Month: April 2024

I shared last week about my struggle with the April Maker Challenge, https://mieloabelo.com/ah-bittersweet-failure-reality-of-a-makers-life/. This week, I am sharing a success. After not being able to make my beading project work the way I wanted, I switched back to air dry clay. Being so new at this medium, I have not felt quite confident enough to… Continue reading Celebrating success – join me and make butterfly earring dangles

I wasn’t going to post about this, mostly because I hate to sound like I’m whining, but since failure is a big part of my personal experience as a maker, and I’m sure I’m not alone, I thought I would share. The marketplace I am currently partnering with, goimagine, holds monthly themed challenges for seller… Continue reading Ah, Bittersweet Failure – Reality of a Maker’s Life

Continuing in my adventures into air dry clay, I wanted to play with adding some color to wet clay. I tried both mica powder and alcohol ink. I like the results of both. The video using the mica powder was too much editing for my skill level and patience LOL, but I did manage to… Continue reading How to Make Red Dangles Using Air Dry Clay!

This weekend, I finished up the air dry clay experiments I started last weekend. I am pretty happy with how they turned out, and have already used the bowl in some listing photos. It is not perfect, and I probably should have done something else as far as painting the top edge, but it actually… Continue reading Exciting Adventures in Air Dry Clay