Beads and Charms Finished

I spent today baking, sanding, buffing and polishing my beads and charms. Here is what I finished.

Cherry Chocolate, Candy Corn, Sucker and 2 Cupcakes

Apple, Carrot and Peas

Popsicles, Orange and Chocolate Creamsicle

Donuts

Pumpkin Pie with whippy and Cinnamon Roll with Icing

White Cake with Chocolate icing and Pink icing. The pink is so pale you can't see it in the photo. I used my tiny purple flower cane from the play dough experiment for decoration.

Cupcake with pink icing and orange slices, juicy cheese burger

All the charms from today in one pile ready to go.

Natasha chop beads using cane ends from my bone/translucent leaf cane ends and the tiger skin cane ends. The ice water bath straight out of the oven gave the translucent a lot of depth.

These lentil swirl beads are made using the cane ends from a breast cancer ribbon cane I made. I think I am finally getting the hang of the swirl.

Jade and Ivory set

I finally used the faux jade and ivory beads I created. You can see the different colors used in each bead. I love the jade but my next batch will have a more "creamy jade" look I hope as this batch seen was colored with pearl ex powders. Great shades but too much sparkle for jade.

You can see the veins in the ivory beads in the photo above. So detailed. I'm glad I made a nice sized cane of that mix to use later.

Here is the necklace, bracelet and earrings I made with a few beads left over. The only beads I did not make in this set were the tiny wooden beads I used for spacers. They compliment the jade and ivory so well.

My new batch of jade uses tinted translucent clay and embossing power for the depth.

Sweets Overload

Just spent the day making miniature sweets to use for my granddaughters to give away to their friends for Christmas. Itty bitty teany tiny charms. I made pancakes with butter and syrup, a chocolate donut, peas, carrots, pumpkins, tomatoes, suckers, chocolates, snow cones and a big hand full of candy corn. I also made a tiny pitcher using the play dough flower cane for decoration.

I then made ivory/bone beads and faux jade beads. When I did the faux jade I used Pearl Ex to tint the translucent clay. The neat thing is that when the light hits the beads just right they have the green shimmer from the Pearl Ex. I used some left overs to do a natasha bead focal bead with the ivory.bone mix and jade caps.

I also used gold clay to get that fascinating mica shift by using a tiny ribbon of violet clay and then clop and flip to get the shine and veins. Wow did all of these turn out great.


I took pics of the candy corn as I made them to use for a tutorial which I will post soon. So easy and so cute.

I will post the pics of the other treats this week I hope.