Next stop Fantasyland

"Next stop Fantasyland" will be the page where I will show my polymer clay sculptures. Sewing mink pelts by hand can really make my hands sore and  I have discovered that playing with polymer clay helps to exercise my hands which eases the pain so that I can go back and make more mink bears and other mink animals.

           Hand-sculpted Props for Teddies              


My hand-sculpted flowers
I love giving my mink bears and other animals props and sometimes when I have a theme idea I need to make the props myself. These hand-sculpted flowers are good examples:

My hand-sculpted mice:
When I decided that I wanted to give my mink fox a mouse companion I decided to sculpt it myself. So I did my research and surrounded myself with lots of photos of mice and even their skeletal system. I decided to use flexible clay instead of regular polymer clay because I wanted the tail and ears to have some movement. Of course, since I know little about polymer clay I had no idea that flexible clay was rather difficult to work with because it is very soft. And I thought it would be fun to add exterior fur once the mouse was sculpted. Well, it took me 4 mouse sculpts before I created a mouse that I thought would be a good companion for my mink fox.
 

Hand-sculpted Fortune Cookies:

When I decided to make a series of "Good Fortune Pandas" I knew that I had to hand-sculpt my own fortune cookies:

My Three-Dimensional Doodles:
I was playing with air-dry clay and designed these wonderful snails that I will pair up with a mink animal that I will create ... I just have not decided what animal would be a good companion with a snail. Any suggestions?

These snails would be a great craft project to do with a child, so here is a quick tutorial:

                                                      Air Dry Clay Snail Tutorial

You can make these happy little snails very easily.

Supplies needed: tin foil, air dry clay, a shell, wire, beads, a bit of mink

form the basic snail shape with tin foil

Using the air dry clay of your choice

cover the tin foil in clay

using basic tools sculpt into a snail shape

give it bead eyes

put a little clay round the eyes and glue on the shell

sculpt in a smile

insert wire and beads

in top of head

glue on a little bit of mink

let it air dry and finish with a wash of paint

My Dragons:
I love collecting dragons. Dragons definitely live very vividly in my imagination. I love fairies too but when I start playing with clay, dragons just magically start evolving from the lump of clay in my hands.

My goal is to start offering my dragons on my Etsy page in 2012

My miniature dragons
I was inspired to create miniature dragons by the tiny brown bottles that I have collected.

My story of the miniature baby Garden Dragons
Dragons and fairies live in our gardens but we can't always see them because they can camouflage themselves or they can even become invisible. They are very tiny creatures. The Garden Dragons can only be temporarily captured because they are drawn to the magic crystals that are in the brown elixir bottle. When the little bottles are brought into the garden the baby garden dragons will attach themselves to the bottle and they will magically become visible. You can see that I've managed to capture a few. Their wings can resemble leaves and their scales can look like flower petals.