I’ve mentioned earlier that I am going back to selling earrings due to my financial downturn. Well – I’ve got kinda sick of the regular dangly earrings due to the amount of time I spend on a pair of really intricate earrings. One pair of properly twisted chandelier earrings takes me about 1/2 hr to make, with very little return as I sell them too cheaply to warrant that amount of work. It is pretty and I do wear my own suff, but I think there is only so many designs I can achieve. Therefore, I have changed my direction.

Introducing polymer clay.

Polymer clay is very much like plasticine/ Play-Doh. I had always loved plasticine – I remember when I was young I used to yearn for Play-Doh sets and the amazing things the little pressers churn out. However, I was never the proud owner of a Play-Doh set – my parents always told me that they cannot afford it, but I think that they just can’t fanthom forking out RM40 for some tubs of plasticine that can be purchased for RM2 per color. Anyway, I digress (as usual!).

To cut a long story short, I have started creating beads using bars of polymer clay. I make them into unconventional beads, and work with them on the basis that I would with my usual pearls and crystals. Due to the large size of it, I use it as a drop earring instead of my usual intricate designs – the design is in the bead itself. You can shape whatever you want from the polymer clay very much like plasticine, put a loop thorugh it, bake it for 15 minutes, glaze/varnish it, and voila, a bead!

Cupcake earrings complete with icing and sprinkles

Piglet cell phone charm. I love the texture of this bead as it looks slightly grainy-resembling wood!

Bacon and Egg cufflinks set. I love mini food! Bacon wore this to work today and he has lost both the Egg and the Bacon in a meeting room somewhere. Hmm. My glue is obviously not strong enough, will be looking for proper metal glue.

My row of toadstool beads, all ready to be made into whatever I want. Reminds me of the Smurfs colony.

Candy cell phone charm. This is currently on my phone. Inspired by the picture of the giant candy I posted earlier.

Rubber duck earrings!!! I love them! But then again I would – seeing that I have developed an obsession with them.

Another pair of cupcake earrings, this time without sprinkles but tomato-red icing.

This is my latest pair – half the size of the other cupcake beads that I’ve made, therefore more attention to detail and very delicate. There is a mix of red and orange sprinkles on them

Apologies for the superbly bad quality of the pictures, it was taken last night. I will be having a proper photo session with my new goodies hopefully this weekend. Slightly peeved at the moment – the person had not got back to me to confirm if I have a space at this weekend’s market. AAAARGH!!!!!!!

If you’re wondering why am I not selling soaps in the market, well, I have now come to a health and safety hurdle before I can sell them in market place. What remains of my beloved cleanducky.com remains to be seen, as I am now very busy job hunting whenever I manage to get hold of bacon’s laptop. I had so lovingly spent long hours creating it, and it will be a waste to let it go. I am however still taking orders…so if you are happy to donate to me, please click on to cleanducky.com!. Paypal payment is up and running – I just had not have time to work out my marketing plan. I may well do it when I am sitting on my redundancy payment in a few months time!

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