A little more progress and fun with the girls

We had an impromptu craft night at my place this past Sunday. Cora and Tricia joined me to play with clay. We learned a couple of things:

1. The sparkly polymer clay is harder to condition. I'm not sure we ever really got it to work

2. I live in an icebox which makes it even harder to condition clay.

Since it's easier for me to throw on a sweater and warm up than it is for hubby to cool down, icebox it is. Oh well. :) We've started sitting on our clay to help warm it up. There were jokes flying about that on Sunday.

I taught both Cora and Tricia how to make a Skinner blend. Cora got far enough along that she was able to make a rose cane:

Cora's Rose Cane:

Tricia didn't get as far, she only finished her Skinner Blend:

While they were working, I was using the new bead roller and rolling out beads galore. I used remnant clay from other projects. I just smashed a bunch of it together and then rolled it out. The different colors swirled together to make a cool marbled effect.

Here is a close up on the burgundy rose beads. These are for Nizz's rosary. They are a little bigger than I planned on. I think for Cheez's rosary, I will hand roll the base and use the roller for the finished bead.

I really like how the beads are turning out and can't wait to see the finished product. It's slow going since I picked up the 2nd job at Michael's. So, that cuts into my crafty time a bit.

One of these days I will pick my quilting back up. I just need to get the Christmas presents done first.