Welcome to the CraftyPod, a podcast all about making stuff.

Click the "Play" button at the bottom of this post to listen!

In this show:

- Making things out of metal, without spending a bundle.

- Finding metal craft materials in your kitchen, hardware store, and recycle bin.

- Simple techniques that yield a lot of cool craft projects.

Shiny Metal Links:

- A nice kid-craft take on Mexican metal tooling, with added color!

- Here are some samples of real Mexican metal tooling.

- Learn more about Cathy Pitters and Portland Super Crafty here.

- Classic tin-can luminarias, from the DIY network.

- An embossed tin, from HGTV.

- Metal placecard holders, from DIY Network.

- Embossed Metal Boxes, also from DIY Network.

- Punched tin shelf, from HGTV.

...By the way, if you subscribe to this particular feed, you're actually missing out on all kinds of crafty blog posts.

If you subscribe to the new feed at http://www.craftypod.com, you'll get the podcasts, along with near-daily doses of crafty goodness in blog form. And I blog about all things crafty.

Just passing it along, in case you're interested. I love you no matter which feed you subscribe to. :-)

Welcome to the CraftyPod, a podcast all about making stuff. Click the "Play" button at the bottom of this post to listen! In this show: - A conversation with Sarajane Helm, who, with her husband Bryan, makes a wonderful variety of polymer clay art. - Learn about the history, safety, and multi-tasking abilities of poly clay. - Hear about the poly clay fabric store!

Some interesting links:

- Enjoy Sarajane's website. - Sarajane and Judith Skinner's book, Adapting Quilt Patterns to Polymer Clay. - Learn more about the Skinner Blend. - Some interesting examples of polymer clay illustration. - Marie Segal's polymer clay knitting. Wowee! - Check out the Polymer Clay Artist Guild of Etsy.com. Lots and lots of links there!