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Before Geico turned "It's so easy a caveman could do it" into the ultimate insult, denigrating an artist's work was no more difficult than uttering the phrase, "It's so easy a child could do it."

Donna Kato wears a mix of her polymer clay bead necklaces, bangles and earrings.

It's a phrase Donna Kato has heard frequently in her work with polymer clay, and a notion she aims to change, although she admits to having been blind to the material's potential when she first started working with it in the 1980s.

The former jewelry manufacturer and bead store owner said, in a phone call from her home in Colorado, "I found it in a children's toy store, and I made a lot of cute things with it, like Izod alligators with mohawks and wraparound shades.......

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