hello and help please

[lorraineflee]

Hi
I'm also from Bedfordshire - right up in the northern end! I use Badger Balm too.
Lorraine

[MuranoSilver]

I use coolslip it's fantastic stuff and much less gunky than olive oil or badger balm
Lasts for ages too
Nic xx

[sandmor1]

Well I have had another go and it turned out much better.

No olive oil but one of my other (many) hobbies is soap making and creams and lotions so I have made a hand balm very similar to Badger Balm and I used that. Just a smidgen. It is a solid and non greasy.

I also think I am rolling out too thin. I am using 4 cards thick but I think it would look better a bit thicker....oh sorry it's a pendent.... What thickness would you recommend?
I know that really that is probably a very personal choice but I'm guessing that there is also a kind of recognized or suggested thickness.

I haven't received the Art Clay packet yet but when I do I will remember to condition it.

I would love to be making several items each day but that is really not an option.
A packet of clay a day = £30 x 7 (days a week) = the divorce court.

Then apart from the toiletries there is also machine embroidery and card making and....well I could go on and on.

I am lucky in that I have a large craft room all to myself and a DH who works while I am happily retired.

Oh and I live at the bottom end of Beds..in a little village near Toddington

Sandra

[Di Sandland]

..in a little village near Toddington

Sandra

Hi Sandra - I used to live in Houghton Regis - knew it from when it was a village. It became the bum of the world. I live in North Devon now.

[sandmor1]

Hi Sandra - I used to live in Houghton Regis - knew it from when it was a village. It became the bum of the world. I live in North Devon now.

Hi Di....well if you lived in Houghton Regis then you will know Chalton.

Sandra

[Di Sandland]

Hi Di....well if you lived in Houghton Regis then you will know Chalton.

Sandra

very well indeed! Used to drink at The Star ;-)

[sandmor1]

very well indeed! Used to drink at The Star ;-)

It's just near completion of a big renovation....

[lorraineflee]

very well indeed! Used to drink at The Star ;-)

Takes me back to my youth - I used to drink there too when I lived in Luton!

Lorraine

[sandmor1]

Well I can't say I like Art Clay very much. I bought a 20gm packet to try. The clay was stuck tight to the folds of the little pouch inside the packet. I tried scraping it off but I was just getting dried up scrapings. I seemed to be wasting a lot. (OK I know it can still be used but it was such a mess) I put the lump that was left in one piece into the cling film as mentioned and went through the advice. Moisten slightly/fold using the film.. continue as necessary..but right from the first it just stuck to the film.
No..sorry...don't like it. I shall use it for slip and stick to PMC3.
Thats a point..can I use Art Clay slip on PMC3?
Sandra

[MuranoSilver]

Hi Sandra
If it was sticking to the cling film then it was too wet and adding water wouldn't have helped
Well conditioned Art Clay doesn't stick to anything. I've made a movie of unwrapping the clay and conditioning it
(so you can see if that was what yours was like) will upload it in a while once it's processed
Nic xx