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[dreamflower]

At last I got my phone camera to talk to my computer!
Here there be pics!

Here's some of the jewelry I've made lately. At the top is a pair of dangly leaf earrings and a matching pendant. The first two rows are studs: two flavors of tiny ice cream cones, Two kinds of small flowers, and two red/white/blue, hearts and stars. Then there are three pins: a hamburger, an ice cream cone, and a Valetine. Then I have four little heart pendants, an a set of buttons. You can't see the buttons too well, but they are silver-toned with little violets on them. I've been selling them to co-workers and friends for $3 apiece.



Here's my first attempt at a hobbit door pendant, using a method I found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxsOUZqwhrg



I am also working on a design of my own, a hobbit door cane! A cane, in polymer clay-speak is a log of clay with a design or picture in it, that you can slice, and every slice has the same little design or picture in it. You can use the slices to embellish all sorts of things! So far I have done two that weren't especially successful, but I am going to keep trying!

Comments

[ramblin_rosie]

Oh, how very pretty! If I wore earrings, I'd place an order for some of those red-white-blue ones. :D And hobbit doors, what fun!

[dreamflower]

I may do some of the red/white/blue swirls as tietack pins, as some of my co-workers don't wear earrings either.

Hobbit doors are immense fun!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

You are very gifted.

[dreamflower]

Thanks, dear.

They're awesome!

[periantari.livejournal.com]

I love them!

Re: They're awesome!

[dreamflower]

Thank you, sweetie.

[febobe.livejournal.com]

Oh, how adorable! :D You're so talented and crafty. <3

[dreamflower]

Thanks! I love crafts; had you guessed?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

How clever! Those are lovely. I especially like the wee flower ear studs.

[dreamflower]

I used cutters designed for cake decorating (meant for cutting fondant) to make those little flowers. I really like the way they came out.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

So sweet, those tiny things, especially the hobbit door and the hamburger.

The cane process, whether in polymer clay or candy, is magic! Good luck!

[dreamflower]

It really is! I love how, when the cane is reduced, you still have your little "picture" inside!

I originally made the hamburger as part of a display I made for work. I need to take a picture of that to share with everyone. I had a couple of the 'burgers left over and thought to make them earrings, but they didn't match enough in size, so I made them into tietack pins instead.

[shirebound]

Yay, I'm glad you can share pics. Everything is so delicate and lovely. I never got my ears pierced, so have missed out on the wealth of 'ear décor' that's out there.

[dreamflower]

Well, I'm also going to be making a few pieces as pins, pendants, maybe even bracelets.

But I'm glad you like them.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

Love the little door and the earrings are very cute! You are a very crafty person.( in a good way)

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

(I've missed you!)

*hugs*

[dreamflower]

*grin* Thanks!

[ysilme]

Oooh, these are awesome! ♥ You now make me fervently wish for Hobbit door earrings. *g* I really need to brush up my polymer clay skills. Never made anything so detailed and small, but as I already said, I didn't have any tools (except from the cutlery drawer and such) and was also only about 10-12 or so. I mostly made toys for my sister's doll house, and some cat figurines for myself.

[dreamflower]

I'm actually planning hobbit door earrings!

And I am also planning on a tutorial on the cane.

[fafojoy.livejournal.com]

These are all beautiful! I so wish I could build miniature houses and I would love to do a hobbit hole and put one of your little doors on it. Furnishing a little hobbit hole would be such fun. I dreamed of doing a plantation style house, then after LotR, i wanted to do bag End and Rivendell. You have the craft skills to do those things.

[dreamflower]

Thank you!

About ten years ago, I did make an exterior miniature Bag End, a sort of diorama, but sadly it got destroyed when we moved. But I know that Henna Gamgee (formerly known as obelia medusa) made an utterly gorgeous "Tiny Bag End" : http://little-world.livejournal.com/39277.html

I do plan to make a smaller model Bag End, and definitely more doors!

So good to hear from you! ((Hugs))