Highlights Index July 2009 - Getting my hands on raw clay again, catching up with the bead production, blogging a bit, and generally getting used to being a single woman again. It ain't been bad, truth be known.

My new crush: Bondage boy on Craig Ferguson Late Show, 07-07-09: RIP Michael Jackson, 07-09-09: Steampunk discussion at CITY-o-Clay, China Mieville's New Book, Blog Post, Second day of Holiday Demo: Abalone Fold Face Tin and Flower Petals and Leaves, 07-21-2009 Scrap Chop, 07-24-09 De-Skewer Beads, Shaved Wave Overlap, Review of Air Bubbles, 07-30-2009: SWOL-Tins Index

07-30-2009: SWOL-Tins Index: SWOL means Shaved Wave Over Lap, taking the shavings off of a wave texture sheet pressed into layers of different colors of clay and slapping the shavings onto a background of shaved wave patterns. See the Shaved Wave Overlap and the Shaved Wave Close up for the how-to.

07-30-09 Review of Air Bubbles

How they happen and what you can do about them.

Wet Sanding Skewers 07-30-2009 Blog post

What's on my worktable and what will be on my work table for the next week or so.

07-26-09: Shaved Wave Overlap. Continuation of the Shaved Wave technique, using the clay that was shaved off and layering it on sheets that have been shaved and pressed. Check the Shaved Wave Close up section to see the How-To, picture 4 especially.

07-24-09 De-Skewer Beads: What is on my work table, taking beads off of the skewer after wet sanding and floor polish finish.

07-21-2009 Scrap Chop: Taking scrap, chopping it up in a food processor, making beads. Show and tell for COC.

07-14-09: As I'm doing house cleaning on my website I find old demos that have two distinctly different topics. Today I gave separate index pages for the two demos done during the 2005 Winter holidays. This way I can add them to the tins page and the flower and leaf page.

These two sections have links to tutorials on how to do the techniques.

12-25-05- Second day of Holiday Demo: Abalone Fold Face Tin and Flower Petals and Leaves

Review of techniques from past years. Most pages will have links to the tutorials that'll show more on how to do these techniques. Links to demo logs on index pages.

Some of you might not know how much I love China Mieville. When Bushyaib told me that there’s a new book coming out we got very excited. So I blogged about it in June, but I'm putting it in for July because that's when I mentioned it on the website. Just a note to myself here when I come back to archive July and wonder... what is this doing here?

07-09-09: Steampunk discussion at CITY-o-Clay.

07-07-09: RIP Michael Jackson Some thoughts after watching the Michael Jackson memorial service on TV.

07-07-09: Well ya know, we got to do something special to celebrate a lunar eclipse. Why not celebrate with some eye candy on my blog? How appropriate for a full moon in Capricorn and Sun in Cancer?

My new crush: Bondage boy on Craig Ferguson Late Show

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