Interestingly, last year I made it for week 46 and this year it’s for week 47 (and it was not planned) … clearly at this time every year I like to make miniature gingerbread houses 🤣🤣
Miniature cookies for Santa (and carrots for Rudolph, of course) 3.6 x 2.7cm
A plate of Miniature Hot Dogs 2.5cm in diameter
Another gingerbread house … this time with a cherry on top 4.5cm high and the base is 3 x 3cm
A completely different gingerbread house 3.5cm high and the base is 3 x 3.3cm
(told you I love making gingerbread houses 😆)
A plate of miniature Christmas cookies 2.5cm in diameter
And that’s it, the last item for this year’s challenge. I had loads of fun again!
If there’s one next year, I’m definitely doing it again. 😍
Making steampunk things is so much fun. I add whatever I want (chain, headpins, screws, eye pins, steampunk gears, etc) until I’m happy with the end result.
For the next 12 weeks, I’ll be doing Star Wars Characters for a wall clock I’m making for my husband (a VERY belated birthday gift) 😃
Since he’s a Star Wars fan, I asked him to choose the characters.
I enjoy watching all the movies with him, even though, most of the time I have no clue what’s going on. 🤣 But at least I know the difference between Star Trek and Star Wars … so there’s that. 😄
The first one is Darth Vader 3.8cm wide & 3.9cm high
On the clock, he will go at number 12 … since he’s on the “dark side” 😁
Princess Leia 4.4cm in diameter
Luke Skywalker 4.4cm diameter
He looks as if he’s ready to take over the dark side 😆
Obi-Wan 3.8cm in diameter
4 done, 8 more to go I’m having lots of fun making these Star Wars characters, something different and out of my comfort zone
Yoda 8.3cm wide & 3.6cm high
The force is strong in this one 😃😃
Chewbacca 3.6cm wide & 4.2cm high
Bounty hunter, Boba Fett 4.1cm wide & 4.9cm high
C-3PO 3.8cm wide & 4.2cm high
C-3PO‘s friend R2D2 3.7cm in diameter
The way he speaks to 3-CPO in whistles and beeps is so cute
Millennium Falcon … of course! 3.5cm wide & 4.8cm high
The clock won’t be complete without it 😄
Stormtrooper helmet 3.5cm wide & 3.8cm high
The most challenging character of them all. I can’t remember how many times I had to redo him, but I got it right in the end.
The last Star Wars character is Darth Maul 3.8cm wide & 4.2cm high
I personally think he is the ugliest of them all 😂
For the clock, I traced and painted the death star and my husband decided where the characters must go. I also painted the clock hands green and with the red seconds hand, it symbolizes the lightsaber colours.
I must admit, this project was totally out of my comfort zone and I realised why it took me so long to start with it. It was overwhelming and scary. I decided to make it part of my #2021pcchallenge, that way I can make one character per week and get it done. As soon as I made the first character, I felt more confident, and seeing my husband’s reaction every time I showed him the next character, made me more determined to finish this project.
As the weeks went by I got more and more excited about it and was looking forward to putting the clock together.
I am happy I finally made his one-of-a-kind birthday gift … even though it’s a few years late. 😆
I also tried something I’d never done before. Last year, someone mentioned in the polymer clay challenge group that she uses her hairdryer to harden small pieces of clay. So, I wondered if I could do the same with my craft heat gun. I Googled and found a tips and tricks article by Ginger Davis Allman from The Blue Bottle Tree, where she wrote about using a heat gun.
Of course, I had to try it, and it worked!!! I was super excited about this! It opens a whole new world for me. Now I can cure small pieces of clay and don’t have to switch the oven on just to bake a piece for 5 or 10 mins! I can’t wait to use this more often. My craft heat gun is now permanently plugged in on my table…ready to use. 😀
A miniature vintage TV 2.7cm wide & 3.1cm high
When I was a child, we had a TV similar to this, a big wooden TV with no remote, you had to get up and go to the TV to change the volume. And when there was nothing on TV, it looked like this… 😂
A miniature couch 2.9cm wide & 1.8cm high … a bright pink one because brown is boring 😀
A miniature teapot 2.2cm high
Teapots are fun to make, quick and easy
A miniature bed with a quilt 3.1cm wide and 2.2cm high
Quilts are fun to make, and very easy, thanks to Manda Theart who taught us how to do it in her “teddies in bed workshop”
A miniature bath 3.3cm wide & 1.9cm high … a bit tricky and lots of little balls to roll for the bubbles 😄
All my miniatures for the first 7 weeks of this Polymer Clay Challenge look very cute in my 3D printed printer’s tray that’s on my workroom wall.
