Bottles of Hope and other Clay Projects

 four generic bottles for men or women

Have you ever heard of the Bottles of Hope?  I made these a while back and they have been sent out or give to various cancer patients.  Just last week I uploaded them pictures with the intent to show them to my readers.  Today I was over at Lori's blog, My Wooden Spoon, where she has a post regarding Glad To Give.

 Dino bottle made special for a little boy

Because of Lori's post, I have decided to go ahead and get this post written. And if you visit My Wooden Spoon you can enter to win a $500 gift card, that she hopes you will use for giving.

My bottles are not as beautiful as those on the Bottles of Hope site, but I hope those whom have received them have gained a bit of hope from having them.

It has been a while since I have played with my polymer clay and my hands are itching to get back to it.  I have dreams of expanding my polymer clay art, and create much more beautiful items.  But like anything else, you get better with practice.

silver and white mokume gane cane covered empty chicken egg

black and white clay covered chicken egg

My clay work is not even close to other clay artist, but I had fun creating these items.  I love making the chicken eggs,  I put glass beads inside so that when you pick them up then rattle.  I have found that clay items beg to be touched, handled, and picked up.

fire breathing dragon

mother and child monkeys

I learned how to make the monkeys from one of the many Carol Duvall shows that was on HGTV at one time.  Sure miss watching your shows each day, Carol!

I am hoping when I can finally get back to my clay, to play, that I will eventually have some of the beautiful items that I vision in my head and many jotted down on paper, to show you.  But in the mean time I hope you have enjoyed these few items.

Hope you all have a wonderful creative and giving day,

BrendaLea

Still Plugging Away Trying to Get this Computer Set-up

Been very busy trying to get everything set up on this new computer...

It's not been easy, and I am getting closer. Then today I had Cable Internet hooked-up and boy it has been wonderful having it work so much faster. I love it! My Grandson, Conner, sure will be surprised when he comes over to see the cable internet. He will be ecstatic as his on-line games will work so much better.

Now I need to start getting some pictures uploaded on here so that it will be more interesting. I'm going to start off with some polymer clay pictures if I can figure that much out.


These are some bottles I made for the Bottles of Hope program. But I actually donated mine to a different Bottles of Hope program but for the life of me I can not remember the link as it has been some years back. I no longer have them as they have been distributed to various people. These were made several years ago, and were some of the first bottles I've made.

The bottle on the right is supposed to be an Iris. Not the best representation, but I tried.
This was a set of green bottles that I made. I recently won a huge Polymer Clay Cruise Gift Pack (no I did not go on a cruise, but wish I could afford to as it has always been my dream to go on one) via a contest that I found in the PolymerCAFE' magazine that was given via American Art Clay.

This package of goodies (maybe I can get a picture of the majority of the items as some of them I have already put away, but most are still in the box they arrived in) has inspired me to get my hands back in the clay. It was an awesome set of goodies that added up to atleast $278! I received it just before Christmas and it was one of the best Christmas gift I got, except for the Samsung Camera that my Sister, Terry, got me this year. I love that camera.