Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Finished!   After 2 days of trying several techniques, this necklace is finished!   I started out thinking it would be cool to make links from polymer clay with some brownish clay, some cutters for the links and complete a quick project.   Cutting the links was the easy part.   Deciding how to attach the links and what to combine with them was more difficult.   The links were baked.   I drizzled Sculpey Bake and Bond and dabbed Pearlex Powder on the baked links to add interest and baked again.   Holes were drilled for metal rivets and the links are ready.     Later I realized I needed to put color accent on the back sides and again drizzled the Bake and Bond and Pearlex Powder.   Baked the links a third time.   Next came stringing the group of beads with flex   wire and using crimp beads to attach the group to 18 g jump rings.   Testing by pulling the flex wire parted the jump ring.   GRRRR!   Maybe soldering the jump rings closed would solve the problem.   When I tried that I b

Peter loves me!   He has spent many hours/ weeks/months (take your pick) making me an 8” deep cabinet that fits under the overhang of the peninsula between the kitchen and the dining room.   It is made of maple, glass and love.   There are five lighted sections.   It is a beautiful place to display and enjoy family treasures.   When the glass doors were installed, I was given bronze plastic rectangles to apply where I wanted.   They were to keep fingerprints off the glass.   They were ugly!   What to do? One of my favorite china patterns is ‘Thousand Faces’.   I love the bands of color and the gold overlay.   Polymer clay was just right for making a cane similar to the color bands of the china.   I decided to make a thin black box for the cane.   This is the cane that fits in the black boxes!   I baked it first.   Then I used Sculpey Bake and Bond to adhere the cane to the baked box.   There happened to be a bottle of gold Adirondack Ink in my paint box and a st