Tile Away the Hours

I love making polymer clay tiles! I learned how from Laurie Mika's book, and since then, I've been going crazy, using a lot of the rubber from GPP. It takes a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of material, but for some reason, I just get a huge tickle out of it.

Here's a repost of previous photos offered here, at Prism Trail! some time earlier. Once again, I can't show you the ones I'm making today, before our rains start. (The clay oven is outside.)


And here are some of the tiles, before painting.


And here are some that I used as place tags for a dinner party.


I was toying with putting up a shop with some tiles for mosaicists or multi-media artists or people who want coasters or who just like to juggle tiles when they're bored with tennis balls. We'll see. If I put one more tile on the front of our entertainment console, I may have to live on the porch, far away from my studio, pictured here.

For some fabulous photos of people's studios, visit Seth at The Altered Page. Along with regularly featuring other artists and their works, he's just reposted a sampling of artist's studios and how they grew.

There's a series of storms coming to Los Angeles, starting today. I feel badly for the people who live in Malibu and other hilly and mountainous regions, where it's expected there will be from 12 to 20 inches of rain within a week. We're up by the hills, but the most run-off we have is when my dog goes out to go potty and is horrified that we have the nerve to make it rain on her and her tiny feet.

I wish all of you a lovely Sunday and a GREAT week. Here's to kind L.A. weather, and to kind weather everywhere, especially in Haiti.


Next up: Chris tiles over the bathroom medicine cabinet and has to refill all her prescriptions.