Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays Everyone ! 

School has officially ended for the year today and I'm looking forward to Christmas and New Years Day, although looking in my school diary I have a lot of work to do as well as extra work to keep me up. Anyway since its the holidays I hope to get my hand back onto crafting again for a little while and bring to this blog some more update crafts. ^^

So to start off... here is a cat that I drew in a friend's card or as I like to call it the Catmas Pudding 

Fake Sweets

Earlier this year, which to be honest is a very long time ago, I came across the world of fake sweets!

It was all really fascinating, most of the work looked too real, so cute and edible. Seeing all this I wanted to give this crafts a go, so I researched into products. Ordered them, arrived two weeks later. The only catch was...I had exams coming up which meant I couldn't test them out until it was all out of the way. (Revision is vital for a good exam grade... we could go into the debate as to the importance of exams and stuff but as I student who wants to go to university, exam results are important in my case)  

So after the grueling month of exams, getting my hands into the air drying clay was heavenly, I'm being serious here- air drying clay feels amazing ! I fiddled around with the clay, playing around at first I managed to craft some pretty good fake sweets, but nowhere near the quality of the crafts on the blog I came across.
I think I started to get the hang of making the sweets more realistic, one of my best crafts is the red macaroon.

Surprisingly air drying clay is very light, which is an advantage when making jewellery, the macaroon above only weighs 5g! identical to the weight next to it. In my opinion this is so far the highest quality macaroon I've made, air drying clay macaroon shells filled with strawberry whipped cream clay. 

Origami Horse

So I came back to Blogger after a long time (took some time working out my username) and saw that I probably needed to update my blog or just delete it. Considering the things I had managed to create while being offline I thought I would give it a go again. ^^

Flipping around some origami books I came across the origami horse, I always try it out on full size origami paper before down-scaling to see how complicated it is and if it will be viable for down-scaling. It looked sort of looked like a horse, it wasn't the most traditional type but seemed like a good idea.

So it turned out like this:

It was folded using Japanese washi paper, at a size of 3cm x 3cm 

This then gave me a miniature horse of just under 2 cm tall, after which I folded another, added some T-pins and hooks for a complete set of earrings.

I enjoyed making this pair as I managed to keep all the folds aligned which is especially tricky when working at a small scale. 

I'm hoping to keep to a strict regime of posting on more of a weekly basis since I have a stock of photos and crafts that I can share while taking a break from studying which is all that I seem to be doing now ^^; 

Queen of Hearts

My most recent work are these dark red origami heart earrings (studs)

The hearts are made from Washi, traditional japanese paper 

sorry about photo quality, I'm bad at using a camera

The hearts are made from 3x3cm squares and the big one below was made from 9.6x9.6cm square

The photo below is after I just brushed on the glaze

The completed product but the studs cant be seen