Polymer Clay Retreat

Wow what a long weekend!

Thursday: finally managed to leave St Clair at 630pm, then off to pick up Sera and then onto Canberra. Dropped Sera at her mothers and then onto the retreat location at Greenhills (http://www.greenhillscentre.com/).

We finally arrived at 1130 Thursday night. Said hello to Megan and the few others still up and crawled into bed

Friday: Up bright and early, breakfast and then into the clay!

First off was Megan teaching us skinner blends I think i have finally mastered them! Carl and I even managed a 4 colour one !!
In the afternoon Carl and I did a paverpol class with Lex Sorrento interesting stuff very versitle and lots of possibilities

Food and drink occur at way to frequent intervals! Miss Sandy and her husband who were the cooks last yr! the cooks this yr were good, but missing a bit of adventure with the menu! also missed the chats with Sandy. The fun stuff occurs after dinner of course, when we have a few glassess of our favourite tipple and sit and chat and play with clay and create!

Gorgeous sunset tonight


Saturday:
First off did a Milliefori class with Heather Richmond from Melbourne. My canning isnt that great, but i turned out something slightly better than my normal mushy mess! sorry forgot to take pictures of all the canes

Carl did Seras class on Faux Klimpt - I wanted to but had a splitting migraine so ended up taking drugs and crawling to bed. I will take some pictures of the beads he made and post them later when we have polished them.

Sunday

Carl did the silver metal clay class with Pam Annersley and Jen Tattum - made a great butterfly pendant which we then put a slice of his millifori cane in - looks great - will take a picture and post it when i have it on a chain.

While he was doing that i wandered around and chatted and played with clay, and some pinata inks and luminiere paints on translucent clay.

Our pasta machine bit the dust tho which made me very cranky as its only been used for the retreat! Megan things that its a spring thats broken, so now i need to break into it and try and fix the spring.

In the afternoon I did Beryls great class on making small creatures

Monday

Pam did a class on making beads

lots of interesting information

now have a heap of 'torn effect' beads to sand lol

the pictures are all loaded in this album here

http://picasaweb.google.com/Janet.M.Masters/PolymerClayRetreat2007

have a look! will add more as i get things finished and pictures taken

it was a wonderful retreat

where next year i wonder?