Beads & Fimo Polymer Clay Earrings

My beads from ebay finally arrived, along with my polymer clay kit so Ella and I have been busy busy busy making earrings and other little trinkets. I don't have any pliers so I've been bending the little hooky parts with tweezers and my fingers and now I have big dents in my fingertips and they're all tender and sore. Must get some pliers! Anyways, here is the results...

My first attempt at using polymer clay! There's fingerprints all over them and little scratches everywhere but I love them =p

Ella made these ones and out of all the beaded ones they are my favourite :) She chose all the colours herself and threaded them on, then I twisted the top for her to attach them to the earring hook.

Bit boring...

Don't really like these ones much



A little bracelet to go with the earrings Ella made


The lighting was terrible when I took this picture so the colours came out kind of weird. The butterflies are meant to be silver and the beads are a soft pink.

Again, very bad lighting!

My second attempt with polymer clay and it didn't turn out much better than my first =p These are supposed to be the little blue ghost from Pacman but they look kind of spazzy. Hopefully no one will look too closely at my ears though so the spazziness won't be as obvious as it is in this close-up.

Lucky 4 leaf clovers! :)

Origami Butterflies

It's my mum's birthday today and instead of a gift she asked my sister and I to put some money towards a pair of sunglasses that she wants. Money in a card is a bit boring so my sister got creative and made these cute little origami butterflies with the notes. We are going to get a bunch of flowers and arrange the butterlies in amongst them.

The tutorial can be found here - http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/dollar-origami-butterfly.html

Ella's Felt Photo Frame

Ella has been off school for the last 7 days with Swine Flu so it was the perfect opportunity to do some art and craft :) One of our projects was a photo frame made out of felt. We cut a rectangle of felt, then I got Ella to stitch around the outside with some red embroidery thread. After she'd finished stitching we measured the size of a photo and cut out the middle part just a little bit smaller than a photo (so the photo sits behind it), then she stitched around that part too. Next comes the fun part - decorating! Ella raided my sewing boxes and chose buttons, ribbons, little flower embellishments and some bows.

Concentrating very hard!

The end result

I have many many more projects and pictures to post but it's going to take a while so I think I'll space them out a bit and do one every few days.

Recent Ebay Purchases

6mm Resin - Strawberry Pink

6mm Resin - Apple Green

10mm Crackle Glass - Blood Red

8mm Crackle Glass - Black & White

10mm Silver Caps

14mm Butterflies

15mm 4 Leaf Clovers