Fairy tale polymer

Julie Eakes has returned to her fairy tale canes, taking slices from her Beauty and the Beast and Red Riding Hood canes and making them into cylindrical pendants with polymer end caps.

Tiles with reminders about the stories hang from the bottom of each bead saying, “Beauty comes from within”,”Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth” and “Wolves lurk in every guise.”

“I managed to get a cane slice to wrap around completely, working the tree and the bushes together to hide the seam which really looks cool up close,” says Julie.

See these and more of her recent cane portraits and elaborate frames on her site.

Polymer housing

Housing starts are on the rise, at least in the polymer world. Two new ones – Inessa (smfactory) from Kiev with her Halloween houses and Slovenia’s Marjana Cajhen collections of buildings got me house hunting. You may remember a few others featured on PCD:

Pippa Chandler’s beach huts.
Nicholas and Sofie’s (bewilderandpine) miniature farm houses.
Jenn McGlon’s Luettes
Shay Aaron’s gingerbread houses

These nostalgic and stylized designs make popular wearable and decorative reminders of simpler times and places.

Mini-me polymer

Germany’s Reinhard Fritz knows himself well! In his Facebook photos you can watch small life-like versions of him emerge in polymer over armatures of aluminum foil and wire.

For those of you holding out on Facebook, here’s a little montage of his work in progress and a picture of Reinhard with his self portrait.

His grin hints at mischief and amusement. Here’s his Flickr site.

Unifying textures

Switzerland’s Janine Muller achieves a soft and soothing look with her almond shapes. The muted shades of her palette are unified by crisp white textures and accented by an occasional metal bead.

Her Guzuu sales site and her Flickr site will show you more in the same vein. Don’t you admire the neatly arranged palette in her work in progress photo?

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