Treasuries!

Etsy has this thing called Tresuries, it allows any Etsy user to create a curated selection of items. I have never been able to snag one. Even when they created Treasury West, which was supposed to just be an extra Treasuries collection. Well now the have Treasury East and ive managed to create 3--I dont think they are as limited server space wise.

So I created 3:

one of Blue Goddess nifty things













one specifically for the PCAGOE street team, its all polymer canes













And last one PIRATES!




If you have a chance visit them before they expire--I have no idea when that is

The hat is done!

The hat is done!
Originally uploaded by Zoeowyn

Here is my completed hat. Im really proud of it. It worked!
I didn't know if it would work or not and it did!

I have the burned out 10/6 card and the hat pins, and some gold highlights. Its a mini clay version of the movie costume for the Mad Hatter.

The Hat

I have been mildly obsessed with the Mad Hatter's hat from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Im not exactly certain why. I have also been fascinated with the mini victorian style top hats, and how they really work in Steampunk fashion.

So where did it all start? Well I am a fan of Tim Burton's movies. Simple, easy, to the point. I admire Johnny Depp as an actor, no he's not hard to look at but I actually do not have a movie star crush on him.
And well, I believe Tim owes me some royalty fees for using my hair. Oh yeah, thats my hair alright, down to the color.

And well if its my hair, then its a natural to think I should be that Mad Hatter for some costuming event (no I don't have a specific event). But Im not a boy, and I don't want to dress as a boy; no I want to do a girlie version. So naturally the feminine mini hat seemed like a "oh why not." Gives me something else to try to make.

I am soooo not a hat maker, I have tried, and I understand why they cost what they cost. But I still wanted to make that hat. Out of clay! So I have been working out in my head for just over a month how to construct a hat in polymer clay. I have 3 designs I want to try out. Will I make more after that? Don't really know, lets see how these 3 go first.

I finally was able to spend some quality time working on the hat. I made my pattern, modified it a bit and remade the pattern. Then I cut the pattern out of screen door mesh. Then I cut it out of clay. The assembly required some curing of bits before assembly, and super glue to help. Along with some strategically placed wads of paper for curing support.

So far I have 5 curing rounds, I have a few tweaks to do so there is at least one more cure. The hat as pictured is not quite finished, there are some details that need to be finished, like the hat pins across the front, and the tag needs the 10/6 written on it. its "lined" in orange, because I wasn't sure I was going to actually do this hat at the time, but I like it. I'm pleased with how it has turned out. I will finish it up in the next day or two, and do a trial run on actually wearing it; its heavier than I had originally thought it would be, so I am thinking I should try out the featherlight sculpy product--that stays light even after curing--for some base construction.

The pictures: in progress, you can see the mesh; assorted views

ooh look! A chicken.

I have self published a tutorial for shaker chickens!
The tutorial is available at Claylessons.com

This isnt my first tutorial, I have actually posted some project tutorials here on this blog, but it is my first attempt to sell one!

weeee!

This is a project I submitted to Polymer Cafe and never heard back from them, so pppththth to them.
Of course I would like to be magazine published with a tutorial at some point, and I am working towards that goal.
So ta-da!

just in time to make use of all those plastic Easter eggs!

Roe Doubt

Here he is. I have named him Row Doubt, because he is such a salmony color.
Hes very proud, and very cute.
And done!

6 days left of lent, and my lent thing-a-day has been fairly successful.
One thing that I learned: I do not like piddling about making little one-offs I like to plan and execute larger scale projects. even if that larger scale project is make 6 chickens.

I think I am done with thing-a-days type challenges.
I would rather work creatively every day towards a goal. And have that goal be grander than I created a random thing. I work creatively everyday, anyway. The goal needs to be modified, for me at least.

Thing-a-day continues

I have been working away on my thing-a-day. I have made loads of pendants. I am playing like a mad person with resin, and Im working on larger more consuming projects.
I must admit the sense of wasting time and dinking around has attended me as I produce thinguses on a daily basis.

Todays "thing" was sinew and muscle of a dragon.
Tomorrow or Thursday he will get his scales and skin and further detailing.

I must say I love making this guy. He is the first one I have actively been documenting during his birth process, as well as time tracking. Granted Im tracking time in episodes of Burn notice, and how many times I watch Galaxy Quest and Strictly Ballroom, but it is trackable, and retrievable information.

Plotting

For the past few days my thing-a-day has taken on a massive project. I have been plotting and planning and sketching my next entry to Fire Mountain Gems polymer clay competition this year.
No pictures at all, none , since part of the requirements is no previously published works......

http://www.firemountaingems.com/beading-contests/pearls-organic/