I'm really excited since I just picked up some stuff from Michael's that I'm so excited about! Mostly stuff for decoden, but I can use some for other stuff as well~ (like glitter hot glue sticks, new exacto knife blades, etc.)
My most favorite thing is... TRANSLUCENT SCULPY!!!!! It's SO amazing!! The consistency of it is a lot more.... not creamy, but more malleable, and it has a slight transparency (not clear though) so you can see stuff through it!
I used it here to make Bubble Gum Ice Cream!!
I mixed the translucent with some sky blue clay, and then a little regular blue clay. as you can see, in some parts you can see the gumballs through the clay, just like the ice cream! You can't get that effect with regular clay, so it's really exciting! :D
Here are the ice creams once finished! The syrup/sauce is sculpy bake + bond (TLS substitute kinda~) mixed with pastels for color, and the whipped cream is bake + bond mixed with regular white sculpy for thickness :3 I love how these turned out!! I gave them to my niece for her 6th birthday party yesterday :D <3
So last week (week before? idk) I made a cherry pie for Rachel!!
But, as you can see, most of my little cherries fell out when I sliced it :(. And I'm not super happy with the 'baked' effect paint job, as I only had nail polish in weird colors and lame q-tips (they were bad quality q-tips, lolol). Sooo, I'm currently working on my second pie! I'm still gonna keep my first set of slices, and use them for deco or something, but I know what I can improve to make it much yummier and prettier! :D
here's a look at some other stuff I've been up to!
Cookies, crackers, wafers, etc.~ my first attempt at a lemon cane and my second time making kiwi!
Lollipops!! And micro ones! :D
I'm still really new at ice cream making, but I'm loving how they're turning out! :DD and some pies/cake and doughnut~ hehe
Cookies and cream pie! :DD
My stockpile of goodies, hehe~
Now for cosplay talk!!!!
My coworker/boss Jona is gonna be Sailor Moon for our group, so I've been helping her lookup stuff like wig, boots, etc. But the wig!! Right now we're pretty much at- 1)She commissions someone good to make it for her, which would probably cost a lotttttt, and who knows how long it'll take, 2) Rachel's friend who HANDMAKES AMAZING LOOKING WIGS!!! Rachel is gonna ask her if she could make it, or at least the base and we do the rest, but since she hand makes it it might get really expensive, too. We'll see!! orrr, 3) We/I make the wig for her! After looking up tutorials, materials, etc., I'm pretty confident if we have to go that way. It will involve dying a wig, making odangos, stubbing, styling, but since we can buy a pre-parted wig, I don't think it'd be tooo hard, and it be around $70 - $80, which isn't bad for a Sailor Moon wig~
So once we get word back from Rachel's friend, and look up some commissioners, we'll see!
Andddd, after researching wig dying (the fw ink method), I really want to use it for my Sailor Pluto and Hanon wigs, too! For Pluto, there are noooooooo wigs that are just how I want it! (super super dark green almost black), and no wig is bright enough/the right color for Hanon! For Pluto, I think I'm gonna get a long dark green wig, and since the black fw ink is actually black (not like sharpie black lmao), add black to it until it's dark enough! And for Hanon, I'll try to get a long white curly wig, and make the custom blue/aqua/turquise/sky blue to dye it with! My only concern is, since it'd be precurled, is if I could dye it without it being streaky, but maybe if I do it slowly and carefully i could work. (I dyed a curled wig before, but I was just like whatever and dyed the whole thing without taking time to do it section by section xD) so I know it'll come out better next time!!
That reminds me, I have a lot of work to do on my Hanon mock-up! Tim took a look at it and gave me some critiques, so now I know what to work on/fix. For the skirt, I need to add a layer of ruffles, fix the volume/density of the ruffles, and then adjust my bodice for a better fit/placement~ I should start looking up boots/start working on boot covers!
Oh, should I make my little stars out of sculpy, or resin...? hm~~~~
Oh, I need to start on my Pluto staff, too!! Ahhhhh! Time to get crackin'! One week of January left peoples~~
Workworkwork! ^^
-Rosie
