{"id":3969,"date":"2013-04-09T19:08:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2013-04-09T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:08:44","slug":"synergy-3-seeking-higher-ground-challenge-kathleen-dustins-stunning-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Synergy 3 Seeking Higher Ground Challenge – Kathleen Dustin’s Stunning Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alice<\/a>I can only say that I was delighted to have this picture with Kathleen Dustin<\/a> wearing her stunning Necklace. She is such an incredibly talented artist and the polymer clay community is \u00a0so lucky to have her as one of our polymer divas continually leading the way to excellence.<\/p>\n

The entire Synergy 3 – Seeking Higher Ground <\/em><\/a>was about striving for excellence, improving and growing. Becoming the best that you can be.<\/p>\n

The piece I’m wearing I’m sad to admit was made at the last minute. I am challenging myself to continue with the design and improve it if I can.<\/p>\n

I have a beautiful peacock \u00a0shawl given to me as a gift that I wanted to wear wear the night of the banquet. I worked on a couple of designs but wasn’t happy with them.<\/p>\n

Even though I say it was a last minute thing, I did try out several ideas before moving on to the one I actually wore.<\/p>\n

\"peacock<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are the first three attempts at a pendant. The one on the far right was actually too literal and I wasn’t happy with that. The other two just weren’t coming together. Everything was just too constricted.
\n\"Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n

I liked this one better, but wish I’d started on it weeks before I needed to wear it.<\/p>\n

I decided to use my cane mapping technique and add a touch of metallic.\u00a0It certainly matched my shawl better and I liked the flow. The bad part was not having a fabulous chain to hang it from, even though I wore it just the same. That seems to me to be one of my largest setbacks, making a piece and not thinking about the rest of the story.<\/p>\n

It’s why I usually just do pendants and “slides”. I don’t have to think about the rest. I plan to give that part more thought in the future.<\/p>\n

So this is my challenge…….plan, plan, plan and\u00a0Make it Sing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wish me luck and go spend some time on Kathleen’s webiste<\/a> if you haven’t been there for awhile.<\/p>\n

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