Mini Hippo

mata hippo preview
Originally uploaded by Snowfern
i'm really pleased with this handsome fella! he has lots of details on him, teeth, fingernails/toenails, hat, collar...and a secret at the back ;)

anyway.

phew! what a hectic day it has been!

i spent the morning sorting out some of my papercraft stuff, making mini placemats and trying to put a scene together...then fried rice for lunch and headed out for the post office to send off the quarterscale items...took Eva with me too! she tired out just before we reached the post office, so i had to carry her around...not an easy task, she's fast getting big :O almost 3 kgs!

so i took my time, even went to the library (yes, i snuck her in hee hee), picked up some repositionable glue sticks (they work pretty well!) and got some fruits for dad at grandma's request. when i got home, i was greeted by some pleasant surprises.

whilst waiting for the duckies' heads to bake, i checked my mail and discovered that a pair of duckie earrings had been sold to a first time etsy user, who seemed to have registered specially to purchase the ducks. i wondered to myself if the customer was from a local chit-chat forum i frequent, but left it as that and was happy for the remaining afternoon.

then i got a message from a potential customer (he's waiting for me to complete his order of duckies) that a previous customer's duckies looked great! so my last duckies reached their new owner! i went to the forum to check for the response, and wow! what a wonderful surprise!

so i got requests to make a mini clay version of a user's avatar, as you can see here, i have better photos but i decided to keep them to myself until he gets the package, there's a lot more detail on this handsome guy to be discovered ;) the commission isn't complete yet, will work on the rest tomorrow when there's more light.

i will have to head down to madam ang's to pick up a cake stand too for a different order, also have to work on a penguin. so checklist for tomorrow will be:

1) complete hippo order
2) post up pics of duckies for customers to pick their ordered duckies
3) print receipt and head down to post office to mail out ducky earrings
4) head down to madam ang's to pick up cake stand
5) purchase embossing powder
6) work on penguin
7) work on doll for CDHM contest

phew! i'm pooped from the flurry of activity, it's rare i get this many requests/sales in a day. to think it all started with a request for teeny weeny duckies :) (thanks Christine!)

okay! imma head to bed now, going to for the first time in months, READ A BOOK. hrm. then again maybe i shouldn't, since it's craft related and i might get too stimulated to sleep, ha!

More squinty-sized stuff

Lettuce
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

okay~ i've been slow on picture taking, made some furniture for my roombox and forgot to take pictures of my quarterscale stuff -_-"

you can probably identify most of the fruits/veges, i think the worst of the lot probably has to be my corn/cucumber. i don't think i can 'save' the corn so i'm thinking of adding a little bit more detail to the cucumber by using acrylic paint....now -that- is going to be a challenge. so i might just use a sharpened colour pencil, but first i'll have to find a box, and then a good sharpener haha.

otherwise, on the whole, i'm rather happy with it. :) especially for a first try on whole fruits and veges!

oh and btw, i am trying to figure out why my feeds don't seem to be working. i don't think sites who subscribed to my feed deleted me, but since i've installed (and unsuccessfully uninstalled) linkwithin, things just don't seem to be working right. so i cleared my server and re-published everything to no avail. will slowly put up links to where they used to belong *sigh*

meanwhile i have to start designing a proper site, gee whiz that'll be a chore -_-"

quarterscale apples and carrots

quarterscale apples and carrots
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

i have to finish up some items, these are just the first few of those, i have the rest (and then some!) in the oven baking now....

i prefer the carrits with the full greens, however i think they would be too fragile to travel :( the apples require a little more work, so in the oven are a different batch, a nicer batch (i hope!)

quarterscale items are really fun to work with, mostly because of the challenges they pose. well obviously, they're sooooo tiny. dropping them usually means my heart skips a beat, since picking them up would be difficult, that is, if i can even find them to begin with.

also, keeping the lint out. ah. what a pain in the tush. a piece of lint = almost half the item LOL. and colouration. please don't tell me i have to catch a fly in order to use the hair on its back to paint these items > < i specially bought a brush to work such details, it says it's made from 100% weasel hair (??) and it's pretty good to work with so far.

ok. that's about it for now. weather's messing up my sinuses, had a coupla asthma attacks recently, am feeling poorly, did as much as i could, time to get some rest.

Introducing: mimieyes, my cousin :D

Giraffe
Originally uploaded by mimieyes.handmade

ok. so that's not the name of the giraffe. but that's my cousin's work! a giraffe pendant i love so much, it's made out of polymer clay, NOT a mini (but she does mini work too) and now she has an etsy store :D

unlike me, she has a full-time job, so she doesn't spend as much time on her hobby as I do, but please, do take a look at her items, i love them all but then again i might be biased :P

http://mimieyes.etsy.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimieyes/

Rubber Ducky Race!

these two slackers!

these took me a whole day to make! they have wing details, beaks are the ones that took a longer time, and i rolled the teeny weeny eyes from clay too....

7 of them will go to a friend for a swap, the rest will be turned into charms/earrings, and 5 of them will remain bathtub companions for our wee pals ;)

email me at snowfern [at] gmail [dot] com if you're interested, i will be putting up some on my etsy too!

Rubber Ducky you're the only one for me~~~

rubber duckies 2
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

so! i tried something other-than-food today, here are the results! i prefer the smaller ones because i got lazy and used accent beads as eyes for the larger ones, which were what i started with, and made smaller, and smaller, and SMALLER versions.....i think the smallest one might even work for 1:96 scale LOL it'll be quite big a ducky though....

i cleared out my re-ment house today, am going to refurbish it into a 2 storey home...i think i should start documenting the progress...hrmmm :)

the duckies seem to be a hit! i will be trading some ducky charms for some plates, whee!!!

oh rubber ducky~ you make bathtime lots of fun!~

My first faceup!

strike a pose
Originally uploaded by Snowfern

so...i've made a coupla BJDs before but they turned out pretty terrible so I didn't bother with their faceups....which is odd cos they might look less terrible if i did give them faceups LOL

anyway.

bf (muaks!) got me this dollcena and she originally had no makeup, i pierced her ears and gave her eyebrows, lower lashes, freckles (<3! ) and light lip gloss...her eyeshadow is slightly frosted pink as well, and i'm loving her much! am going to make some shoes for her and a handbag/purse, accessories...and of course, LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD!

also, i woke up due to the rain at 6.40am, and bought heaps off stuff online > < oh dear me....