Strange things are happening.....

Well Hello little Butterflies,

     You know, Sometimes things don't work out the way you want them too.  Sometime it's a complete disappointment, other times you are presently surprised.  I had both situations with this weeks crafts.  So lets get started cues there is a lot today and tomorrow is Mama Pixie Day!

 

 

     Above you see, I've taped my wax paper down to my table, air dry clay, food coloring, acrylic paint and the EoL.





Now, below hour see me working the clay. Now I didn't want to buy huge amount of colored clay for a small Halloween project so I instead, bought a 5 lb tub of white and decided to tint it myself.  So, after researching and finding three (yes, three) schools of thought, I decided to try 2 of them, one was tinting with food coloring, the other with acrylic paint.  The third (in case you were wondering) was to color it with markers......I watched a YouTube video of it.  It didn't make much sense to me and seemed way more time consuming.  Ain't nobody gots time for dat!

I started with the food coloring.  I used Wilton Brand gel food coloring.  I put about three drops into the well of the clay and started to work it.  

     And after I was happy with the color, I placed it in the baggie.  Now to work with the acrylics.  

     Ok, I've already admitted that I'm pretty cheap.  Hubby bubby noticed we were low on work gloves so I decided to take the ones I had, and put them on the opposite sides to give me a clean surface.  Tada!!!!!

I added the acrylic to the well of the clay.  I used about the size of a nickel.  The reason being that the color, though brighter is not as concentrated.  

Uhhhhh, ok it's not working the was I want it as seen below. 

How I felt about acrylics after this crap....

     I added more....ALOT more paint.  Still not what I wanted.  Ah well, They won't all be perfect projects.

Holy shit!  Ignore this mess.  I;m still working on getting my craft area into a workable state.  

So, the next night, after talking over with Hubby Bubby.  He suggested I make a thin purple stripe as well for my project.  You'll see why below.  

Here we go again, tinting the clay.

3 drops in a smaller ball of clay because I was a darker color.  

Here is the type of clay I used.  

Here's what it looks like in it's natural state.

Here are the sticks I was trying to choose from .  They range from long skewers to smaller chopsticks.  You'll see why.

Here are the canes I rolled out in the pink and the white.  I made sure they were the same length.  I also lightly pressed them together.  

And here is the purple.  It's a skinner stick because I want it only as an accent.  It's also the same length.  

Here are all three canes together.  Again.  lightly pressed together.

    Ok So I skipped this next part with pics because A) I got swept up in creating and 2) Hubby Bubby was not available to take the pics for me LOL.  I basically rolled the three canes together so I had one long thick cane.  I then twisted it slightly thus giving me a swirled pattern.  i started on one end, and began to roll it slowly onto itself.  Using the lid to my water container for paint (we use what we have at hand LOL) I would flatten it a bit then roll some more.  I inserted the skewer I decided to use and set it on the lip to dry.  

TADA!  

And there you have it! There is the custom made Lollipop for my Halloween costume!   could have easily bought one but I didn't want to worry about it going bad or getting broken or disappearing.  This is just clay and much lighter than regular clay.

And finally, Filed under will wonders never cease.  Remember the clay I tinted with the acrylic paint?  I was really not happy with the color and figured hey, I'll use it for something.  So when I opened the container of clay, it look like this...

All I could think was...Asshole.  As well, I have clay that's already pink for something else.  

More later my darlings, 

Peace and love!

Pixie