Positively Charming Things

Every week a member of Polymer Clay Smooshers guild will be featured on my blog.  This week, it's our hardworking guildmaster, ColtPixy. Star lives in Tennessee with her husband, and has been working in various arts & crafts mediums for years.  She's worked with acrylic and watercolor painting, stained glass, mosaics, and currently her focus is with polymer clay. She has a variety of jewelry and miniatures in her studio.  Here are a few of my favorites: You can also find her at her blog.

I missed last week's featured studio due to my blog issues, so onto this week's - featured studio of the week for Shops with less than (10) sales is Mad Moravian. Scott runs this studio and does beautiful woodworking, creating pens, wine bottle stoppers, and more.  He also does a little work in stained glass, chainmaille, and makes beaded wine glass charms.  Go visit his studio, you may see something you like!

I have my database files back and a clean install of wordpress. If you see any problems let me know.  I know there may be some photo links on featured studio posts that are not working, but that is really the least of my worries at the moment.

Last week after reading how artificial sweeteners like Splenda and Aspartame could potentially goof around with one's triglyceride and blood sugar levels, I decided to give up diet sodas. The week before, my gynecologist ordered cholesterol and other similar blood tests for me as I'd never had them done before, and while everything else was within normal ranges, my triglycerides were slightly elevated at 185.   All I'd had to drink that morning - because I did not know I was going to even have…

The Shops with less than (10) Sales guild's featured studio member of the week is Jewelry by Sherry. Sherry hails from Iroquois, Ontario, Canada, and creates earrings, bracelets and necklaces using natural gemstones, Swarovski crystals and lampwork beads.  Here are a few samples from her studio - go visit!

This week's Shops with Less than (10) Sales guild member featured studio is Kaotic Krafter. Tina creates her products mostly from recycled and upcycled materials, such as old sweaters and the like.  Her daughter, Emma, also helps her designing a few of the items they have for sale in her studio, and the proceeds from sales on those items will all go to Emma (who is currently four years old, by the way!). Here are a few items from Kaotic Krafter: