Mokume Gane Pendant

Mokume Gane Pendant
Julie Picarello Style

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Storing Unopened Clay

In 2012, I undertook a total reorganization of my Craft Room. You can see more pix of that in this post.

The barely visible black object in the center of the photo to the left, behind my chair, is my solution to storage for my unopened clays.

I purchased this cabinet at Hobby Lobby.  You may already know that Hobby Lobby discounts their furniture 30% every day. But did you know that you can save an additional 10%? When you get ready to check out, ask the cashier to charge the regular price of the furniture and let you use your 40% off coupon! BTW, I couldn't find a link to it on Hobby Lobby's site.

Make no mistake, I am NOT an organization guru.  In fact, much to the contrary!  But I wanted to have all of my unopened clays in one place so I knew what I was running low on or had available for use.


As you can see, I have a label maker in my craft room. The clays are organized by brand and further by type, so the Premo clays are in a separate drawer from the Premo Accents. The drawers aren't labeled that way because I often have to shift them around when I restock.

There is also a cabinet door at the bottom. You can see a little of it in the picture above right. I use it to store bulk clays. For instance, I sometimes use the original Sculpey when making pen bases or roofs on my fairy houses.



HAPPY CLAYING!

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

LC Ease Update

Lucy's Solution


A week or so ago I posted my "solution" to the nut on the LC Slicer's Ease attachment getting in the way and not allowing you to get the whole cane sliced.  Well, it appears that Lucy Tools is a step ahead of me!!  While looking at the site for the US distributor of her tools, I found that she has a white acrylic block to accommodate slicing!  Here it is:



Now how about that!?!?!

Here's the link to Kimi's site to order in the US:



Happy Claying!

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Annoyance Solved

LC Slicer

     LC Ease

Make no mistake:  I LOVE MY LC SLICER!

However, I found that the nut that holds on the LC Ease in place limited my ability to get to all of the cane.  

BUT ... PROBLEM SOLVED!

I made rectangular blocks of scrap clay as a bumper to allow me to get to all of the cane!  I placed a small piece of parchment paper on the leading edge to keep the cane from sticking to the scrap.


Happy Slicing!