 Hello, hi, everybody, I'm Pauline. Welcome. All right, I'm going to start my little intro, and then we'll introduce Pauline. Okay, so my name is Christie and I'm the Small Business Center librarian here at the San Francisco Public Library. This is to my end and with Pauline McKay of handmade by P. McKay. Our department is located on the fourth floor of the main library. And so please visit us if you come down to Civic Center. You can email us at this site tech at SFPL.org. So if you have any reference questions having to do with small business, personal finance, investing, even cooking, gardening, those are in our subject areas. Please feel free to email us or you can call us at 415-557-4488. We also have a department newsletter, and you can sign up for it here. Here is our land acknowledgement. I'm just going to read the first and last sentences. The San Francisco Public Library acknowledges that we occupy the unseated ancestral homeland of the Ramay Tush Aruni peoples, who are the original habit inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We recognize to respectfully honor Ramay Tush peoples, we must recognize to respectfully honor Ramay Tush peoples, we must embrace and collaborate meaningfully to record indigenous knowledge and how we care for San Francisco and all its people. I wanted to point out that because this is Filipino American History Month, that there is a Filipino American Center on the third floor of the main library. And there's a lot of books that circulate that means you can check them out. There's also a Filipino American Center with really great reference materials, and it's managed by Abraham Acasio, our Filipino American Center librarian. We have a lot of events. I just wanted to quickly go through these. There's a movie showing at Ocean View Branch Library on Wednesday, October 12th, called When the Storm Fades. On Wednesday, October 12th, there's a panel, Panay Lit, and we have readers, Danny Quintos, Barbara Jean Reyes, Jen Soriano, and Isabella. On Thursday, October 13th, we are showing a film at the Richmond branch in the Richmond District of San Francisco. It's called Yellow Rose. And then the big event this month is our two day Filipino American International Book Festival, and it's taking place here at the main library on Saturday and Sunday, October 15th and 6th, and it's all day. And on the lower level, there will be vendors and author signings and some books from community organizations. So I hope you can join us. And then here's some small business programs that are coming up. On Tuesday, we're having a start your own business and presented in Spanish. On Wednesday, we have our book club meeting. The book is Everything is Figure Outable. On Wednesday, October 19th, we have Dennis Yoon, who's a SEO expert. He will live audit your small business website. So if you have a small business website that isn't attracting as many customers as you would like, please join us. Put your website in the chat and he will go through it in real time and let you know how to improve it. Really good. On Tuesday, October 25th, we have an overview of reference solutions database, which is really good for business research. So during our program, you can type your questions in the chat and Pauline can answer them at the end. We've also enabled auto transcription if you need to, if you need closed captioning on your screen. Okay, so welcome Pauline McKay. I first have Pauline and her jewelry at undiscovered market last year. There's one coming up to on October 22nd. So please go to that it's going to be huge. It's going to be amazing. It's in South America. But I first saw Pauline and her jewelry last year, but I kept seeing her different markets like a couple of gardens, the stands and the streets, and her table always stood out to me from the others because of her visual merchandising, as you can see in this photo and just her, her colorful jewelry, her playful jewelry that I'm like in obsessed with I'm actually wearing a pair of her earrings right now. I'm so glad that she decided to do this demo for us, and I'm so glad that she's here today to talk with us. So welcome Pauline. Hello, thank you so much for having me. I am very honored to be doing this demo. Thank you. So before we get started and show your the demo that you prepared. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and your business. Yeah, so I basically make polymer clay jewelry. And how I started with that is I'm absolutely obsessed with accessories, I feel like they make the outfit and earrings are one of my favorite accessories and so I collected so many earrings, especially large earrings. But I found that they were super heavy. So I started experimenting with polymer clay. And I found out I can make really big pieces but very light on the ears. And so I just started making them for myself for fun. And then people would stop me and was like, Oh, where'd you get your earrings and I'd be like, Oh, I actually hate them. And so, like during, I see I started this in August of 2019. And so I started giving them as presents and then I was like running out of material so I started, people started offering to pay, and then after that basically just started and I just started a business with that so. That's great. So it's not been that long I thought you might have started longer ago but it was only in 2019 that you start well when did you start selling your jewelry. I started selling it, like kind of unofficially during that time, and then in January of 2021 that's when I published my website and but a little bit before that I was doing some markets but my official website started on January 2021. Wow, yours is a very young business. I had no idea it kind of grow the way it did. And so I was very surprised about that. Well your work is great. I love it. I already have lots of your pieces and I'm just going to keep collecting them. So, what inspired you to make jewelry representing Filipino food and culture because I know you, you've made rings that looks like on set, and you know some of, you know the kamaian pin that you're going to demonstrate. You know is is a Filipino tradition so why don't you tell us about that. Yeah, so what inspired me to make jewelry. I'm sorry my dog's work. I think food is like something that brings people together and for me I wanted to make something that represents myself and my identity and I mean why not wear food as an accessory I think it was super fun to do that and I think it also brings people together when they see, especially Filipino people together when they see food that's relating to the culture and also other people who aren't from Filipino background can learn about it too. Because San Francisco in the Bay Area there's like a number of a huge Filipino population and so there's a number of non Filipino people who know the food and it's so fun to see that when I have like a market they know about it. And so I think it just brings lots of people together, and it also represents like a little bit of me which is kind of what I want in my business I want, you know pieces of me to be represented. Yes, it is very special. Honestly, the first piece I bought of yours was the pancit canton ring it's because my grandmother had a bolt that looked just like the ring that you made. And literally like an hour after I saw the Instagram post about it I, on my lunch break I ran over to couple gardens and bought that ring and I was just like I couldn't stop looking at it it just reminded me of my grandmother and my family and the cooking and. So it's very grounding for me to look at that ring and that's actually that's how what your children needs to me so that's why I love it so much. Well that's amazing and that's actually really what I, I want and that like really was really touching to, to hear about that. It's amazing. Well thank you for creating these pieces. So I think this is a good time to show your demo so I'm going to get that ready. Yeah, so I guess I can talk a little bit about the come on, which is like basically eating with your hands and it's a celebratory meal where you have a layer of banana leaves and then basically have a feast and you have rice and barbecue egg mango, all on the table and then you gather around with people and eat together. And so this is like a pre colonial way of eating as well. Yes, thank you for explaining that to people who don't know what come on is. All right, let's watch your video now. And thank you for joining me in my command tutorial. So here's my little workstation and I'm prepping all the stuff that we need. So here's a list of materials and tools that you will need. And these are all accessible in your local art stores and craft stores like Michael's and Joanne's and even Blick and flat. Let's get started. So this green ball of clay that I have, I basically mixed it with a few different types of Sculpey clay. And that's the Primo Sculpey clay that I have over on the top left side. I mixed some green, brown and a little bit of orange and I'm flattening it up so I can put it into my pasta maker, which is my Atlas 150. But it's not necessary. You could just roll it out until you get a certain thickness. So for me, I like to use a number two setting, which means it's a 3.3 millimeter thickness. And that's basically how I want the base thickness to be. So now we're going to use a clay cutter to get the base shape. And now I'm going to put it in a little ceramic tile so we can bake that later in the oven. Next, we have the rice. And again, I'm doing the same exact first steps with the flattening of the clay at 3.3 millimeters and number two setting. And for this one, I want to double it up and fold it. And now I'm going to use a small cookie cutter that I got from Michael's to get the rice shape, the rice bowl shape. So I'm going to pinch it and round it out. And then I'm going to use a feather wire brush to get the grain details. So it looks like grains of rice. And I also use a rubber brush to do that as well. The perfect combo is a rubber brush and a feather wire brush tool. Yum. It's starting to look like a little mountain of rice. I like fried garlic bits. So I take this orangey brown clay mix that I made and I roll it out into a really, really thin coil. All right. And now we take our exacto knife and cut a really tiny piece like this. I love fried garlic with my java rice. Lots of fried garlic. And there you have it. Our little java rice. Now it's time for our barbecue. For this one, we have a little bit of a lighter brown. And for this one, I like to put it on the number five setting, which is a 1.5 millimeter thickness. Cut it into strips. And now I'm going to fold it up and put it onto my needle tool, like so. So now I'm going to pinch the clay together into a rectangular shape. And then I'm going to get my clay sculptural tool and push it down so I can make it look layered. Like little strips of meat. It's time for our barbecue stick fitting. And these sticks are just little toothpicks that I cut into pieces. And that looks good. Ooh, now it's time for our salted egg. So here I'm rolling the white clay into a tiny ball. And now I'm making that ball into an oval shape, just like a hard-boiled egg. And now I'm getting a little pinch of the yellow clay and rolling it into a tiny ball for the yolk. I'm going to flatten it and then test it out. That looks good. So now we're going to get liquid sculpey glue. That's the bacon bond. A little dab on there. And then put it onto the white oval. There we go. Iggy. Last but not least, the mango. So this one, we're going to roll it up into an overall mango shape. And then we're going to cut it in half. Again, shaping it a little bit more to look like a mango. My favorite part. Mango slices. When my mom and my grandma taught me how to do this when I was a kid with a real mango, my mind was blown. Yay, now that the mango is complete, we have our full Kamiyan set and it's time to glue everything to the base. So I'm removing the wooden stick because I do not want to bake it at a high fire in the oven. So we're going to take our soft pastel and brush it a little bit on the barbecue to give it that charred look. Alright, now that the final touches are complete, it is time to bake. So for the baking process, I just used my home oven and I baked it for 15 minutes at 275 degrees Fahrenheit. Once it is baked and cooled, we glue the barbecue stick back. And now we're going to finish it off with polyurethane varnish. Sometimes I use clear nail polish for this process and that is to give it the glossy look. So now we glue in the hardware so you could either use a pin back if you want a pin or you can use an alligator clip if you want a hair clip. So in this case, I want a hair clip so I'm going to use an alligator clip. So now we take it and glue it to the Kamiyan base and there you have it. We have a Kamiyan hair clip. Thank you so much for watching my tutorial. I'm so honored to do this and happy Filipino American History Month. See you next time. Okay, I love that video. Such a great job, Pauline. Thank you so much for making that video for us. Oh, absolutely. It's actually my first time recording a video tutorial. So it was a, everything was a first house. I had a lot of fun making and editing the video too, and I learned a lot and actually also inspired me to make more videos. Yay. I would love to watch more of your videos. You could create a YouTube channel. Yes. Oh, someone put some star eyes in the chat. So everyone in the, everyone here, please let us know what you think of her video. But I liked, oh, I better turn down the volume on this. I think it's okay. Can you hear any reverb? I can hear fine. Just a little. Let me turn that off. I'll be right back. Oh, thank you so much for all the people who are commenting. Okay, sorry about that. So what I liked a lot with seeing all your techniques and I loved how you created textures on everything, like on the rice, using those two brush brushes and on the meat and like adding the charred to the meat and then making a glaze. I mean, there's all these layers and it just creates a lot of dimension for such a small piece. It's so dimensional. And I think that's why I love your work so much because I really just look at it for a long time because there's so many details. And yeah, it's no people sharing their comments. Yeah, thank you for the feedback. And next time I make a video, I'll definitely work on the volume. It was my first time doing a voiceover narration. And I also have like a very soft voice. So, but yeah, it's good to hear some people's feedback on that. You did a great job. And yeah, I look forward to seeing more of your videos. So I just have like one or two more questions for you. So what is your favorite part about being a small business owner and designer. So one of my favorite parts about being a small business owner and designer is I have full control of what I can do and what I can make. And that's like really fun because I can experiment and do whatever I want to. And I get to also meet a lot of other cool creatives doing like a lot of small events and I really enjoy that. Do you keep up with them? Like other than seeing them at markets, do you like hang out with the other creatives that you meet at the markets? Yes, absolutely. And I've also have actually spoken to other people about doing future collaborations on things, which I'm very excited about. And it's also really fun to see the same people like buying my things over again, like loyal customers. That's it's like super awesome. And I'm really honored. Okay. Yay, sweet. I love that. Thanks for showing us your piece, Angela. That was really cool. I'm wearing my earrings too. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. Your fan base will surely grow, I think, over the years. Your stuff is so good. So where are you going to be this month and for the holidays? Do you have any shows planned? Yeah, so actually doing an event with Angela in November. But the more recent ones this month for Phil, Philippine American History Month, we have a noise of the noise pop block party and mission. That's happening October. The Saturday, I think that's October 16th. And that's from noon to six and then undiscovered is my other big event, which is on October 22nd. And that's going to be a really big one. I can't wait to see all the other vendors too. It's always an amazing turnout. Yeah, big shout out to cultivate labs for putting that together. It's a huge production. I think they work with some of Filipinas. I think capital gardens is involved. I think this year from the website, I can see that it's going to be even bigger. So I have that day off. I'm going to spend the whole day there. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. And also I'm going to have a lot of new pieces. Like I actually have them here. I have Filipino spaghetti. I have a little crock jibbit with bun set on there. It's going to be featured at undiscovered. And I'm also going to have, it's the first time I'm going to have my own tent with my logo on it. And it's like a big 10 by 10. So it's going to be really interesting and also really fun. Cause I've never had a big booth with my logo. So. Oh my God. I'm going to be there like right when you guys open. I'll try not to buy everything though. Oh, that's so great. I'm glad to hear that. I put the link to undiscovered in the chat. So everyone, if you can make it on Saturday, October 22nd, like for Pauline's booth or tent. And yeah, check her out and check out everyone else. Does anyone have any questions? Oh, someone did right. Have you ever sold at SJ San Jose made? I actually haven't done any San Jose events yet, but I've been meaning to. And if you also, if you have an Instagram and if you could DM me about that, I would definitely love to look into it. Oh yeah, cool. And does everyone know how to find here? Let me put your website in the, in the chat too so that people can look at your, your website because I love looking at your designs on there too. So there's Pauline's website. Any other questions for her? Thank you for joining us today. You guys have a special treat to see her amazing demo. Right. I don't see any. So again, Pauline, thank you for doing this. This was such a good, oh wait, there is another question. Can you tell us about the first piece you ever made? Yeah, so okay. One of the first piece I made was a key chain and it was a really thick, like half circle clay piece. But it was since I didn't really know what I was doing at first. It like broke easily. It didn't, it wasn't as sturdy as I thought it would be, but that's what allowed me to experiment more. And I found out that Sculpey Primo is actually one of the sturdiest I've worked with. Sculpey Primo is that the type of clay? That's a type of clay. Sculpey Primo is a type of clay. And I usually, for the sturdiest, I usually bake it at 260 for 15, 260 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Okay. Okay. I can ask Angela to unmute. I'm wondering does Angela make similar pieces? Angela, if you want, you can unmute yourself and tell us about your work. Oh, I actually don't make pieces. But I wish, I just love going to craft fairs and meeting people like Pauline. And I was just organizing some of them for a craft fair in November. That's what Pauline was mentioning earlier. Oh, great. We just started looking for vendors. So if you have any other favorites, let me know. Okay, great. I'll promote that too on my Instagram. Okay, thanks for sharing, Angela. Thank you. Pauline, will you ever have any, like, courses where we can maybe learn to be hearing makers? Well, now that I've done this workshop and I did the video tutorial, I'm thinking of starting a YouTube channel. I also have a TikTok, but I just never made a TikTok before. So I definitely want to find time to do more workshop videos. That's awesome. I would definitely watch. So my, the person who does our website audits every month, Dennis Hue, he really recommends TikTok, especially for creatives. He says that the reach is really, really good on TikTok. So, you know, he would probably recommend, you know, utilizing your TikTok account. I mean, I don't know personally, but he is an expert and he actually wrote a book about TikTok for marketing. So it is a great, a great channel for people like you. Well, anyway, push me to do TikTok. Thank you so much, Pauline, for doing this today. It was really great to have you and I really enjoyed your demo. And again, thank you for the people who came and joined us. Thank you so much, everybody. And thank you. You're seeing the best of public library. Very honored to do this for Filipino American History Month. Yay. Yes. Thank you guys. So all right, Pauline, I'll see you on the 22nd at your, your booth. All right. Thank you so much.