Polymer Clay For A Cause

A charity item for sale on Polymer Clay for a Cause

Here's a neat charity: An Etsy shop of polymer clay items-- jewelry and more-- with the proceeds going to various charity organizations. That's the purpose of Polymer Clay for a Cause. This is what the shop announcement has to say:

"I started Polymer Clay for a Cause in honor of my daughter, Cortney.

Cortney had an incredibly artistic mind, but due to her Muscular Dystrophy we were not able to find a medium that she could do. So in turn during her years of living at Childrens Hospital she would tell me GREAT stories and I would try to bring them to life thru polymer clay. Clay became both of our worlds, just in different ways. Cortney left this world at the age of 14 to go dance for the first time, but I try to continue her spirit thru clay and charities (Cortney would grow her hair out, just to donate it to locks of love - which for a girl in a wheelchair is rough to do - that was the kind of soul she was)."

Donations have gone to Easter Seals Camp, Canines for Disabled Kids, FREE ARTS for Abused Children, and Children's Hospital Muscle Clinic. $500 was raised by Polymer Clay Guild of Etsy through a monthly challenge and used to make "Clay/Art Kits" to be sent overseas for troops to hand out to children.

The shop is run by members of the Polymer Clay Guild of Etsy. ❉

We Have a Winner!

Congrats to Audrey Stemple, the winner of the "Do Something WiLD" necklace. Audrey is wildly excited and happy! More info to come...



new cuffs!

Moving on to new work
Have been very busy in the studio working with some really great color combos. Loving avacado green, orange and a sweet smooth mellow yellow. The cuffs above offer a little peak at what's been cooking.



I must say that I absolutely love these fashion colors for the season. Notice the spot of turquoise in the model's shoes on the left. Love that!

Maybe you, like I, can't afford a whole new wardrobe to express your fashionista self but perhaps a large YIKES! cuff in the colors of the season will pop your wardrobe fashion forward.

Workshops
After getting a few more classes (taught by me) under my belt, I have decided that I do in fact love teaching them. You can book me at http://betterfly.com/suzanneanderson The link for Betterfly will always be in the right side bar of this blog.

Free Shipping at Etsy
Please use the special code YIKES2011 to get free shipping this month at my Etsy site.

See you soon!
Suzanne

Designing Women benefits New Hope - The Herald Gazette

Designing Women benefits New Hope - - Rockland - Camden - Knox - The Herald Gazette

DO Something WiLD--Fundraising for Heifer

Hand crafted beads created for the "Do Something WiLD" fundraiser necklace.
Keep watching for updates on the necklace's progress.

Do Something WiLD!
Fun Fundraising for Heifer International

Ideas tend to come to me in a very sudden way. I then proceed to jump in, both feet first. That is exactly what has happened and I now find myself with several very large projects going.

First of all I am formulating and working out the details of doing a fund raiser for Heifer International. If you are unfamiliar with Heifer they go something like this. You present a cow to a family, they in turn get milk from the cow, the cow goes on to have a calf and now there are two cows. They family now has extra milk and can sell what they don't need. They then have another calf which they then give away to another family and the cycle gets repeated. Building up the village to sustainablitiy. This is a simplified version and you can read more about it on their website Heifer.org. Anyway...my husband and I have been giving small donations over the years to Heifer hence we receive their publication. I opened it the other day to find a campaign they are doing in April call Do Something WiLD.

The acronym stands for Women in Livestock Development and the focus of this campaign is on the work Heifer does in empowering and enabling women: one of the most effective tools for a peaceful, prosperous society. The graphics in the ad caught my eye and seemed to relate to YIKES! Studio.

I thought, this is something I want to get involved with, but how? Create a necklace, sell a chance to win it and donate all proceeds to Do Something WiLD ! That was it! So last night I set about (til midnight) the beginning stages of the necklace creation of which I will post pictures.









Beginning stages of the Do Something WiLD necklace.
Making lots of face canes...

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Make a $5 donation for Heifer International and a chance to win the finished necklace (valued at $200.00).

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