Crafty purchases

So I've been getting excited about silicon molds of late. Mainly because I've been thinking of selling some creations and I'd like to find a way to produce in a larger scale, reduce time taken, and get a better quality.

I'm not feeling brave enough to take molds of my own yet, so I've been buying a few pieces from ebay to experiment.

Here's a couple I got recently.

This one just arrived. The letters are really chunky, kind like keyboard key size. I intend to use them as large beeds I think...watch this space.

This multi shape mold I got specifically for the heart shape, but sadly its larger than I'd hoped. The star works great, but the rose not so much.

 This one hasn't arrived yet - I have a bit of a strawberry obsession. I'm hoping they will come out good - again will report when it arrives.

This awesome cookie letter press I got because I am rubbish at writing/scribing on clay. It works fairly well, except putting the letters in the holder is a bit fiddly. I had better results just pushing the letters in where I wanted them one by one. The font is something like Vag or Arial rounded - so its not very versatile in its look, but still serves a purpose. I use it on some of the items in this post:

This hello kitty mold was from Dunelm Mill and probably my favorite and the most useful, since HK is such a hard thing to create manually and make it look right. Even so I think the nose is a little large on this one - but its a licensed product, and the result is pretty good.

Here's a classic white kitty I made. Man I hate white clay...I swear you need a clean laboratory with jump suits to not get fluff and crap in it :-S.

Any tips fimo crafters?

I made this. Week 2

So once again this post is a little disappointing to me. Following on from my sketch last week I can attest that making a chibi is damn hard! Figures are not something I'm well practiced at. I was trying to make this as simple as possible, but achieving the shapes I had drawn as super difficult.

Not really happy with the face - but I did know faces are a weak point for me.

The finger printing is quite defined here - would prefer it smoother. Hair was a problem too - I wasn't sure what look to go for, or how to achieve it. In the end I went with a bun.

The shape came out chunky, but not as curvy as I'd like. That accuracy and finish I wanted is not there either and its too big.

All that said - this was go number one, from an idea and really crappy sketch. I don't make creatures or people on a regular basis, so despite picking many faults I guess all in all its not horrendous.

So just to redeem myself I'm throwing in a few pics of other stuff I made that I'm more happy with....

Zombie hello kitty - shape take from a mold, then the details added.

My new letter set came in post so I was messing around with that.

This is my derby name and number made with a heart ice cube mold, a heart cutter and the letter set. Black detail added afterwards with marker pen.

Change

So here's a song I wrote quite a few years ago. It's a song about change...hence the title. I wrote this song when Jen and I were renting a house in a little village (not so little now) where we grew up and went to school. I thought this would be a good first post from me as this song is about changing the way you think and look at life, also making your own pathway/journey/destiny slash whatever, you get my point. There's a line in the song "You gotta make all your own luck" which  I stole form the popular American TV show LOST.  I used to think that all things come to those who wait, although there is something in that, I also believe that you can make your own loopholes and manipulate your own journey even if it seems impossible.

This song was recorded on a little 8 track recorder in a tiny house and features textural vocals from Jen which is a kind of homage to the song "Where is my mind" by the Pixies.

Be sure to have a listen to any of the other songs on this Myspace page as I only remembered that it still existed until now. Maybe another time I will give you a break down of one of the other songs I've written. 

Brynley

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Listen to Change

I made this. Week 1

Ok so, this posts feels a little like a cop out. Only week one and I've struggled to find much time for creative endeavours. I have been thinking about it a lot (which is not doing), but it's planning to do it!

What I did manage to do was a little sketch of an idea I had. I was thinking of making some little fat positive chibi characters from polymer clay and maybe selling them. Bare in mind that drawing is far, FAR from my strong point but I wanted to get the idea on paper first before I attempt to sculp.

So for week one of our 'I made this!' Challenge I present my chibi sketch.

And since that this feels a little weak, I'm going to back it up with a picture of an old clay piece I made some time ago. A little unicorn - who's always felt too special for me to find a piece of jewellery to put him on, so he's stayed in my box.

I intend to get some quality fimo time this week, so I should have a good post for week 2! 

(If you're new here and don't know what this is all about then go check out this page for our challenge rules)

In the beginning...

What happens when two people meet as teenagers through a shared sense of weirdness? And those two people stay together, but because of pressure to settle, they get 'proper' jobs and one day wake up to find themselves on the brink of thirty?

Well, when they wake up they find that they have a mortgage, and (whilst they count themselves lucky to be on the property ladder and have a reasonable roof over their heads), they also have a good chunk of debt (who doesn't) and a decade of working for the man under their belts.

But what they also have are many wondrous creative talents and passions that have always been there burning away, but not really given the attention, time or belief that they needed or deserved.

This blog is about using the coming year to nurture those talents in each other, find time to pursue our projects and collate them together in this blog.

This is beginning.