fun with sculpey (polymer clay may be more generally correct, but sounds so stuffy)

Oooo, we had amassed a small, but useful stash of sculpty and during Grace's nap yesterday, Owen and I had a fine time making monsters, monster toys, buttons, cute little ring dishes. Sculpey and fimo (i'm sure there are other companies out there, but that's what at our craft store) have so many pretty, fun and bright colors as well as a more sophisticated palate... The little dishes are inspiration from a recent revisiting of some of my Etsy favs (http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtMind, http://www.etsy.com/shop/palomasnest) and a Sonoma friend's NY resol. of balance :). Just little pinched out dishes (have a pretty cream and grey both with just a bit of pearly sparkle to them) with our alphabet stamps... some with balls of polymer clay, some with holes for some embroidery thread to swoop through.

I have a lot of work to do this weekend, but while with the kids, we have indulged our creative side as well, only took an hour or so of QT with the big kid and we both had a really great time... see balance!

Actually, Grace had fun too, she wanted to eat the clay, but had a great time pinching playdough to little bits.

Such fun, so easy, such cute little dishes to make me smile (while writing midterms).

Brian also made a cool lino for Chinese New Year! Happy year of the rabbit!

We'll have to pull together some t-shirts for the kids... maybe combine CNY and valentines day... we'll see.