Claychicks Boutique

I couldn’t think of a better turn of phrase than the Friendly Chirp (the ‘chicks often get called ‘chirp’ and ‘cheep’). So this will be our regular column about customer-friends!

I’m starting this off with Moe! Moe is a perpetually cheerful clayer from Hawaii who we’ve had the good fortune to ‘meet’ on Polymer Clay Central’s forum. Moe also makes fabulous clay art and sells it on Etsy and had the good taste (ahem) to buy a couple of Claychicks canes not long ago!

Using some of my Black and White canes she dreamed up this lovely piece:

You should also definitely take a look at her Moe-stones (should that be Moe-amber?). And Moe has  a blog too!

If you know us at all, you know that one of the Claychicks (that would be Carolyn) had twins at the end of 2007! Lovely, healthy twins - a boy and a girl, Gavin and Maddie. At the same time, her Carpal Tunnel Syndrome kicked into overtime so now that she has a little chance to clay, she is having trouble doing more than just the bare minimum.

Ack!

She had a brain wave though Like a lot of us caners she has stacks of canes in not-perfect-for-sale sizes. Little short pieces, unreduced chunks, you name it… Lots of pieces that aren’t ends but aren’t our regular 1/2″ wide by 2″ long pieces. So she collected tubs of these in 1.5oz amounts and called them her Grab Bags.

You can check Carolyn’s Grab Bags out on our Etsy - I set it up as two listings, so that Etsy would stop counting the sales as one sale (instead of 8 or 10! the silly thing). These are duplicate listings for a total of 7 bags of cane goodness in Caro’s designs:

If you like a variety of good stuff, these are the perfect way to give canes a try!

As we’re wandering our way through Spring, I got asked for a lot more rose canes - so this boxful that went onto Etsy has quite a few of those even if it’s not what I picked for my top 3 favourites:

My other Claychick-half is busily rearranging her boxes of canes, reducing what she can and making grab bags up of smaller pieces (and bigger ones for those who wanted some larger sections). It’s a good way for her to stick to light duty - reducing canes can be a strain on a wrist in pain - and still get in on the clay fun.