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How to Clean Your Studio in 15 Minutes

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A Guide on How to Clean Your Polymer Clay Studio in Less Than 15 Minutes on KatersAcres Blog

There are a lot of things that I love about having my own studio in a separate area from the everyday areas of my house.  One of which is that I can shut the door (and even lock it if I want to)…and come back whenever I want.  But here’s the neurotic part of me…I like my studio clean.  In fact on any given day, my studio can be cleaner than the rest of my house.  Why? Because that’s the way I like it! How? In less than 15 minutes I can clean the whole thing from top to bottom, even though the kitty lives in here with me.  Read how to clean you can learn to clean up your studio and to keep it clean in less than 15 minutes with just a small bit of patience and time commitment.

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Finding Your Routine is Essential to the Creative Process

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Finding Your Routine to Enhance Your Creativity by KatersAcres

Finding your routine is an essential part of being an artist. It is not something that many of us even think about. A routine can help us settle in. Routine can help us to automatically perceive things about our environment. Today, over on the Sculpey blog I am discussing finding your routine. Why? Because find your routine is one way that will help you in your creative process.

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Polymer Clay Studio: What’s In My Spinner?

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Inside KatersAcres Polymer Clay Studio, What's In My Spinner | Come and See the Tools I Use Daily

One of my favorite posts that other artists do is a glimpse into their studio. I love to see their workspaces, how they create, and even the tools they use. While this post will NOT be exhaustive by any stretch of the imagination, it will definitely give you some great insight into my daily grind in my polymer clay studio.

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Making the Most of Your Polymer Clay Studio: Making Room

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 Do You Have a Dedicated Space?

Ginger Davis Allman of the Blue Bottle TreeIt’s true that artists come in all types: organized, messy, simple, & complex. Often our spaces reflect the artist within. Our series “Making the Most of Your Polymer Clay Studio” continues this week over at The Blue Bottle Tree. Ginger takes us on a great journey of finding your dedicated space and “Making Room for Your Polymer Clay Studio.”

As you read in my post last week,  we focused on “Falling in Love with Your Studio, no Matter its Size.”  This week Ginger takes that one step further and explores ideas on how to create that studio that you’re craving. She delves into all kinds of ideas surrounding building your own craft space: from converting an existing space, stealing a space, functional furniture, cart trolley’s and much more.

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Making the Most of Your Polymer Clay Studio: No Matter Its Size

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Making the Most of Your Polymer Clay Studio | Brought to You by The Blue Bottle Tree & Kater's Acres
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Welcome April! This month myself and Ginger from The Blue Bottle Tree are bringing you a collaborative series of posts, “Making the Most of Your Polymer Clay Studio.” Each Thursday in April you can join me and Ginger as we talk about a topic relating to “Making the Most of Your Polymer Clay Studio.”  I hope that you will continue to join us and chime in with your comments, thoughts, & ideas as well.

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Polymer Clay Storage Options

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Polymer Clay BlocksI have received so many questions from you, my readers, asking me about polymer clay storage options.  Previously I had written about some polymer clay storage options, that focused on floss boxes; many of you have asked for more details, pros/cons, where and what to buy.  There is a wide variety of polymer clay storage options available to the crafter, professional, or home studio clay artist.  The reality is that absolutely everyone stores their clay differently.  Everyone has a system that works for them.  Just because a system works well for one clayer does not mean that it will work well for another clayer.  Let’s see what options are available to the home studio clayer. Continue reading Polymer Clay Storage Options