Eggsorcism

I really had not made a polymer clay cane until this year.  I didn’t fully comprehend the amount of clay that could be used to make the very detailed canes that are found commercially. I saw an image online and about fainted – this older gentleman (I think it was a photo from somewhere in Germany) had more clay rolled into a cane than I could probably have lifted. It was an enormous, several foot long, and several inches in diameter log.  Purchasing clay from some retail store it would have amounted to several hundred dollars in Fimo or other.  An investment that would not likely be made by a kitchen-table-crafter such as myself.  Anyway, this egg, which I actually kind of like, was made of the tips and ends of canes that I had left over.

This was one of the first cut-a-way eggs I made: first a base coat of peach colored polymer clay rolled out thin, applied and then rolled smooth on the egg, and then cured. Using a dremel cutting bit I created four windows in the egg, sanded them even, then sliced up a real tiny clay pot to fit inside this gazebo type structure.  I covered the egg with polymer clay cane, made borders for the four windows and decorated inside and outside with polymer clay flowers.  It was exciting to figure out this technique (which while is not new in the sense of never being done before) was certainly new to me.  Loving to decorate eggs in general, this was a blast.

I have listed this type of egg ornament on Memory-beads.com, as something that would be nice to do with actual flower petals (some of the clay here does have flower petals ground into it) to commemorate a special easter, or any event.

This is a textured (and dimensional) flower egg made with a blown chicken egg and polymer clay. Two views of the same egg.

During a visit, summer 2016, from my son and daughter-in-law and their sweet little girl Corin, we spent a lot of time playing with polymer clay.  My kids and I had played with lots of Fimo, decades ago, but it was fun to resurrect that creative activity.  Corin went away with many tiny objects, her dad made her the cutest sterling silver and polymer clay heart necklace and Pepsi and I made lots of polymer clay eggs.  Here is one of her’s.

This egg-loo (igloo) became just that because my granddaughter saw the partly cut egg in my basket of scraps and mentioned it looked like an igloo… thus, I was compelled (haha) to turn it into just what she mentioned, and added a little soap carving style polar bear.  He is fat from all that salmon, but is made from a cockatiel egg as his main body part, with legs and head added later.  The egg-loo is made from a chicken egg, blown and washed, covered with polymer clay, cut out with a dremel cutting blade, covered with a rectangular yellow-white-transparent polymer clay and yellow iridescent powder so it will glow in the night (for a few hours per the source description) with a icy blue covering which was then indented as a mortar joint would be. Then the egg was cured, and the indented joints were filled with white polymer clay, cured again, and then sanded and coated with Varathane.

This is a goose egg, which for whatever reason I felt needed to be recycled with a new look, and it was one of the first eggs onto which I put various left over scraps of polymer clay and polymer clay canes.  It is kind of a “can I really do this” type of egg.  I show the bottom here because I think that this is the part of the egg that really was the most fun part of the experiment.

Frog egg with butterfly made with real chicken egg and polymer clay is one of my favorite eggs so far. Just like “froggie” in the tp commercial, these eyes can never shut or forget, this tongue can never rest.  Ha Ha.  This animal egg took quite a few steps, initial covering of the whole egg, drilling out the holes, adding the layer of cane slices (which, by the way, contain commemorative flower petals, making this piece unique memorial-keepsake for someone), then adding eyes, eyebrows, legs, and lastly, the tongue (which has rose petals in it – the dark spots) and butterfly.

My grandaughter and her parents visited me in August 2016 and we had soooo much fun with polymer clay, and this is sort of a composite egg.  I filled in a few blank places.