Fimo Pendant

When I was mixing the Fimo for these shell hairslides I noticed that all the bright colours mixed in with the black looked pretty cool.

So I took some of the Fimo and rolled it out, making an awesome looking pattern.

I shaped it and put in a hole, and made myself a pendant.

After I baked the Fimo the colours weren't as bright, but a coat of clear varnish fixed that.

I love the swirly, marbled colours.

I also made a long, thin pendant where the colours twist around it.

Oh Fimo, what did I do without you?

Tire swing, swinging on a tree

This my newest miniature.

A tree with a tire swing.

It was a long time in the making but I'm happy with the finished piece.

I had tried to make a tree earlier in the summer but, well, it didn't turn out too good.

We shall call it the fail tree.

This is the fail tree.

I used chicken wire and modrock which was fun at the time (minus the chicken wire scratches on my hands) but far too bulky to look like a real tree.

Then I gave up for a while until I saw this piece by Lori Nix.

A tree!
And she explained how she made it.

So I was all set to go again with a new method.

I twisted some wire into a tree shape.

Then I covered the wire in Fimo/polymer clay. I used whatever colours I had since it was going to be painted over anyway, hence the random pink.

To get a tree bark texture I screwed up some aluminium foil, flattened it out again and pressed it against the Fimo.

Once it had been cooked in the oven (only falling over in there once) I painted it.

Then I had to put on the leaves.

The stuff you can buy in hobby shops for model railways is far too expensive for something I wasn't even sure would work, so I improvised.

I bought a cheap sponge and tore it into tiny pieces that I painted green.

Then I stuck them to the tree with PVA glue. One by one. With a pair of tweezers.

The tire was also made with Fimo (can't get enough of it after the success of the copper kettles) and I got the tread pattern by imprinting it with the tire of a Playmobile car.

And that's how I made my tree!

My Craft Space

While I've been home I've made it my mission to tidy up the backroom table which is the craft space I share with my sister.

When I'm at uni my craft space is just my bed so I have to tidy it if I want to get to sleep that day.

It went from this...

...to this!

Yes there actually is a table, it was just a bit hidden before.

I've got a lot of stuff so storage is sometimes an issue. There's paintbrushes in mugs, decorated stones in a bowl, glitter in little jars. A lot of stuff.

And while I was sorting through all this stuff I rediscovered these;

I made them many years ago out of fimo. They're magnets and badges.

I actually sold some at a school fete once.

There were also cats and dogs but I guess they must have been the most popular as they're all gone.

Fimo Button Necklace

I recently made these buttons in an attempt to use up my old Fimo -or polymer clay if you're not familiar with the brand- which has gone hard and nasty. So after much kneading I produced enough to make this necklace.

Colourful!

I threaded the buttons on two long strands of shiny thread, in no particular colour order, and separated them with a knot. Simples.