As promised, I am putting up another picture today.  I made this awhile ago actually, just finished putting the ribbon and beads on it yesterday.  This was made as a present to the wonderful lady that does my hair, Angela.  She is a real sweetheart, so I made her a sign to show that she wears her heart out there for everyone to see.  It's all made from Premo Sculpey.  I hope you like it!!  :)

Thanks for visiting my corner of the web!!

Sharon Mhyre

I was very productive today, I made some presents for people and even managed to find time to make myself a pair of earrings.  I will only post two pictures for this blog and save the rest for later.  Some of the people I made presents for read my blog and I don't want them to see their presents early.  After they get them I will post the pictures.  Most won't be till after the holidays...a few will be in the next couple of weeks though. :) 

This first picture is of a present I made for my dentist.  I have a dental appointment tomorrow and I wanted to make something for him to thank him for all his hard work with me.  When I started seeing him about 8 years ago, I was absolutely terrified of dentists.  My teeth were in terrible shape, and it took him a half hour to get me calm enough to just do the shot.  Over the years he has been working with me so carefully that I managed to go to a dental surgery with a different dentist, (he doesn't do root canals), and I didn't even shake before hand.  Since tomorrow is Halloween, I wanted to give him something to celebrate the holiday, but since he is a dentist, I didn't think giving him something sweet was the right choice.  So I made him a Halloween ornament.  This vampire tooth ornament is all in good fun, and I hope he likes it.

I made this using Premo Sculpey.  I started with a ball of tinfoil for the center.  I looped some wire and stuck it in the foil and then I wrapped the tinfoil in masking tape to make clay stick to it more.  It also secured the wire, which was a little loose.  I then covered the whole thing in white Premo sculpey and shaped it, adding balls where I needed them.  I made the eyes, mouth, fangs, necklace, and cloak.  I baked the whole thing for about an hour and then I did a little bit of accent painting.  I also painted the plain white with some sparkly white paint I had.  It helped it to glow a bit and took care of some of the bits of stuff that had gotten into the white when I wasn't looking, (mostly cat hair).   It was fun to make and came out better then I hoped for.  Let me know what you think.

The next picture is of the pair of earrings I made myself.  I wanted something light hearted to celebrate the day with even though I wasn't going to be doing anything special for it.  I really like how these turned out.  I tried something new with them.  I hadn't made stud earrings yet and I also tried a new glue.  I have seen the glue on several polymer clay sites as being safe to use, so hopefully it holds well.  I can't wait to put these on tomorrow.  If these work out, I think I will be making alot more stud earrings for myself.  I don't tend to wear dangly earrings because my hair is so long it gets caught.  So hopefully this opens up alot of new options for me. Hope you like these.

Thats all I am gonna share at the moment.  Hope you all liked these new pieces.  Thanks for visiting my corner of the web!! :)


Sharon Mhyre