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Windmill Markets Unfortunately Closed :(
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This wonderful Market is where I have my shop, all the stalls here make up a sweet li ttle shopping sanctuary tucked away behind the main shopping street in Bargara. People come here to have a coffee, take in the calm atmosphere, maybe get a massage and browse around the local art and handcrafts, as well as the natural organic goodies. This is where I come to meet my friends and interact with my lovely customers face to face on the weekend, after spending Monday to Friday, busy in my studio.
My Mum helps me on my stall - she’s been really supportive of my li ttle business from the very beginning and knows a lot about my jewellery. Dad helps me set up my gazebo and tables in the morning, also very supportive - I’m really grateful to both of them - now if I could just get my son to do my accounting and paperwork, I’de be set...Ha!
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It’s difficult to explain the process of how you make patt erns or a picture out of polymer clay. The best way to explain it is to do it visually with captions, as I have done here.
The process shown here is just so you can get a general idea of the process involved in creating an image or pa ttern from clay.
I do prefer to keep my jewellery patt erns much smaller than this turtle patt ern, so that I have the time to do a larger selection of designs. This turtle patt ern came together over a few days.
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| The dots that appear at the end of this cane are created using various coloured spaghetti shaped clay, pushed together into a log shape called a cane, then wrapped using slices of clay from my ol’ faithful pasta machine a tool I wouldn’t be without. | |||
| If the initial cane is created large enough, it can be rolled and stretched smaller to be used for all the parts of the turtle shell. The edge of the shell are just flattened versions of the canes. | |||
| Each part of the turtles face and her flippers is created with a cane wrapped in a sheet made from a lighter shade of clay that has been put through the pasta machine. | |||
| Each part of the turtles face and her flippers are created using canes wrapped in a lighter shade of clay that has been put through the pasta machine to flatten it into a sheet. All the blue water surrounding the turtle is created using sheets of various tones of blues and turquoise clay - again, from the pasta machine. | |||
| When the turtle cane is complete, it is rolled and pulled out to reduce it’s size in diameter, until it is small enough to create a keyring. By this time the cane is very long and has to be cut into shorter pieces. There is also a lot of excess clay to cut off as you reduce the size of the cane, this is due to puckering. | |||
| My first Limited Edition Black and White design for this website and I’m sure it won’t be my last. I’ve decided to do three styles of necklaces from this design as well as earrings, that will go with any of the three styles. Be quick because there are only so many necklaces and earrings that I can make from this one design cane, once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. The long pendant Necklace is available in a long and shorter version and the teardrop pendant is available in a medium and small size. This includes the option of either gold or silver for all the pendants and earrings. | |||
| Long Pendant | Short Teardrop | Toggle Necklace | Earings |
How It's Made |
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| Long Pendant | Short Teardrop | Beads | Earings |
How It's Made |
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Those of you who have heard me give my spiel at my market stall* know that when you ask me about how I make my jewellery, you usually can’t stop me. All I can say is “Don’t get me started!”, I get all excited about the details and the process . . .sorry about that, I just can’t help myself. . .I ‘m passionate about using Polymer Clay - I am a Polymerholic! (if there is such a thing).
The name ‘Sal’s Studio’ came about because people call me Sal (obviously) and I’ve always created in a studio - whatever I’ve created. The name leaves me enough room to grow into whatever else I choose to create and sell, besides my jewellery. Right now though, it’s all about the Polymer Clay jewellery, but who knows in the future.
It is most certainly all about the colour too! As you can see from my earlier works pictured here, there’s not really anything subtle going on, I have always loved bright colours. Saying that, I am learning to be a bit more subtle colourwise in some of my clay designs for jewellery. I know, it’s one thing to hang a brightly coloured painting on a wall, but quite another for some of you to embrace colour in your jewellery. Thankfully though, there are plenty of you who do love colour too, wherever you can get it, which includes jewellery! Well, you’re definately in the right place.
I used to paint with oils on canvas and also create ceramic pieces, I’ve always loved alternating between the two. I have also studied drawing, sculpture, photography, painting and Art history in college after high school...only a couple of years full time, and I was ready to carry on experimenting myself. I’m not the University type, so I went to work instead, creating fine art in my spare time. Since then I have dabbled in watercolours, created mandalas using sacred geometry and collages using anything I could get my hands on! Whilst creating in my spare time, I was working as a Graphic designer and Art Director for fifteen years, which has probably made me a bit more organised in my business, if nothing else. In the end, I just had to say goodbye to all that commercial art stuff... they took my coloured pens away and gave me a computer to work on instead...It just wasn’t enough of a creative outlet for me, so I quit.
I used to do all types of other creative stuff too - and then along came Polymerclay - definately ‘my thing’ I think. Now I really don‘t have time to focus on much else creative, it’s been just over two years now and there has only been a few days where I haven’t touched my clay. That reminds me, I still haven’t finished that (I’ll just do one in this lifetime) quilt in the top of my wardrobe . . . it can wait. Having sold my kiln which I used for ceramics before I left Australia for overseas, I came back to Queensland (instead of Sydney) looking for a clay that could be cooked in a conventional oven. That is how, in September 2010, I stumbled upon Polymer clay - and I’ve been absorbed ever since. . . so much for inbetween painting, more like no more painting for now.
All that’s past has lead me to this website, spreading my enthusiasm - I hope. None of my other passions have ever quite pushed me enough to do the same.
I hope you enjoy browsing here and maybe even purchase one or more of my designer jewellery pieces. Please don’t tell me you only where the one silver or gold necklace, this jewellery of mine is meant to be fun! Just one necklace can turn ‘casual’ into ‘smart casual’ and give the right outfit the WOW! factor. It’s so light weight too and most of them can be just thrown on over the head at the last minute before you leave the house. Anyway, If you don’t see any design you like, come back later because I will be regularly adding new designs in both clay and jewellery, as I am constantly creating them.
* My market stall is a small part of Bargara Beach Windmill Markets. For more info about my stall and this fabulous little market - click here |