Winter solstice

 

Winter solstice
Originally uploaded by Tomas flickr

I spent Winter solstice in bed with my best friend migraine....*rollingeyes*
So now I really have to speed up to get everything done minus one day.

I wish you and your loved ones all the best, have wonderful holidays and a great 2010.

Will be back after the 6th of January
Love and Peace!

new Cover!!!

two posts in one day? there must be something wrong with me...*giggle*

Well there is some new I just have to share with you!!! i just got the cover picture of my new book, that will be out some in the first quater of 2010. here it is....tata!!!And here you can preorder it. Do you like it???

And the Winner is:

first of all i want to say sorry, that I am two day late with this. We had unexpectes friends here over the weekend. And one of my tools nearly went to the little tool heaven. So I got complettly off my track . However I am back and I have draw the winner this morning...;-)

And the winner is:

Dos Amapolas!!

Congratulations to you!! Would you please get into contact, so we can sent you your box...;-)

Isnt that a good way to start ones week? I will have one hell of a week, but I am looking forward to get the last bits of my second Polymer Clay book done and hopefully I will be able to do everything BEFORE the holidays start...;-)

Have a great week and leave me a little coment, will you?

Oh and before you shot off, did you have a look at my counter lately? I did! And this is what it looks like:

Wohhhh!!! In not quite 2 year I had over 14.000 visitors! The counter changed some time at the weekend. Since I unfortunately missed it, I thought up another fun little thing for you:

Leave me a comment to this post and tell me, what you like about my blog and what you would like to see more. I have planed some mayor changes to my blog in the new year and I would like to have your input to it. Sometimes during next week I will draw a winner from everyone who wrote a comment and sent off a little gift to you. ;-) How ist that?

Thank you , thank you , thank you!!!!

I just closed the list of entries for our European Polymer Clay People Call: we have over 50 entries from 16 countries!!! Wohhhh! 

I never ever would have hoped for this kind of responds! Thank you everyone how participated!!! This is fantastic! Now the work for us will start!! I keep you informed about the progress!

Give-A-Way!!!!!!

....wohhh!!!

We have put together a little polymer clay box of give aways ( and we might throw in some more things or even make a second box...;-) ). There are a lot of things for you to try out and have fun with....!!! I can already hear you ask the question: and how can I win this box?
Well, here is the deal: we need more people to get involved in our Euro Clay People Project. This means we need more people to know about it. And here is what you can do for us, and one ( or two!) of you will win this prize by doing so:

Post on your blog or website about our call of entries for the Euro Clay People Book and link to my previous post (here!). If you have done this, come back to my blog and post a comment with the link where you have posted about our call of entries. If you have done so I will put your name on the list for the drawing of the give-a-way on 12th of December. Easy, right?
Any quesions? Please ask, someone else might have the same question!
So please link our call and post a comment!!! Spread the word and make my day...;-)

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!), however if you are not able to write in English this is not a must, just an opportunity for you to present yourself!

The pictures have to be of high quality ( one 210 by 130 mm, 300 dpi, four 130 by 100 mm 300 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!

Neue Seifen - new Soap

this is this years beltane soap,
meine Walpurgisseife für diese Jahr


Trying to get slowly back to blogging..;-) Pictures fisrt!
Langsam muß ich mich mal wieder ans bloggen rantasten..mit Bildern...;-)

creative chaos - my studio

...too many things going on at the same time .... my studio is a creative mess! As soon as I have some air to breath I will need to go over a lot in it!

Breaking the ice.....!!!

Broken Ice
Originally uploaded by Emikokolala

...it is so long since the last post on my blog....some of you might even think, I have abondoned this place at all!!! It is not the case .... there is just so little time in my days and ever day I think, why did you not blog today again??
So this is just a short post to break the ice and let you all know I am still here ( hope you are too!) and I will get back to blogging again.
I still do all the things I used to do, like scrapping ( yes Birgit, I still do!!), working with polymer clay, taking pictures and other crafty adventures.
Tomorrow I will go to a long day of lectures about dyslexia ... need to get some more information how to help my daughter with this problem ... but I hope to be back on Monday!!! Have a good weekend, and let me know if you are still here...;-))