We’re having a bit of a heat wave here (at least, it’s hot for here). This means more than the average amount of ice cream is being consumed and thought about. Here’s a video tutorial for a doll house 1:12 … Read More...
DIY Herb Markers
I was looking for ideas for signposts in my fairy garden set up and realized a lot of the polymer clay
herb marker tutorials would scale well for this. This tutorial from Jessica of ContemporaryDomestics uses thin dowels for the … Read More...
Mini Adobe House Planters
One of the adorable things air dry and polymer clay seem to have become trendy for is building tiny succulent and air cactus planters. And why not? Great material to make decorative containers from. This tutorial, by Naomi and … Read More...
Tiny Garden Art In Clay
My interest in miniatures and fairy garden themed items met up with Etsy. The talented clayers there have some fabulous pieces to offer:
| Tiny Morel Mushrooms by TypicalKat image above
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 Fairy Dinette Set by MiscAwesomeness |
 Fairy Door by ClayByKim |
Tutorial: Mini Gnomes for your Garden
This tutorial uses molding putty 
and 2 part epoxy to create outdoor garden gnomes. If that sounds a little intimidating go ahead and use polymer clay. Polymer clay gnomes would do best inside although I’ve had herb markers and garden … Read More...
Tutorial: Garden Art
As I’ve mentioned before I’m a big fan of clay. Mostly, that’s polymer clay but I’ve played with a lot of other varieties of clays – ceramics, air dry, model magic, paper clay… all sorts of good stuff. This tutorial… Read More...
DIY Polymer Clay Jar with Lid
The folks at PolymerClayTV.com have been doing great polymer clay tutorials and videos and awesome stuff for ages and ages. Here’s a video from their Youtube Channel featuring Kira demonstrating a textured jar with fitting lid.
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DIY Cute Clay Robots
Donna, of the PolymerClayBakery, has a super cute tutorial on miniature robots. The video tutorial is for a very kawaii robot but the techniques are transferrable and you can use the same idea to make your own little robots … Read More...
Tutorial: Fan or Light Pulls
Carolyn Good is one of those fabulously talented people who shares an awful lot of good stuff along the way. Her and her husband are a couple of the Canadian clayers I’ve stumbled across in my time playing with polymer … Read More...
Tutorial: Covering Drawer Knobs
You can pretty much cover anything that doesn’t move away on it’s own in clay. Drawer and doorknobs are no different and, let’s face it, can sometimes use a little bit more awesome.
Amy shares the basic method for covering … Read More...
DIY Faceted Clay Pot
The tutorial calls for air dry clay but go ahead and substitute oven bake (and where they talk about drying, bake the pot). The facets can be cleaned up to be sharper / cleaner with a good sharp knife and … Read More...
DIY Coasters
Here’s a cute coaster project. When I initially saw it I thought, you could totally do this with canework instead of paint but really, it’s LOVELY paint work. She comments that she’s using about a package of clay per … Read More...
Tutorial: Copper and Clay Vases
Moving away from miniatures and onto a bit of house decor today. The vases above are modern looking and repurpose leftover plumbing copper. You can use leftover pex or other pipes from similar projects, as well. The ones I’ve experimented … Read More...
Tutorial: Sculpt Miniature Bread
Betsy Niederer offers a great tutorial on how to sculpt detailed, accurate loaves of artisan bread and buns. Tips on colour, texture and detail are a big part of the tutorial. Whenever I get the chance to take lessons or … Read More...
Make Tiny Clay Cats
On with the running miniatures theme… now for a little cat in your dollhouse or fairy garden. This tutorial or walkthrough makes a fairly realistic cat with an armature. If you made a cat that was sitting or laying and … Read More...
DIY Mini Aloe Vera Plants
This little plant is made with paint and cold porcelain – air dry clay you can buy at the craft store or make from common ingredients – but any air dry clay or oven bake would work. For the oven … Read More...
DIY Miniature Shoes
Since the last post was about handbags here are some beautiful, detailed miniature shoes to go with it. The detail involved in these beats the little extra fashion doll shoes I would make my daughter as she lost hers. Make … Read More...
DIY Miniature Purse Pendants
Skipping along through some more miniatures here’s a tutorial that combines useful hints about faux leather, miniature fashion and antiquing along with how to sculpt a Fimo handbag charm or miniature. The original tutorial is in Russian but the pictures … Read More...
Little Polymer Clay Cheesecakes
Now here’s a miniature cheesecake to put on yesterdays bistro table. You can find many other miniatures tutorials on Christel Jensen’s site including one on how to make the perfect doily for under that cheesecake.
DIY Miniature Table
If you like making dollhouse miniatures here’s a little bistro table. The original tutorial is in French but here’s a translated version.You can change up the faux marble top for the type of your choice, to better suit your … Read More...