I was in Rehab discovering that what had been all of these headaches and nausea and vomitting, was really because I was leaking spinal fluid out for my wound in my lower back. The nurse there, was helping me change for bed, when she suddenly realized my back was dripping fluid. Well the next day was Christmas and as scheduled I somehow managed to get ready and get in my parents car and go home for the day, I mean after all it was Christmas no Doctors would be able to see me, and they would have to be requested anyhow, I knew the risks, of the leakage, and it had already been a month of it doing it, and I was still alive -Thankfully, By 8:30pm E.S.T I was already ready to go back to the Rehab Center, where I was staying, when we got back, we found out my neurosurgeon would be in to restitch me, They tried for 4 days unsuccessfully, only to then on Jan 4th, have to take me back in to the Operating Room, or "OR" and reopen my wound and stitch it closed once again, hoping it would stop the drips, when I got out of surgery, I went back to the Rehab Room, not planned, but still thats where they wanted me, and could do nothing for a few days no Therapy, no nothing. my back had to heal. It took until Jan 15th, for everything to finally get better, and I was finally able to go home that day.

A few weeks later, I woke up unable to breath, and it was determined that I need to go back into the hospital because I had pneumonia, I spent 4 weeks in the same hospital I had my back surgery at but while I was there this time, because I was screaming in pain, the nurse accidently overdosed me on pain medication. Needless to say that was the last time I was at that hospital. After 4 long painful weeks, I finally got to go home. Things were great yet thou, I was in and out of the hospital for back pain issues until one morning in October of 99, I woke up around 6:30am, with a really really bad headache, and I couldn't stand looking at the light, and wanted to cover my head, When I got to the hospital it was determined that I had meningitis, at this point, I said, what else could go wrong, geez,... and I was then told that my shunt, and shunt (a pump I had in my head since birth) had to be removed, now here I am, I have long hair, and they need access to my brain area, Oh hell no..... well, thankfully, the doctor knew I was growing my hair, and didn't shave it all off on me, I was so happy once I woke up to see my hair on, I didn't even notice that my face was all beatup...LOL . After all of that I was finally able to go home, and I believe I was home just in time for Thanksgiving, a year of everything going wrong.. things still aren't back to normal now, I've been left with constant pain in my lower back, I'm on really bad pain killers all day, I'm not able to push myself around my town anymore, or do much of anything myself anymore, and now my legs are swollen all the time, making transfering in and out of my bed harder because I can't lift them, So, that is why I'm finally getting an electric wheelchair, after years of my parents telling me no, I don't need that, I'm finally at the point where I do.

On a side note, I had a second dose of pneumonia only a few years ago, thankfully, we caught much of it, this last time, and it wasn't as bad as the first time.

Well, I guess I'll be signing off for now, I'll drop another post later on tomorrow sometime.

Bye for now.

SOME OF THE POLYMER CLAY PENDANTS I'VE MADE ... MORE TO COME LATER

THIS IS MY RED & BLUE HEART WITH IMPRESSION ON BOTH SIDES ALONG WITH MY PINK HEART (THAT WAS PAINTED)

THIS IS MY BLUE EARRINGS AND NECKLACE WITH PAINTED FLOWERS (BELOW)







THIS IS THE PENDANT I MADE JUST THE OTHER NIGHT, ITS A BLUE ROSE THAT I USED A LASER COPY AND RUBBING ALCOHOL TO TRANSFER THE IMAGE TO THE POLYMER CLAY. MOST PEOPLE TOLD ME I'D HAVE TO USE REAL ALCOHOL BUT I FOUND THAT RUBBING ALCOHOL WORKS JUST AS GOOD. JUST LOOK AT THE IMAGE BELOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Well here are 3 images of some of my work, I hope to put up more but I seem to be having a lot of problems putting them up, and making them go into the correct positions, you'll have to forgive me, I would write a lot more, here today since I'm new to blogs but just putting up these 3 pictures was a struggle, and so now, I need to sign off, and have a drink or two, just to recover..lol, Why can't they ever make things easy? I know that the new Microsoft Word 2007 makes it easy but I unfortunely don't have that one, I also can't believe the window in this things is so small, what the heck were they thinking? I guess I'll have to write them an email and tell them they need to make their edit window bigger.