Oyumaru Review

Yippee! First review! 

I forgot to take pictures of my oyumaru but basically they look like this. 

Some Basic Info

Price: Ranging from SGD$1 - SGD$1.70 each strip

Places to Buy: Daiso ($1 per strip), Garies International, Tinkleart and crafts

How to use: Place strip into hot water, take it and press item into putty. Demold after 5-10 minutes.

Convenience

For me it's pretty easy to get, Daiso sells the cheapest for me and they come in packs of 2 strips, good for people who aren't willing to waste money on a product they are not sure about. It might be harder to get in America and all that since it's a japanese product.

Features

Its easy to use, but its pretty hard after it hardens, and don't stay as flexible. It's good at picking up details too! The best thing about Oyumaru is its reusability so don't worry if you screw up or don't use a certain mold anymore. If not perhaps you can just buy one and keep reusing it and reusing and simply making a new mold each time beforehand :) Colours are vibrant and I'll give it a plus for making me happy ^^ Its not good for scaled miniatures, but good enough for cabochons as it'll be too difficult to pop it out considering the size! Its best for air dry clay, but polymer clays fine too :D

Tips while using it

Leave it in for a good time. I was really impatient and kept taking it out. The result is that it either stays pretty hard or detail does'nt catch and once u take out the master, the putty springs back to a boring slab of oyumaru. You would'nt want that, now do you? Same thing for the thing you are popping out. I use it for flat stuff like cookies and waffles, for when it comes to deeper stuff and polymer clay, it'll be good to stay away for say 10 minutes and go back :) If not you can try putting it in the freezer or something (Perhaps I'll try out one day.) 

Lastly, some pictures of some stuff I've demolded from my molds :) 

I love the nice details! Uneveness keeps it the waffle look too :o

Good details!!!

Summing it up:

Pros: 

 good for Larger items, Flat items, Air Dry Clay

cheap

reusable

vibrant colors

easy to use

convenient

Cons:

not as flexible

bad for deep stuff

may break halfway using it

overall, I'll recommend it for cabochons! For miniatures, rtv silicon or putty is definitely better due to its extreme flexibility. For a more economic way that doesn't compromise on quality, oyumaru is good for DIY molds for cabochons :) Its easy to get, easy to use and despite losing out to rtv and putty in terms of flexibility, it makes up for its "alot easier to use" feature. Its very convenient and good for beginners and people not so willing to waste money on this craft :)

XOXO,

Moo Moo Cow

A New Follower!

Why am I very very flattered! Well I got my first follower :o I thought that I'll probably fade into the background :( Thanks for following me and I'll try to maintain this blog as well as possible :D Schools been busy so my promised sunday post came a good 5 days later. I haven't been sleeping well due to work so where do I find time for minis and deco? Well I've fallen sick today so I finally got time to rest. Now I can't sleep so I'm stealing time to post something I've made last sunday during a break from work. Wah la! I've spent some time crapping about my life so I'll stop here. Skip to pictures if you ain't really interested :D

This time's picture in candle light :P Should I photoshop it or is it good as it is?

I really LOVE it!

Before I started revising and doing work, I went shopping alone (remember the first post, going to jurong by myself? YEA) and bought some rhinestones, some blah blah blah. I bought Rement, Silicon too :) So once I caught some time I took out the piping bag and started to do it! A spontaneous attempt, no planning beforehand, just plonked whatever I had :) I've been making some decoden pieces on standby, and the waffles one of them. I really like it :D The roses are ex-cake embellishments and the chocolate was stolen from cake making too >< I love rhinestones now! They used to put me off for all the blingness, but rhinestones on silicon is pure magic :) However, I don't get gigantic rhinestones for they are ex and I don't like them. I got these rhinestones at $1 shop for 5 (?) long strips of rhinestones :) Theres alot of colors and theres pearls too! They are $1.50 by the way =.=

And this is my order from sophie and toffee! They were pretty prompt and I now have a good ol discount code! Interested people can email me LOL. Will be saying this every post until someone decides to email me :) The canes are fine but strawberry canes are not as detailed as the ones I bought from madam ang. However they are less than half the price so I guess it balances out :) I think one cabochon is missing. I love the parfait cup! Will be using it soon :D Well I've use the cabochons to make some molds in an upcoming oyumaru review :D

Yes! I'll be posting real shortly. That's two posts for you guys! mmm, perhaps I should type as a draft and publish tomorrow so no information overload there....

xoxo,

Moo Moo Cow

First Deco Den!

Ok, I know I promised the macaron tower but the thinking of popping another 100 macaron shells make me cringe. Well I've decided to only do clay related items on Saturdays so as not to affect my studies so I'll update on Sundays ONLY. Unless its the holidays, that is :) So to get to the point, I did my first Decoden! I used Jumping Clay and mixed it with water since I did not have modelling paste nor silicon at hand (it was a pretty random thing). So I tried but the Jumping Clay did not hold the shape and melted :( I'll try it with less water next time though :D Nevertheless, it's not bad for a first try and I went on to do 5 mini ones with some leftover miniatures. Pretty Singapore I'll say, not all about sweets but more about tausa piars and nyonya kuehs :D

Pardon the bad photo qualitys. Not such a photographer :(

Presents! Christmas! Cosmetics (My Fav!)

All were taken from my sylvanian families set ><

Wanton Mee and Fishball noodle with some awesome 1:12 Tausapiars :

All melted :( And they started drooping and as you can see in the photo, the waffle drooped and the gingerbread man was dying :(

All the minis one are for my toppings and I'm looking forward to deco-ing every single box I use for clay adventures! 

After spending approx 1 hour on these, I went to shop at Sophie and Toffee, probably some kind of after deco impulse. Stocked up on strawberry canes and bought a lot of cabochons to make into molds for deco! I think I bought chocolate, jelly, pudding, biscuit, two plates cabochons. I also bought a parfait cup :D Took me like 1hr +++ to spend 10.70! >< 

See you guys next Sunday :D 

XOXO,

Moo Moo Cow

Daiso Haul

So Daiso's like the greatest place!!! I think not just the fact that they have so many things to buy, but more of the joy one gets when one finds something totally not on the list yet totally applicable :) Well I've been reading posts from Mini Mo and many other awesome bloggers, and so I decided to go to Daiso, give myself a budget and see what i can get :)

Oyumaru! At first I wanted to grab those at Garies, but I refrained my itchy fingers cause Rui said there were cheaper ones at Daiso. At the same time I was afraid I might not be able to find them at Daiso. I rushed straight to the clay section and did not find them. Don't make the same mistake, check them out at the stationery section (If You are at the IMM Outlet, I'm not very sure for others). Well, I tried them out and I'm pretty satisfied. It's remoldable, so absolutely perfect so failures like me >< I use the cap of those paint bottles and made a mini cupcake mold ;) Took me like 7 tries! I might do a review on it (If I rmb!)

I restocked on Daiso Clay, as i think its better than modena soft clay :D Although it's not waterproof, I still like the touch to the hand. I bought white cause I had a budget >< Well, I'm going to Daiso AGAIN (but to a different one) so I'll see how it goes!

Magnets! I'm quite doubtful of its stickability, and i tried it out 3, one for my own, one for my godmother's pressie, and one for a friends order. I hope it does'nt fall out! If its good, its really worth the money and its so much more convenient!

I found these at the baking section :D Took me like 20 mins to figure out which type. Well, there were different sizes! Its flexible so I'm thinking of either wetting adc and pouring it into the mold, or wet fimo and pour into the mold and bake it. I chose this size cause it looked big enough to make the name card clipper, but not too big to waste clay :X

Wires! They are for a project I saw from the project book I got from Garies :D Its actually those Calenders where you have to change the dates everyday. It's going to take up like ALOT of clay, but I guess I can use up the modena clay cause its like the only thing I am gonna let it do :) I'll keep it a secret, but its going to be something SWEET!

The sponge pic won't come out, but I bought 10 sponges for $2! I wanted to get the 20 sponges pack, but they are disposable ones. But I wasn't willing to spend $1 for 1 sponge, so I bought the not disposable but not as long lasting one. I think its fine, its not like I'm using it on my face right? 

All the items are kept in a box, which is one of those I-did'nt-really-expect-to-buy-but-i-am-happy-to-find-it stuff :D Its called a model box, and slightly out of dimensions (its too long in width) but its the best I can find. One this size would have cost $26 at tinkleart and although I have to touch up and add in the dividers, its really a steal! Moreover I get to have fun and feel like I saved alot of  money :) It looks really big, and I'm questioning if its 1:12. I don't get the whole size thing, so usually when I made something, I'll see what are the sizes of others, and try to reason it out :)

Sorry I don't have anything to show, but currently working on a 1:12 Macaron Tower to put on top of the bakery shelf! I finished half of it (I did'nt make enough macarons).

Happy CNY and Holiday. Back to school tomorrow :)

XOXO,

Moo Moo Cow ^^

New Air Dry Clay!

So I just ordered some air dry clay! Yippee! Was really excited >< Wanted to buy modena as its waterproof so I ordered a pack from tinkleart. However, it turned out I bought soft clay instead of resin clay. I was trying to buy resin clay as it will not be so crumbly >< So I had to order again :( This time I got grace clay :) So I shall just say what I feel after trying them out LOL. They aren't really reviews but I'll just categorise them there.. if I do get a review for them, then well I link them.

Modena Clay is pretty horrible personally. It dries VERY quickly and it is not sticky. I mini, it is sticky as in it sticks to each other but it is just very hard to work with it. It NEVER forms a perfect ball :( It is also horrible for making whipped cream as it is water proof :( However, I've decided to mix it with Grace Clay to make ice cream scoops using tutorial from Sweet and Tiny :) It's for a little project which I'll share once its completed :P Well I don't think I'll use it again. Its very weird, unlike daiso clay. I don't think it's my type of clay ><

Grace Clay (Sorry, forgot to take pictures.) I think its cool. It felt like mochi on first touch and its sticky but not sticky enough to stick to my hands. So it can form balls unlike MOdena Soft :) I left one to dry and the texture's very nice and smooth, and like many reviews, I believe its fab for caning and translucent-ish stuff :) However, mixing it with acrylics means taking its stickiness to another level. It really does dry darker (which is good cause if I add anymore acrylic it'll just be a sticky mess) :) I put in some ochre to make KFC Chicken Crumbs (from a tip from I Love Little Things ^^) So far, it seems cool and it comes in two sausages! But it's really costly :( I wanted to use it to make whipped cream since daiso clay can be whipped but does'nt dry shiny. But grace clay is too expensive :( Well so far I LOVE grace clay! Will mix it with some daiso clay and see if it'll make nice cookies! Shall look around for some "Recommended recipes!"

Well, I'll be taking on some jumping clay soon! ^^