The first step...

About a month ago, I came across Stéphanie Kilgast's Etsy store called PetitPlat. I was absolutely AMAZED. I had noooo clue that there are people out there that make small clay food with such detail! I started looking up other miniaturists... and so began my obsession.

Soon after discovering this craft exsisted, I decided to do everything in my power to learn how to make miniature food. I have recently graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in costuming. I absolutely love everything crafty.. hence the reason I call myself a craftaholic :) I have been knitting, crocheting, and sewing for over 7 years now. Because I taught myself to knit and crochet from books, I'm fairly confident that this is another art that I could teach myself. So now, this is one more craft to add to my ever growing addiction.

So far, I have bought two Angie Scarr books and my pasta machine is coming in the mail tomorrow :) Today, I decided to give lemon canes a shot without the pasta machine... I was getting a little impatient. And as I fully expected, they didn't come out right at alllll. But that's one of the great things about learning a new craft.. with every failed attempt, you learn a few things to differently the next time. Here's some of the things that I learned...


1. In order to mix the colors, I was conditioning the clay by hand which was absolute murder on my joints. Then I read online and in one of Angie's books that some people put the clay in a bag and put it under a sweatshirt or whatever clothing that they are wearing to warm up the clay. Oooorrrr, you can run it through the pasta machine. So next time, I'm deeefinitely gonna condition it correctly because it was absolute MURDER on my hands.

2. As I started the outside skin for the lemon, I mixed 2/3 yellow, 1/3 translucent, and some green.. Well, I put in too much green and the mix deeefinitely came out too green. But I still used it since I knew that I was just practicing.

3. When rolling out the cane, I need to pull the cane more instead of just rolling because the sections came out a little twisted as you can see in the pictures posted below.

I know there's more things I learned but I just can't think of them right now... getting sleeepppyy... ZzZzZz...

If anyone has any suggestions or tips, pleeeeease comment and let me know!