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2011-04-11 12:08 pm
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Oh phooey. One little dent and it all goes kasplooey!

This photoblog will recommence when:

* I get a new digital camera

* My boyfriend fixes my camera

* My dad lends me his camera

* Or I learn how to use my (maybe crappy, but better than nothing) phone camera




HMPH.
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2011-01-20 09:45 pm
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You say banana, I say bwahaha!



I made some insides but went wrong and now have lots of ecru clay from mushing the yellow and white and brown together. Good. I want to make more bread and cakes anyway. Next time, banana cane, you will submit to my skillz. Hoyuss..

I think I need to use the ruler for scale from now on though, because it's not easy to guesstimate. )
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2011-01-18 11:00 pm
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Not all the stuff I made today was photogenic

Because it needs sanding and decorating a bit first. So I'll just share the best thing, which are these oranges on a tray:



Yay! I've wanted to make oranges for ages and I like how they turned out. I'm not sure if I got the scale exactly right. Oranges do vary in size, so I guess it's okay to guesstimate. And next I shall attempt to make bananas.

The ice-cream didn't look so wonderful after re-baking, because the fimo darkens in the oven, and the colour was perfect going in (just like real strawberry ice-cream, if I do say so myself) but more hot pink coming out, and the moist look was lost. I varnished to try to get it to look wet again, but it didn't give me the best result, which I think might come from sealing raw clay under a light glaze of resin. I'll try that next time.

The cornflakes were the worst! They looked bad enough, but then I decided to seal the paint and flakes of cereal under cheap white glue with some chalk and varnish and anything else I had to hand that seemed like it might work...

Big mistake.



But in brighter news, I found some awesome chunks of natural chalk today on a walk with my boyfriend through the woods around here, and maybe that'll help me in making convincing milk next time.
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2011-01-16 09:27 pm
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My recent creations!

Unfortunately it was nighttime when I took these pictures, so with the help of an overly bright flourescent bulb, what you see is the best I could get under the circumstances.

Here's everything new:



& 3 more )

I've had a really busy day with fimo and I loved every minute of it. :)

Next on my to do list is filling those plates with nommy food. Mmm...