newer stuff (:

most recently I've been making bangles and pendants using resin (:


there's also a blueberry pie ring resting against the purple bangle there!
I have plans for many more bangle styles that I'll make over the next little while (:

For christmas I decided to make as many presents as I could
I started with making stuff for my sister..
she does diving and likes sea creatures such as nudibranchs and other weird things so I decided to make her a sea monster necklace. it was meant to be an octopus but it wouldn't fit both eyes and all the tentacles so I had to improvise
it took quite a while, and choosing the colour was hard so I ended up making a few - a green one, a purple one and an orange one, my favourite was the purple one which I gave her on short purple ribbon choker.

the eyes were purchased at a 'love handmade' market from a lady who designs and makes dolls with interchangeable eyes and hair

these tiny little guys are day of the dead insprired skulls (:

the big one isn't a piece of jewellery but sits on my 'shelf of stuff I like to look at'


anyways, that's all for now, but I hope to have another blog up next week with more new stuff!!

don't forget to visit the blogs I follow for other craft people and neat stuff (:
(see links on the right hand side)

Tiny fake food for real humans :P

moving along from making tiny food just for dolls - now for real humans too..

earrings, necklaces, broaches of cookies and cakes!!


some pink ones


phone charms, all are around 1.2cm wide


earrings - this is a really old photo!


donut earrings (: these come in various icing colours - pink, brown, purple, blue, green


I have a friend who makes some really cool food themed jewellery also (: she has cool gummy bear earrings and those little love heart candies with the messages on them as earrings and broaches - plus plenty of other really cool stuff (: checkout her Blog:
http://www.ilikejellybones.blogspot.com/

TIKIS!

another thing I like to make a lot of is Tiki stuff. I haven't quite gone so crazy and made the tiki cushion yet but that's not to say I haven't been thinking about it.. a lot.

these were one of the first - woven tikis
I made them as decorations and also broaches in different colours





one year I can't remember what for, but I made this little wall hanging for my friend. it was a bit wonky and everything! but I really liked it (:


earrings (:


this ones a bit harder to see, but there's a tiki in there (:


more recently (last year) I started making these tiki broaches in every colour (: I like making them nd I plan on making some really tiny ones

Through selling these on trademe I got in contact with this neat lady who makes and sells some really cool necklaces, her website is:
http://www.tepono.com/
and she also has some stuff on this polymer clay website:
http://www.polymerclay.co.nz/galleries/vickimorehu.html

stuff I made between then and now (:

After all the little stuff and the lollies I started making more bits and pieces out of all sorts of things

my small cake obsession didn't stop at tiny cakes either..


around the same time I started scrapbooking and ended up making this box out of a book, now I store a lot of the things I make in these book boxes or in cigar boxes


and sewing more stuff - this is my frog lady. I like frogs.. a lot..


another frog thing!


someone requested this..


among all this there are plenty of unfinished projects too, just piling up and waiting to be finished. my partner always points out I have so many unfinished things, but at the same time I have way more that have been finished (:

Lolly beads

after making lots and lots of dollhouse foods, I started making bigger stuff out of polymer clay - lolly beads to make necklaces bracelets and earrings

I had a lot of practice looking at lollies and then eating them before I started trying to make them, my favourites are spearmint leaves, jet planes and licorice...

It took a fair bit of practice but finally got them how I wanted them then started supplying them to a local shop - La Dolce Vita in Westfield St Lukes, about 3 years ago and also selling them on trademe and more recently at craft markets like Crafternoon-tea and Love handmade. Each one is different depending on the mood/candy craving of the day

here's some photos of a couple






The necklaces come in 2 sizes, a shorter one which is suitable for children or people who like them a bit tighter or a longer one for people who like them that way! The bracelets also come in a couple of sizes (:

Dollhouse foods (:

Welcome to my first ever crafts blog (:
I've been planning on starting one for quite a long time but I'm a bit of a procrastinator, and since it's my first I'm starting with what I started with...
polymer clay

Back when I was a kid my friend and I used to make our 'trolls' (the ugly pot belly dolls with sticky up hair) food out of fimo/polymer clay and when my daughter was born I started making her some little foods in anticipation of her having things like barbie or sylvanian families etc.

She's now almost 6, and has her own 3 storied dollhouse for about 13 Barbies and 1 ken who takes turns marrying them all...and all their 'children'
I'm still making the foods, but now they get sold either as dollhouse foods, or sometimes I take it a little bit further and make them into jewellery

Here are photos of some of the things I currently make and sell:
(note that there's plenty of other stuff not shown in the photos such as burgers, legs of ham, hotdogs, filled rolls bacon and eggs etc)


Donuts, cookies and Cake


Jellies and pies


In the fridge: top shelf pizza and sushis
2nd shelf: bagels, cheeses, crackers and tomato
3rd shelf: potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, eggplant cucumber and kiwifruits
on top of and in the oven: fruit pie, decorated cakes and jellies
on the bench: pink jelly, various cookies and donuts, a blueberry pie and a jar of lollies



anyways, that's all for now (: I'll post another blog another day with some jewellery bits and pieces