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TAD 27 ~ Just Playing Today

2/27/2013

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When I spent a whole day carving beads for a slew of bracelets I was left with two things - a huge blister on my hand and a tray full of chips carved from the beads. I kept thnking I could do something with all that clay even if it was cured. My son said I should combine it with other uncured clay; I thought perhaps if I put it in my (clay) dedicated food processor I could grind it into a fine powder. Well it just wouldn't grind down, staying instead in little divot-like pieces. So I added some opaque black and translucent. The first photo is after it's blended and rolled out.  Photo two, formed into beads showing bits and pieces sticking out. Last one is after curing, sanding and polishing. The beads show the variegated blue and white bits smoothed down and looking a lot like stone. I haven't decided what I am making with them yet, so they'll just go into my huge stash.
Thanks Byron for the cool idea!
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Jen Blow
2/27/2013 12:18:05 am

after working with my son last night on his homework (about rocks and minerals, of all things) , this looks like conglomerate.

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Kathy
2/27/2013 05:56:27 am

Now that you mention it, yes I see that. Whatever it is has made for some interesting beads though.

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Anita Brandon link
2/27/2013 08:32:11 am

What a cool lemons to lemonade idea! It will be fun to see how you use the beads.

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Kathy
2/27/2013 09:31:20 am

I have to give credit to my son for that idea! I will certainly post a pic when I turn the beads into an item.
Thanks for stopping by!

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Vicki Engelbrink link
2/27/2013 10:14:53 am

Cool, the first picture is what I thought MoonRocks looked like when I was a kid.

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Kathy
2/28/2013 06:16:26 am

You know it does sort of remind me of that. Not heavy enough for a moon rock though. Glad to see you are out and about on the "net".

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