{"id":10800,"date":"2015-07-18T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2015-07-18T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:40:44","slug":"hail-sale-and-some-pretty-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/hail-sale-and-some-pretty-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail Sale and Impressive Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"LisaDid you miss us yesterday? Sorry for the absence, but all kinds of wonderful things have been going on; they have just been keeping me buried until I couldn’t remember what day it was. For some reason I thought the last three days were all Thursday. Can you say sleep deprived?<\/div>\n
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Why is this? Well, for one, I was\u00a0acting as my own administrative assistant, but only because our wonderful admin, Kat, has been\u00a0off this week introducing her new baby girl to the world. Send lots of love and may the powers-that-be grant them both\u00a0lots of rest!<\/p>\n

The other thing that was overwhelming was the sale of dinged up back issues we started Thursday\u00a0that was far more popular than we anticipated.\u00a0I wanted to share it with you, my dear blog readers, and give you a chance to grab some yourself, but we nearly sold out in the first few hours. I had to wait until today to go through our unopened stock and find those\u00a0inevitably imperfect copies\u00a0so I had something to offer you. So here it is …<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Print Issue Hail Sale<\/a><\/strong>: Okay, hail didn’t damage these copies, mostly shipping, storing and traveling did the damage, but that’s a long name for a sale. These are\u00a0ones with markings on the cover, rubbed off ink, creased corners and small tears that we won’t sell as new, but I do sell for a discount when out and about. However, they have been piling up, so we decided to\u00a0make them available to you online at half price! So, these are just $5 (plus shipping). Quantities are very limited, so jump on over to my Etsy pa<\/a>ge<\/a> where we’ve listed them. That way, sold out issues will drop off instead of sitting there teasing you when there aren’t any more left.<\/p>\n

In my shop we are also selling all regular ‘perfect’\u00a0back issues for $8 plus shipping. If you are buying just one, it ends up being the same as buying from our website, but if you buy multiples, you will save by getting reduced\u00a0shipping. So if you have been wanting to stock up on back issues in print and you don’t mind a few marks on the cover or a creased corner, this would be the time to do that!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And now some weekend art. Because we need pretties to cheer up our weekend. We’ve done all these dot pieces, but not outside polymer, so here are a few pieces by ceramicist Lisa Stevens. Wednesday’s post was also super popular, so I’m thinking a few of you who tried (or plan to try) that dotted tutorial, and these pieces made me think of a short cut way to do similar work–by just impressing with hand tools. You can use acrylic, mica powders or alcohol inks to color the holes or back fill with clay. Or brush\u00a0on\u00a0ink tinted liquid polymer to get a similar glazed ceramic look.<\/p>\n

Lisa does a lot of these\u00a0impression type treatments. If you want more pretty and inspiring impressed dot ideas, jump over to her Flickr pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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