I Made This: Horse Ring Holder

After getting a few requests for the Junk Food Bracelet post last week, I figured it would be fun to try my hand at another clay project.  This time I took photos and paid attention to what I was doing (sometimes I totally zone out when I do craft projects) so here you go!

I didn't know what tools I would actually need, so I just pulled everything we had out.  I only ended up using a couple of these and stuck with only black clay instead of the two-tone look I was originally planning.

I sculpted the basic horse head shape and then pulled at the edges a little where I was going to cut away the flowing mane.  I scored it with the wire brush tool.  (In the top photo.)  

I baked the horse at this stage following the Sculpey package directions.  After it was baked and all cooled down, I used metallic paint to fill in the mane.

After the gold paint was dry, I used 3 coats of Sculpey gloss.  There is no more baking at this stage- you just let the gloss dry completely and apply the next coat.  Super easy!

I think this could be really cute as a wall hanging, too.  Anyway, I hope this sparks a little want for weekend crafting!  Happy Thursday, friends!

Junk Food, I Love You

Well, our hopes of making a million pieces of pottery in Hope's kiln that she got for Christmas quickly died when we found out the plug wasn't compatible with the one outlet in the house we thought it would fit in.  We are going to have the proper one installed, but in the meantime we've kept our clay dreams alive with some fun little Sculpey projects. This junk food bracelet is what dreams are made of (you might remember it from this post) and though I love it, I knew it wasn't representing alllllll my favorite junk foods (I have a lot) the way it should.  So, what do you do?  Make some more!

We actually did make more, more-- but these were my favorites out of the batch.  After searching out my jewelry pliers and some jump rings (why do these things always seem to hide themselves?), I had a happy little foodie family:

My favorite kind of charm bracelet is one that is packed to the maxxxx with charms, so I'm sure we'll be making more food very soon!  I love just-for-fun projects-- they keep your creativity sharp!