Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I think I am crazy!!!

I sat down and mixed up some red clay for making miniature strawberries. (No canes this time, since they were gonna be whole) Notice I said were! Yeah for some insane reason as I was using my pasta machine to mix and condition the red, I thought....hmmm I need long stemmed roses for Valentines Day. So I set about looking on my desk for my tiny Kemper cutter....Dang it, can't find nothin'!!! It really is time for a good desk cleaning again! But anyways...what do my eyeballs spy amidst all the creative rubble...an eyelet...yep like in shoes or corsets or scrapbooking! Hmm I wonder....yep it works...kinda hard to hold though...so I grab my tacky wax and put a blob onto the end of a new sucker stick and press the eyelet onto it. Instant tiny circle cutter...how tiny you ask...1/8 of an inch across!!!!! So dipping my new miniature petal cutter into cornstarch I proceeded to cut out a bazillion tiny circles. And then just working like I normally do, albeit with WAAAAAAAAAY less petals (only about 5 as opposed to my normal 8 to 10) I made a rose. The stem is 28 guage beading wire. They are gonna end up being about 1/4inch across...so that makes them about 3inch in full scale. I'm quite pleased with them actually! I am planning to give it a coat of green paint and leaves after the roses have been baked! So what do you think?

7 comments:

  1. Love, love, love them!!! What a great idea to use the eyelet!

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  2. Thanks ladies...I ended up making about 15 last night...I baked them this morning. I am sooooo happy with them! And I even made some tiny whole strawberries too.
    They say necessity is the mother of invention...I think it's a messy desk! LOL

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  3. BEAUTIFUL! I want a few for my little mouse!!! you can see her here: www.mousesnook.blogspot.com
    I'm trying to find any small things I can to work with her. I was never good at making those roses :(

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  4. Thanks Ban...why am I just now hearing about your adorable little mouse!!!!

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  5. very pretty, love how those came out !~

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  6. Thank you...the roses all now have stems and calyxes...just need to get the leaves worked out. ;-)

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