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This cane was made from a bunch of failed canes, cane ends, random bits, and whatever was on my bench. It was about 2 inches tall and 2 inches long before I reduced it.

I'm still new to canes and clay, so I have lots of bits and "fails". The blue and yellow was supposed to be a flower 🫣. The jelly roll was perfect, but who needs two feet of jelly roll. I make stripes any chance I get bc they're just stunning. The tiki face things were supposed to be flower centers (although I want to research this tiki face incident further). The leaves were the stumpy ends from making a leaf cane.

I just squished everything down. If I didn't have enough, I found something else. If I had two stumps, they became besties. It doesn't matter if the pattern changes halfway through from using a different cane, bc you can just have a new pattern and keep it interesting.

I'm just really happy this cane came out. It can be hard having "fails", but I've been doing a good job salvaging things and using my offcut clay before it goes fully muddy.

For all my scraps past the point of no return, they get fed to Mr. Peebles.

I have a desk pet of brown clay on my work bench named Mr. Peebles. He helps me clean my pasta machine and I feed him my unrecoverable failures. (Including a cane I used to make a gift for my ex and was tired of seeing on my desk.) Then sometimes I steal part of Mr. Peebles to stuff inside of black clay or as bead filler. Mr. Peebles helps me to accept that failure isn't bad, it means I'm learning and even failures are still useful. He's very sparkly and full of mica, and will co-condition even the hardest of clay bc I run him through my pasta machine every day.

Anyways. Me and Mr. Peebles made this today.

Is it just me or does this hobby really help with stress relief? It's kinda hard to worry about your problems when you're making microscopic olives and hand crafting hundreds of tiny macaroni!

These are all my tiny food magnets to date in chronological order, top left being my first, bottom right being most recent. I was originally embedding my magnets, but now I'm just gluing them. It's made life so much easier! I need recommendations for a bowl mold of the right size! Lots of 1:12 scale options, but I need 1:6 or larger. My bowls are terrible! Also and tips/tricks any more experienced people can provide for better realism are welcome!

I hope to get better at making dogs :)

All hand-sculpted and colored by me!

Making some weirdo little kewpie fruit guys and I use a stamp to make the face impression. I baked and then used a Posca marker to fill it in and tried to wipe away the excess paint but it turned into a mess. Any tips?

just a casual saturday with my SO

Going through a breakup and needed to take my mind off it somehow, so I took out the polymer clay from my crafting shelves. Would love to turn this into a series of German foods. These are Currywurst, Pommes, Mayo and Käsebrote

One idea turned into eight tiny mascots, countless hours of sculpting, and one unforgettable project. That’s a wrap, guys! 💕

A little bat guy made from sculpy hand painted and wings made from veg tan leather

My current WIP, getting back into the swing of things after a long break

Commission of Venice! His owner wanted his weird sit and his teefs on full display. He is 6.5 inches tall, made from Premo Sculpey with a wire and foil armature/base.

(I want to say it is kind of silly that we are not allowed to share our art socials here in this art sub without getting banned, wtf)

i’ve made a few things out of fimo and wanted to make them into pins / badges with these metal pin backs, but not sure how i can stick them together. the craft stores near me don’t have much options for glue, so i bought this gorilla glue gel! ( picture isn’t mine but it’s the same one i got ) if anyone knows if this is the right thing to use or if i should get something else please let me know ( also how much i should apply, im new to this lolol )