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This week we bring you an interview with Tamara Marble, who created the company Design Canes. She makes very cute small canes, in shapes (no filler around the shape). For example, a fish cane would have the outline of a fish, a bunny will have a bunny outline, etc. She then bakes the canes and cuts them into 1 inch pieces that are sold on her site, www.designcanes.com, and at various retailers. We saw some at the Orlando show being sold by a company called Sparkle n’ Sprinkle (we talked about her millions of colors of glitter and embossing powder, which you’ll see next week in part 2 of our video tour of the show.

Tamara tells us how to use her canes, how she got started, and about her success. With a simple creative idea, this interesting lady has created a business – Think about what you could do!

Enjoy the podcast and be sure to visit Tamara’s site to see the hundreds of canes she has designed. If you live in her area, she is now teaching classes, too. Be sure to Sign up for our Newsletter, and you will be entered to win the generous prize Tamara gave to us this month- three sets of canes and a slicing board.
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Tomorrow is Friday once again and this week we have a new epsiode of Polymer Clay Podcast. We will share our interview with Tamara Marble as well as a magazine review and so much more, so come back tomorrow to listen. The PCAGOE members did an ornament swap and I have sent out my 5 ornaments and I received my first one from Linda and I wanted to share it with you, sorry about the flash. I thought it was so pretty and creative and you can check out Linda’s etsy shop to see more of her beautiful work.

Kira and I have been planning some of the upcoming episodes of Polymer Clay Podcast & Polymer Clay TV and we have a ton of fun things in store that you won’t want to miss. If you have an idea for a show or want to see something on the show or if you want us to interview an artist or demo a technique, send us an e-mail to polymerclaypodcast@yahoo.com or give us a call at 206-333-1751and we will try to get it don. We love hearing from you so don’t be shy. See you tomorrow!

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I wanted to share some photos that were sent to me from Barbara Reider for the Bottles Of Hope program. Barbara has been organizing some bottles to be given to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Mass. Some of the bottles will also be distributed locally to where they were made as Barbara’s sister has worked to involve her daughters Girl Scout troop as well as some other children in creating these special bottles. If you would like to send some Bottles of Hope to Barbara to be distributed, you can send them to her at this address: Barbara Reider PO Box 143, N. Scituate, MA, 02060

Thanks to everyone who has sent some bottles in, hope you enjoy the photos. Don’t forget to come back on Friday to listen to Polymer Clay Podcast. We are doing a magazine review as well as an interview you won’t want to miss.

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Well tomorrow is the deadline for the monthly Call For Creativity and we have four entries from around the world. We would love to have some more entries and all you have to do is post a photo of your work using polymer clay and gold, silver or any color composition leaf in the Call For Creativity forum post. The winner of the challenge will be featured on this website and will also win a prize, so get your entries in ASAP. The PCAGOE Polymer Clay Artists Guild has posted this months challenge in which the theme was to create something using the mokume gane technique. You can check out all the entries and vote for your favorite and you will be entered to win some great prizes! The PCAGOE also did an ornament swap and I am sending my 5 ornaments out today. I want the recipients to be surprised so I don’t want to post a photo yet but check back next week and I will post some photos of the ones I received and the ones I sent.

Make sure to come back on Friday for a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast and we have lots of goodies to give away so sign up for our newsletter to automatically be entered to win. Hope everyone has a creative week!

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Hope everyone had a nice weekend. It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone and there is only a few days left until Hanukkah and Christmas in the USA. I haven’t bought one present yet and I am hoping to make most of my presents this year. In case you haven’t noticed we are promoting buying handmade this year. If you are planning on buying presents this year, why not Buy Handmade. There are so many talented artists and crafters and you can find a lot of them on the etsy website and you can see some of Kira and my work as well there. The Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy is also a great place to find great handmade polymer clay artwork. If you want to make your own gifts this year, well you have come to the right place. Check out our archived shows for lots of ideas. You can find all our past shows by scrolling down on the right hand sidebar until you see categories, under categories you will see podcasts and videocasts and if you click on either of those it will take you to our past shows.

This week on Polymer Clay Podcast, we have another interview to share with you. We interviewed Tamara Marble and she shared a little about how she got started in her unusual business of selling her handmade canes already cured or fired. Tamara makes such fun and whimsical canes, you will want to check out her site www.designcanes.com  Tamara has also given us a few sets of her canes and and one of her slicing boards to give away to one of our listeners or viewers, so make sure to come back Friday and listen to hear how you can win. We also received the first issue of Make It Mine magazine from Kalmbach Publishing and will have some of those to give away also. We will be reviewing it this Friday as well on Polymer Clay Podcast, so stay tuned.

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We just got a shipment in of some new texture sheet designs and they should be in our shop sometime this coming week. I think you will like these two new designs as they have so many possibilities. We also have our own line of stamps in the works and I promise you, you have never seen anything like these before. Kira is finishing up the final details and we should have a finished product shortly, so stay tuned.  In the new year we will have lots of new products and goodies to share with you that work great with polymer clay. If you would like to see something on the show or a product demonstrated, give us a call, send us an e-mail or leave a comment. We love hearing from you!

We have had some new countries visiting us these last few weeks and I wanted to say welcome to you in Iceland and Greece, glad you found us!

Of course we have had our other friends visiting us as well from South Africa, France, Portugal,Czech Republic, Canada,United Kingdom,TheNetherlands,Brazil,Russia,Romania,Hungary,Philippines,Taipei,Slovenia,Germany,Japan,India,Mexico,Israel,Saudi Arabia, Australia and of course the USA and that is just to name a few. So a big thanks to all of you and we hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoy creating it for you!

Make sure to get your entry in for the Call For Creativity, this month we want to see what creative things you have made with gold & silver or any color composition leaf. Just post your photo in our Call For Creativity forum post and you will be entered. We have some great prizes we are giving away, so don’t delay the deadline to enter is November 28th, 2007.

Next Friday we have another interview with a polymer clay artist. Tamara Marble shares a little about her unique business of selling already cured canes. You won’t want to miss what Tamara has to share, so check out Polymer Clay Podcast a week from today.

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