Chirstmas Market starts from Monday!

Gosh one year has definitely passed by like the wind. Here I am back at Piazza di Cinecittà (near the metro station Subaugusto) and I will be here for the next 2 weeks with all the inconvenience of going to public toilets. Anyway, here's a couple of pictures of what you can find at the christmas market. They come as a set and will be packed in tubes ready for gift giving. Tommorow's going to be a busy day preparing the area, hopefully the weather cooperates and we can all open our stalls!

Christmas order to Turramurra

Now that the festive time is approaching, I am starting to get orders which is absolutely great for me! Hi N&C here are the photos of the items you have ordered. Take a look and reply if its fine to go ahead with the listing and shipment. Thank you.

Last market at Trastevere

Well, What can I say, I will be sad to not be able to do the Christmas market at Trastevere, but can't really do anything about it since my association planned not to do the authorization process which had to be very comprehensive.

I do hope that there will be people these three days that will have plans to buy presents early.
During december I will be at Piazza Cinecittà from 7 to 24 december.

These are some pictures of stuff I did for this week. I am doing more salad serving sets now, in basic black and white but the all-time favourite with everyone....

Importance of opacity

I always encounter people who dabble in polymer clay work sometimes that their colours darken after baking or dont stay true. This is usually because of the opacity of the colours and it can be corrected simply by adding white specifically opaque white.
Working with Cernit, I have to stress the importance of buying the opaque white which will help in improving the colours. the picture below shows Cernit's white before baking and after baking on the right. As you can see, the white is darkened by the black slightly before baking and worsens after baking. the left cane uses an opaque white and the colours did not alter.Cernit do have an opaque white. Try to go to specialized craft shops instead who may have a wider range available.
So look for the "opaque white" Cernit instead of the normal "White" if it is suitable for your application where translucency is not wanted. Here are some simple canes I made.
If you dont intend to use white in anyway for your canes, it is still advisable to use opaque white as a background when you apply your cane slices. like these hair clips that were made, they all have a white background.
Oh and as usual, I am back to doing the market starting today til sunday at Trastevere, Piazza Sidney Sonnino so see you there!

Back In Singapore

Not wanting to miss out on doing markets I will also be going to do a month long market at geylang serai, where its all set up for the upcoming malay new year.
This should not be new for me since the last time I set up shop in Singapore was 11 years ago, full of inexperience and a crowd of people who did not appreciate the price I put on my work. I am hoping mentality has changed somewhat but the usual pessimistic me would say its still the same.
Looking at the wares that the other vendors have in the stall you can see stuff brought in from Indonesia, Thailand, Korea and undoubtedly, China. Its all price competition here since all you can get here are imported goods, seriously.
Well I shall hope to be surprised admist all the horror looks I will be getting when I answer to their "how much?"
All in all, I shall grint my teeth and mantain a nonchalant face and I will give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Hi all,

Lucky for me I will be doing the market this weekend at trastevere. Hope not everyone has left town for the sea. I tried some stuff and revisited some techniques these days and after this I hope to come up with some unique pieces with some good inspiration. I think I should not touch clay just for one day in order to put my creative juices to work.

This bracelet is made using the water colour technique.

Here's a fun-looking bracelet for the summer.

I have also been experimenting with gold leaf on translucent clay with skinner blends.

This pendent also has gold flakes too and the background was created with the water colour technique.

And some spoons for the market tomorrow.

Summer, a season for wedding orders

Hi all,

What a tiring week, made a 12 set of dessert spoon with fork and a pair of serving pallete and knife for a wedding present and then another 6 set cutlery set for another wedding present... I only have pics of the second order, and also some other lighter covers I made on the side.

This saturday I will be at a notte bianca at Passo corese quite aways from the city centre in the north of Lazio, so I will not be doing the pigneto market this sunday since the saturday market would be till late night. Like always, I am looking forward to it!

About the website, I think within the next few weeks, there would be an update on the procedure page, where I will upload the episode of Paint your life, just a short clip where I show how I made a flower cane my way.