The Latest (though not the greatest) "stuff"

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First, I learned that transparent polymer clay really isn't a good substitute for white on its own. The mugs of java didn't turn out well because I had to paint them white with acrylics, because using transparent instead of white, they came out of the oven looking like this:



Not great! But they weren't something I spent a lot of time on anyway. I want a delightful old fashioned tea set and this is just practice. ;)

I also learned it's a really spiffy idea to search ebay for miniatures on sale, and use the images that look simple enough to knock out a quick copy of, for practice, as I did with this teapot:



I used that metal lid/part/whatever-it-is (I collect "things" and love odd bits of metal) to bake the teapot around, and size the lid and spacer part, and glued it together afterward. Superglue is superb on polymer clay and makes a very strong bond.

I use FIMO soft, though, and when sculpting tiny things, it warms up so quickly it can be difficult to preserve details as you turn things around in your hand to do the other side. Things lose texture and shape. So this is stage one of some strawberries:



And stage two will follow soon, resulting in a nice big punnet of doll house deliciousness, with some left over for cake toppings.



Someone recently PM'd me asking to be taken off my friends list. They said they had no interest in FIMO. The only reason I added everyone on here is because you listed fimo, polymer clay, and/or miniatures as an interest. I had absorbed the idea from various places that Dreamwidth is more open than Livejournal, being that it defines our flist as a "reading page" and we have a "circle" to control access to as we wish. I don't see why that person couldn't just restrict access, but apparently they wanted to be removed from my circle also. If anyone else feels the same way, I certainly don't mind removing you from my circle, because my intention is not to force you to read what you're not interested in or annoy people. This blog is my way of keeping in touch with my family and avoiding the 200 picture limit on flickr, which still shows blogged pictures even when they're hidden on flickr because you don't want to pay annual fees (which I'm too broke to do, and a commitment-phobe besides.) I realize I may not read and comment as much here as would warrant lots of comments in return, so I don't expect it of anyone. Really though, how hard is it to just scroll...? :-P

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That looks really neat and is just my style. I have so many old gadgets and would definitely use that. :) Bookmarked. Cheers!