Crafts

I haven't posted anything in a long time and worse, I haven't posted any craft for much longer. But that doesn't mean I wasn't doing anything!


Here are my Fimo and craft project for the last 4 months.

Fimo... originally I only tried these to have a subject for my photography project. I also have to use my clay soon, unless someone has a genius idea on how to soften close-to-dry clay (it's only 6months old and well wrapped in its original paper).

This is also my Christmas stockings! Couldn't find small and well decorated socks for a good price so I opted for a different version of it... practically everything inside was cooking related anyway.

As a Christmas present (maybe also a new year resolution, who knows), I made a series of organization boxes, like this one:

For those who absolutely don't get the idea... this is what our table looks like when we come back from out-freezing-side...

and that's why we need this to tidy all of our small outwear. For some of us, it will also help not forgetting a glove or the second layer hat.. for sure we'll save some time and energy!

I also needed to get crafty on the computer ("but what does that mean?"). I am starting my event photography business in Toronto and need to have a webpage which represents exactly who I am and what I am offering! So say Hi! to Duographie.

Please follow me on duographie.com but also on Facebook and Twitter @duographie !

April Fimo projects.

I spent the last two weeks doing paperwork, arranging for the wedding photography work and doing fimo! Thank you Natasha for that great entire day playing with fimo and thank you Julie for introducing and teaching me the technics.

This time it will be a post with more pictures than text. All about polymer clay projects. 

First of all, big beads, made around aluminium foil. This was my first attempt in making beads with aluminium balls and with the cat wanting to play with them that didn't help in making them perfectly round. 

I also wanted to diversify in my macaroons collection, so this time they are smaller and 2 or 3 attached together. Since I don't wear earrings, I have no idea if they are heavy or not. Anyone wants to try they on?

Plus, a couple of tries with different technics, using sugar, aluminium foil and also eye shadow and stamp. 

My plan was to make flowers with polymer clay, and I'm quite happy with my rose. I will have to make it in different color gradients and make other shapes.

I said I would not do any figurine, but I ended up making these octopuses using different technics. I really like how they look like but they are so fragile.

The octopuses were a present for my boyfriend, who liked them so much he told me he wanted to try and make some more. So we ended up spending an entire Sunday afternoon making these 6 animals for the newborn of two friends of us. They were then put together as a mobile sculpture to hang in the baby's room. 

I'm happy with what I have produced so far with fimo, but I'd like you to tell me what you really think of it, which item you like and which ones you don't; which you would probably wear or expose at home, and which ones you won't. That will help me a lot! Thanks in advance.

Polymer clay

We have a good warm weather in France right now, and I've planned in running a few half and full-marathon in the following months, except that my right knee completely prevents me from running more than 5 minutes. So I've been going from one doctor to an other, doing scans (while most of my friends who go for scans right now are probably pregnant...), x-rays to get to the conclusion that my right kneecap is a bit thin and slanted on one side and probably causes stress on the rest of the knee. They also found a bit of liquid in there but didn't seem to be a big deal. Finally I got physiotherapist sessions with electrodes to build up my right thigh (this is very weird that sensation when the alternative current makes the muscle contracts without me asking for it, it tickles hard inside my leg).

Anyhow, I can't go running! So I stay inside and play with food and Fimo!

Here it is, my new friend! The polymer clay! I'll say fimo, because it's shorter and it's one of the most popular brand. Alright, for those of you who are totally impermeable to crafts, I would certainly not do a good job in saying this is colored plastic clay like what you used to play with when you were kids. This is actually a colored clay, that you can do basically everything with! You can make shapes, you can mix colors, you can imprint whatever on it, even make patterns with sand, salt, sugar... anything. And you can paint then after you've baked them. 

So I've tried from a magazine, that was not the best colors I'll ever used, but still I got an idea of the concept.

I managed to make a flower and I tried to experiment a kiwi.

As you can see, I still have to practice!

I also saw people making pastries in Fimo. And macaroons were the perfect shape and colors for that kind of work!

And then I remembered Amélie and Julie's awesome work (see their blog, they really master this clay!). I asked for advices and Julie gave me a lesson! That was at her cozy place, with the 4 staring eyes of her daughters! During 4 great hours (sorry it took so long!), she taught me how to make color gradients in a pasta machine and how to build up canes. The canes are then used in thin slices to decorate beads for example. I had a really good time! Thank you so much!

P.S. I'm sorry for the crappy red saturated colors and the bad quality of the pictures in general. This is from my dad's point and shoot camera. I'll do a better job as soon as I come back to Toronto!