This is a Fimo and glass beads Cleopatra that i made after my 8 year old (her with the frog!) told me my original, made for a project with the kids) wasn’t good enough!

Fimo is such a great way for the family to do something together; we read a book on Cleo, then everyone had [...]

I really must learn to spike heads on to cocktail sticks too as this one dropped back in the over slightly and really spoiled the effect. And when i’ve done that, i must practise faces!
Her hair is perhaps my favourite bit; thin tapes (squashed sausages) of copper fimo twisted lightly and then secured on the [...]

I made this scene as a Secret Santa present; both of us had been obsessed with a Nintendo game called Animal Crossing and this scene features details from the game as well as all of the 5 of them doing the stuff they might do, where they trapped in the game, including Steve on the [...]

My first attempt at a realistic figure; i had personal reasons for making this and chose not to give either the woman or the tiny baby a face, partly because i’m no good at them and partly because i wanted them to be distinctly enigmatic.
I started with the bodice, thin fimo wrapped around waste clay [...]

This angel has bed hair, crumpled wings and a wonky halo. What HAS she been up to?

Working on it, working on it. The trick to floaty dresses is to make a pillar of waste clay inside, then drape a thin sheet of your dress colour over the top, then nip and tuck to taste

My children want to know if this is how fairies are born… someone finds them in a rosebush? I’ve no idea, though i’ve never heard of a fairy maternity hospital so it could be. I think there is a mummy looking for this one though.

Autumn chills are in the air and the leaves are turning brown. Certainly true here but there is still time for a little lounging about in the last warmth of the year.

Autumnal Fairy

um…blue! I’m spotting a theme!