The Final Word



Take This Test: How to Tell if You're A Polyholic!
from Lisa Pavelka

• You find you have trouble making anything (like dinner) that doesn't fire to permanence and have a tangible, artistic, or monetary value.

• You have more than one pasta machine.

• While dining at a friend's home, you realize you've tuned out the conversation because the draperies intrigue you. That pattern would make a great millefiori cane!

• You have a clay gun for every individual color of clay including your "special blends."

• All your Internet bookmarks are polymer clay related.

• You start asking yourself questions like: "If I was stuck on a desert island, and could only have one clay tool, what would it be?"

• You start pondering the heat resistance of everything you see that would fit in your oven.

• You have more than two pasta machines.

• You can't find a clay gun, so out of desperation, you rifle through the kids toy box in search of the Play Dough Fun Station.

• Your child's science fair project is the testing of the tensile strength of different polymer clays.

• Your significant other doesn't "do" clay, but they've gotten so immersed in your madness, they start pointing out great things you can cover with clay, exciting textures, and millefiori pattern ideas.

• You consult a psychic for predictions on upcoming sales on polymer clay at area stores.

• You stand outside Michael's at 7am like a rock groupie, waiting to be the first one to get at the clay for the 50% off sale, before it's all picked over.

• You have a bumper sticker on your car that reads: "I brake for garage sales with used pasta machines."

• You've given up entertaining because you're resigned to the fact that your dining room table will always be covered with polymer clay paraphernalia.

• Your hints for birthday, anniversary and holiday presents change from luxury items to pasta machines, 6-inch grinders, and table top convection ovens.

• You've stopped visiting your local library because they don't have polymer clay videos.

• You always travel with clay. Hey, you never know where you're going to find an oven!

• You attend career day at school to lecture on the merits of bring a polyholic, err I mean a polymer clay artist.

• You drive 2 or more hours to get to a guild meeting.

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