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This weeks' artist interview is with Patricia Savoie, the amazing jewelry designer behind Posy Studio.Her unique resin jewelry designs feature a combination of both printed images and 3-D objects embedded into resin and set within a cast sterling silver pendant. Gardener in a Yellow Dress RingAlthough most of her work is of the same style, she creates quite a range of jewelry: necklaces, earrings

...is looking quite colorful lately. This whole week I've been working on making video tutorials for some fun resin projects.My dad just picked up the boys so I the rest of the afternoon will be un-interrupted time.Lights...camera...action! Want to play "My Creative Space?" Visit kootoyoo to join in.

I wouldn't say exactly that I am not a morning person, but I need at least a good 5 minutes to sort of shake off the brain fog a bit. Give me say, 15 minutes, and I'm good to go... So this morning, only about 30 seconds into awakeness, as I puttered around the kitchen (Aiden had awoken me by asking for an apple), there was a quite startling.... ...CrAsH!! And I turned from the sink to find... (

Some of the finished peices from yesterdays' experiments...I really like the colors in this necklace.Especially when held up to the light. Since the resin was poured into an open cavity, the light makes the translucent resin really stand out.Blue tinted resin set in a mother-of-pearl pendant.I think the rings were a neat idea, but my sorely lacking clay shaping skills detract from the over-all

Here are some of the pieces I ended up with from my first experiments with clay and resin:A little rough, but it gave me a good basis to decide in which direction I'd like to take it. I love the contrast of the vibrantly colored resin against the crisp white clay. So - on to phase two: Some mother-of-pearl beads I picked up on sale at Michaels... And some more crazy clay creations...hmmm...

To me, one of the greatest appeals of working with resin is the ability to use it with so many other mediums. It lends itself beautifully to intigration in designs of metal, wood, plastic, clay, fabric...I first noticed and became interested in resin while reading a book about precious metal clay, or PMC. The mention of resin was just a small part in the back of the book - but I was hooked!So

I wanted a fun way to say "thank you" to all my wonderful customers, so for the enitre month of March, every purchase made in my Etsy shop will auotmatically be entered into a drawing to be done at the end of the month.The winner will receive their choice of any item in my shop, for free!The drawing will be held on April 2nd. So, "Thank You"! - I really appreciate all of you so very much.