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the slightly menacing result of being left alone in a room with clay and nails.

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I made a batch of clay this afternoon, and helped my daughter make Valentines for her class party tomorrow.

Very easy to make, and very successful. You can find the link to the recipe and a few more pics on my blog.

Made timely, posted late.

Number 9 is a clay eagle thingie made at the Hudson River Eagle Fest with my son Mikro’s assistance.

Thing # 10 is a sort of found image. It’s the carboard side of an amazon box that had a really cool glue splotch, colored with caran d’ache crayons. The colors are a little off due to the flash, but you get the idea. At some point, when I can fight my way into my studio and excavate through the strata of clutter burying my lino carving stuff, I’d like to carve a stamp of this, or maybe make a monoprint…

Day 11 resulted in a bit of scratch board silliness- a frog, and at Mikro’s behest, a stegosaurus…

OK we have friends over spending some time with us so coming up with time to do things I might really want to do is a challenge. LOL. So I am looking for things we can all do together that we all enjoy. Sculpey would be one of them. So I dug out the sculpey clay, the tools and cleared off my dining room table and we just sat and played. A child or two would join me for a while them move on and another child or two would jump in. It was fun and I made this votive holder. The base is glass so you can really see the light of the candle shining through the clay. Of course getting a picture of that was hard, the picture is a bit blurry but I hope you get the idea, and feel of it.

My son, Spud, had a flyer from school about making ‘bread clay’…that is clay out of stale white bread, glue, and food coloring. So we tore up three slices of bread into tiny bits, added three tablespoons of white glue (which had been colored with some candy-coloring), and then kneaded the Sam Hill out of it. It turned into this mushy mess…let it stand for ten minutes or so, and then it’s soft but not sticky. Form into a ball, squish, make head, legs, and tail, decorate with circles, and voila! Bread clay turtle!

(I didn’t post yesterday, but I actually made TWO things yesterday — that loaf of white bread, and the signatures for an upcoming journal project. YAY!)