Making beads

Spent most of the day putting polymer clay beads in, and then taking them out of, the oven, and wow, there are some quite variable results.

For one thing, caning still eludes me. Or rather, actually making the canes is okay, I'm progressing with that, but making the jump from a cane to a bead-with-cane decoration...that's not so okay. So at the moment I've got a bunch of canes that will probably sit for days until I decide they will be prettier as scrap swirl lentil beads and have a fit of smooshing and swirling.

For another, bright, bright colours scare me. I tried to overcome the fear by making orange and yellow striped beads, but that experiment failed when I removed them from the oven and flinched. They're not bad beads, but gosh, are they bright. So very...very...bright.

But that's the thing about polymer clay. It's so, so fun to play around with and perform experiments on (mwhahaha) and even if the end results look weird, at least you got to pummel squidgy stuff for a while :D