My First DIY Air Dry Clay

Assalammualaikum and hello readers!

In my previous post I talked about me eyeing on Polymer Clay and going to make some cute stuff out of it, right? I even put some DIY air dry clay recipes that I googled on internet there. School holidays are finally here and I got my chance to get my hands dirty. Surprise me, my hands are not dirty at all. Hooray to Air Dry Clay!

I tried a few times at making my homemade air dry clay. I failed several time with my clay too dry and clamp up together. Then I tried again with different measurement, and it doesn't came out like what it should be like people showed in youtube. I just ignored it and tried on my very first clay item.

Failure 1

First object came out pretty well but the surface dry out so fast and it left a thin layer of starch on it. That is so not pretty. Let me show you here.

See that? Well, maybe my picture was edited and it did not show what I mean. The others clay items are so smooth looking and shinny too. What happen to you, my lovely homemade clay flower?? You don't like to be homemade issit??

Failure 2

OMG! Look at the picture. I can't speak a word when I saw that.

I was really impatient and I show my half dry star to my husband. He took it and had a pinch.
Then my Baby Qaseh said, ' Oh O'.

After this two incidents, I sat down and think about what happen to the clay. Recalling the Youtube video, their air dry clay are smooth and when you pull it, it look like pulling a soft sticky marshmallow. Maybe there are some mistakes I made when I made the clay. Why aren't my clay sticky? It is incorrect.

Looking back the ingredients, it is like what the people out there given. My main issue here is why my clay not sticky when I pulled it apart from the whole. So,maybe is the glue problem.

I decided to change the glue I use in making the second batch.

First batch I was using this PVA glue.



In the second batch, I changed to the normal transparent glue.

Finally, the second batch look much better. It was sticky when I pulled it apart. Immediatly, I started making something out of it.

I made a cute little star,with the pink eyes from the first batch clay.

Then, a fluffy Baymax with pink heart from the first batch clay.

Hope is not too bad for the first timer.
Update you guys soon when I made another clay art.

Thanks for reading.
Bye.
Muah.

Note Book!!

I don't know why but I am a great fan of note books. I love all kind of note book, no matter it is big or small, thick or thin, plain or colourful. I just love it very much. Maybe this is a kind of weird collection maybe? #weirdcollection

I want to share some weird reasons of mine that answer some of your curiosity.

1. I like to write!
Writing is a way to express our feeling, same goes to writing a blog post. But, I like to write using a pen or pencil. When I write, I can feel the energy flowing from my fingers to my pen/pencil onto the paper. It reminds me of my childhood, my homework and my way to success into my path now.

2. I love the cover/wrapping paper of the note books.
This is the part that I can die with. The note books are all so attractive to me. Each note book has it own personality and it can represent all kind of different mood. I don't know how to explain to you guys so I Google some pictures of note book. And, this action almost make me go crazy. The note books are so cute, pretty, adorable, fun, cool, classic and so many more! For an example:

This note book is so cool!! With all those trendy moustache!!

This floral cover is so lovely to be held by a lady.

This cartoon note book suitable for jotting down though and be happy always!

This cute kitty note book is fun to own one.

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This pretty note book I would definitely use it to write down my cooking recipes in it. 

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This note book just make me feel so motherly and I will write down my baby journal in it.

See, I just can't resist to grab all the note books that I saw in the book store. My hubby will have to come and drag me away when I stay too long at the note book station.

3. I love my handwriting.

4. I like to jot down small little things in note book.

Anything can be write down in a notebook. Your thought, your ideas, your joys or your tears. Sometimes it can be a recipe or a pattern too. Note book will come in very handy in this situation.

Sometimes these fancy hard cover note books are just too expensive to own it all. So, I end up buying the 80pages exercise book and wrap it with fancy wrapping paper. The wrapping paper come in so many patterns and colours. Just choose your favourite wrapping paper and D.I.Y your own note book.

So, I share my this weird hobby or collection with you guys. Any questions or comments please do left it down there for me.

Ok, cya next time.