Valley woman specializing in polymer clay earrings

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The creations Janelle Solis is putting successful the oven aren't the edible kind.

The proprietor of Jes Clay makes handmade polymer clay earrings.

"I consciousness similar my earrings person a small spot of maine successful them due to the fact that that is thing I would deterioration too, truthful I consciousness comfy promoting it," she said.

Three years successful business, the Fresno Pacific University grad and societal idiosyncratic started creating wearable creation during the pandemic.

"I recovered that arsenic the close clip to spell into a hobby," she said.

As does immoderate artist, Janelle creates her ain designs and colors.

"You person your superior colors -- blue, red, white, black, yellow, green," she said. "Then, what you bash is chopped them into blocks to marque a nude colour oregon a airy pinkish color."

We got a peek astatine her location workplace to amusement you the process.

"After it's conditioned, I rotation it backmost onto my tile," she said. "I'll enactment a texture oregon surface people connected it, and past I volition usage a cutter and I volition chopped them out, instrumentality them disconnected of my tile, transportation them onto the machine insubstantial with a baking tray and cook them."

After that, it's clip to assemble.

"This portion is wherever it gets truly messy -- the drilling and the sanding," Solis said. "It's covered successful liquid clay to conscionable marque definite that it's not going to travel disconnected and it's going to past you."

Posts, hoops, dangles oregon bling, the Jes Clay postulation features what customers privation acknowledgment to interactive stories with polls and income connected her Instagram.

"I ever bash Instagram posts asking for feedback from my followers," she said. "I truly spell based connected their feedback due to the fact that they are the ones wearing them and buying them."

Jes Clay besides does customized orders for bridal parties.

"I get overwhelmed, excited, conscionable truly grateful that they privation to enactment my concern and deterioration my creation connected their ears," she said.

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