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The monthly PCAGOE challenge is live and you can come vote for your favorite. This month in honor of Mothers Day the theme is Florals. The entries are gorgeous and so are the prizes! All you have to do to be entered to win is to vote for your favorite. Good Luck!

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Hope everyone had a good weekend and that you are ready for a creative week. I know I certainly am and tomorrow I am going on a hunt for some jump rings. Last week I was a busy beaver in my studio and I made so many new pieces that now I need to make them into jewelry. I will share some photos when I get something made.

Make sure to come back on Friday for a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast, we will be announcing our big anniversary party. Make sure you are signed up for our newsletter or that you are a member of our community so you get an invite! http://www.polymerclay.ning.com

This weeks PCAGOE featured artist is Pippa of http://www.pipsjewellery.etsy.com. I love her style and designs and my new favorite piece of hers is this fantastic floral ring. I think it is so fun! One of the things Pippa loves to use in her work are leaves and you can certainly see that by checking out her website. I love the see thru heart and I have been experimenting with designs peeking through too and I just love it. Enjoy!

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Tomorrow is Friday and we have a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast to share with you. We had previously recorded the podcast only to find that the recorder software did not capture our voices, so we will be re-recording it today at 12:30.  So much for trying new software when the old one worked fine.LOL

The Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy monthly challenge is still live and there is still time to vote for your favorite entry and have a chance to win some cool prizes. Make sure to vote today so you don’t miss out.

We have been diligently working on getting a variety of teachers lined up to teach at Crafted Online and I must say we have a fantastic variety and we are adding teachers every day. We are planning to start classes in May and should have some classes listed on the site shortly. We have been working on all of the logistics and it is coming along well. We hope you will join us in our latest crafty endeavor!

Make sure to come back tomorrow to listen to Polymer Clay Podcast and remember you can always go back and listen to any of our past shows by clicking on the link for podcasts under categories if you scroll down on the right hand sidebar of this site. Enjoy!

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The Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy is having their monthly challenge and this months theme was to create eggs with polymer clay. There a lot of cool entries so come vote for your favorite and you just might win some great prizes! Make sure to sign up for the newsletter to be notified of the goings on of the guild. Good luck to everyone!

This Friday there will be a new episode of Polymer Clay Podcast and we review a book and a magazine and share some upcoming things, so you won’t want to miss it.

Please read the previous post to find out more about the Bottles of Hope we have planned.

Make sure to check out the slide show and come vote for your favorite.

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This Friday is a new episode of Polymer Clay TV and it is all about the Orlando Clay Fandango retreat. We have a ton of footage to share but we are starting with the Flamingo Fashion show and I know you will be laughing as much as I did. It was a great time and I hope you can attend next year. Unfortunately I didn’t know everyones name who participated in the show. I won’t name names but there were a few well known ladies in the show, one who has a book on beads and is from the UK and one who started Polymer Cafe magazine, but I am not naming names, Oh wait I think I did but you will have to watch the show to see.LOL

This weeks featured Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy member is http://www.zoeowyn.etsy.com

This talented artist is definitely inspired by the critters that live in the ocean and you will see that in the photos. The cane she made recently of a mermaid used many bars of clay and weighed multiple pounds and was a delight to see. I am a big caner and when I did art shows I worked quite large, in fact every color of clay I used was 1/2 a bar of the large Fimo brick, which I think weighs 12 ounces and I used at least 5-10 colors per cane. I can’t wait to see what she makes with the cane!

Make sure to check out her etsy shop to see all the goodies she has to offer.

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Tomorrow is Friday again and we have a new episode of Polymer Clay TV to release. In this episode we share some of our experiences at the Synergy, CHA and ACC events. We had a lot of fun and did a lot of interviews and got a ton of footage that we will be sharing over the next few months (that is how much footage we have). If you have an event that you would like us to cover to share with the community, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can always e-mail us at polymerclaypodcast@yahoo.com  or call us at (206) 333-1751

If you have a comment, question or something you just want to share, you can call the above number and you just might end up on the podcast. The service we use allows us to record calls so if you have something to say that you would like to hear on the show then give us a call. We will only record the calls from those who want to be recorded. We will NEVER use anything without permission, so don’t worry if you just want to reach us and not be recorded for the show.

This months challenge for the PCAGOE was to create an animal out of polymer clay. This months winner is the very talented Zudagay and you can check out her shop at http://www.zudagay.etsy.com
There were many great entries and you can check them all out the PCAGOE website. Congrats to everyone!

The PCAGOE, Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy is such an amazing group of talented artists! For those of you that don’t know how the PCAGOE came about, way back on December 26, 2006, I had an idea that I wanted to start a group with polymer clay artists on Etsy. I wanted to have a place to share & connect with other polymer clay artists. Since I live in the boonies I don’t have the opportunity to connect with other polymer clay artists very often and I thought that the group would be right up my alley. The response was overwhelming as many artists wanted to join. I have to say that when I made that post, I never expected that it would change my life like it has.

Shortly after starting the group, I felt that the group needed a website to represent us and I put a call out to the members to see if anyone wanted to help build the groups website, well Kira answered that call and built the website and still maintains it to this day.

I was in a transitional period in my life and wanted something to sink my teeth in to and to devote my time to after having cared for my parents for several years and not being able to focus on my artwork. During this time I had purchased and Ipod and started listening to podcasts and had an ahh-haa moment and said to myself “I can do this!”. The problem was I didn’t have the technical skills and no idea how “I could do this”.LOL

I got to thinking and knew Kira would be the perfect person for this endeavor and after finding out we only lived about 5 1/2 hours away from each other, we decided to meet up half way between our houses, which was in Orlando, FL.  As the saying goes the rest is history, that was a year ago this March when we met up in Orlando.

It has been an amazing experience to grow Polymer Clay Productions and the Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy. We have met so many great friends and have had some amazing opportunities. It has been a true blast and I am really looking forward to the future and the infinite possibilities that await us. This could not have been possible without our loyal listeners and viewers and I want to give you a big THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

I hope you will join us in our newest adventure of creating live online video classes over at Crafted Online.

See you tomorrow! Enjoy!

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