Sunday, 16 August 2009
Grocery shopping
The contest is over, and
here are the winning entries. I don't like the entry that got 1st. I saw the pic of the second prize winner on
flickr, and it looks significantly better over there, not all blurred and stuff. I think of the two, the 2nd prize winner has the nicer pic.
Anyway, Ai Li's insane textmate session resulted in a blindboxed Re-Ment prize that she gave to me ^-^ Thank you Ai Li!

After picking up the prize and shopping a little (I spent the most money ;_;), we ended up doing this:

L to R: Me, Mur and Ai Li
Mur: I come bearing Bizkits! And an empty bottle! :D
Pei: Why do you have a cat in there that is giving us the finger?!
Ai Li: ... haiz...

Everyone: Hi, Amal!
Amal: Hiii! Oooo, what's that, lemme see...CHOCS! :D

Mur: :D
Amal: :)
Pei: >:o
Ai Li: :|
Cat: _|_
Labels: friends, pinky st, prize, re-ment
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009
The voting page is up
Well, it's been up since the 3rd actually. Anyway,
here's the link to the voting page, feel free to vote for which ever you like! May the best pic win. I know my entry is too pink for some tastes (it nearly sent my bf into diabetic shock, it's the one with the Pinky St and the red tv), so I don't expect to win anything.
Also, cuteminis.com's method of voting is really open to abuse. All you need to do is create several new emails for yourself and you could put yourself in the lead. And I see a rather suspicious number of votes for one particular entry. Could be just my jealousness talking.
There is a rather large disparity between the prizes, the first prize is a
miniature toy combo pack worth RM150 and a cuteminis voucher worth RM100, while the runner up gets a cuteminis voucher of only RM80. Seriously, what's up with that?
Labels: contest
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Sunday, 2 August 2009
Strawberry House
I entered these pics to the
cuteminis.com photography competition. I hope I made it before the deadline. The house is a repaint of a
Willow Hall Conservatory bootleg. This thing's actually been an on and off project for nearly a year--it's pretty hard to paint since all the pieces are glued in place and you can't pull it apart without breaking it. I've also made a huge ton of mistakes (bubbles, paint runs, you name it and I've made it) since this is the first thing I ever tried repainting. That means more time consuming paint removal and redoing.
This house was also not meant for the pinky doll in it. The Sylvanian bear I wanted to put in was unfortunately too dirty and I didn't have time to clean it.
Anyway, here're the pics. Don't die from the pink overload :P





Labels: bootleg, pinky st, re-ment, repaint, Sylvanian families
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Thursday, 23 July 2009
Scenes from the house

Butler Cat trains one of the girls as a maid. The road to good cooking is a tough one!

Aya: Don't take pictures! Grrr... GET OUT! *throws soap*
Labels: pinky st, re-ment, Sylvanian families
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Modding Pinkies

I've stripped the paint off and primed Evangelion Asuka's summer outfit. I've also stripped the paint off Yoshiko's head and tried to carve her mouth open. I don't like Yoshiko's face mold, so now she's mod fodder. I need sandpaper.
Labels: mod, pinky st
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Friday, 26 June 2009
Bread and Baskets
Here are some baguettes I made with polymer clay and painted with acrylics. The
tutorial actually called for using chalk pastels to brush the colour on, but Brunei doesn't have cheap chalk pastels apparently. The only place that sells them is Active Art, and those were like $3 or $4 when I went there last time.
I was also lazy so I just used the dark brown paint out of the bottle and the bread now looks slightly overcooked, but I'm pretty pleased with they way they came out, especially when compared to my past attempts.

Here's a comparision of the baguettes with the first loaves I made when I was just starting out. The baguettes are basically Bread Attempt #3.

I've also 'repainted' the Sylvanian Families basket holding my oranges. I wanted to make itlook less plasticky. I had only intended to dry brush it but I apparently suck at dry brushing. I have mixed feelings with the result. Should I strip the paint and redo it?

Also, bonus pic: Re-Ment flowers!

Labels: bread, polymer clay, re-ment, Sylvanian families
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
First try--polymer clay oranges
Dug out my clay and made some clay oranges last night. The idea was to make oranges that would look like oranges on the inside as well. Here you can see the clay before it's been baked. The clay is rolled out into canes first then cut and molded into balls. I've made the orange skin too thin so I have a few oddly coloured ones.

Here's the end result: Misshapen orange slices and too orange oranges. Let's just say this has been a learning experience :) I'll do better next time, but I'm pretty sick of oranges right now.

This is the main reason I decided to make oranges. On the left is a Sylvanian Families basket with Sylvanian oranges and a lemon (?). It's all one ugly piece of badly painted and moulded plastic. The right features my too orange oranges taking over.

Labels: oranges, polymer clay, Sylvanian families
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