Roses

One of my purchases last month was some pearl sculpey, which I've made into roses.

Roses in a bottle cap. 

Now I've started putting them onto cakes.

It's baking day...

I think it's good to add a bit of realism to a dollhouse. It's nice to have finished cakes in the window of a bakery or on a tea table but it's also good to reflect real life by having a bit of chaos in the kitchen. A work in progress so to speak. 

I've made some cake preparation boards which would be good to put into a kitchen, or on a counter in a shop. The cakes are 18mm round made from polymer clay. The icing is made by mixing transclucent liquid sculpey and fimo polymer clay to an icing consistency. It is then baked as per packet instructions. 

This peach one is an almost finished iced cake. There is a bowl of icing in the background and a knife covered in icing. 

A large wooden board has the cake, buttercream, knife and lemon slices set on it.

A small marble board with a cake being iced. 

Cake being iced and finished cake.

Strawberry cake being iced with hulled strawberries.

Cake being filled with buttercream, strawberries for decoration on board. 

Finished cake and cake being iced board.

I'm happy with the results as I find strawberries difficult to make and for some reason I always have problems with red coloured things. I didn't add a stalk or calyx to them as they are hulled ready to put onto the cake. 

All I need now is a cup of tea to go with it.  

Petit Fours and Truffles.

I started making the truffles on Sunday, and I finished them today. Three days to make some tiny truffles no more than 3 or 4mm round. Three days!

The most laborious part was making the sprinkles. I chopped up some pieces of cooked fimo and kept chopping until it was really tiny. I then sieved the clay to ensure only the tiniest pieces were going to be used. At least this is a job I can do sat in front of the televisions in bursts rather than slogging away in the craft room. There is probably a less labour intensive way of doing it but I couldn't think of one at the time. 

I made the plate using some glitter translucent clay mixed with a bit of dark pink. It's an inch across to give you an idea of scale, although I added a pencil to give a visual reference of the size. 

The petit fours are a mix of tiny biscuits, truffles and fancies, Because they are so small it's a useful way of using up odds and ends of clay that may end up in the bin otherwise. 

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Pizza and Garlic Bread

I've made a few pizzas for those lazy can't be bothered cooking days in the doll's house.  A classic cheese and tomato, pepperoni and red onion and pepperoni pizza. I cut up a a couple of pizzas ready to be eaten on a paper plate with some garlic bread slices.

Lunch - Meat Sandwiches

I've been making cakes for the past couple of months and decided it was time to do something different. So I made some meat sandwiches. The photos aren't the best because they were taken with my phone rather than my camera.

These were the first ones I made and as usual forgot to take pictures during the process of making them. I've made another batch of bread rolls and maybe this time I'll have remember to take some.

New Listings on Etsy

Link to my etsy shop

I've listed a few new things this morning. I've made a few dozen danish pastries, belgian buns and apple danish. 

Belgain buns

Assorted pastries.

How To Make Bread and Butter

When making miniatures getting texture into the clay is quite important to make it look more 'real'. I tend  to use semolina to make bread look more realistic.  

1. To make slices of bread mix an equal amount of translucent and white and add in a touch of ochre to lesson the whiteness. Add semolina to the clay until well mixed.

2. Squash the clay down into a square log around 1cm square which is about the size of a standard white loaf of bread.

3. Use artists pastels to give the outside some colour for a crust. Scrape a knife along the pastels to create a dust and then use a paintbrush a lightly build up colour around the log. 

4. Leave the log to firm up for a couple of hours or you can put it in the fridge for a little time. This resting time is important as it lessens the distortion of the clay when it's cut up. 

5. Slice the clay into slices a couple of mm thick. 

6. To make the butter add some liquid sculpey or liquid fimo to some butter coloured clay and mix together. The mix has to be firm enough to spread onto the bread slice but not runny enough to be like icing. In the picture above the butter mix was a bit runny and more like melted butter rather than spreadable butter. 

7. Cook the clay as per packet instructions.