To be a star...

Well today was a very sad day for me. My camera broke when I was trying to photograph all the stuff I've made recently. So, while I get that fixed I am going to be using my camera phone. Hmm.. Let's hope I can fix my camera soon or borrow someone else's before I lose my mind.Anyway, I finished up a lot of work today with a few polymer clay pieces. I have been making so much happy jewelry lately its awesome. Let see.. I was in a really hungry baking mood today so I attempted to make pretzels with real salt and lollipops. The lollipops came out so cute and tasty looking. The pretzels were really hit and miss. The salt somehow messed up the glaze on a few of them and it doesn't look quite right. The still look really cute but somewhat odd. Oh well! A few of them came out nice and pretzel like.

I got a chance to finish up a necklace with one of the stars I made a while back. It turned out really nice.

“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest” -Unknown

I also got a chance to set up my new etsy shop. I was on etsy a while back as Murphy's Gems, but with the new blog a name change was in order. I'm still in the process of listing items, but there's a few things up there right now. I will be opened to custom orders as always so don't be shy to message me over there.

Oh My Stars!

I recently picked up some fimo clay. I love working with clay and really want to make some unique pieces for some jewelry I plan on making. I made a few pieces and final finished glazing them this morning so they are ready to go.

I made a cute little cupcake like charm. I am still working on how I am going to make this more.. realistic. The base of the cupcake still isn't coming out the way I like it. As of right now, sure its cute, but it's still a work in progress.

I also tried to make a space invaders pendant. These came out soo messy. I was trying to make them without a spagehetti play dough maker.. but apparently I need one. Each piece did not come out as well as planned because the proportions of the clay were uneven. But since they still looked pretty cool, I decided to bake them instead of scrapping them. They are kind of abstracted but still pretty cute.

I made a few random pieces but I also made some stars which I think will work excellently as chokers with rosary style beading. Some of them came out uneven and with imperfections, but once again, work in progress.



I am really happy with them all in all honesty. The yellow and pink ones are my favorite. I am going to keep working on these and make them each into a necklace. Maybe they will wind up on my etsy later.