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Introducing Thing a Day number 28! Yippee!!!! I made it. I made one thing a day for 28 days. I actually made more than 28 but hey whose counting. I went overboard with TAD 28. The front and the back look very pleasing with many layers on either side. The piece is about 3 inches long. I can’t wait to wear it. I really loved learning this technique and it actually saved me from figuring out what the heck I was going to come up with next. Thank you again Lynn Reno

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Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:50:59 -0800 TAD 27 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-27 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-27
TAD 27 are Gold angel wings. It was hard for me to take a picture of them. I had to pair it up with TAD 26 so you can see the difference. One more day left.....

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Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:40:00 -0800 TAD 26 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-26 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-26

TAD 26

While walking down the road I found this angel wing. I looked and looked for the angel to help her put it back on and finally found her. She had already grown another wing and told me to keep this one for good luck. (Lord knows I need all the luck I can get.) I made a bail for it and it became a pendant. I think I want to pair it with my TAD 25.

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Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:20:00 -0800 TAD 25 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-25 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-25

Another fine day in the neighborhood. We had freezing rain yesterday that turned in to only 4 inches of snow. Hubby cleaned my car off this morning so I could go to work. TAD 24 was given to my fhs4e (Favorite hair stylist forever) which turns out to be Gina B my hair stylist. She liked the pendant. She was wearing wing earrings which gave me an idea for my TAD 26. I have been looking at angel wings for some time and wanted to figure out how to make them. I think I have a way of doing it. Will see tomorrow. Thank God it's Friday. 3 more days to TAD. It has just flown right on by.

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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:22:10 -0800 TAD 24 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-24 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-24

TAD 24

Tired and so happy tomorrow is Friday. TAD was made for my fhs4e. They will get it tomorrow.

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Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:54:41 -0800 TAD 23 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-23 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-23

Alright ya'll… It has been one very good day! I walked out of the office at 5:36pm. Can't remember the last time that happened. #2 - I finally figured out my colors for Jana Roberts Benzon's class next weekend. Though I still have to condition a lot of clay. #3 -- I am so excited (jumping up & down.) It took me 4 times to finally get the dang channels to work properly. I love that it finally worked with the industrial scrap technique.  Meet my TAD 23.

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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:24:08 -0800 TAD 22 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-22 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-22

TAD 22

Yep you guessed it.  Industrial scrap pendant once more. Rosie riveter comes to mind. She worked hard, "We Can do It!" Rosie was melting so much metal she decided to make a few pieces of jewelry.

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Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:07:55 -0800 TAD 21 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-21 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-21

Industrial scrap pendant again. Okay really? This is taking off like the steampunk did last year. What is wrong with me? I was reincarnated, that's what it is. I love the late 1800's and think I was once a beautiful rich southern bell that had a beautiful plantation but there were many problems encountered along the way. The Victorian era was there but where the heck did the industrial scrap come from? Hmmm. Later on the rest of the story or please add to it if you know. Thank you again Lynn Reno.

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Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 TAD 20 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-20 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-20
I took the dogs for a walk today. It was so beautiful outside and didn't even wear a jacket. TAD 20 is another Lynn Reno pendant. I love this technique. Not real happy with this turn out but will learn from the experience...

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Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:58:14 -0800 TAD 19 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-19 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-19

Thank you again Lynn Reno for my TAD 19. I made 2 peace signs.

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Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:43 -0800 TAD 18 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-18 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-18

TAD 18

I am so excited! I went to Wal-Mart today to buy a new coffee pot maker. I bought a Black &  Decker. I remembered Dawna S showing how she made a light box and hunted for a frosted plastic ben. There was nothing frosted. I put it back and went around to the next isle where the clothes hangers were and found this tear, puncture resistant material storage ben. Perfect for a light box. Matter of fact I think I have seen the same material used on the expensive light boxes. The first picture is my TAD 18, the 2nd, 3rd & 4th pictures are my light box and the 5th & 6th picture is my TAD 16. I wished I would have had this on the 16th. It took me forever to take the picture to show all the colors. Oh well. Thank you my peep Dawna Sharp.

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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:30:45 -0800 TAD 17 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-17 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-17
TAD 17 was "I can't even draw a stick man" Necklace by Brenda Schweder who was in the Wirework magazine Spring 2011. It calls for annealed steel wire which I didn't have and ended up using artisan wire. I really would love to start working with this annealed wire though.  It literally took me 30 minutes as I had to go to the auxiliary planning meeting at 7pm where we started making the liberty bell out of gold poppies. I am not sure how many gold poppies we had but we need more black poppies for the yolk. Just got home. It took 3 hours to complete this much of the bell. The poppy display will go to state to be voted on to see if it will go to National. Last year our display went to National in Indianapolis.  Wish us luck…. VFW Post 7397 Ladies Auxiliary

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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:10:00 -0800 TAD 16 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-16 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-16

I was so excited to get my Polymer Café in the mail today. A beautiful industrial scrap pendant adorned the cover by Lynn Reno. I had to try it of course for my TAD 16. It was harder trying to take a picture of all the beautiful colors. I love the way it turned out.

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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:40:16 -0800 TAD 15 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-15 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-15

TAD 15 is the same technique as yesterday, cinnabar. What I did figure out; you really need to have a better stamp in order to complete the technique. When I was in Nan Roches' class learning this technique it didn't take so long to sand the piece. We used Japanese molds. The deeper the better I guess. I need to go to www.ebay.com

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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:22:36 -0800 TAD 14 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-14 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-14

TAD 14 Polymer clay - Cinnabar technique that Nan Roche taught me in Wisconsin. It requires a lot of sanding but just love the result. Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.

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Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:23:15 -0800 TAD 13 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-13 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-13

TAD 13

3 pendants made, sanded and buffed. These pendants were made of scrap clay. I spent the day completing paper work to bring to my accountant. YUCK! It's done now and I am happy. Hope this week will be a good one. Sure hope tomorrow is a better day.

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Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:55:41 -0800 TAD 12 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-12 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-12

TAD 12: The first picture is the back of a bead created using mokume Gane Technique. The 2nd picture is the front. The 3rd picture is the bead exchange from the KC Polymer Clay Guild 2010. I wired them together and still need to finish the clasp. The 4th picture is a chunky bracelet, again a mistake that I made today at the Kansas City Polymer clay guild quarterly play day. The channel bracelet came out great but the white and black circles that I replaced did not fuse together during curing so number 4 of being unsuccessful. You would think I could get it right the 4th time, but ohhhh nooooo. It was so great seeing TAD hesshatcreek. I owe her money for lunch. She will be coming back in March. I shall buy her a big margarita to pay her back.

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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:39:07 -0800 TAD 11 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-11 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-11

I had a long day. Work of course then to the post for steak dinner. We sold 83 dinners and guess who washed all of the dishes? Yep it was me. I had wonderful help thank goodness otherwise I would still be there. When I was growing up I hated washing dishes. I guess when you are washing dishes for 83 people it just makes you want to do more dishes. All the proceeds go to the VFW men for a new roof for the post. My TAD 11 is 2 pendants. The first picture is made with small flower canes. I used paper tag round metal to surround the piece and painted the edges with silver metallic paint. the other  pendant is 20 gauge wire and my tiny flowers. Until tomorrow.Both had resin on top.

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Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:29:07 -0800 TAD 10 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-10 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-10

Talk about not being creative this evening. I tried all kinds of things and ended up trying to recreate one of my pendants that broke. Of course that is very hard to do especially when you are using the Mokume Gane technique. The first picture is my TAD 10. The next picture are small pendants that I made too. The last pendant is the one that I broke and heated it up again and cut it straight to fix it. It was my favorite one. Darn the luck. I still need to sand and buff TAD 10.

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Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:51:41 -0800 TAD 9 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-9 http://spyckgn.posterous.com/tad-9
Ya'll the 1st picture is TAD 15 from last year. My steampunk got pregnant. It takes a steampunk mother 1 year to give birth to her babies. Why, you say? Well she has a litter. Due to the steampunk babies being born a little early they came out with yellow jaundice. It took a few days but they are jaundice free now and steampunk mom is so excited to have her babies. She heard they will be sporting as charms for 6 other creative artists that are participating in a charm exchange..

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