Wow - it's been several weeks since I have posted in my blog, but I haven't disappeared, I promise! :)  Health issues continue to keep me working at a snail's pace these days unfortunately, but I'm coming along with the current line up of orders as best as I can!

Here is a photo of a custom 6-bird pin that I just finished. I rarely make pins with this many birds, but made half of them "partial bodied" in order to keep the size and weight down on it. More pictures of this piece can be seen in my Flickr album.

A lot of my customers enjoy seeing photos of works in progress, so I thought I would post one on my blog today. This is a custom ordered pin featuring a Quaker parrot on the left and Jenday Conure on the right.

In the first picture (kind of fuzzy, sorry!) is the raw polymer clay, the birds are starting to take shape as I sculpt and blend the clay. Next, they are just about finished and if you look very VERY closely (pull out your glasses for this one!), you will see a TINY white spot on my middle finger. That is the highlight for the eyeball about to be applied! Since I don't paint my parrot jewelry, I have to apply each individual color separately, the eyes are usually made from 4 to 5 layers of itsy bitsy pieces of clay. The last picture shows the finished piece, after being fired and is ready to have the pin back attached.