What happens when You Burn Polymer Clay

This is what happens when you forget to make sure the oven is on the right temperature. I had spent the prior day baking different pieces of my polymer clay bjd. That night, my husband cooked dinner. He had turned the oven temperature up to 500 degrees to finish a steak he had cooked for our son. The following morning, I decided to bake the top to a mold I had made of a thigh piece. I also had another thigh I had worked on that needed to be baked too. I put the pieces into the oven without thinking about the oven temperature. About 15 minutes later, I had horrible fumes coming out of my oven and these blackened pieces of clay stuck permanently to the tile I use to bake my polymer clay pieces. Whoops!!!! Lesson learned the hard way!

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Gluing Mohair onto a Tiny Polymer Clay Doll’s Head

Today I am going to show you how I glue mohair onto a tiny doll's head. Firstly, I add a small amount of glue to the back of the doll's head. I use tacky glue by Aleen. Next, I cut a tiny amount of locks from the mohair skin. This is a piece of mohair I ordered several years ago. It may actually be Tibetan wool, because it is attached to a piece of skin, but I truly am not sure. I have locks from a friend's sheep that I will be dying in the future to post on this blog. The new locks are shaved from the animal, which makes me feel better about obtaining sheep locks. Of course, this is just a preference I have now....

Flumo and Plaster Casting- the art of creating an Art Doll

For the last 8 or 9 years, I’ve been obsessed with creating art dolls. It started one day when my son, who was in 8th grade at the time, came home with his science project. It was a “zebra” with camouflaged stripes painted in orange and white. I had sculpted it for him, but he had painted it. This was the last of a long line of animals and one “Spartan” warrior that I’d helped him create for school. All of them out of air dry clay made for kids. Although I had spent most of my own time in school taking Art, I had never learned to actually sculpt. When my son was little, I’d make him cute little animals in play dough, and we’d let them dry. He loved them, so I guess he thought I was able to make anything he needed. It does seem that I had made something as a child out of paper machete using a balloon as a form, but I don’t remember if it worked or what it was. Once we did wrap string dipped in sugar water around a balloon. When it dried, we popped the balloon and cut out a hole, pla...

My New Store-Fair Meadow Dolls and Soaps

Good Morning Doll Makers! I wanted to announce my new/old adventure. Years ago, I began a blog on Weebly.com for my handcrafted lye soaps. Yesterday, I reopened the store to include my hand sculpted art dolls. Here is the link: https://fairmeadowdolls.weebly.com/ I have decided to keep both this blog and the store separate for now. This blog is for tutorials and just talking about doll making in general. The store is for the actual merchandise I plan to sell online. Why a store on Weebly? And why don't I call it "She's a Doll of Clay"? Two reasons: 1- Etsy has way too many doll makers, and I do not believe that my work is being shown. I have decided to take the matter of sells into my own hands. 2- "She's a Doll of Clay" is not the brand I want my dolls to be under. So what brand, you say? "Fair Meadow Dolls and Soaps". Fair Meadow is a play on my father's name, Farley, which means "far meadow"....

She's A Doll of Clay

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