So why am I into clay...

That sounds a little wrong. Me? A vet..? Into such things where I was never good at (arts)?! Hah! How did it begin? Well.. Well... All because of a souvenir! That's right, a souvenir for my supervisor cum lecturer who gave me too much of guidance and help throughout my final year. (: 

I didn't know what to give, and giving some standard souvenir will look lame and somehow cheap... So I asked my sisters, and then Googled a little and found out that I might be able to do some figurines for him!

A prototype made from Play-Doh. The colours faded after 2
weeks so I decided not to embarrass myself with it. 

Not only because the colours faded like ewww... I also disliked the acrylic sealant effect, my pigs looked like they soaked themselves in oil or something. Yuck.

La la la... Still the first one looks better with a brightly coloured mushroom. The fact was that I didn't want to make all the pigs to be appraising a funny mushroom... Haha. So I made them again but on a flat greeny land, and scattered the roses around. Now they look more like enjoying in a park rather than wondering what a mushroom really is, eh? (But it does look a little duller.. Hmm...)

The real deal! Three piglets sitting together on a grass land. TQ to my lecturer!

That's it. That's how I started my hobby. Strange enough to pick this up at this age. Maybe I am just too free at home after graduation...

*struggles*

Though happy with my new clay haul the day before, I found it very difficult to play with the real polymer clay! The Kato Polyclay is extremely hard to knead with fingers and I ended up using a hammer. My first attempt was to make a cute little dinosaur polymer clay charm like here. But l gave up finally... And made a Play-Doh version of a kawaii dino instead!

First and failure.

So I know from here that I have not been conditioning my clay well. And that these clays are really, really hard to condition. (T_T) More effort next time!

Happy birthday!

Little giraffe is on a secret mission. He needed to dedicate this slice of cake to a friend of mine, wishing her a happy birthday! Also to all the birthday girls/boys out there :)

(Giraffe tutorial by Inspees)

Dessert time!

A macaroon made from this "recipe" by funkypinkgirl, only that it was Play-Doh instead. 

It was really easy to make so give it a go!

A not-so-yummy pink red velvet cake. 

Diameter about 2.5 cm (1 inch).

One of my proudly done Play-Doh creations - a black forest cake slice! (about 2 cm by 2 cm)

I rolled out the chocolate slices one by one and paste them on to make them more realistic.

I hope you like them too!

Spot the banana!

Ba-nana? In conjunction with the overwhelming craze over Despicable Me minions, I made a banana for my minions as well. Whatcha think about my banana? Mind you guys it's made of Play-Doh, one of my very first few creations. Enjoy the potato-O-o, oops, I mean, banana. :)

Done so far...

5 cuties and a macaroon!

A pikachu! I know, ugly!

First pikachu... Hmm.

Mini-animals update

Had some fun modelling the Play-Doh into some cute animals these few days. My little sister made a duckling (which supposed to be a chick anyway), while I made a cute Patrick dog and an Easter baby chick. We  then sprayed the creations with acrylic sealant to protect from deterioration.

Links to tutorial: Patrick dog; Easter baby chick