{"id":4191,"date":"2009-05-21T03:29:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T10:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2009-05-21T22:08:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:08:46","slug":"polymer-clay-bead-making-success-stories-proud-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-bead-making-success-stories-proud-moments\/4191\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Polymer Clay Bead Making Success Stories &#8211; Proud Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-05\/21-polymer-clay-library-vol-011-back-issue-package.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Library Volume 11 Back Issue Package\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Maria&#8217;s Church Bazaar Pendants are &#8220;Light Years&#8221; Better, says Her Dear Hubby:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The most rewarding part of teaching (at least for me anyways), is reading all of the success stories that come in from students. I LOVE receiving feedback about<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> how<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> you are applying the tips and techniques learned here at the blog, as well as in the video library. It lets me know I must be doing something right :)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s some references for just a few of these success stories so far:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Bren Landers-Smith<\/span><\/strong>, accomplished digital artist and self proclaimed &#8220;Crazy-In-Love-With-Roses&#8221; person, is doing well selling her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/selling-jewelry-on-etsy-a-rose-pendant-necklace-designed-by-bren\/749\/\">rose pendant necklaces<\/a> and rose image transfers on Etsy. When Bren emailed me some photos, she said: &#8220;Here are some of my recent sales THANKS to your clay videos!&#8221; Now as a teacher, those are the types of words that give me a warm feeling inside. I am so, so proud of you Bren!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Paul Arthur<\/strong><\/span> is using the skills he learned in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/jewelry-making-tutorial-mixing-thread-fibers-with-handmade-beads\/775\/#comment-9667\">Thread Fiber Beads<\/a> video to also sell on Etsy. After providing him with some feedback and encouragement about his bead work, Paul was gracious enough to post this comment: &#8220;Cindy you have no idea how over whelmed I feel about what you said about my beads. I could never have made them without your video on thread beads. All your videos and tips are wonderful to newbies like me. Please keep up the great job. Thanks for the advice and information. I purchased your course and every bit of it&#8217;s helped me out. I refer back to it nightly and nonstop on the weekends. Thank you, thank you, thank you YOU ROCK!&#8221; <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>[me blushing]<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Then in an article discussing beginner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/beginner-polymer-clay-cane-bead\/4046\/#comment-16936\">polymer clay cane beads<\/a>, <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Maria Casey<\/strong><\/span> said: &#8220;Cindy, my husband gave me the ultimate compliment when he noticed that the pendants I made for this year&#8217;s church bazaar were &#8220;light years&#8221; better than last year&#8217;s. I must say that one reason for this is the online education you provide us. Thank you!&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">These are of course many more stories like the ones been posted above&#8230; and I&#8217;m truly hoping there will be many more in the coming months and years ahead of us. Please don&#8217;t be shy. Your stories are what drive and inspire me every day to become a better teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2009-05\/21-ladybug-color-recipes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ladybug Polymer Clay Color Palette\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, today&#8217;s photo at the top of this article, and the picture of the ladybug color palette to the left, are from the Vol-011 back issue package that was recently made available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadvideos.com\/back-issues-01\/vol-011\/\" class=\"external external_icon\" target=\"_blank\">Polymer Clay Library<\/a> &lt;&lt; This link will allow you to watch the preview video clips for the Volume 11 tutorials about Disk Beads, Patterned Background Sheets, Pillow Beads and Polymer Clay Rock Tumblers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To all existing members who have already seen these Vol-011 videos, please share your success stories below. Actually, you don&#8217;t have to limit your feedback to the Vol-011 topics. Anything goes. Go ahead and make a teacher proud :)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria&#8217;s Church Bazaar Pendants are &#8220;Light Years&#8221; Better, says Her Dear Hubby: The most rewarding part of teaching (at least for me anyways),&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">10<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,596,1067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-guests","category-promotions","category-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}