Day 90

I am having a very "off" week, mentally I'm just not myself.  When it came to do a craft tonight I felt like doing something mindless, something fun, but that I didn't really have to concentrate to hard on. 

I used to have a necklace, a spiral goddess pendant that I really liked, but lost a long time ago. I've been thinking about it for some reason lately, so tonight I pulled out some Sculpey clay and fashioned my own spiral goddess pendant.  It didn't take long to make, and I did it flat, so it can sit on a table or bookcase.  I didn't bake it though, since it's late I didn't want to pull out the oven that we use for baking clay.  Once it's baked I think I'll go over the spirals in white paint so they stand out more.

For more information on the artist who I believe is responsible for the Sacred Goddess, Abby Willowroot, visit HERE:

Here it is finished:



Here is the clay I used:

Here is after I got the form, and as I started doing the spiral:

And another picture of her finished, just need to bake her:

Day 40

I would like to point out that it's almost Day 41...this was a long day and a long craft.  Mostly because I was watching American Idol, then Bones and then just random shows after that.  TV can be evil.

I'm off work tomorrow though, so I can sleep in, get my beauty rest for tomorrow's (actually now today's!) craft.

As it's past my bedtime, here is what I did today...Oh, one more thing, have I mentioned I LOVE SHRINKY DINKS!!!!!!  I might change this challenge to one Shrinky Dink project a day for a year!! 

I decided to make a Tarot Card Charm Bracelet.  The other day at Michael's I picked up a package of 32" antique silver chain, toggle clasps and O rings (all on sale I might add, bonus!!).  Then yesterday I bought a collage set of vintage Tarot cards on Etsy (for $1.00!!  woo hoo)  Stan took apart the chain for me to make the bracelet size, and put the toggle clasps on it.  I printed the Tarot cards on the Shrinky Dink paper, cut them out, punched holes in the top, baked them, had Stan put the O rings in each Tarot card and I put them on the bracelet.  And it only took FOREVER!  Okay, okay, a few hours, but if I had turned off the TV it would have been sooner I'm sure! 

Without further adoooo, here are the pictures!

Printed on Shrinky Dink paper:

Close up of printed Shrinky Dink:

 

Here they are after they were cut and baked - so small and cute:

Finished bracelet on my hairy arm (geeze I'm really really hairy!):

 

Close up of the finished bracelet: