Whoops that was a long break!

Hello and sorry for the long absence of posts on the blog.
I will be posting again shortly I promise.

Also Happy 2015! Hope we all have a great year ahead. (It's January so it still counts)

~ Ash

Step by step: Making the pug pendant

The newest item in the Robotic Cookie store is the cute pug pendant.

I decided whilst making it to take some step by step photos to show the process I go through in making it.

  

1. First I draw up the design on paper, scan it in and doing any editing.

2. I print and cut out the edited drawing to be used as a template.

3. I mix the colours up in polymer clay.

4. I run the clay through the pasta machine. The black for the back piece is on the thickest setting and the rest is all done on the thinnest setting.

5. I place the template on to the black clay and score and cut around it.

6. Using the template again I cut out the face in the lighter coloured clay. Scoring the image so that design imprints onto the clay.

7. I made the dark brown clay slightly darker.

 

8. As with the lighter clay I marked and cut out all the dark clay parts.

9. Matching up the line I put all the clay pieces together.

10. Added the eyes, nose and marked in the clay for the mouth and whiskers.

11. Mixed up some light pink clay and ran it through the pasta machine on the thinnest setting for the tongue.

12. Added an eye pin and baked in the oven.

And tadah! The final completed pendant.

This piece is now available in the Robotic Cookie Etsy Store HERE

And that is why you should always back up your files

Sorry for the radio silence on here so far this month. I had a bit of a mishap last week when I dropped my laptop whilst carrying it and it seems the hard drives have been damaged.
Everything else still seems it working order it just can't find the hard drives, which is made worse by my idiocy of putting off backing up all my files to my external hard drive.
Luckily I have been able to get my old laptop working but I have none of my files, images or programs apart from those I had on my Dropbox account.
Hopefully I can get the files off the hard drives and then replace them.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the giveaway, it was so lovely seeing some of the comments left about the necklaces and there seemed to be an even mix of people for the Potter Houses.

With all the problems I will probably wait until November to do another giveaway and also Fan Friday will be postponed until the laptop is fixed.


~ Ash

Fan Friday: BramaCrochet

Today's featured shop is BramaCrochet. They specialise in cute crochet items.

The shop features a varied range of cute crocheted items that would appeal to many different people.
I especially like the Minions from Despicable Me, which my mum is obsessed with.

I hope you will check out their shop.

~ Ash

Etsy September Coupon Code

Just one week left to use the September coupon code and get 20% off on orders of £12 or more in the store.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RoboticCookie

~ Ash

Fan Friday: LCGCreationsUK

Today's featured shop is LCG Creations. They specialise in handmade geeky bags and homeware.

The shop features a varied range of items in prices to suit all buyers and themes and fabrics for all different types of geek. They also have some bags made from upcycled and vintage fabrics.

I hope you will check out her shop.

~ Ash

Forbes Building Craft Fair

I attended my first local craft fair on Saturday at the Forbes Building in Middlesbrough.

with additional Grandma.

We had a lovely long table which was amazing for the price paid. I quickly rushed the night before to make a display for my magnets and I'm glad because quite a few people stopped to look at them.

Beach Hut Magnets

The day in general was quite quiet and most of the stalls had very few sales (including mine) but it was a good first experience and I will probably be attending again in the coming months as I'm sure it will get a lot popular towards Christmas.

~ Ash