My Sweet Tooth <3

I participated in a Secret Santa exchange recently, in which my giftee requested sweets jewelry. Since my travel plans didn’t allow for me to order something online, and they don’t exactly sell sweets jewelry around here, I decided I would just make my own with polymer clay!

I was especially stoked because I’d recently bought a new crockpot for the express purpose of baking polymer clay things and hadn’t actually used it yet. So yay! Sweets jewelry + christening of my polyclay crockpot = _>

First, we have a “Cake Slice Ring” (yeah… I’m a creative namer….):

A top view for the details:

And what it looks like on my (ugly) hand:

Next up, the “Triple Scoop Ice Cream Bowl Ring”:

Top details:

Worn:

I sort of wish I’d had a glass marble of the right size available when I was making this one. I had to freehand the shape of the bowl, so it’s not as perfect as my OCD self would have liked.

Thirdly, “Chocolate Cupcake Ring”:

Top view… not very exciting for this one:

Worn (it was kind of tall for my taste, but definitely smaller than most cupcake rings I see for sale…):

And lastly, my “masterpiece”. By which I mean a 2-piece set 😛

“Chocolate Ribbon Set”:

Top view of the ring, just for the heck of it:

Back of the barrette:

The ring worn:

Phew, so many pictures!

Overall, I was quite pleased, despite how long it took me. And my little crockpot worked perfectly as a baking oven! Just pop it on the low setting, stick a thermometer in there to monitor the temperature, and it’s ready to go in about an hour 😛 Yeah… so it takes awhile to heat up, but then again, it takes me awhile to actually make anything, so it worked out well.

❤

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Nice cup of tea

I’m back with another update of projects I made for a Craftster swap. The theme was tea time. I found some really cute tea time related charms at the crafts store and decided to make matching earrings and ribbon bookmarks.

The earrings were really simple, just a colored bead and then the charm. I ended up making five pairs:

I made the matching bookmarks from ribbon, and attached the charms and beads with wire. The ribbon I liked only came in the wired variety, so I had to pull those out before making the bookmark. I made four bookmarks (with a closeup of corresponding charm at end):

I also made a recipe book full of recipes involving tea. On every page I put a picture of a different interesting-looking teapot that I found online. There were ones shaped like turkeys, frogs, Conestoga wagons, ladybugs, and tons of other interesting shapes.

I also made a small tea wallet. It’s basically a wallet with pockets the right size for teabags and sugar packets. There was even an elastic in the centerfold to hold stirrers!

And here’s what the inside looked like! The orange rectangles were actually Post-It notes with labels for what flavor of tea was in the pocket, since I sent it with teabags already in the wallet.

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Shiny!!!!

All of these are items I made for a Craftster geisha swap in January 2007.

The purse looked much better than I expected, especially after I closed up the gaps for the straps a little bit (by hand). It’s reversible, so I took pictures of both sides.

The red side:

The black side:

The fabrics were really beautiful; so much so that I had to take swatch pictures of them (these are without flash because that caused a weird glare).

And here’s 3 pairs of kanzashi hair clips made to go with the purse:

I also made these earrings as one of the small items:

My favorite of all the things I made is definitely this barrette. I might even make one for myself in colors I wear more often.

Closeups of the flowers and the trails:

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