Return of the Sockeye - Ready or Not!

After a few set-backs this past week with Dave in the hospital for four days, we still managed to have over 100 pieces of various items finished and ready to sell at the Salute to the Sockeye Event.

There is a log cabin at the local provincial park where the Salmon society are setting up a gift shop with various items from local artists.  We provided all sorts of goodies to sell including pens, magnets, jewelry, and even switch plate covers.  I created a good amount of spawning salmon pieces as well as other nature themed items.  Here is a photo of our display set-up --.  They are still working on getting the gift shop ready for it to open this Saturday so I will have more pictures for you later.

Here are some of the items we created for this event:

Here are a few of the buttons listed in our Etsy Shop.  I've been experimenting with a variety of designs, shapes and sizes....

  

Black & White                            Square Zebra Print

  

Tartan Plaid                            Gilded Copper Spiral

  

Purple Pansies                                      Autumn Leaves

  

Christmas Stars                         Swirly Red & Green

My Stylized Tree

Back in August I demonstrated how to build a cane out of polymer clay.  I made an autumn leaf showing a photo of the cane before it was shaped into leaves.  Joan, a good friend of mine left a comment that the round shape reminded her of a stylized tree.  I didn't visualize that until she mentioned it so I thought why not play on that point of view and this is the result:

Or if you prefer the autumn leaf look, these earrings are now listed in our Art Fire Studio as well:

Autumn Leaves

Here are a few beads created from the autumn red and yellow leaf cane I demonstrated last week now in our Etsy Bead Shop.  Next post I will share with you how I make the lentil swirls similar to the one shown above.  They are one of my favorite types of beads I love to make.