What do you do most with polymer clay?

Uippppeeeeee another clay person! I have not tried to make any beads. For Christmas last year I made snowmen with different types of hats. My favorite one was an Ohio state snow man. I like to make little animals. I make pins for my boys teachers. I need to come up with a new idea because it is teacher appreciation week. I was thinking of making a ruler and putting teachers rule on it. Beads are really expensive I think you got the right idea!

I, like you, make the jewelry but I have started using the wire with the beads and that is fun. I like to make the canes and if they are not to my liking, reducing and making a quilt pattern that is fun to make pins to wear and give to my quilting friends. The last thing I made, I took all the canes that were the same size(about an inch) slices about 3 slices of each, put a hole close to the top and baked. Sanded, applied floor wax, then attached a 2-3" piece of 24 gauge wire to each, curling one part back on the bead and the other like a pigs tail to thread onto cord. When I got all of them done I put a spacer bead between and put them on a cord so they are all different colored disks. They match anything. My daughter put it in her silent aution and the first person that came up said I will give you $50 for that right now because I can't stay for the day. Hey, it costs me maybe $10 to make. I cover salad fork and spoon with a pizza cutter for wedding gifts and pens in favorite colors. The fauxs work you do would be great for all of the things I do. Go for it. Oh, with the scrap clay there is a bead called a natasha bead. That is beautiful and fun. Better go get this show on the road. Hope to hear from you soon. Susan

I haven't yet had a chance to work with polymer clay, but I would really like to. I've seen a lot of people make some really cool beads, and I'd like to give that a try some day. Making my own beads would be fun, as well as economical and all that fun stuff... I would also like to sculpt some random stuff... I saw some cute mice on etsy once, and I'd like to see if I could make myself a mouse sculpture and have it ACTUALLY look like a mouse....