Oh How Charming

Ever since I was little I have been obsessed with miniature items. I used to love playing with Polly Pockets. I had a fascination with small detail. If you know me you also know that I love sweets!! So when you mix miniatures, sweets and crafting you get... Mini Sweet Charms.

 I have to give the credit to Mondo from Project Runway All-stars for getting me started on making these charms.  In one of the episodes of All-stars, Mondo is sporting a cute lollypop miniature necklace. So I decided that I would make one. (I forgot to take a photo of the lollypop necklace that I made, I will post one later, sorry) I found a plethora of online tutorials on how to make these cute things. Since I haven't done the clay thing in awhile I got it out and got to work!! You might remember my last clay play time I made a wedding cake topper.

Here are my versions of the sweet creations.  

Just so you get an idea of how tiny they actually are :) 

Getting hungry yet?

The nice thing is they are interchangeable so depending on what sweet I am feeling that day I can switch them out and put them on a necklace. If I am feeling really sweet I can show them all of on my charm bracelet. 

-Operation- Cake Topper

One of my very good friends, named Jenn, has a brother who is getting married next month. One day while I was hanging out with Jenn she got a phone call from her soon to be sister-in-law, I could tell something was wrong just by the look on Jenn's face.

It turned out that her sister-in-law had her heart set on an awesome handmade snowboarding character cake topper for their wedding cake. The bid had just come back and it was going to cost them around $400 for it. It was way out of the price range they wanted to pay. Jenn and I were talking about it and she just happened to ask if I did anything with clay.

Suddenly I was taken back to my childhood days, the first time I really got to play with clay...

It was a thing of Crayola Model Magic. Just the fantastic white stuff that dries when you leave it out. I begged my mom to buy me some and she did. She left me at the kitchen table to work on my new project. I think I was around 7 or 8 years old. When she came back I had made 2 little characters... she asked if Crayola had put little figures in the kit for kids to try and duplicate. I told her that I had made them out of my imagination. She couldn't believe it.

After that I started to work on clay pins and sold them to teachers at school and other women in the area. I even had my own booth at a craft show. (By that time I was 12 years old I think) But after awhile I stopped working with clay. So much of it was fragile and would break very easily. I got sick of super gluing my hard work back together. I hadn't touched my clay stuff in about 7 years when Jenn asked me if I worked with clay.

I decided it was time to pull it out again and help a friend in need.

(Besides this was going to make someone very happy for their wedding!!)

Here is the supper cute couple!!

Starting the form and making sure they have something sturdy to hold them up.

They look kinda scary without eyes... Yikes

That's better.

The final product!!!

After 3 very long days of working on these guys...

two very tired, bruised, oven burned, and sore hands later.

What do ya think?