Teapot earrings

Gio' got some time ago a real teapot that I purchased and painted. Now for Christmas, I thought it would be funny to keep the theme and decided to create earrings formed as a teapot and with similar drawings around.

I created them with white Fimo and colored them with acrylic golden color.

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These guys were also very small indeed. See compared to my fingers...

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I used some sterling silver "pin & ring" that I stuck in the teapot. I only used silver in case someone might turn allergic to nickel at some point. This time I kept the "ring" on the outside as you can see on the picture above and made sure that the pin would not slip away by creating a sort of hook that was built into the teapot.

Then I connected the "pin and ring" with a sterling silver earring. The easiest way to connect those was to actually open the ring on the earring. Very easy once you understand what the smart way to go is.

I also created a case for them, suitably chosen to be formed as a cupcake... :O)

Penguins

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Sabrina likes penguins so I needed to do penguin earrings for her. Unfortunately, the one penguin fell on its nose so the beak became flat at the top and when trying to adjust it, it fell off. But glue is no bad tool, really. But the nose is still flat.

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This will make a relatively good Christmas present. Maybe not sooo well done, but nobody can complain, I did not made an effort.

Used white, black and orange modeling clay.
Basically made a little cone in white, covered half of it with black clay. Took two very small black sausages and two very small white sausages and combined them to create wings.
One little cone for the beak and two small triangles for the feet.
At the end of the story, I realized I should have made a tail but the tail on penguins is built in. Not very easy to add it after. Actually, next time, I think I will do a kind of cone with a triangle formed base and then make the top very thin to cover the body. Not sure. Got to test it somewhat!
These guys are rather small... around 1 cm tall... so those big eyes are really much smaller than they look here... :O) It might be a good excuse for them looking far from perfect with this very high zoom factor...? :O)

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To remember for future usage: when warm, pieces seem to easily fall apart. The nose fell off and glue is now needed. Next time I will wait until dry before poking around with the thing. Not sure that is enough yet, but well... :O)
 
Baking 30 minutes at 130 degrees in oven for hardening is necessary.

Tip: The earring piece you can buy in silver has got a "feature" for allowing to actually fix it onto a ring. So nex ttime, I will keep the round part of the silver pin that goes through the body out of the body. Much smarter and cuter!

Cupcakes

The idea of doing cupcakes with Fimo I saw on the Internet. This girl used silicone to do the swirl. I got my own idea of doing "cupcake boxes" as it seemed a little unnecessary to just have a lot of cupcakes for no use. The boxes should be then used as Christmas presents and contain something like earrings or similar. In Fimo also.
But indeed I felt that doing boxes with Fimo would use up my whole Fimo collection and making me a poor girl. I found some "air drying" clay that needs no further handling nor baking. Not sure how good it is, but I thought it was worth trying it. It comes in larger packs and is somewhat cheaper at least.

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In order to get the cupcake shape, I used my silicon muffin stamps that I purchased to actually do soap some few years ago.

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The instructions say that the clay should dry within a few hours. This I do not think is true. I made the cupcake bottom 2 days ago and they still feel rather "cold". "Cold" usually means "not dry".

I colored the bottom part with a mix of Americana's Raw sienna (which was too light to simulate chocolate color) with a good hint of Asphaltum (which was too dark instead). I probably should have added some hint of red, too, but at first I didn't do it. The colour turned out rather dull so at the end I added some red with a more neat result. Probably, I should purchase some "Chocolate" color so I do not need to "mix up and find my way"....

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The final color became rather dull, so I realized the best thing to do would be to actually put some finish on it, which I did and I got a more brilliant result.

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Then I also did some rounds to be the "covers". These rounds can then be topped with silicone.

The difficult task was to find some good toppings for the cupcakes so they would get some decoration.

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After some thinking, I came up with strawberries,

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chocolate pieces, cookies and also some candy dots in two different colours.

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Pig

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My new roomie likes pigs so I thought she deserved one such. Not easy to do a pig really... But it might depend on the fact that I am not very talended. :O)

Basically done out of one larger ball for the body, two small balls for the front feet, two small balls for the eye and black dots on the top of those two and a little curl for the back.


I did small triangles for the ears and bent them in half to create the ears.


As pigs bring luck as I understand, I decided to make two pigs for my mom's brother and his fiancée. One each. One was longer eared than the other... Do not know why I felt if was better with longer ears after the first two...
This is how they looked from the front:

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and here from the back:

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Christmas atmosphere...

Christmas atmosphere.... Was it Christmas 2009 or 2008 even?! Sheep and Santas can't be stopped.

Made with some mixture of Cernit and Fimo I guess... it was long ago...

Here is the result. 

Some of the guys were given away to poor family members.... so they are not shown here!

Easter atmosphere...

Easter implies chick'ns and chicks... So here we are... used a mixture of Fimo and Cernit. It seems not to be an ideal combination as it does not stick together completely. Had to glue the crest of the larger chick'n as it fell off...

Anyways, here is the whole family of chick'ns... 2 larger chick'ns and 2 chicks.

Needed a place to stay, so created a dotted porcelaine clay vase formed as a flower for them and suitable platforms formed like heart and eggs. 

Cultivation of grass started also. Not very easy to keep the right amount of water. Either too dry or too wet. But the grass seems to survive some beating up. Grass goes tough on small chicks too...