Remember this photo?&nbs`;

I think its pretty obvious~ Its a aluminum foil piping tip!

Another shot to show you how minuscule it is :)

So I was browsing through the web again, and finally found enlightenment *ting* on what is meant by aluminum nozzle LOL.

You know aluminum foil? There's this thin strip of foil which is used to tear the aluminum foil :)

I've been googling "aluminum foil nozzle" for like FOREVER and nothing was much help. Maybe its my bad googling skill. GAHH. So I'm naming this post Aluminium Foil Nozzle for Miniature Piping! Im so nice :DD

With a new found tip comes more piping practice!

The pipe was made in like 5 minutes with much cringing and tweezers so Im super happy to see the details :)

Piped them onto the ziplock which i cut to make the bag~ It was super unplanned so I just grabbed everything LOL!

Tried other pattern other then dollops of cream.

Ran out of space on the ziplockies so ~

More pictures! They look nicer in pictures cause my homemade cream was dried up so I added water so they became super watery (spontaneity is a badass habit of mine).

Gahh I can't imagine how small these cream are. Looking back (did this one week ago) they were so tiny!!

I couldn't bear to delete any photos cause I got the macro thingy right this time.

Some hits and misses LOL

I like the long train of cream in the middle :3

OH NO NO MORE PICS TO CAPTION :(

Anyways this will come in handy for cake making and even my upcoming cupcake projects. once I found out there was NO turning back muahaha :D

Hope this helped because using those baking tips are crazy because the tips are massive hence tons of wastage and overall its weird because the tip is big and the bag is small and your work is small. (do you get it?)

Anyway I see that more people are visiting *eyes well up in tears* so keep coming YEAA :D

Super awesome to own a craft blog cause people from all over the world visit ~ Like france, saudi arabia, israel :D 

Kay I PROMISE some valid work instead of experiments >.< Sucks to be a lazy person :(

Caning Experiment~

I have never successfully caned before :( Had resigned my fate to buying them, but realized that they don't work for 1:12 .__.

So I used those random colored clay (I had no more white) to make these as an experiment!

I won't consider it a success, because ... JUST LOOK AT THE PICS.

LOL Wastage :X

End product~ I used mainly yellow and black clay.

I wanted to try different techniques. This is the roll technique. Most successful of the three techniques. Plus I have never really succeeded before hah.

The other two techniques, cutting and piecing and combining canes.

As you can see, the cut and piece technique went mad, like my past tries :( It looks like some spider  sweet omg. 

As for the combining cane thing, it turned out alright. As a side comment, don't you think it looks like a rotten guava? #justsaying

I made both big and small ones, and I have to say reducing wise, the detail stayed :D

Overall, i learnt good caning habits such as Squeeze and Pull and not roll, Roll and Slice, being careful and so on. 

I am not exactly ready to make "real" canes, and probably going to start another caning experiment to see if I can pull off the cut and piece cane (like oranges and lemons).

Sigh, I'm just bad at caning. /dies/

Any good caning tips? :)

xoxo,

Moo Moo Cow

BACK! Cupcake Casings and More

I'm quite happy right now :D

Remember I mentioned I stopped crafting for a bit because of exams? The good news is that I achieved rather surprising (in a good way) results! No specifics but I'm very very happy :D

And another good news is that I am quite surprised (again in a good way) that I managed some cupcake casings!

Lulu and the casings sitting on my keyboard.

Lulu holding one of them.

Artistic photo LOL !

Its really quite small. Thats a 5 cent coin :)

The bigger ones ~

They look so pretty sitting on my bed sheet :D

I started out with aluminum (Because i was making some other thing for work purpose, then decided to try out Yoyostudio's tutorial). Then I moved to paper. Then I saw these paper which is transparent and rather sturdy (i don't know what it's called) and they worked beautifully! 

I made them while watching TV late at night :) Took me two nights to find my way of making them so I'm glad something came out of it!

Not as many folds as snow fern's ones (hers have 16 :O) for the 1:12 scaled ones, but around 8-10. Good enough for me I'd say! 

However it takes like 20 minutes for me to do one, and my index finger ached like crazy after doing these 6 big and small casings so ...

I'll make them when I actually get down to making cupcakes! 

I need some help in making 1:12 cupcakes /face palms/.

And reason why I didn't make clayish thing is cause I didn't have clay. Ordered from tinkle art, but they missed my payment so shipping was delayed until I asked them ;'(

Next post on caning!

xoxo,

Moo Moo Cow

With October comes much Changes

Singapore 506 United States 167 Malaysia 54 Australia 40 Spain 38 Canada 34 France 34 Philippines 34 United Kingdom 30 Italy 21 just a shout out to awesome people from all other the world coming to this little blog =) *gay smile* In fact, this blog has reached around 1600 views, which I know isn't a lot but hey its making progress! I like it when people comment too *hint hint* As for the "changes" in the title, its not exactly drastic changes... 1) Selling of my works! i don't know if anyone will buy, but well I'll be either setting up an etsy account, or set it up on this blog itself :X Will deal with this after my end of year examinations :) U can expect me to be selling my "whipped cream" and some other stuff! 2) Good Adsense I just added this to earn some revenue :) I still have no money to buy new clay :( Do click, it won't hurt! As I've mentioned, EOYs is coming up.. so here's a good post :) What I did over 4 hours while watching the Hangover 2 :P On a cotton pad! Each cookies measure around 6-7 mm Mad cute! This photo makes the cookie more realistic.. HEY I rarely get nice pictures like this, PLUS I did not edit or photoshop this image. And everyone knows how hard it is to photo miniatures :X Made bigger ones, around 1 mm to be made into studs.  The pies were made into rings. Gave this to my friend. Another one! Each pie is around 23 mm. Big cookies, 20 mm for rings! The starbucks with the cream clay dried. might make more and turn it into a name card holder. Very very pretty texture after the whipped cream dried. But I'll have to find a good sealer.

My Work Area! - 17 September 2011

Hey there :)

I've been spending more time packing up than really getting to work.

I'm such a hoarder >.< I bought like so many things, but I'm totally not getting down to creating.

So instead of keeping people waiting, I decided to write a post of how I keep my stuff, and I'll kind of turn it into a mini guide to what you need (And don't need :P) for polymer clay/air dry clay crafts etc.

I'm actually planning a further organisation, by replacing all the plastic bags to proper containers. But I need $$ (you'll see why later).

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My Table, the main area for my clay creations :) I also have an oven beside this table, and I used 2 drawers of my closet for clay materials.

My polymer clay, wrapped in clingwrap. My ADC too :) Not enough clay... Need to either find garies/tinkleart/nex :( Sigh. ANyways, I left my clay for so long, that it became hard so I had to hammer and use baby oil to soften it. Took me at least half an hour :/

Haha, my miniatures book. Uses adc, but I use it for polymer clay haha. So far all I tried out was the pencils LOL!

This compartment thingy was bought at Giant for around $10? Used to be for keeping at the small stuff, but i've decided to use it as a place to place cabochons! 

But as you can see it's empty. Used them up to make gifts lol (I've been working, but I did'nt post the photos as they included names).

WILL TRY TO FILL THEM UP :)

The two thingy is my epoxy. They drove me crazy, and leaked like shit.. even making the whole compartments thingy sticky -.- so this is my solution :)

This case includes canes which i've yet to cut. Can you spot LOL. Have peanut blocks, charsiew cane and the chocolate flakes piece :)

The last container contains toppings. It has all the ready sliced canes in individual ziplocks, containers containing choco rice, choco flakes and one full of mini mini beads. 

The last blue-ish container containers my whipped cream! I'm thinking of selling them so haha pls comment if you're interested XD

Lastly, tons of baby wipes. Later you'll see another pack haha. They're the best, because water does'nt clean polymer clay :) I buy mine for 3.75 for 3 packs. VERY WORTH IT :P Valudollar shop.. See thats why I went crazy buying it heh.

First row of the green drawers.

My molds! Oyumaru Molds I made myself, molds from daiso, molds from hardwares stores and some other ones I buy from craft stores. I also put my cutters here :) the purple one is a playdoh mold :P

Another row specially for satay sticks and toothpicks. I just love these <3

Last row for Tools. Like tweezers, scissors, circle ruler, toothbrush, penknifes and blablablah.

Below the table - I just keep ziplocks which may be used for piping, and some bowls (for mixing?) and a container that's yet unused :)

Below, below the table is a hammer! Hammer old clay muahahah!

First Drawer. NIGHTMARE! I call this the "rarely use" drawer.

Other than stuff I rarely use for clay crafts, i also keep stuff for other crafts.

I'll try to explain zomg. I keep glues, acrylics which I only take out when making the whipped cream. I also have the bi carbonate soda for cakes making. I have a "bowl" of paper clips cause I did'nt know where else to stuff it. The bottle you see is johnson baby oil which container pissed me off so I transferred to this squirt bottle :)

My spray glaze can and my daiso glaze can also be seen :)

the random plastic bags include glitters, stamps, paper cutters, ice cream sticks (I bought like so many packs and never used them. Told ya I'm a hoarder). 

So sorry it's super messy. Just know that I've a lot of stuff bahs :D

The "more used" drawer. 

The squarish box contains my sauces, deco sauce or my liquid clay. Deco sauce mainly for decoden, while the tiny ziplock ones are made from liquid clay.

Clay extruder thingy. Best thing is that its very non-messy :) $2 from daiso must buy lol! Somemore have alot of tips :D

one of the boxes is my oyumaru/moldmaking area. it has molding material (the oyumarus) and the "originals". these are cabochons which I buy and makes molds out of them hehehe :)

My attachments box. Includes magnets, hp straps, strip magnets, bracelet chains, eyepins, ring bases, earring bases and posts :) I buy them from the wholesalers...super cheap hehe.

These are just miniatures I get from madam ang and tinkle art :) dollies, bowls, plates parfait cups. I actually bought them with a plan in mind. Haha! Never got around carrying them out -.-

OKAY! Like I said, I've been working, but I did not post photos cause those were for friends :) 

So, as a conclusion, that's possibly what you can considering buying for your clay craft. I generally don't limit myself to buying from craft stores, its more fun to look out for cutters and all that while doing everyday shopping (they are usually cheaper too!). I get stuff from popular, daiso, tinkle art, garies, mdm angs, random hardware stores, nail art stores. SO MANY! 

But do not hoard, like ME :D

Anyways. Like I said I'm in quite some need of cash to buy stuff from tinkleart, so I thought I could start selling some creations, which kills 2 birds with 1 stone. Firstly I get to earn money, secondly, people get my creations! So I'll be creating another page for my "shop" and slowly updating it, so look out!

That's all, looking to do some rings soon :P