Craft books!

March 27, 2013 | 9 comments

Hiya! Let’s talk about craft books today! Craft books are a great source of information when the Internet cannot provide you with what you want (for example, my kiwi fruit slice tutorial). They are also a good source of inspiration for people who are way too busy to draw inspiration from real food (like me). In any case, having craft books can help solve that Deco artist block you were having a week ago.

Currently, these are all what I have now. Although they are in Japanese, the text are accompanied by pictures documenting every step, which is a plus for the Japanese-illiterate (like me). You can find craft books for the basic of basics to the most difficult level of Sweets Deco.

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Paulinda Super Dough clay review

March 25, 2013 | No comments yet

Hi guys! I’m here to bring you a way overdue review of Paulinda Super Dough clay. So sorry! Been busy with real life (which is beginning to sound like an excuse now!)

Anyway! This brand looks like it might be a European brand, so you might perhaps be able to find it at your local crafts store! I got this at S$4.50 for 25g, which in my very honest opinion is VERY expensive for lightweight clay. But, to each his own…

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Fit for a queen

December 22, 2012 | One comment

Hey hey hey! I promised in the previous posts that I would show you some of the cool stuff I’ve been making, which is mostly clay and sweets related! Rejoice! I really prefer clay to paper, although both are my top favourite hobbies. Besides photography.

Anyway! Let’s move on!

A couple of weeks back, I made these adorable macarons because I saw the foam ones made by Kisen Erika (who makes awesome fake sweets, makes dolls look super pretty, and has written countless craft books, most of which I already own) and were pretty sour because I ran out of plain ones to deco with. But then…

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Doily Brights

December 14, 2012 | No comments yet

Hello guys! Today I won’t be blogging about clay crafts… rather, I’ll be talking about my recent obsession, paper crafts! As you may have known, I used to work in a scrapbooking supplies shop, and I was like FLOORED when I saw some of the samples done by the design team, so I picked up the hobby and have been enjoying it ever since.

Well, also since I’m off work (I was hospitalised a few days back and am on medical leave until Saturday) I have lots of free time! And so I decided to do a bit of something cute.

I remember how delighted I was when I picked up Kaisercraft’s Secret Admirer collection papers at a shop; it features some of the things that I love dearly: bird cages, birds, flowers, lace, and doilies. The brightly coloured doilies were what caught my eye first though, and when I browsed through the papers I just could not keep my hands off the items, I ended up with a pretty big purchase consisting of only this collection.

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