Ready, Set ....

Getting ready for my first craft show in about 2 years has turned my house into a disaster area!  Pulling all the display pieces out.  My always helpful daughter pricing. Organizing. Deciding at the last minute that we should change the color scheme for this show ... GO?

My Huge Sign

Bistro Set and Display Trellis

Boxes! Tables! Tent!

You have to have a narrow butt to sit down now!

Stacks leaning everywhere!


Well, I also have stuff to sell!  Trying to get all of that organized, priced and packed for a safe ride in the truck also takes up a mess of space!  (Yes, we say 'mess' instead of 'big' or 'a lot of' in the south!)

First layer of ornaments.

Layer number two.

These are very transparent.
Look beautiful when placed over one of the lights on your Christmas tree!

These have some transparency too.
They turned out looking like camo, but the original design came from
the year I saw a green, brown and gold tree at Cracker Barrell.

I had a cross-making craze for a little while.  I love them!

Jewelry

More Jewelry

More Jewelry

Ring Bowls
All of them were made on the top of light bulbs.

Hearts

Bracelets

Pens
Some have holders.  There are more ... I just have to find them!

So now I must go back to the task at hand

Concord Jubilee

Concord GA

Oct 17 & 18, 2015

Happy Claying!

Extruder Solution

Well, yay!  My Walnut Hollow extruder had a mishap.  Yep, that was a GOOD thing!

I have awful arthritis in my hands and sometimes would use a vise to hold the extruder while cranking.  But I didn't always want to go to all that trouble just for a small amount of extruding.  The Walnut Hollow has a black rubber-ish sleeve over the body.  Well, that sleeve let go and came off the extruder.

You would think that'd be a big old

but NO!!

That led me to find a solution to grasping it... and what a great benefit it turned out to be for my arthritic hands!

To the rescue: GELGRIP

I think I picked this up at Home Depot.  You wrap it around and around the extruder and get a great padded grip!  So now it's not only padded but a bigger grip, too.  My only teeny, tiny criticism is that you have to attach both ends with electrical tape.  But a minor thing, for sure!

So then, the extruder wouldn't fit back into the case with the plastic organizer still in it.  I took that as an opportunity to put a magnetic sheet in the bottom of the case to hold some of my disks.  (In the spirit of recycling, I used an advertising magnetic sheet from a major league baseball team.  I save every magnetic ad I get!)

Maybe this will help some of my fellow clayers that also have trouble gripping their extruders!

HAPPY CLAYING!!