i <3 arts & crafts

hehe so i've been tucked away making little figurines for the pass couple of days. i had to test-run my abilities to see if they'd turn out presentable and gift-able to my awesome special friends (yes you!). here's what i've been doing:

I've wanted to try making this stuff for a while now and to my luck Michael's decided to have a sale on practically all of my materials (woohoo for saving monies). So here's some paintbrushes, acrylic paints and sculpey clay (polymer clay)

Here's the first batch i made (thanks to deviantart for ideas). L to R: mr. octopus I, my sister's bunny face and mr. hippo.

To my disappointment the batch was ruined due to my negligence. Oddly enough, i wanted to be green and save energy so i chose to use my conventional oven to bake instead of my bigass stove oven but nope. didn't work. I had to throw them out :(

So i made a second batch and baked them in my big oven.

Then i painted and glossed them and voila! L to R: Mrs. Hippo, appleguy, cupcake, mr. toast, chocolate creamsicle, doughnut, and mr. octopus II. MIA (because i'm not finished with them): the roses pictured above, a orange flower, more doughnuts (choclate glazed and honey cruller mmm), more popsicles/creamsicles, another mr. toast and a tan coloured kitty cat.

Here's the fun part. pick one and call dibs! (but please don't choose mr. octopus II lol he was my first success so i'd like to keep him).

p.s. if what you wanted has been picked i can make another one OR if you have a special request i can see if i can make it :D. i've put a bid on ebay for some cell phone straps so hopefully i'll win and then i'll have straps for these figurines too. yayyy