Two Drawing-Winners and One Oopsie...

Hi, everyone!

 

Since I show you my "successes",

 

 I thought I'd also
show you my "oopsies"...

 

This is what happens when one uses papier mache that is still damp underneath...

 

and covers it totally with polymer clay for a little Fairy House, and puts it in the oven!

 

It blows its top!...Uhh, roof, I mean.

 

Not to worry.

 

The good thing about polymer clay is that it fixes very easily...

 

I will just cut off the ragged bits of this little "roof-eave"



 ~ I guess that's what you'd call it ~



and make a new one...



It will stick perfectly to the already baked clay and be fine.

 

I took the opportunity to leave the roof open like this and thoroughly dry it

 

in the oven on the lowest temperature...

 

(The papier mache felt completely dry when I started putting polymer clay

 

on it. I had even left it sitting on a heating vent overnight...)

 

However, the underneath-middle part that was sitting on the glass ornament

 

was just as damp as could be, I found out!

 

I'm just glad I wasn't doing a dozen at once.

 

For the next one, I will probably mold the papier mache (Creative Paperclay)

 

on the ornament in the same way, let it dry a bit,

 

then remove it to totally dry it before re-attaching it and starting with the polymer clay.

 

The reason I used the Creative Paper Clay to begin with is because it is a bit less

 

expensive than using polymer clay on the parts that don't show,

 

and it is quite a bit lighter.

 

Live and learn!

 

I told the guys that live here that it was a science experiment.

 

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Now for the drawing winners...



I wrote everyone's names on little strips of paper,



 and had Jonathan draw out one for the heart pin,



...and one for the little pendant. ♥



 (I know he thought it was silly...I told him it was fun!...:^)



For the brooch, it's Ellie Foster (her lovely blog, Feltabulous, can be found here)...



and for the pendant,



Irina ~ (who has several delightful blogs, but my favorite, Gypsy in Me, is here)!



Thank you all for your sweet comments and compliments...



they mean so much to me, and keep me creating!



More on the Fairy House fiasco tomorrow!



Love,