Explore..

I've been spending most of my time outdoors during the past weeks. So many places to discover here in Australia! Beaches and parks are just minutes away. I had a wonderful time with my family having road trips, picnics and exploring! I'm thankful for having a husband and a son who also love to go on adventures. Here are some photos (taken by our official photographer...Daddy!) of our recent explorations...

blueberry picking at Misty Valley Farm

theme park hopping in Gold Coast

day trip to Wollongong

Grand Pacific Drive 

Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney

having a fun time playing with the waves at Pearl Beach

Mackenzie Reserve

walking around a little island in Mackenzie Reserve

Two more days to go and it's back to school already for my little boy. It's going to be a busy school year ahead. So adventures will just be done on the weekends! :)

I made two new dome pendant designs..one hoot and one oink hehe! I will post photos of them soon. Have a good week everyone!

Doodle #2

I really love to doodle or draw even if it doesn't love me that much. It helps me to relax. It's some sort of meditation for me. I feel so accomplished after I've finished one drawing even if it's very simple. It's also a great way to pass time while waiting for my son to finish his lunch or one way of keeping my hands off the computer! I think holding a pencil is better than the mouse! 

I'm proud to say that I made doodle #2 today! So that means..a few hours of not sitting in front of the computer and just staying by my son's side while he plays and I draw. Here it is..

A mother's love.

I already started a new one and this time it will be colored! :)

See ya in my next post! 

Claying mommy no more..

I revamped my blog and also changed its name. It is now called rockyvantonio@blogspot.com.au! Just a few changes here and there but it sure helped to inspire me to blog more.  

It is a good start for the new year!

 I am really thankful to God for giving me these hands that can create. I still have a long way to go before I can create the "masterpiece" but I'm also thankful for each year that I get to learn and try out new things. So before I move on to 2014, let's look back first to 2013! Here are the projects I made last year. 

2013 was also a very good year because I joined my first ever craft fair in Australia! It was a very good experience and I'm also very thankful for the support of family and friends. I learned so many things from that experience and I'm looking forward to joining more fairs in 2014! Here's a photo of my booth during the fair in Hornsby RSL...

Mini Screws..

Finally, I found mini screws at our local hobby shop. I was really so happy to see the sizes that I need.  I have so much filigree that I can mix and match and put together  with these screws instead of polymer clay. Here are some of the pieces I made using the filigrees and screws. 

Seahorse Pendant Tutorial...

 I've been designing lockets for years now. Sometimes I break a locket because of too much experimenting haha! But the broken ones are too precious for me to just throw in the bin. So I just kept them in my stash of recyclable materials. Now, I found a way to use them again. For this tutorial, I just used one half of the broken locket and I'm still thinking of another design for the other half. I treated it like a bezel and thought of pouring resin inside. So here's how I made the seahorse pendant..

You will be needing the following materials...

half of a broken locket (for this one I used a 2 inch oval locket)

Polymer clay (shades of blue, brown and green) 

push mold (for this project I used a Lisa Pavelka border mold) 

Lisa Pavelka Magic-Gloss

UV lamp (optional) 

Pearl-ex pigment powder Gold 

Seahorse Charm

Pasta machine

some of the broken lockets I kept in my stash of recyclable materials