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I love the rainbow colouring on these guys and so do a lot of people on Instagram. the single d20 has already gone to a new home but I have some more dice arriving hopefully later this week so I can get them restocked.

Princess Pink TDSO galaxy dice

Blue and Green TDSO galaxy dice.

Find these guys here

Blogmas day 4

Been wrapping presents today! Orders have started to arrive and I like to get them wrapped asap. Even though we don't have the tree up yet lol 

I haven't decided on what to do for labels yet.... 

Also I played around with one of the pine cones from yesterday:

Yay glitter! there is glitter all over my desk now, but then it is Christmas, isn't there glitter everywhere anyway?!

Blogmas day 2

So today I went Christmas present shopping with my mother but I have no piccys to show so here is a quick sketch of a dragon with a Christmas pudding...

Also we're getting some nice stuff to decorate the table for Christmas dinner this year as its my sister-in-law's first western Christmas (she is Chinese) and the Chinese like taking photos of everything for Wechat, so we want the table to look selfie ready lol.

Blogmas day 1

Ok so for the next 24 (or maybe longer) days I will attempt to update this blog everyday with either Chrsitmassy stuff or regular day to day stuff. 

First off my Moo.com order arrived a day ago and for the first time ever I have actually got Christmas Cards printed! I was spurred on when they sent out a 30% off code during black Friday. So that Saturday I was frantically painting the image/idea I have had floating around in my head for a few months.

I also took advantage of the code to reorder some more business cards and to also include a new image, the blue treasure dragon. Stickers!!! love stickers, this time the little book of stickers is just full of the treasure dragon images, because why not.

This is the image: 

and here are the cards:

Love 'em! Also don't know why my camera decided to make all these images really blue :( think it might be this time of year and the lack of sunlight. 

Derpy Reindeer

He came as a free kit from a magazine and hes suppose to have more decorations on him but I like him naked hehe. This took far too long to make and was quite stressful, the last time I attempted something like this it was a fox and it did not go well.....

Anyway despite his tiny feet and derpy face, I like him and hes going to go on a shelf when we start decorating for Christmas. 

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In the shop here

These two were a commission and are currently on their way to their new home:

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Hehe, these guys are so fun to make and look really cute. So yeah that's what I have been up to this week. Also the Christmas pudding earring studs are back in stock here

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Some Dragons I made in December the bottom two have gone to new homes but the red and green are still available in my shop

How to make: Air-Dry Clay Christmas Decorations

I've been busy making decorations for the tree, this year its going to be a white theme. These were pretty easy (and messy) to make so I thought I'd write how to make them.

To begin with you will need:
Some Air Drying clay (whatever colour you want the decorations to be)
A rolling pin
A selection of cookie cutters
An easy to clean surface, as its going to get messy! maybe some newspaper as well
And a bowl of water to rehydrate the clay if it starts drying out

For finishing touches:
Sandpaper
Maybe a small file
Some pretty ribbon or string to hang the decorations with.

First off grab a handful of clay and mould it into a ball

Roll it out, making sure to keep it all the same thickness

Decide how thick you want the decorations to be, the thicker they are the longer they will take to dry

Start cutting the clay with the cutters, being as economical with the placement to make the most of the clay.

Remove the excess clay and find a straw and make some holes at the top big enough to fit the string or ribbon through.

If you want get something flat and neaten the edges, but you don't have to as we have sandpaper to neaten the edges once they are dry.

Move them on to a tray or a surface that is not going to have cats sit on them or something and let them dry for 24 hours. You can tell they are drying as the edges will start to become whiter. Now I found that some of the decorations the edges started turning up as they were drying, so every few hours I would turn them over.

Once they are completely dry thread your string or ribbon through the holes and then get your sandpaper and neaten those edges!

and if you have snowflakes like mine a small file is useful for getting the middle bits

Here is a comparison of the wet and dry clay for anyone who like me panicked and thought the clay wasn't white enough when it was wet.

Half a pack of DAS 500g makes this amount of decorations. Now you can paint them if you wish or leave them natural like mine.

Any left over clay remember to put in a grip seal bag or an air tight container as it will dry out and become useless.

Yay now you have pretty decorations to hang on the tree or wherever you want!

Lino Christmas cards trial

I've been playing with lino printing today, I want to print my own Christmas cards this year. I had cut out my lino a few weeks ago and today I finally started practice pieces to see what colour card and ink to use:

Out of these I like the brown card better but I don't know if its festive enough.

I didn't expect the gold and silver ink to show up very well one white card but I like it way better then on the black card.

My favourite is the silver one. I like the robin's pose better then my previous lino  but I am not sure if I should have reversed what bits I cut out and what bits print, hmmmm...

Tiny Christmas pudding stud earrings

I've been busy this week making some new earrings for Christmas. These tiny earrings are 1cm big and made from fimo. They are up for sale in my Etsy shop.






I did find a very old Christmas pudding prototype earring I made many years ago (I have no idea how many years)

Look at how awful it is! (the one on the right lol) Its flat, the white fimo is filthy and don't get me started on the holly and berries no wonder I abandoned it.

My 5 favourite Christmas decorations

I love the decorations John Lewis sell and I try to buy a few each year so I can build up a nice collection of pretty baubles. This year it seems white, clear and frosted are in, so here are a few of my favourites:

Feather Bauble!

Clear and frosted stripes (I have this one!) I love how the glass is tapered into the hook.

 Pretty etched snowflake glass bauble

My absolute favourite! Love this clear reindeer (I have this one too, I really want another though..)

And a ceramic feather, I really like this but I am wondering if I could make my own from polymer clay.....

Candy cane dragon

Getting in the festive spirit with (hopefully) the first of a few Christmas themed dragons.

Not that its very clear in the photos but the white is shimmery pearl.

I love the horns!













My Black and gold dragon is now for sale on Etsy

Buttons!

I have been busy this week working on some commissions so I can't post pictures just yet. However this week I received some more buttons to refill my button collections!

Yummy Red

Christmas selection

and I wanted some blues to liven up my mixed selection of coloured buttons. All these buttons are from www.Bloomingfelt.co.uk if you like me feel the need for more buttons (you can never have enough)

Another project I am working on requires some felt balls, so I have 1.5cm balls from Bloomingfelt and 2cm balls from www.Lovepaperfish.com 

You might be able to guess what the theme is from the colours I have ;)