Painting, Sculpting, Potting

I feel super productive lately!

Last night, I actually felt the urge to pick up my paint brush, and inking pens, and work on my Spirited Away illustration. I've been feeling such a lack of passion and enthusiasm for so long, that it's great to feel inspired again.

Spirited Away Work in Progress teaser pic

The first batch of polymer clay leaves are out of the oven and cooling off right now. They may still be a bit soft, so I might have to put them in for another few minutes. I have to be really careful not to burn the clay, lol... I've had interesting accidents in the past.

Blue Iridescent Polymer Clay Leaves, freshly baked

And I've been organizing my collection of small pots I bought at the thrift store over the past month for my balcony/window herb garden. I wanted a mix of eclectic pots, of various styles and materials, to create an interesting look.

Nine different pots for my herb garden

A close up of the pots

Some of the seeds I've been collecting

What's this?! A kitten intruding on the photoshoot :P

Honey, inspecting the green glass pot. 

That's all for now folks! 

Polymer Clay Leaves

Namaste! (nah-mah-stay - hello in Hindi)

I've been away from the blog-o-sphere working on some artsy projects - and I finally feel like I'm getting back into the groove of things. I think it really helped for me to make some posts on my inspirations and favourite things, to get the fountain of inspiration flowing again. What have I been working on?

Polymer Clay Leaves! Yippee! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Olive green sculpey clay, with copper mica powder.

Close up - I really love the effect of the shiny copper against the desaturated green. 

Time to add teal glitter for that extra magical sparkle!

This collection is going to become a necklace, earrings and an earcuff - one of the prizes
for my giveaway contest winner Angie Bailey! 

Close up ^^

The beginnings of the ear cuffs for my other winners ^____^

Polymer clay leaves... now just have to add a couple more...

Polymer clay leaves all lined up, so you can see the different sizes.
The larger leaves are for necklaces and the smaller leaves are for earrings and ear cuffs.

Make sure to check back for pictures of the finished pieces!