Ughh...More Cupcakes?

That's what I imagine some folks are saying - "more cupcakes? obsessed much?!"

Hey look....I don't know who the first person was who said "I'm going to make a polymer clay cupcake," but you make just one polymer cupcake, and if you haven't made another 15 more by the end of the day then spew your disdain as you will. Until then... grab a napkin, because your hands are about to get stickier.

So I know not every grown woman or person (who am I to say that a man won't enjoy wearing tiny, colorful cupcakes on his wrist?) is going to jump on the cupcake bandwagon as I have and want to wear it as jewelry. Ok, maybe I'm head engineer at this point on the bandwagon, I don't know. But if you like the cupcake motif but in a more subtle way, I do have more cupcake key chains. Yummy yum yum!

Each cupcake key chain you see above is $2 usd.

The first picture is one with red icing, the second picture has white icing and a tiny pink bead at the top of its icing swirl, which unfortunately isn't visible in the pic. The third cupcake is similar to the second pic, except no bead. And the fourth key chain features a cupcake a little smaller than the other three similar to the ones on one of my cupcake bracelets. There are actually 2 of these in stock. So there are 5 cupcake key chains in stock in all, all $2.

And I still offer my challenge. Make just one polymer clay cupcake and if you haven't made another 25 by noon, then congrats on that recessive gene which I obviously don't possess.

3 Hits, 3 Misses

This "Caramel and Chocolate Cupcake" pendant was originally going to be apart of a bracelet, much like my other 2 cupcake bracelets featured on this site. I made 3 and they turned our pretty much what I wanted them to look like. I made 3 more for the bracelet and weeeelllll, and they turned out a bit wonky. They looked like I tried to bake them in an easy bake oven with a flickering light bulb. So, the three decent cupcakes were turned into sweet little cupcake pendants on brown silk cords. Yes, there are 3 of these in stock for only, just, $4 usd. And everyone knows that three is the magic number...

Field Trip!

Today I had the pleasure of selling some jewelry to a fellow business woman and artist. Yay for selling and Yay for networking. Almetria Turner is the owner of Beaux Cadeaux (Beautiful Gift) in Memphis, Tn, in the historical and art-centric Cooper Young neighborhood. Beaux Cadeaux specializes in personal and corporate gift giving. Turner's business was voted one of the top 50 fastest growing gift basket businesses in America by Gift Basket Review Magazine. I loved the pink decor of the shop, and all the fun and colorful gift and personal items on display. You can visit Beaux Cadeaux online at http://www.thebcgiftcollection.com/.

In addition to Beaux Cadeux (which, by the way, you've got to love that name and it's fun to say!), she also owns Apple Dumplin' Baby, which specializes in "designer gifts, furniture, & accessories for the pampered baby & child." I don't have any babies, and in fact, I don't know too many, but the gifts available at http://www.appledumplinbaby.com/ make me want to find a baby somewhere just to have a reason to buy some of these items. Truth be told, I almost bought a diaper bag from Big Lots for an everyday journal, camera, miscellaneous bag, and the ones at ADB are much more chic, especially the Cocoa Orange Diaper Messenger Bag or the Poppy Messenger Bag.

So check them out if you get a minute and I hope you enjoy all the unique merchandise as much as I did.

I Like Candy....

Well...basically anything sweet! This piece was sculpted to look like a bitten piece of candy. Originally, it was going to be a necklace, but I think it would have looked better as a necklace if I would have kept it whole. It could have been a pretty cool pendant, but, never one to waste a good piece of candy, it became a key chain. It's $3 (usd) and the inside of it is red and white. Mmmmmm.....

Though I'd love to keep posting all day, I've got to take a break because honestly, dear readers and potential customers and future friends, I look like Buckwheat right now. Haven't been feeling 100 percent lately, and was off from work yesterday for it, and I'm afraid the other little rascals are going to come looking for me soon if I don't find some chemicals and some clippers for the coif.

I also received a very weird text message at 4:22 AM this Saturday morning from an unknown number I'd like to share, which read, verbatim:

"Hello bily you just left me your number sweetheart you are exactly what I have been looking for it is the weekend and i am definately looking for some company thats if you are free and have no plans i live in raleigh about twenty minutes from midtown my name is sabrina sweetheart."

Then the same person called my number I'm assuming, from lack of a quick response.

However, my response would have been:

First: I ain't "Bily".

Second: I don't know any Sabrina.

Third: Sabrina doesn't know me because if she did, she would KNOW, I only have 300 text messages in my plan, and this crazy text spanned 2 text messages just because at 4:22 in the AM on a Saturday morning she was feeling lonely. Sabrina....I'm not the one. And I hate to break it to you...but Bily left you the wrong number so probably...he's just not that into you.

Pink & White Ferris Wheel Pendant

This sweet little pendant is about 1.5 inches around (as are most of my round pendants). It's made with white pearl polymer clay with an image stamped into it painted pink. Don't the circles in the middle remind you of a Ferris wheel? I love the colors for this item as well, as I usually don't know what color I'm going to accent a stamped pendant with until it's ready to paint it. The pendant has a glossy finish and it's $8 usd.

So if it's a beautiful day outside this spring and you're stuck at work, if you have this pendant you can look at it and daydream about being a kid again. Ah, sweet memories of youth...

Raspberry Cream Swirl Pendant

So a lot of my items will have food names. It just makes them sound decadent. For the items that are actually food items, such as my cupcake charms, then the food names make sense.

I didn't know whether I wanted to fill in the stamped image on the pendant with a color or not, but in the end, I think I was mesmerized by all the swirls and loops in the design and the ethereal quality of pearlescent clay that it just spoke to me: leave me be woman! With attitude like that, I had to back away.

This pendant is about an inch and a half around it's $8 usd. Definitely one of a kind.

So Fly!

SOLD!!! :) 3/26/09

I love making polymer clay pendants and a recurring theme in my designs you might see are whimsical, abstract patterns and motifs, which I love.

This is one of a few pendants that I've made with silver polymer clay and stamped with a bird and flower design. I love the tiny detailed flowers present and everything that a bird symbolizes: freedom, flying, flight. In fact, it reminds me of Mariah Carey's song Fly Like A Bird. Yeah, I know it's kind of corny to make the association, but true.

It's been slightly distressed with black paint and lightly glazed for a glossy finish. This pendant is $8 usd and will come with a black silk cord.

Making these by hand is not easy! Apparently the planets have to align just right for the thickness to be even, no bubbles to be present in the clay, no stray marks to accidently get into the final design, and for it not to stick to whatever your work surface is and thereby distorting the shape and possibly tearing when you try to pick it up. For each flat, round pendant that I have created by hand, I have probably worked and reworked the unbaked clay anywhere from 10 to 30 times in an attempt to fashion the pendant only have one of the above happen and have to start again...and again...and again...and again. Worth it? Sure. Tiresome. You bet.

I have, however, just received a pasta machine from my mother and look forward to seeing if it will make the process easier. She believes I can fly!

Nevertheless, I will work the clay until I am pleased with the result and this one turned out pretty awesome.