Mar 18
Whenever I want to do a small project that doesn’t involve a lot of thought and preparation, I make some of these bottlecap magnets. I bought a special hole-punch which cuts circles of exactly 1″ in diameter, which makes this project go even faster. First I get about 24 bottlecaps, throwing out any that are …
Mar 04
When I made the gingerbread houses for the cover of my epublished short stories I had a lot of extra dough left over. I had this idea in my mind of making an adorable evil robot. Delightfully, the robot is bigger than the houses, so it made a fun diorama for my Christmas party. Something …
Feb 25
I had created the little gingerbread house to use for the new book cover for my short stories and Jeremy took some great photos, but the photos weren’t the right size so we had to re-shoot. It took a few weeks to schedule the second shooting, so I had time to redesign the house to …
Feb 18
I made this because I wanted to do a new cover for a pair of short stories I was republishing, one of which is “Gingerbread House.” My current strategy for book covers is “make something cool and take a picture of it” so I made a batch of dough and created a pattern out of …
Sep 18
I made this because I wanted to spend the afternoon doing art, and playing with polymer clay is a good one-day project. I have a book on making mosaics and mosaic tiles from polymer clay that I have been using as inspiration for a while. I especially liked the icon images, which I took from …
