Monday, December 31, 2012

An End of Year Update

Hello all,

It has been quite some time since our last post, but we are still here!

We had our craft fair back in November, and it was a success! We didn't make a mint by any means, but we had a great time, and interacted with some great people, some crafters, and some non-crafters.

Soon after the craft fair started the onset of Holidays. The Holidays always keep us busy! Over the Holiday season, we had a few sales, but nothing major, most of our holiday bustle comes from family events. You know, the kind of events in which you sit around a table at least once and eat until you fill that you will burst. Then after that someone asks if you want something for dessert. You then knowingly make a horrible decision and say of course, what do we have! This of course lasts a couple of days or at least until the leftovers run out.

Anyway, the Holidays have been good as they always are, and this year is nearly over and a new one is fast approaching. It Was in January of 2012 that we changed from our original name of "A Charmed Life" to Polymer Yay! So we have had nearly a whole hear under our new name, and we have so much fun with it. It is just a hobby, but it is a hobby made out of love.

During this year on August 19th we celebrated out first Etsy Shop birthday, even though the name had changed the items we made, and the thought and care we put into the items remained the same, and the still do. As A Charmed Life, we tried to add other items beside jewelry to our shop, but with little to no success, most non jewelry items were quickly pulled from the shop, after deciding the new non jewelry items did not meet the quality we wanted them to, nor did they go with the name "A Charmed Life". So after some debates, Monique of Polymer Yay! said "We need to change the name of the shop" Jimmy, being stubborn was reluctant to change the name of the shop since he had started the shop, and come up with the original name. After some thought and a little time, throwing names around Jimmy said how about "Polymer Yay!". We thought about it, and we made items from Polymer Clay, and the items we made were cute and fun, so it made for the perfect play on words, and it has been that ever since.

The year has been wonderful, and changes galore have come over this year, and these changes have been far more successful than any from the days of A Charmed Life. In February  Monique in her first true experiments with the Program Adobe Illustrator created the little owls that we now use everywhere. Jimmy will occasionally adding clothing or props to them, but the actual drawing never changes from the originals done by Monique. For the first month or so of being Polymer Yay! our logo was only the text portion, no illustrations of any kind, just a couple of fun fonts. We have come so far.

I mentioned other ideas, and successful changes that have occurred over this past year. We have begun to add new items to the shop, that are not just items made out of clay. We have kept one thing though, that we try to make sure that new items we introduce were related to polymer, which in case you didn't know, is a type of plastic. So through out this year we have been able to add vinyl cut decals to the items we make. We have only sold a couple, but we have only introduced a couple of designs, and we hope to add more as time goes by.

We have also introduced digital items to the shop. We have added our Graphic Design services to Etsy, and you can order a pre-made shop banner or have us custom make your shop banner, for your Etsy shop. These items are not made of any type of plastic, but I claim that since the computer contains plastic, it counts :P

We do have some ideas for other things we will add to the shop over time, some that may or may not have anything to do with polymer, but one thing will remain the same. If we are not happy with it, we will not sell it.



We have been so happy to be a part of the lives of anyone who reads our blog, views our shop, or buys one of our items. we get very excited when one of our items goes to a new home. We love hearing from our customers that they loved the item, or they gave the item as a gift and the recipient loved it. It makes us feel great, that a little item that we created, made a difference in someone's life, even if it was only a minor difference, that small bit of joy makes us happy and is a large part of why we do what we do.


I know this has been a long, text heavy post, but we wanted to make one, and now we have.

We hope that everyone has a wonderful time in the New Year that is at our doorstep. We look forward to seeing you there, and making more for you all to see.

Also, we have not forgotten about our "Your Idea Out of Clay" Contest. We will shortly look through the entries we had and we will choose a winner, and notify them. If you entered, it could be you. It's not to late to enter until we have posted a winner on our Facebook, which is where you can find the information about the contest (or our previous blog post)

Happy New Years Everyone!

-Polymer Yay!

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Polymer Yay! Your Idea Out of Clay, Contest Rules

Hello All,

Below are the Official rules for the Polymer Yay! Your Idea Out of Clay, Contest.

Post Your Ideas Here!


1. Your clay idea MUST BE submitted to the Polymer Yay! Facebook Post about the Contest

2. You MUST BE a fan of Polymer Yay! on facebook to enter and win. (if you are not a fan simply hit the like button, and you will be :P)

3. Each idea MUST BE submitted as a separate comment.

4. Keep your total number of submitted ideas to 3 or less.

5. Please take time to see what others have entered for ideas. If you post the same idea as someone else and that idea is chosen, the winner will be the first person to have posted the idea.

6. Please no vulgar design ideas. Keep it PG

7. The fan with the winning design idea will receive the first piece that is produced, absolutely free. Others may have a chance to purchase the design from the Etsy Store.

8. Your submitted ideas, do not have to relate to any holiday, event, or anything that we currently make.


Be creative, and tell us what you like!

-Polymer Yay!


Thursday, September 27, 2012

Craft Fair, & Possible Etsy Items

Hello all,

It has been sometime since our last post but don't worry we have not gone anyway, we have just been a little busy with work and other things.

Exciting new though, the local Craft fair is coming up soon! It will probably be on November 17th. So excited!

Anyway, that has inspired this post, along with wanting to show some of the items that we have added to the shop, and some of the items that will be available at the craft fair!!

Lets start with a couple of items that we will have at the craft fair!

If you are one of our fans on facebook, you may have already seen the two following items, if not please enjoy.

Everybody knows the man in red loves a late night snack.


A fun reminder of something we should all practice.

A couple of home decor plates, we love them and think they are super cute and fun. They are about 10.25-10.5" across if anyone is interested. They can be used to display, or with the Santa plate if you wanted to place cookies on it for the kiddies, you could, just clean it with a damp cloth. They are ceramic plates with vinyl accents.

These two particular plates will most likely not be sold on Etsy due to shipping cost. We are not exactly sure what the cost would be but we are afraid that we would not be able to give a price that was fair and covered shipping. (These plates in particular are slightly heavy) If you are local and will be able to attend the local craft fair, you can look for these on our table. Their price will be 15.00 each, and if we are able we will have our machine with us and will be able to personalize them. So for example, your santa plate could say "from Jack & Jane"
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Up next is a Halloween Item, we may add this to Etsy, if we do, we need to do it very soon. Halloween is fast approaching!

How cute is this?

This one has been made for a special little someone who is far to young to young to be reading this blog, so she will not know it has been made for her, unless someone spoils it, and I would ask that you didn't if you happen to read this and see it :)

Another Fall, or Halloween, related item we have made is the following item. It is more of a made to order item, and will probably only be provided locally, but not at the craft fair, as it requires supplies that are only sought after seasonally. Also, they supplies are only available seasonally :)

Fancy Fall Pumpkin!

Adorable isn't it? It was really fun to make, but ask you can see, it requires a pumpkin, this one of course is a faux pumpkin, so it will never spoil, and can be reused many times. However, it is not a supply we will carry, as these Pumpkins can take up a lot of space, and as we said, they are only popular part of the year :) So if you would like one, let us know. This one is I suppose a "medium" sized pumpkin and would run 40.00 that comes complete with your name, or initial, or whatever, and adorable bow.

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Now up next, we'll show you a couple of items that we have added to etsy recently, or at least items we have not blogged about before.

First up, is a non clay item, but is cool and fun nonetheless.

Flounder Fear Me

This decal actually has it's very own story of how it was brought into this world through Polymer Yay! If you are interested in learning the sweet short story, you can find it in the item description on This Page.

Cool story wasn't it? Really short, but cool none the less.

The next two pictures are clay items and will be the last pictures in the particular post. We hope you enjoy them.

Pumpkin Pie Oh yum!

Peppermint Pie

The Peppermint Pie earrings were made based off of a recipe in I believe a Betty Crocker cook book, so that's kinda cool. The links for them are Pumpkin Pie & Peppermint Pie

So glad we could share all these new things with all of you and we hope to post again soon with more news

OH YEAH!
One more bit of news, we finally reached 100 Likes, so that lucky person will be getting that free goody bag.

-Polymer Yay!







Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Charity Raffle Donation Across "The Pond"

Hello all,

For anyone who has visited our etsy shop over the past few days or the past week or so, will have seen some new items that have been added. Our last post mentioned several of our fall-esque items that we have made.

We have also added a couple different pairs of food related earrings as well.

Anyway, on to the real reason for this post!

We were contacted a couple of days ago about a possibly making a donation of an item to be raffled off for Charity. Of course, we said that we would love to.

The event is for the Macmillan Nurses, there will be a Charity Karaoke event held over several weeks along with a raffle of donated items. The Karaoke will be held/sponsored by a group of DJs known as Freeway Entertainment. (I will provide a like to the correct Facebook page once I have received a concrete link)

We were contacted by Clare Vann of Lexi's Kingdom

Now a couple of details that will be important to everyone, this event, as you may have guessed by the post title, is not in America, it is in the UK. I believe it will be held at the Ring O Bells Pub in Loughborough which is located in Leicestershire I believe.

So if you read our blog, and want to help our the Nurses make your way over there to do some Charity. I believe the events may take place are DEC 8th. For more information you can contact Clare at Lexi's Kingdom

Alright, now we want to show all of you what we will be donating to this cause. They are similar to items we have for sale in our shop, but the colors are a bit different than the ones in the shop. We think they turned out nicely though. We are sending them with the intention of it being Raffled as a set, but of course they can do with it as they want, but any way, the following pictures are the items that will shortly be sent across the pond to help a cause.

Autumn Brooch
Autumn Brooch Side View


Autumn Leaf Earrings


As you can see, we used the same greens, reds browns, and oranges in these pieces, yet the order, placement, and intensity of the colors are different from our original designs. We hope that all of you like these, and we hope they can help out the Nurses.

-Polymer Yay

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Some New Items.

Hello all!

It has been a little while since our last post, and we apologize for that. We have been busy with work, organizing our craft room and other things.



New Items


Over the past week or so we have added several new items to our etsy shop. Several are fall related items, or fall themed.  You can find our shop at www.etsy.com/shop/polymeryay

The following pictures will show you at least some of our new items! Enjoy!
Free Shipping Iridescent  Style Winter Leaf Earrings
Iridescent Style Winter Leaf Earrings
Free Shipping Dark Snowy Winter Leaf Earrings
Dark Wintery Leaf Earrings
Free Shipping Cheeseburger Charm
OM NOM NOM!
Free Shipping Autumn Leaf Earrings
Autumn Leaf Earrings
Free Shipping Green Leaf Ladybug Earrings
Green Leaf ladybug Earrings
Free Shipping Cherry Pie Earrings
Ooooh Cherry Pie Yum!
Free Shipping Autumn Fall Leaf Brooch
Autumn Fall Leaf Brooch
There have been a couple other items added as well, but these are the ones that we made for the fall & winter seasons (Yes, even the cheeseburger charm)

We will hopefully get some new stuff made soon, some may end up craft fair supplies, rather than the shop, but we will at least let you see it if its super awesomely cool, which it of course will be :p

Well, for now this is all and we will keep you all updated to what is going on and coming up. Make sure to check our our shop, or follow us on facebook, or twitter to stay the most up to date with what we are doing.

Also, as of this minute, we are at 90 Likes on our facebook page. When we hit 100 likes, the 100th person will receive a free goodie bag! If you already like us, tell your friend, maybe they will share!

-Polymer Yay!

Friday, August 17, 2012

Foster Florals

Hello all!,

As you may have noticed, we like to share work by our friends, as well as we like to share our own. We have linked to a couple of different Etsy Stores, as well as facebook pages.

Well another friend of ours has started up her own business making awesome Flower Arrangements and wreaths! She asked for our Digital Yay Services in creating a banner for her business page. We glady accepted, and made her a banner. Currently she is only on facebook advertising, but may be on other sites in the future.

Anyway, the name of this business is Foster Florals

You can see that a great amount of care and time go into these arrangements in the photos below:















Aren't they just lovely? we think so, not just because it's a friend of ours either! Make sure to visit her, or give her a call. I believe all of her needed contact information can be found on her page.

I know we told you that she does wreaths too, and she does, however at this moment she only has one image up and it's a balloon wreath.and it's Super Cool! We chose tp put the two above images up because they both are in beautiful fall colors.

The Balloon Wreath  is also beautiful, so check it out!

We hope you enjoy this new little treasure that is Foster Florals, & if you want to see the banner we made for her, simply visit her page. Just in case you forgot it was Foster Florals

-Polymer Yay

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Polymer Yay! Goes International!

Hello all!

As I am sure you recall, a little while back we mentioned in a post that we had sent a Mystery item to a really awesome fan in the UK.

Well, earlier today, she received her item! So since she has now seen it, all of you can too!

First off, We will start off by showing you the picture we were given for reference.


Alright, as we can see, our Friend Sarah Gibson, requested a Camera Charm! I had this feeling when I asked what she would like that her reply was going to be Camera, and I was right! What else would an awesome photographer want? Okay, so it was just an educated guess, but we were excited to try it!


Obviously better than a real one.


Alright, now I know it's not a perfect match to the picture above, but we took some artistic license, and used the actual camera more as a reference or inspiration. Sarah knew this, going into the deal that we would take some license with it, she even told us she expected us to. Anyway, This charm is probably only about an inch tall, maybe an inch or so wide. It comes complete with flash box, big fancy lens, and even a couple of buttons and switches.

All that really matters to us, is that it got to her safely and that she liked it, and well, BOTH of those things happened. It arrived safely, and She loved it. She even sent us the following photo showing her appreciation before she wore it out for a night out on the town.

Sarah Gibson loves her Polymer Yay!

Now once again, you can find Sarah at the following links: Sarah Gibson -or- Sarah Gibson Photography We are so glad she likes it!




Other International News



As the Page views to our blog slowly increase, we find ourselves checking to see where these views come from. Well, with Blogger, we can see how many views and from what countries they come from. So in honor of the current 8 different Countries that have read our blog at least once, we have made a diagram. This diagram will show all of you the countries we currently have views from.

Best Diagram ever!

:D How is that for a diagram? lol We have actually talked about making a map to show where we have mailed items, but we have just recently started our international shipping, so a map would be time consuming, and really only have the US, the UK, and Italy, so we decided that Owls that were rather outspoken about their favorite places would be better.

This Diamgram will also be available on our facebook, along with Sarah's appreciation photo.

For now this is all, we hope to have some more items added soon, and some other projects finished as well.

Facebook, Etsy, Twitter


-Polymer Yay!

They Have Flown The Coop, so to speak.

Hello All,

Last night we posted about a new item that would soon be in our Etsy Shop well, it's here!

That's right, our newest product is now available for sale in the shop. Since the color purple seems to hate us, only brown and green are available for purchase. The purple ones will either go up for sale at a later date,  be added to craft fair items, or will meet an untimely demise and be thrown away. Most likely it will be one of the first two options.

Any who, you can see images below of the items, and if you feel that you want a pair, you can get to their listing by clicking the caption under the photo of the one you like!

Brown!
Green!
















Sorry about the glare they have, there was a fair amount of clear coat applied to them to keep them protected.

So for all of you that were excited to see some owl jewelry come from Polymer Yay!, here it is. We hope you all love it.

-Polymer Yay!

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

This Post is A Hoot!

Hello all!,

We promised that we would bring out some new Jewelry, that actually featured our little owl mascots. Well they are still not completely finished, but we figured we could let you in on a sneak preview of these adorable new earrings, that will soon feature in the shop!

Since they are still not 100% complete (some need some extra clear coat, and some still need to be clear coated) we have photographed one, that is probably about 90% complete.

Are you ready?

How do you like it?

We love them. There are also some brown, and purple ones as well! We made some pink ones, but in the end they just looked like pink ovals with white faces, you couldn't see their outlines, or their tummy feathers.

With that, they will not be featured in the shop :( Anyway, back to these little owls. They are somewhere around 1/2 inch tall, and probably about 1/4 inch wide, or somewhere around that size.

Hopefully we will be able to finish the final clear coating on them tonight, and maybe get some photographed in the morning, or sometime tomorrow. If we can do that, then you can expect to see these little cuties in the shop tomorrow.

If you have not yet checked out our shop, or would like to give it another look, you can find it in the links below, along with our facebook, & twitter.

The Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/polymeryay
Facebook: www.facebook.com/polymeryay
Twitter: www.twitter.com/polymeryay

Monday, August 13, 2012

Polymer Yay! Owls & Other News.

Hello all,

We are very excited to make an announcement that involves the Polymer Yay! Owls.

As we have mentioned in previous posts the owls are our mascots but, we have never made any products in which they are featured. We also stated that in the past we have made an owl necklace, that we gave to a friend, but that owl looked nothing like the Polymer Yay! Owls.

Who Me?
However that, will soon change! That's right folks, soon you will be able to get your very own piece of Polymer Yay! jewelry that has a striking resemblence to one of these guys.


Isn't he just adorable? We think so, but our opinion may be a little bias.

Any way, soon, you will be able to purchase, or maybe even win, your very own Polymer Yay! Owl Jewelry! Seriously! We are super excited about this. We have one piece made already, we just have not had the chance to take a photo yet, and we would like to get a couple more made, so that we can have a small photo shoot instead of just photographing one object here, and then another one there. It's just more time efficient to wait, even though we want to see more stuff in the shop. Believe me, we want there to be more stuff in the shop, and there will be! It might just take us a little bit.

For those of you that do not know, Polymer Yay! consists of two people, J. Sumner & M. Henshall. Well, M.Henshall has her own etsy store, in which she sells crocheted items, such as scarves, ear warmers, dish cloths, & things of that nature. As of late she has been on a hiatus, crocheting,  in order to gear up for the upcoming cooler months. This leaves us with only one to deal with the Polymer Yay! side of things, & since we are working on expanding the types of products we can carry for you guys, it makes everything go a little slower.

Jimmy has been working on items for the Digital Yay! Section of the shop over the past few days, as well as other items & objects relating to Polymer Yay!

However, with all this said, hopefully sometime this week you should see new Owl items in the shop!, as well as a blog post mentioning new items coming to Polymer Yay! Home.



Other News


There will be some new items added to Polymer Yay! Home . These items will consist of Holiday items, as well as various items that are being made daily. We plan to photograph these items soon. I will not get into the details of what the items are, other than at least one of them is super cute, well we think it is lol.

The new home decor items we are working on may possibly go into the etsy shop, as we feel that they are a little less delicate than the Joy vases from several posts back. If they do indeed make it to the etsy store, they may be under a shop section called Decor or Home Decor rather than Polymer Yay Home. This possibly being done so that there is no confusion about what type of items are in each shop section.

So, this week you can look forward to at least one blog post about new items (with pictures), and a strong possibility of new items being added into the shop. Also, we are hoping that our Friend in the UK will receive their item this week, and if they do we may have a post about their fancy new jewelry.

As always, you can find us at at of the links below:
Etsy. www.etsy.com/polymeryay
Blogger: www.polymeryay.blogspot.com
Facebook. www.facebook.com/polymeryay
Twitter. www.twitter.com/polymeryay

-Polymer Yay!

Friday, August 10, 2012

Digital Yay! is Now Active

Hello all,

You may recall that a while back we mentioned that hopefully soon Digital yay! would be good to go.

Well now it is!

Digital Yay! is the one section of Polymer Yay! that doesn't involve polymer/plastic in any way, unless you count the keyboard and mouse of our computer. Digital Yay! is where we put our art degrees to a different use. [For any of you that do not know, Polymer Yay! is comprised of J. Sumner (B.S. Graphic Design & Advertising) & M. Henshall (B.S. Fine Art & Painting)] Instead of using our artistic talent, and love for crafts to make small foods, and other items, from clay we put our brains together and create digital graphics.

Originally we stated that Digital Yay! would provide graphics for scrap-booking and things of that nature. Graphics similar to clip art if you will. This may still come about in the future, but as of right now, Digital Yay is starting out by providing Shop Banners for Etsy. Other Etsy items will come as time progresses, as well as graphics for personal websites and or blogs.

Currently we are only providing the previously mentioned shop banners. Our banners are set up to be custom designed, meaning that no one other than you (if you have an etsy shop) will have your banner. You can buy premade banners on etsy, and in the future we may offer some predesigned packages, in which your shop name will simply be inserted into a template.

You can view the item on etsy at this link https://www.etsy.com/listing/106579283/custom-designed-shop-banner

Or you can keep an eye out to see what's new in Digital Yay! with this link. http://www.etsy.com/shop/polymeryay?section_id=11987271

-Polymer Yay!


Thursday, August 9, 2012

Friends Abroad, & Tweeting?

Hello all!

How is everyone today? We hope you are all doing well.

In a recent post (Owlympics, New Items, & Friends Abroad) we mentioned how a very wonderful person in the UK had helped us get the word out about Polymer Yay! Her name is Sarah Gibson, you can find her photography work at Sarah Gibson Photography We have dubbed her our Street Team I guess technically Polymer Yay! Street Team International would be more appropriate :D

Any who, for her acts of great kindness, we decided to make her very own special one of a kind piece of Polymer Yay! Jewelry. She has been super excited, and now is even more excited! Why? Well the reason why is that as of yesterday (8-8-2012) her item has been shipped! We still will not reveal what she asked for until she gets the item and posts pictures about it, but that will occur soon. We know she is excited, but you know what?, so are we!

So once the item has journeyed through America and across the pond it will be delivered to her by Post. That little item has a little bit of a journey ahead of it, but it should be a safe one.


Now for other News!

Polymer Yay! has joined Twitter you can follow us @polymeryay or find us directly  https://twitter.com/polymeryay 

It almost makes sense if you ask me, We use owls as Mascots, so it almost makes sense to tweet! However, the Polymer Yay! Owls have informed me when they update on Twitter they Hoot rather than tweet They said something about That tweeting business was for the birds ... I'm not exactly sure what they meant by that, but they seemed pretty serious.

So you can look forward to finding out what our Friend Abroad received as a thank you gift, and you can now follow us on twitter and see all of our Tweets Hoots.

More updates to come.

-Polymer Yay!

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes

Hello All!

As you may recall from our last couple of posts, the last one specifically, we have added a new line and new products. (If you didn't see our last post you can find it Right Here) 

Well, this post is similar, it's also about changes (if the fancy title didn't clue you in :P) Anywho!, these changes are a little bit different, as they are to the etsy shop it's self!

Over yesterday, and today we have revamped our Shop Banner, Profile Picture, and even added some Custom Images (Reserved Item, Custom Order, & Sale Icon). This is all to better help unify the look of the shop. This blog, and the facebook page, as it currently stands will keep their current looks, as they are more of a special bonus you get to see for reading the blog of liking us on facebook. So they will have different images than the shop.

Onto the Changes!

I will first show you the etsy banner that we replaced
This actually replaced another banner that just said "Polymer Yay!"
Alright, now here is the New etsy Banner.
This one is super adorable!

The colors and style of that banner, and even some of the items in it are based on items we actually make or have sold!...Except for the owls, we made an owl necklace once and gave it to a friend, but it didnt look like these owls, no where near as cute. Anyway, these cute little owls (Originally drawn by Monique) have become our little mascots. So, you can expect to see a lot more of them.


Alright, now let me get onto the other items I mentioned. Up next is the new etsy Profile Picture, and Sale Picture.(The Sale Profile Pic, may be a work in progress)
Ooooh A Sale!
Oh No! Someone Bit It! 







I cannot find the old profile picture on this computer, but it was the same color as the old banner, had one owl on it, and in the script font said "Polymer Yay!" over his little head.


Alright, up Next are the Custom Order, and Reserved item Images. We did not have any of these prior to these new ones, so there are no old images.
I have heard that the contractor is strictly business.
Of course my name is on the list! It's *mumble mumble mumble*


Alright, there you have it, all of the new changes that have been made to the etsy store. We are still going to try to get our other holiday item finished and placed up here as well, and that will hopefully be sooner than later!

-Polymer Yay!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

First Product of a New Line!

Hello All!

As we said, we would try to get at least a snapshot or two taken of our new products from our new line.

Our new line is call Polymer Yay! Home, and will provide Home Decor items.

As we stated yesterday, these items would involve polymer, but it would not be polymer clay, as most of our other items are, and since polymer is a plastic, we also carry items made from plastic such as our Kawaii Best Friends Necklaces.

So!, What type of items will be carried in Polymer Yay! Home, is what you are wondering, how will it involve polymer? Well, the image below may answer that question!

Holiday - JOY Vase Set

Holiday - JOY Vase Set "Artistic Angle"


That's right everyone, our newest polymer product is vinyl!

We hope to have other Home decor items like this finished soon! As it currently stands these are not available in our Etsy shop. They are currently only available for local purchase and craft fairs. Our reasoning for this is we are not yet sure the best way to ship them so that we will be satisfied that they will not meet an unkind fate on their trip. These are are beautiful when filled with Peppermints or other Candies, Holiday Ornaments, In Shell Nuts, or whatever you find best suits your holiday decor.

These will sell for 15.00 USD (Empty) and can be filled for an additional cost. (Additional cost varies depending on choice of fill) These sets are also made to order and can be made with vinyl of a different color. (Based on availability in stock)

We hope everyone loves our first new product from Polymer Yay! Home There are other products in the works that have not yet been finished, but I will not tell you what they are yet! I will say that they too are Holiday themed, but that is all I will say.

For now, this is all.

-Polymer Yay!

Monday, August 6, 2012

New Products to Come

Hello all!,

As some of you may have noticed in our shop, not all items are made out of polymer clay. There is a reasoning behind this. We chose the name because it seemed very fun, and it went along with what we mostly sold, which is Polymer Clay jewelry and charms.

We do want to expand our products that we off to all of you. So the reason you see some little plastic items in the shop is simply because polymer is also a type of plastic! So you will occasionally see items that are not made from clay for sale in our shop.

Now all of that boring stuff said, it lets me get to the part that is exciting. Some of the new products we will be offering, for the holidays will be more Home decor based! They will not be made out of polymer clay either, but polymer will be involved!

I will not tell you right now what the items are, but hopefully over the next few days we will get at least a snapshot of one of the new items taken, so we can post it up here and let all who care to, see them.

Now unfortunately, we are unsure as of now if these items will be available on etsy, or just at local craft fairs, as we worry, and are unsure about shipping on them.

I so wish I had the photos ready, but Currently we only have one of the new products ready, the other still has to be finished.

This post is a bit random and all over the place...sorry about that !

Anyway, this long-winded post, is basically just telling you that you will see a different type of polymer in our upcoming section that I will label Polymer Yay! Home.

 Hopefully, you all look forward to seeing some of our new products and ideas.

If you would like to see what we currently have for sale you can find it all at www.etsy.com/shop/polymeryay

-Polymer Yay!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Owlympics, New Items, & Friends Abroad

Hello All!

We hope everyone out there is enjoying the Summer Olympic Games. We thought the opening ceremony was just amazing, and beautifully done. Now if you are one of our facebook fans, you may have noticed that the Polymer Yay! Owls, are in the Olympic Spirit as well. Taking the Podium for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd in Swimming, they are quite talented! Well, all but one, alas, the purple one still has to wear his water wings so to speak, and was unable to compete this time.

On to more serious business, we have listed several new items this week, and we are quite excited about them. There's an Ice Cream SandwichSome Cookies, & Other Goodies. As always these tasty little treats pack ZERO CALORIES & FAT, and more than enough of your daily value of Cute & Adorable.

We have a couple of other items that need to go into the shop as well. Along with a custom made piece for a  BIG FAN of ours that lives "Across the Pond" as they say. Her name is Sarah Gibson, and her wonderful Photography Business can be found and this link-> Sarah Gibson Photography 

Now given, if you are like us and live in the United States she may be a little far out to use her services, but that doesn't mean that you can't like her page and say that you think her work is good now does it? Anyway, she is an adoring fan, and has given us A LOT of support, kuddos, and promotions to our store, and our facebook fan page So as our thanks to her for basically being our Street Team she is getting her very own personalized item, and just to be nice, I have linked Photography Business Above. She is pretty awesome.

Pictures of her item will be shared, but I do not believe that they will be shared until after she gets her item. Not fair for everyone else to see it before she has a chance to even hold it in her hands!

Let me see, I think that might be it for now. Oh wait no it's not all!

A little while back we mentioned that hopefully soon we would open Digital Yay! A part of Polymer Yay! that dealt with digital designs, like clip art and things of that nature. Well, it is not completely up and running yet, but there has been a product that I am going to classify as Digital Yay! since it is indeed Digital :D

Our High School Art teacher has joined the forces of Etsy doing these VERY COOL painted plates and birds. I am so close to buying one it is crazy, she has one or two items that would just match our kitchen & dining area perfectly. Anyway!, after looking at her pieces she had for sale I felt inspired to use my Graphic Design Talents to create her a personalized etsy shop banner.  She loved it. her shop can be found at the following link -> Collectively Cathy 

This is the banner that was made for her by Digital Yay!


Alright, now I think that is all :D We will still try to eventually get some how-to guides or videos or something  up eventually, but for right now this is all!

-Polymer Yay!

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Polymer Yay Product Review

Hello All!

A little while back we mentioned that we were up for a review from a blogger, and that we were very excited. Well Ladykayy has done just that. She had some very nice and wonderful things to say about our products and our styles. And a very interesting blog. You would like to read her review about us you can find it here->Polymer Yay! Blog Review

We hope you enjoy our review, and we promise to have new products available shortly. Thank you for all the support from our fans, and dont forget, the 100th person to like our facebook page gets a free goodie bag! The facebook page can be found at http://www.facebook.com/polymeryay

-Polymeryay!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Digital Yay

Hello all!

As you may have noticed either on our Facebook page, or our Etsy store, that over the past couple of months we have redone our banners, and whatnot. We even finally changed the banner for the blog!

This is not only a new fresh look for our store, but it is also a slight introduction for some projects we will do in the hopefully near future. What we are talking about is in a simple term clip-art. We will , as I said hopefully shortly, introduce and offer digital designs. As currently planned, this will be in it's own section in the etsy shop and will be labeled "Digital Yay"

These digital designs may feature drawings based off of items we have made in the past, or plan on making, or they may just be something we think is fun and cool and all of that lovely stuff. In case you are wondering "Why would I want any clip-art?" there will be more uses that just dropping it into a text document or power-point. The Digital Designs, will be lovely accessories for scrapbooking, paper crafts, or even as party theme decorations.

We will tell you all more, when they are closer to being finished, as well as let you know when they are able to be purchased.

NOTE: Digital Yay Designs, will of course have free shipping, and will be e-mailed to a provided e-mail address once purchased.

-Polymer Yay!

Monday, June 18, 2012

New Banner

Hello All!

As Promised, we have given at least a small update to the Polymer Yay! Blog.

As you can see (if you are a fan of ours on facebook) we have used our cover photo for the banner on the blog. We love it, people seem to love it so far, its really cute and fun. We of course will try to change the cover photo, and everything with the seasons. As of now with summer getting ready, we have a summer themed banner.

We hope you all do like it. We hope to become more active on our blog as well as make more updates to it as time goes by.

-Polymer Yay!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Things are a Changin'

Hello!

It has been a while since we have posted to our blog!

So, we figured we would make a post and share it to let people know that our facebook page, and out Etsy store, have had some updates in looks and products. You can find those pages on facebook or you can go straight to the shop on etsy

We are still waiting on the review we last posted about, it has been a while, but we are sure they will get around too it some time.

Since Facebook, and our Etsy store have new looks, we may end up going through the blog and updating it a little as well, but since we do not use it as often as the other two, it may take some time for us to get  around to it.

ANOTHER THING that has changed has been the addition of our Fun in the Sun Summer Acrylic Collection, available for the Summer of 2012. As well as, a Birthday Cake Topper we made for a customer order. The Topper can be Found here

We also plan to attend at least one craft show this fall/winter, so items that are related to the seasons, will soon be on our minds as we gear up for fall and winter merchandise.

Fell free to let us know anything you would like to see us try or make.

Well, this is all for now, and we will try to get back on this blog and like we said maybe even update it's images too.!!

-Polymer Yay!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

New Ads!

Polymer Yay! Will soon be featured in a blog for review. Don't worry, we will update you the moment we are featured for you all to read.

In the mean time, Polymer has a new ad out that is floating around on livejournal.com , but for those of you who do not use LJ you can see the ad in all of its cuteness below. 

Each little picture will take you to that item! So excited!, or at least it is supposed to. It may not be compatible with all browsers :(

-Jimmy & Monique