I'm new to the Handmade Artist Forum, but decided to jump in with both feet.  Part of that is joining the HAF blog ring to learn about and feature artists, many who are new to me.  Haffina is this month's pick and I hope you all enjoy reading about her. :)

When I popped all of the links where you can find her, I was hugely impressed and a bit astonished.  I've dabbled a bit in polymer clay, but I'm far from accomplished.  I occasionally see things that astound me and put me in awe of the versatility of this medium, and the piece below (found in her Artfire shop) really caught my eye.  Image transfer onto polymer clay -- who knew?!  Super cool.

And she's not just a polymer clay artist!  Her jewelry shop is filled with creations that I feel span a wide range of tastes.  Jewelry creation is not one of my strengths (I can wad up wire like nobody's business), so I really admire the ability to combine textures and colors so well.

On top of that, Haffina is a mom of five, a blogger, enthusiastic about handmade, and I'm sure a good many other things.  It sounds like she's a bit of a superhero, to me!

It's funny, I always think I've updated 'just the other day', and I'm always surprised to see it's been 4, 5, 10, however many days since I last posted.  Time flies when you're having fun, I guess!  So, as an effort to combat that, I'm going to start doing a few entries a week from preplanned series.  I started the Dirty Little Secrets entries last week, and I'm going to try and keep that up and also add a weekly goals entry.  

So, for this week's goals:

• Add this week's DLS entry.
• Plan for next week's DLS.
• Finish my first listing for a pair of Simply Luxury Cashmere socks
• Modify my sock bands for my Simple Luxury line (a line about ninjas just doesn't seem appropriate...)
• Start and finish a pair of Simple Luxury Alpaca socks to replace the ones that sold this weekend.
• Start redoing the 'shop' area on my website.

That all sounds doable, but we'll see how well I do!  I'm almost half way finished with the SL Cash socks, so I'm pretty sure I'll at least achieve that.