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cupcakes & dinosaurs...

Had a fabulous time at the Flinders Street Market on the weekend. On Saturday I spent a fair portion of the day getting my hands dirty at the Making Creatures from Clay workshop in the centre of the market. Naomi from Wonkie Knee Art & Susanna from really useful pots ran the workshop & the lovely Rene from the Sunshine Van provided us with yummy chocolate cupcakes to keep our strength up :)

I was attempting to create a dragon, but it somehow morphed into a cute stegosaurus-type dinosaur creature as I worked. He went home with Susanna to dry out & get fired (that doesn't sound right, lol) - can't wait to see him finished. Any name suggestions for the little guy?

First (iPhone) photo by me, others by Mum & Kathryn.
We also had a stall - or two actually - which you can see photos of here & here.

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recently...

...we had a busy beginning to the month, with the Wirrabara producers market (we'll be there again this coming Sunday), Mum's birthday & the Folk Fair...

...still enjoying the autumn weather - still waiting for rain too...

...tapped into my inner geek (nerd?) for a Dr Who inspired teleidoscope photo...

...finished & photographed the earrings from my last batch of silver (pendant post soon). Also made up a collective noun while I was at it...

...finished the polymer jewellery I was working on...

...baked & photographed a batch of anzac-inspired-gluten-free-fruit-&-grain biscuits (more commonly know around here as 'Dad's biscuits') for a up-coming blog post...

...also planning to bake some scones this morning...

...& just because I can, some morning sun

a bunch of brooches...

...are the results of my recent experimenting with polymer clay. I'm quite pleased with the results.

My original idea was for the buff coloured ones, with green or autumnal leaves (I really like the cream/buff colour I got in my second batch). The dark ones were really only came about because the purple clay is new & I wanted to play with it.

I used a mixture of leaves from the garden - salvia, jacaranda, geranium, mint & tree-that-I-don't-know-the name-of (it has these seed pods). I pretty happy with most of them, though I probably won't use the mint again.

Once they were baked, I painted them - green or orange/yellow (autumnal) for the cream, as I said. For the black & purple ones I used metallic paint. It's a bit hard to capture properly in the photos, but I used a combination of silver, copper, pale & rich gold. And a couple of coats of varnish to protect the paint.

If they look vaguely familiar it's probably 'cos I've shown bits of them before - only here, here, here & here though.

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