Review of Winter Holiday Tutorials

12-09-06: 'Holiday Stress' Post to the ClayMates

December 2005 Highlights

Religious Holidays 

Checking highlights from past years one can find tutorials for seasonal items like poinsettias.

Poinsettia Screen Shots, thank you Denise.

Poinsettia Pen Index, using the left over poinsettia cane to cover pens.

Food Index

Thanksgiving Left Overs and Preparing for the Holidays

" Religious folk worldwide observe many seasonal days of celebration during the month of December. Most are religious holy days, and are linked in some way to the winter solstice." So starts the overview on the Religious Tolerance Site, go check it out. 

SugarCitrus

Use New Ice with the New Orange Tute and get sugared citrus, a holiday favorite from the days before refrigeration. 

Cured with a Finish, check out the difference with the Iced Lemonade with and without a coat of finish. Use Future, or a discount acrylic floor polish, or use flecto verathane if you want. I want things cheap so I use the discount floor polish. 

12-04-03: Cured but with no Finish on them yet.  

Indian Corn: See the 1998 link for the original Indian Corn experiment.  Your Kwanzaa mini display wouldn't be complete without some . It's easier than you think.

http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml

That's a website that is devoted to Kwanzaa and I
admire the principles that this celebration honors.
The principle I admire the most is to honor
creativity.

"Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. "

As artists we are the cultural glue in our community. When we allow ourselves to be creative we are making our individual communities more beautiful.

It is the focus of CITY-o-Clay to nurture and encourage each list member to believe it is not only their right but their duty to be creative. In so doing we are making the world a better place.

Miniaturists can take a page out of the beader's book and use the Natasha trick to make mini food. This example uses the under ripe banana colors. Change the color and you can do French fries, with the brown crispy edges.

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