I had a couple of old, primitively-sculpted sprigs from several years ago that I was itching to use, though I think the text stamped one is my favorite.  Polyclay, about 2″ tall.  I’m just in love with these. They will make a fine tiny cemetery.

For my next project, I took out my large peanut-butter jar full of silvery rhinestones.  At first I thought: ‘oh, they’re all scratched and shabby from sitting in a jar for a couple years.’  Then I thought: ‘cooool.’ To facilitate proper planning, I naturally had to sort them by shape, take a rough count, and put them neatly into separate Ziplocs.  I felt a bit like a dragon, with my sparkling loot.

I was looking for headstone shapes, and dug this up from 2006, back when I was making headstones from insulating foam.  These have all gone to friends, and I still think they’re awesome.  Eaton Biabear? Felinda Woodchipper? Ha, I crack me up.  And now I’m going to use these shapes to make something much, much smaller.  More later.

Polyclay Haunted House

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What I’ve been working on this weekend. Pretty happy with the result.