PlanetJune by June Gilbank

The Fuzzy Seal pattern is now available! You can order it directly from PlanetJune.com and the pdf will be e-mailed to you.

Now you can make your own amigurumi baby harp seal!

April’s OneHourCraft Challenge is “to make an impossibly gorgeous necklace”, so I got the polymer clay out and started playing.

I used a base of translucent Fimo Soft, with snakes of green and blue running through it. I also added dark greeny-blue micro beads (tiny glass beads with no holes) to the rounded beads, which is why they look darker than the others. I had a bit of a surprise when I baked the beads – they darkened and went from greenish blue to a definite green, but that’s okay:

I strung the beads with silver (coloured) spacers and findings. The finished necklace length is 14″ so it’s just longer than a choker and sits around the base of my neck.

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Thanks Mia for the inspiration to make a necklace! This was a fun quick craft to try.

I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home today. And it was perfectly timed to cheer me up (my wrist is hurting again, thanks to some work-related strain on it yesterday):

Photo taken in dappled sunlight to prove that the sun really is out – yay!

It’s a package of cute and fruity treats from Heidi of My Paper Crane, who makes (amongst other wonderful things) the most adorable plush foods in existence. Thanks Heidi – it’s much appreciated

I made these polymer clay faux granite rocks last week. They were originally intended to be stones for the base of my artificial bonsai, but I decided they weren’t quite right for that project. I just sanded them quickly with my homemade detail sander to get my fingerprints off. (The size of each stone is about 1 or 2cm.)

Are they real, or are they FIMO? Click the pic to take a closer look…

Testing another pattern for Kristen, here’s my second (and last) little fairy – she’s a bit shy though:

Ahh, here she is!

I’m really pleased with her hair: I unravelled the plies of worsted weight yarn so it would be fine and fluffy and curly:

It was fun to try out someone else’s patterns for a change, but now I’m ready to return to my own creations. My next planned crocheted animal (by popular demand) will be Fuzzy Ferret… watch this space!