| | Hello Crafter, It’s the month of LOVE… and hopefully happiness for all of you! Boy, do we LOVE Molds! We just had our 7th Birthday here at Mad About Molds and we are so excited to show you what we have been busy with this month! Seven years ago in February we had a dream to be THE place to go for Clay Push Molds. Our hope was to create a place where there’s something for everyone, and today we love what we do and we celebrate the dream of giving our customers the passion to create with the help of Mad About Molds. We have NEW molds, New trends, NEW creations and an awesome article about “Being You!” Continue reading to learn about how to be yourself and who you are meant to be. Please take the time to sit back and enjoy this issue of My Molds! Until next time, Marjorie with Mad About Molds 
As always, we thank you for your time, you’re wonderful comments and your generous support! We enjoy sharing what we do and we love to hear what you think! | February 2012 Issue 
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| | NEW MOLDS! | Something for everyone! As promised we are delivering 20 new molds for you to choose from! We try to offer something for everyone with our selection of 1,000 molds on our website. If you don’t see what you are looking for, it’s likely that you will find it and much more at www.MadAboutMolds.com. 
View ALL of our NEW Molds here! Or search by number from our search box online. |
| | | NEW CREATIONS | Just for FUN! Don’t you just love new ideas? Many of you may already own these molds, so these new projects may inspire you to get them out again. If not, we are including the mold numbers below for you to add them to your collection. Shown is just a random selection of castings that we had on hand in our office, but we painted them all in the same four colors to create a Valentine’s theme. (Hot Pink, Chocolate Brown, Cream and Green) The end result is a collection that would be suitable for all kinds of projects such as candies, cupcake-toppers, party favors, Valentine embellishments and much more! Let us know if you come up with any ideas that could be used on our website. We would love to see them!
 
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896 And here’s one more sample even though it’s not in our Valentine theme. This a Christmas ornament that was made a few years ago, and somehow it never got the attention it deserves. This is a good example of using a mold without removing the excess clay around the edges of the casting. As you can see it frames the shape nicely if you don’t want to fuss with detailed edges. 
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| | | THIS MONTH’S ARTICLE | Who Are You “Being”? 
When I go to my local studio, I see a tile hanging by the door. It says Just Be! I’ve seen it for years now and never really gave it a lot of thought. What does it mean to “just be”? On one level it means to be present in the moment, without distraction, still. And, that’s probably what we’re supposed to consider when we see the tile and begin our practice in the studio. But who is it that you want to be? I don’t know if you are familiar with the Be-Do-Have principle. I think I first heard of it years ago. Early on most of us learn that if we do whatever, we will have whatever and then we’ll be whatever. That’s DO-HAVE-BE; it really should be BE-DO-HAVE. You first need to figure out what kind of person you want to be. Being is how you create the life that you want. “Who Are You?” Most of us say, “I’m a wife, a mom, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a quilter, a writer, a cook, etc.” But who are we really and who do we want to be? It can take some to figure it out. Spend some time thinking about who you are and who you want to be. For me, I want to be a person of integrity, filled with joy and gratitude. I want to be generous and open and spirited. Since I know the person I want to be, it makes it easier for me to do things in accord with that. My actions are based on who I want to “be” and what a person of that “being” would do. So, who do you want to be? You need to listen to your inner voice to find out. And, to do that you need to Just Be! Here are two quotes on being that I like: 1. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. 2. I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
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| Spring 2012 Fashion Trends It may still be Winter, but I am already ready for Spring. The best part of the warmer weather? All of the gorgeous new fashion trends – and this year’s are some of the best I’ve seen for awhile. Floral patterns, pastels, tribal prints – tons of fun patterns and feminine color palettes that will instantly liven up a wardrobe. Below are some of Spring 2012′s fashion trends straight from the runway and from some of the most coveted designers in the fashion world. Runway fashion is a little extreme but you can expect more “real world” variations of these trends to hit store racks very soon!
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