Call for Entries: Euro Polymer Clay People

Euro Polymer Clay People
- A Photo Album of European Polymer Clay Artists and their Work-

The International Polymer Clay Association has gone international this year and there is a growing community of Polymer Clayers in Europe. The connection to America is still quite weak and only a couple of European artists are household names on both sides of the big pond. In February 2010 the Synergy II Conference will take place in Baltimore. At this meeting a lot of connections are made, but this is not a road
many Europeans can travel.

With all this in mind an idea was born: the idea of a photo album of European Clay People and their work, which will travel to the Synergy Conference in 2010.

This Photo Album will show the wide variety of European Clay Work in its present state (that is in 2009), but to show it, we need YOU!!!! All of you Polymer Clay enthusiasts in Europe!

We will select a good number of people, that will have the opportunity to show their work: Five pictures of their work (one bigger and four smaller ones), your Name, City and Country, a contact Email or URL, and, if you like, a small picture of you. We would like a short description of you and your work (about 200 - 300 words, in English. This text will not be edited, so please, send it in in good English!).

The pictures have to be of high quality ( one 210 by 130 mm, 400 dpi, four 130 by 100 mm 400 dpi) and uncut. Preferable unpublished, but that is not a hard and fast rule. However if your work has been published anywhere else already, do state so, please!

We do especially encourage new faces and of all European countries (including Israel and Turkey) to send in their entries.

There is an option of buying a printed version for everyone after the Synergy Conference in February 2010, if there is enough interest in it. The price will depend on how many people show their interest in this project.

We hope this call for entries will be of interest for a great number of European Clayers and we are looking forward to seeing your work! Please do send your work in before the 10th of December 2009. The ones we select will have to sign an agreement, which will give us permission to publish their work.

Please, forward this call of entries to other European Clayers, who you think might be intrested in sending their work to us!

If you do have any additional questions, please do send us an Email, and we will be happy to help you!

Anke Humpert ( anke@webgetables.de ) and
Martina Weller ( info@marweldesign.de )

Bonjour - Auf Wiedersehen!

(my work from the workshops)

...... it feels like I have just come back from France, and I am allready backing to go again! So bear with me, I am a little short of time right now.
I had the most phantastic time at the Euro Clay Carnival in the South of France in Luc-sur-Orbieu. I meet so many nice people from a whole bunch of countries, and of course some old friends, too.
The workshops were all just to good to be true and each one of aour teachers where the most fantastic persons all in their own right. I was soooo glad I did go an could take part!

A special Thank to Kylee for beeing such a wonderful organizer of this event!

Originally uploaded by sissywiesner

v.l.t.r. Donna Kato, Carol Blackburn, Bettina Welker, Kim Cavender, Julie Picarello, Natalia Garcia de Leániz


As I said, I am packing again allready. This time it will not be as far away: I will go to the annual Workshop of Polyclaykunst.de , the German Polymer Clay Guild. This year I will not teach, but there will be enough work for me, too...;-) I will meet more old and new friends again, and Donna Kato and my co-presidents from the German Guild: Bettina Welker, Kerstin Rupprecht, Ulrike Schaffrath and Martina Weller. Cant wait to see you all again!

..to much work

...right now I just have too much work going on here. feelslike its never going to end. I am working on three different book simultaniously, doing new materoal tests and trying to get some more art work done. Its just too much! Now and the I need a little break and so some thing different. I love earings and they are small projects, so just the right thing to do in between...

....die Zeit fliegt nur so vor sich hin

....und ich hab so viel zu tun! Aber das meiste davon darf ich nicht zeigen, es wird noch eine ganze Weile dauern. Daher zeig ich Euch mal ein paar Fotos von kleineren Projekten, die ich zwischen durch gemacht habe...;-)

Time flies like crazy and I am soooo very busy. But most of my projects I can not show you now...it will still be s long time before they will be revealt. So I just show you some smaller projects I have been working on inbetween...;-)

Lavande d´Ardech eine marmorierte Lavendelseife

Rapunzles Rettung, neue Schampooseife

Golden Buddha ( oder der pickelige Buddha) zusammen mit Andrea gesiedet

Japanseife vom Länderschieber im NSF

Stromboli, gesiedert zusammen mit Andrea

meine neuen Ohrringe

Claudias neue Ohrringe

Sissy´s neue Ohrringe

Rote Liebe - Red Love

...der Zwerg hat ganz doll mit mir geschimpft, das ich meinen Block so vernachlässige...;-((
Eigentlich hat sie ja recht!!! Ist schon wieder viel zu lange. Irgendwie komm ich einfach nicht dazu.
Okay aber heute zeig ich Euch was ich gestern nacht noch gemacht habe: meine neuen Mini-Badebomben: "Rote Liebe"

Da Bomb

...my very first bath bombs!!! And I love them...;-) Quickly made and rock hard! Scented with Lemon-Verbena and Lavender ( green ones) and with BrownSugar and Fig ( pink ones). Two go to my nice, who is celebrating her 21th birthday tonight...;-)
Meine aller ersten Badebomben! Ich liebe sie...;-) Beduftet mit Lemon-Verbena und Lavendel ( die grünen) und mit BrownSugar and Fig ( die rosanen). Zwei davon ist für meine Nichte, die heute abend ihren 21sten Geburtstag feiern wird!

Und hier noch ein paar Dinge, die ich Euch noch nicht gezeigt habe:.....wieder ein geschitzter Stempel für meine lieben Freundin A. und noch ein paar andere Kleinigkeiten für sie...;-)
And some more things I have not shown you till now:
Another handcarved stamp for my dear friend A. and some other little gifts for her...;-)

....new day, new pictures

yesterday I got a surprise parcel from sweet Eva, she send me some heavenly soaps....;-) Who would not be happy about something beautiful as this???? Her rainbow soap is just unbelivable! The little hart soap was just the right surprise for my daughter, who is working so hard for her theater preformance new weekend. So she got the hart soap...and , of course, loved it...;-)

gestern hab ich ein Überraschungspaket von Eva, bekommen, sie hat mir die absolut wahnsinnigsten Seifen geschickt.... ;-) Und wer würde sich nicht über so eine Überraschung freuen? Ihre Regenbogen Seife ist schier unglaublich! Die Herseife ist genau die richtige für meine Tochter. Sie arbeitet im Augenblick so hart für ihren Theaterauftritt nächste Woche. Sie hat sich so darüber gefreut...;-)
There is color everywhere now .... even our neigbour seems to hang up her washing sorted by color..;-)
Im Augenblich ist alles voller Farben....sogar unsere nachbarin schein ihre Wäsche farblich sortiert auf zu hänegen...;-)
Sky over France ... as seen out of our dining room window .... the best place to watch the evening sky!
der Himmel über Frankreich ... wie man ihn aus unserem Wohnzimmerfenster sieht ... überhaupt der beste Platz umd den Abendhimmel zu beobachten!