AnKara Designs Newsletter
Spring 2003
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ankara update
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Sisters Ann and Karen Mitchell are pleased to announce the release of their first full length craft book titled “Liquid Polymer Clay: Fabulous New Techniques for Making Jewelry and Home Accents.” This 144 page project and technique book, published by Krause Publications, is the first comprehensive book available on the topic of liquid polymer clay, and will be available on May 22, 2003. Advanced orders for signed copies of the book can be placed at the AnKara Designs website at www.AnKaraDesigns.com or by calling Ann and Karen at (626) 798-8491. The book will also be available in the AnKara Designs booth at the Harvest Festival shows starting in fall. The text covers basic handling and applications of liquid and solid polymer clay, and showcases 11 original techniques in 22 projects, beautifully illustrated with more than 250 full-color photographs by Cristopher Lapp. Many of the projects incorporate elements, tools, or concepts from sewing, rubber stamping, scrapbooking, painting, stained glass, lampwork, enamelling, mosaics, cloisonne, ceramics, and marbling.
Antique styled AnKara Designs jewelry will be featured in the upcoming Disney film, “The Haunted Mansion”. Starring Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Tilly, this spooky comedy is due to arrive in theatres November 26, 2003. The sisters were asked to design 1880’s style necklace sets for a masquerade ball scene.
On the small screen, a dog bone on a necklace is just one of the AnKara specialty pieces made for the film “Ghost Dog: A Detective’s Tail”. The film aired in January 2003 on the PAX cable station. Daphne Zuniga, starring opposite Jack Wagner, played a police veterinarian who treats police dogs.
Coming up on the Carol Duvall Show on HGTV, look for three new episodes with liquid polymer clay projects from Ann and Karen. In the first episode (CDS-1360), Karen demonstrates a bow tie link necklace made with solid polymer clay links connected by flexible clay fabric links. The episode airs Thursday, March 13 at 11:00 am Pacific time and 2:00 pm Eastern time on Home and Garden television. Coming up later in the spring, stay tuned for two more new projects. The first episode shows Karen making a leopard print license plate frame (episode #CDS-1413). The second project is a mosaic transfer necklace demonstrated by Ann (episode #CDS-1457). The air dates are not yet scheduled, so please refer to the HGTV web site (www.HGTV.com) and search by episode number. Instructions for all of the previous projects can also be found at this site. Also, tune in for a repeat of the terra cotta tile segment (episode CDS-1029) airing at 11:00 am Pacific and 2:00 pm Eastern time on Friday, March 7.
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Ann and Karen Mitchell and their first craft book titled “Liquid Polymer Clay:
Fabulous New Techniques for Making Jewelry and
Home Accents.”
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polymer clay class
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This summer, Ann and Karen will be teaching a comprehensive 2-day class on liquid polymer clay titled: “Liquid Sculpey-Everything But the Kitchen Sink” at the Ravensdale Conference to be held from August 3-10 at Trinity Lutheran College in Issaquah, Washington. The conference is sponsored by the Northwest Polymer Clay Guild, and offers classes by some of the best known polymer clay artists in the country. For more information and to view the online catalogue for the conference, please refer to the web site at www.nwpcg.org.
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Ann and Karen will be teaching a class on liquid polymer clay titled: “Liquid Sculpey-Everything But the Kitchen Sink” at the Ravensdale Conference
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AnKara in the media
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Good Day Sacramento, a local morning news program in Sacramento, CA, featured Ann and Karen on a November 2002 episode. The sisters showed how to make holiday jewelry with polymer clay in a promotional segment for the Harvest Festival. AnKara Designs will be returning to the Sacramento Harvest Festival in November 2003. Check the schedule for shows local to your area.
More elegant AnKara Designs accessories appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of the upscale quarterly boating magazine, “Sea Ray Living”. |
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show schedule
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Hours for the Spring Open House May 9-11, 2003 are as follows:
Friday May 10, 4 pm to 8:30 pm
Saturday May 11, 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday May 12, 12 pm to 5 pm
Show Schedule:
March 23 Wistaria Festival, Sierra Madre
May 9-11 Spring Open House, Altadena
June 7,8 Montrose Arts and Crafts Festival
December 12-14 Holiday Open House, Altadena
Harvest Festival Spring Shows:
March 14-16 Del Mar Booth B37
April 11-13 Pomona Booth A24
May 2-4 Pleasanton Booth B18
Fall Schedule:
August 29-31 Long Beach
September 19-21 Del Mar
September 26-28 Pleasanton
October 3-5 Ventura
October 10-12 Anaheim
October 31, November 1,2 San Diego
November 14-16 San Francisco
November 21-23 Sacramento
November 28-30 San Jose
December 5-7 Pomona
Note: Please keep the schedule to refer to throughout the year.
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Ann, Ai, Mitch, and Alex in exotic Thailand
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family news
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In family news, Ann and her husband Ai, along with Mitch (5 1/2) and Alex (2 ) and Ann’s mother Annamarie Mitchell spent the holidays visiting Ai’s family in Thailand. Karen spent the holidays in Seattle with her boyfriend Randy Townsend. |
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