For yarn, it goes like this.
From American Craft (cool) to Krafty Kelee's Konsignment Korner (not cool):
Weaving
Knitting
Crochet
Macrame
Although I can knit, due to a knitting injury back in ought-five, I usually just crochet. Did I say knitting injury? Geez, I meant a professional ice hockey/X-treme wilderness survival challenge/saving the dolphins injury. Very dangerous but important. Not to distract you from my wimpiness, but check out this cute picture of my big cat in a tiny box.
Since I crochet, I'm already near the bottom of the yarn hierarchy. And I've been considering marcrameing a belt, but I can't decide if it'd be worth dropping me down to that bottom category. Especially since I don't wear belts.
In the clay world, it goes like this:
porcelain
stoneware
earthenware
liquid slip
polymer clay
I rank well here since I mostly use porcelain. Whew. Nice save.
Down at the bottom of all lists are any crafts involving seashells and including the phrase “melt-n-pour.”
That is why I am so embarrassed to tell you what I've been doing these days. In a moment of weakness during the Holiday of the Spring Break, I bought some polymer clay with my kids' persuasion. I really can be easily influenced. Purple and green and with glitter. With glitter, for pete's sake. Polymer clay is not cool. It's too cheap to get started using, too easy to access, and too non-deadly to make it very cool. Here I am trying to go professional in crafting, and I am starting up in a new uncool craft. And with glitter!
It's just that the colors are so nice. They mix so well together. The more you use the clay the easier it gets to use. The results are so immediate. It's challenging and surprising and whimsical and tactile and exciting and easy. And with glitter!
I love how even when two colors are almost totally mixed, there will still be a very thin stripe of one color. And unlike play-dough, mixing two colors together does not take you immediately to brown. I'm smitten. Addicted. Obsessed. I've been having dreams where I'm mixing the clays. Then I wake up and lay there thinking about mixing more colors. I am late in my self-imposed deadline in writing this blog because I'd rather be playing with the clay than tell you about playing with it. My family does not know how lucky they are that I actually got around to cooking Easter lunch.
I've been watching YouTube tutorials, Google imaging polymer jewelry, and following this lady on facebook.
I've bought no new tools (though I have my eye on a pasta roller and an extruder).
I invented a striping method accidentally while trying to find a new way to mix colors. It did not work for mixing the clays, but I am loving the striated layer effect. And with glitter!
And now I will answer to WSB FAQ which is What Should Be Frequently Asked Questions.
Why are you always using colors that are so bright?
Because bright colors are awesome.
Why are they all rectangles?
Because the simple shape accentuates the color patterns.
Why are you so awesome, in general?
Good genes.
Are the earwires sterling silver and shaped by hand?
Yes.
Will you be making more?
I already have.
Can I trade you cash for the ownership of a pair of these lovely earrings?
Yes. That is called "purchasing" or "buying" the earrings. They are available online here at my etsy shop or in real life at The Flying Disc at 342 Main Street in beautiful historic downtown Enosburg Falls, Vermont.
Did you really injure yourself knitting?
Yes. Then I reinjured my shoulder lifting a blanket to cover myself up. Injured enough that I had to go to physical therapy. Physical therapy for a knitting/blanket-lifting injury. Now you see why I am so concerned about not decoolifying myself.
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